Live Music Reviews – Gigs and Festivals – Clash Music

In the fiftieth year of Motown Records, as the world celebrates a half century of perfect soul music, the BBC invited the label’s former vice-president to come and conclude this year’s Electric Proms. As climaxes go, they don’t get much bigger than this. Smokey Robinson, to all intents and purposes, WAS Motown Records. Not only was he second in command to the boss man, Berry Gordy, but ....