Esther Gordy and Smokey Robinson

Motown Records vice president Esther Gordy Edwards chats with Motown artist and songwriter Smokey Robinson in her Motown Records office in 1967 in Detroit, Michigan

Berry Gordy Jr, 1966

Founder of Motown Records and king of the Motown era,

Berry Gordy Jr, poses in his office looking at a globe in 1966

Detroit, United States

Gilles Petard

Berry Gordy Jr and the Supremes

Berry Gordy Jr and the Supremes studio portrait, 1965, USA.

Clockwise from top  

Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard.

(Photo by Gilles Petard/Redferns)

Martin Luther King’s Funeral

Singer Nancy Wilson, actress Eartha Kitt, musician/dancer/actor Sammy Davis Jr., actor Sidney Poitier, Berry Gordy Jr. (Motwon Label founder) and actor Marlon Brando going to Martin Luther King’s Funeral