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GEORGE, NELSON: : WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? The Rise & Fall of the Motown Sound

LONDON.OMNIBUS PRESS,1986.

ISBN 0711910685.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[First UK publication and 1st edn,a year after the US issue by St. Martin's Press,NY, 1985.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,green+pink background with 4 Motown artists' b/w portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj,with black+ yellow lettering; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - rear top corner excepted - which is minimally bumped,publisher's original,plain grey cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xviiipp+1-250pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements, foreword by Quincy Jones,an introduction by Robert Christgau,an author's(?) preface,7 chapters,32pp contemporary b/w artists' biographical photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp44/5,pp76/7,pp108/9 and pp140/1 respectively,a discography,a bibliography and an index. Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication,contents list/table and a note about the author as last page at the rear. In 1959 Berry Gordon,Jr.,founded Motown Records (for Motortown) at the urging of a young songwriter named Smokey Robinson,and Gordy soon established his headquarters in a two-storey building on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit.Through auditions and regular talents hunts in the Detroit ghetto,Gordy discovered a host of eager young performers,and by backing those singer's with Motown's own in-house songwriters,producers,and musicians,he created the distinctive Motown sound - "The Sound of Young America". In it's first two decades Motown churned out hundreds of classic pop records and launched the careers of such greats as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles,Diana Ross and the Supremes,the Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas,Marvin Gaye,Stevie Wonder,Mary Wells,Junior Walker,the Four Tops,and the Jackson Five. Throughout the sixties Motown singles dominated the American music charts,and Berry Gordon's family business went on to become the largest black-owned conglomerate in the United States. The story of Motown Records is the story of the American Dream.'Where Did Our Love Go?' is an intimate account of everything - the people,the money,the times - that made the dream come true,and it is the story of the way in which that dream fell apart.Nelson George,whom Newsweek has called "perhaps the best black writer on black popular music in America",has based his work on personal interviews with Motown insiders - the songwriters, musicians,producers,and managers who made the music happen.From "Little" Stevie Wonder's sexual initiation to the tragedy behind Smokey Robinson's sweetest love songs,from Marvin Gaye's embarrassing early recordings to Flo Ballard's ejection from the Supremes,'Where Did Our Love Go?' is a fascinating look at what really went on behind the scenes of the greatest "hit factory" in the history of popular music. Nelson George,the author of the bestselling 'The Michael Jackson Story',is Black Music Editor of Billboard and has written for such publications as 'Musician','Rolling Stone' and 'The Village Voice'. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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