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Berry Gordy founded Motown records in 1959, and created one of the most famous recording companies to ever produce music. Motown had crossover success that helped promote the music of African Americans. Motown records helped the civil rights movement and helped the blacks in their fight for their rights. Berry Gordy really helped out the African American community by creating Motown records and showing the world that blacks could really make quality music. On January 12, 1959 a young man by the

have our music alienate anyone”. This is a quote from Berry Gordy, the founder of the music empire known as Motown. Berry Gordy was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929 to Berry, Sr. and Bertha Gordy. He was the second oldest out of eight children. Both of his parents worked hard, Berry Sr. ran a plastering contracting business and Bertha sold insurance and real house, and in addition they ran a supermarket and print out shop. Berry dropped out of school after his junior year to become

Keith Richards Honors Chuck Berry at Polar Music On Tuesday, August 26th, Chuck Berry was awarded the Polar Music Prize in a ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall, as well as a short video clip from Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, honoring the rock guitar legend. Unfortunately Berry wasn’t present to receive the award himself, but luckily Welsh rock guitarist Dave Edmunds was there to accept the award on his behalf. Ironically, Keith Richards wasn’t physically present at the ceremony either

Previously working in the automotive industry, Berry Gordy explored the idea of creating a music record company that would incorporate the automobile assembly line process that would later open the doors of opportunity for african-americans everywhere even to these contemporary times. This company was called Motown Records; obtaining this goal proved to have some obstacles due to the encounter of racial tensions that affected every man, woman, and child. Fortunately, a determined will, aquired from

- rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, Chuck Berry, at the age of 90 in St. Charles County, Missouri. Although Presley is credited as America’s first pop heartthrob and archetypal rock ‘n roll frontman, Berry was the mastermind architect that laid out the blueprints to the gritty, acerbic sound that would be utilized by various generations of bands and solo acts that were to come. Born in St Louis, Missouri, to a segregated, middle-class family, Charles Edward Anderson Berry spent most of his formative years

Halle Maria Berry (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966)[1] is an American actress. Berry won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001). As of 2017, she is the only black woman to have won a Best Actress Academy Award.[2][3] Berry was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s and has been involved in the production of several of the films in which she performed. Berry is also a Revlon spokesmodel.[4] Before becoming

that the world is not as it seemed to be when they were younger. They get more independent and their perspective of life changes. They will have to realize that they are not going to live forever. In the short story The Hurt Man, written by Wendell Berry and published in 2003, we meet Mat who learns all of this. During the short story Mat is growing up. He is born unexpected but he is still very much appreciated. His parents watch him closely so he does not get hurt but this change as he becomes

The Agricultural Crisis by Wendell Berry In this novel by Wendell Berry, Berry’s describes in his thesis that modern culture is destroying the agricultural culture. He feels that technology is seen as the easy way to produce food faster and more efficiently. With this modern way of farming comes the idea that hard work is not needed to make a living. The goal is comfort and leisure. Berry feels that this is the reason for the deterioration of the agricultural culture. He believes that hard

The influence of Chuck Berry on the development of rock & roll. 
 A great analogy that I came across while doing some reading and research for this paper was “If Elvis Presley cracked open the door for rock & roll, Chuck Berry kicked it wide open” (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame). I believe that this is a great way to visualize how great of an influence Elvis Presley was and just how great Chuck Berry was on rock and roll in comparison to him. To me think about that is just mind-blowing. I truly believe

Originally recorded in 1956 by Richard Berry, “Louie Louie” is best known for the 1963 version recorded by The Kingsmen. Richard Berry was a rhythm and blues singer of the 1950s while The Kingsmen were a 1960s garage band. The two different versions of this song are similar, however they feature differences in many areas such as style, sound, lyrics, and instrumentation. The different versions also offer different cultural significances, despite Berry being the original writer of the song The Kingsmen’s