How 'Somebody's Watching Me' Singer Rockwell Created a Paranoid Pop Classic

Berry Gordy was in his Los Angeles mansion in 1982 when his son, 18-year-old Kennedy William Gordy, brought the Motown Records founder a pop-funk demo he had created on a tiny 4-track recorder in his one-bedroom Hollywood apartment. Gordy, of course, had hundreds of Number One songs to his name – either as producer, songwriter or label head – so he knew a hit when he heard one. But after listening to his son's demo, his reaction was less than exuberant. "He said something like, 'Yeah