How we made Motown

Berry Gordy: ‘I didn’t like Stevie Wonder’s singing – but I loved his harmonica-playing’I was in a group called the Matadors and Jackie Wilson was my idol. When Jackie’s managers gave us an audition, I noticed this young man sitting in the corner listening. The managers rejected us, but he said: “Hey, man, I like a couple of your songs.” Then he told me he was Berry Gordy and I couldn’t believe it – he was the man who wrote Jackie Wilso