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Uriel Jones was the last surviving member of the "Motown three", the triumvirate of drummers who put the backbeat to the hundreds of recordings coming out of Hitsville USA in Detroit in the ...
Ranking the greatest drummers that have been inducted into the Rock Hall, from Neil Peart to John Bonham.
Uriel “Possum” Jones, the last of the holy trinity of Motown drummers (along with William “Benny” Benjamin and Richard “Pistol” Allen), died Tuesday at the Oakwood Hospital in Detroit ...
Happy 75th to Stones drummer Charlie Watts "Jerome was very cool and always came to play, always had a fantastic, very positive, ready-to-go, ready-to-sweat animal instinct to his playing.
For decades, the dozen or so keyboardists, guitarists, bassists, drummers and percussionists who created Motown's signature sounds in a tiny basement studio have been living -- in a few cases ...
I took Cozy [British drummer Cozy Powell]. I said, “I gotta go to Motown, and you’re coming as well.” What the hell was I doing taking a rock drummer, with two huge Ludwig bass drums, into ...
Motown drummer Uriel Jones, whose hard-driving funk propelled classic tunes by the Temptations and Marvin Gaye, died in a Michigan hospital on Tuesday after suffering complications from a heart ...
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Motown Records icon Smokey Robinson remembers that at one of the storied label's holiday parties in the late ‘60s, he received a very special gift.
Considering Henry Fambrough's passing and G.C. Cameron's situation, I aim to revisit my 2008 review amid The Spinners' induction turmoil.