Motown: The Sound of Young America – in pictures

Diana Ross and Berry Gordy backstage at Finsbury Park Astoria, London, for the opening of the Tamla-Motown UK tour, March 1965.

Founded in Detroit in 1959, Motown Records produced more US No 1 hits than the Beatles, Elvis, the Stones and the Beach Boys combined. New book Motown: The Sound of Young America (£39.95 Thames & Hudson) collects behind-the-scenes and unpublished pictures of stars Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and many more.

Barney Ales bestows gold discs on Marvin Gaye for I Heard it Through theGrapevine.

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