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Berry Gordy
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28 Nov 1929 (96 years)
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Berry Gordy III (born November 28, 1929), known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., is an American retired record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest-earning African-American business for decades. As a songwriter, Gordy composed or co-composed a number of hits including "Lonely Teardrops" and "That's Why" (Jackie Wilson), "Shop Around" (the Miracles), ...
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Berry Gordy's Movies
76%
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
02 Jul 2021
70%
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
06 Feb 2016
76%
Hitsville: The Making of Motown
24 Aug 2019
66%
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
19 Apr 2017
80%
Michael Jackson Memorial
07 Jul 2009
85%
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever
16 May 1983
65%
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
11 Jun 2023
65%
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
11 Sept 2021
40%
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
20 Nov 2021
80%
It's Black Entertainment
08 Feb 2002
100%
Marilyn and I
20 Jan 2019
80%
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
08 Nov 2014
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Motown 40: The Music is Forever
15 Feb 1998
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Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
07 Mar 2008
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The Jackson Family Honors
22 Feb 1994
