Eddie Willis, the original Motown Funk Brother whose muted, propulsive guitar style earned him the nickname "Chank," died Monday (Aug. 20) at age 82. Eddie Willis, the original Motown Funk Brother ...

Detroit, MI (CBS Detroit) - In this, our second installment of the celebration of Motown, Lisa Germani sits down with Beth Griffith-Manley, daughter of legendary Funk Brother Johnny Griffith. As a ...

Thanks to the success of the 2002 documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," the Funk Brothers, ostensibly the musical backbone to Motown's golden era, have finally garnered recognition with… By ...

HOLLYWOOD — Artisan Pictures has acquired North American rights to “Standing in the Shadows of Motown,” a documentary about a group of backup musicians known as the Funk Brothers who provided the ...

Joe Messina was by all accounts, including his own, a soft-spoken guy who was happiest while playing his guitar. But as one of Motown’s legendary Funk Brothers studio band, Messina spoke loudly with ...

The Bay Area's legendary Motown On Mondays party series lands in Brooklyn on April 4th with an all-star lineup of selectors including DJ's Tara, Tap.10, Mawkus, Still Life and DStrukt. Preserving the ...

It was like an old-time Motown revue at New York's Apollo Theatre last night (Nov. 7) as Mary Wilson, Ashford & Simpson, Mario, and others sang in tribute to the Funk Brothers, the musicians behind… ...

DETROIT (AP) — Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit "Ball of Confusion" and Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The ...

Marvin Gaye was a cocaine paranoid living with his parents when his father shot him during an altercation the day before his 45th birthday. According to Motown, Gerald Posner's sobering exposé of ...

Bob Babbitt, who laid down the bass lines for a raft of Motown hits by the likes of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, has died at the age of 74, the Motown Museum in Detroit said. One of the last ...

Joe Messina, a guitarist with the Motown session band known as the Funk Brothers whose largely anonymous work graced hit records such as Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” Stevie Wonder’s “For Once in ...