{"product_id":"motown-grapevine","title":"Motown Grapevine","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmazon description (about 260 words)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt started with an $800 family loan and a two-family flat on West Grand Boulevard.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003eIf you were young in the 1960s, Motown wasn't a record company. It was the radio. \u003cem\u003eMotown Grapevine\u003c\/em\u003e tells the stories behind that sound: the people, the gambles, and the moments that turned a small Detroit label into Hitsville U.S.A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003eMeet the five girls from Inkster who finished fourth in a talent contest and still came back with a No. 1 song. Ride the 1962 Motortown Revue bus into the segregated South, where performers remembered shots fired at the tour buses in Birmingham. Step into the Snakepit, the cramped studio where the Funk Brothers laid down the grooves, and into Maxine Powell's finishing school, where Motown's stars learned that 'everybody walks, but I teach how to glide.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003eYou'll find Smokey Robinson, Mary Wells, Martha and the Vandellas, Little Stevie Wonder, the Temptations, the Supremes, the Four Tops, Tammi Terrell, and Marvin Gaye, who defied his own label to make \u003cem\u003eWhat's Going On\u003c\/em\u003e. And you'll learn how 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' sat on a shelf for more than a year before it became one of the biggest hits Motown ever had.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003eThis isn't a comprehensive history; good ones already exist. It's a book of stories, told with a journalist's care for the record and illustrated with the author's own watercolor caricatures of the artists who made the music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003eInside:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"ul1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"li1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003e16 illustrated chapters on the stars, songwriters, and backstage figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"li1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003eAn introduction to how the Motown system worked\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"li1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003e'One big hit': a guide to overlooked Motown songs worth finding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"li1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003eSuggestions for further reading and listening\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: \" helvetica neue\u003eFor anyone who still turns up the radio when the Temptations come on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"First Inning Press","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":68232036122928,"sku":"9781968176303","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9781968176303.jpg?v=1793583835","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/motown-grapevine","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}