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Broadcast date
20-02-2009 • 5 episodes
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1. The Motown Invasion
In 1965, the Motown Revue - that label’s first UK tour - played to half-empty venues and was nicknamed ‘The Ghost Tour’ despite an incredible line-up that included Little Stevie Wonder, the Supremes, and Smokey Robinson. Young, sharp black Americans from Detroit zig-zagged across small-town provincial Britain as the country awoke from its post-war slumber and entered the swinging Sixties. Motown and the UK had a life-changing impact on each other. All interviewees were a part of the original events, including Paul McCartney, Motown Revue artists such as Mary Wilson of the Supremes and Martha Reeves, and British fans who experienced it all.
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2. The Beverley Sisters: Tickled Pink
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3. The Andrews Sisters: Queens of the Music Machines
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4. Julie London: The Lady's Not a Vamp
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5. Josephine Baker: The First Black Superstar
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