Motown was more than just music, it was a movement. And though it left Detroit for Los Angeles in 1972, it never
really left Detroit. Still standing is Motown's studio A, later incorporated as a Motown museum.
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The Motown Historical Museum in Detroit, which celebrates its 24th anniversary this year, when Motown Records is celebrating its 50th, includes a tiny white house known as Hitsville, where singers were discovered by Berry Gordy and trained by studio executives to become the hottest thing in music.
The house, where groups like the Four Tops and the Temptations and artists like Stevie Wonder recorded their greatest hits, is a time capsule of the glory years of Motown.
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