Mary Wells’ ascent was a beautiful thing. Growing up in Detroit with an absent father and a domestic-worker mother, she went through both spinal meningitis and tuberculosis. To deal with the pain of ...
Author Peter Benjaminson is a former %27Detroit Free Press%27 reporter Wells was Motown%27s leading female star with hits such as %27My Guy%27 in 1964 Wells paved way for other female stars at ...
(Reuters) - Mary Wells, Motown Records' first female star who paved the way for the success of Diana Ross and The Supremes, shot to fame in the early 1960s only to fade away as a footnote of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When people talk about the golden age of Motown, names like Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, and Marvin Gaye often dominate the conversation. But tucked within that glittering roster is ...
With his new book, "Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar" (Chicago Review Press, $26.95), author Peter Benjaminson, a former reporter at the Detroit Free Press, now has three ...
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