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Bob Babbitt. Benny ‘Papa Zita' Benjamin, Eddie ‘Bongo' Brown. Johnny Griffith. Joe Hunter. James Jamerson, the list goes on. Musical gods, some of you are dead now. but in our hearts you will always be alive.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown is hardly the definitive movie about Detroit's musical gift to the world (that film is still to be
made) but for the moment. Paul - ‘4" Justman‘s half concert half memory Remembering Hitsville USA lane stroll is going to have to do.
With subject matter like this you around. chatting about those cold enjoyable Hitsville dSA is revealed can hardly go wrong. blooded old times. There are a few as little more than a factory prison At the risk of sounding patronising funny stories. a bit of period for these orilliaiit musicians who
(coz if you got soul brother/sister recreation. a slightly cheesy. over- really should nave been stars in you should really know this stuff). empathetic voiceover from Andre their own right. not illO behind a the Funk Brothers were Motown’s Braugher (though written by Walter Gordy’s corporate sliioud. It is by in-house band, handpicked by Berry Dallas and Ntozake Shange. turns sad. funny and genuinely Gordy. They hardly saw the light of adapted from Allan 'Dr Licks‘ touching. The film can. however. be day between takes but between Slutsky‘s award-winning book of frustratingly opaque about the them they played on more number the same name). Then what is left darker side of the Brothers‘ tale one hits than the Beach Boys. the of their original gang are up there (addiction. madness. depression Rolling stones. Elvis Presley and the on stage. today, with younger(ish) and. in at least one case. suicide). Beatles put together. artists. some who cut the mustard Still. the soundtrack is gonna be a The format (clearly modelled on (Chaka Khan. Bootsy Collins) and peach. (Paul Dale) the Buena Vista Social Club) is some that cannot (Ben Harper). I ~ ' .- ' n simple: the likeable old boys sit It‘s all pretty interesting and
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