Motown Christmas Special aired on NBC on December 9, 2025. Know all about the musicians who appeared and where to stream this musical holiday special show.

Joan Osborne has a long string of solo albums, a side project with Trigger Hippy, and a forthcoming album that's entirely focused on the songs of Bob Dylan, but the adventurous singer and songwriter ...

"The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music." ...

Hundreds of people from the Killeen area moved to the groove as area artist paid homage to music from the Motown label. Some, such as Renata Darden and Shandrieka Robinson dressed the part, complete ...

The Bay Area's legendary Motown On Mondays party series lands in Brooklyn on April 4th with an all-star lineup of selectors including DJ's Tara, Tap.10, Mawkus, Still Life and DStrukt. Preserving the ...

The Temptations were brimming with high hopes on Dec. 21, 1964, a Christmas-week optimism that turned out to be well justified. It was cold outside when “My Girl” was released, but the group had the ...

This year, NBC celebrated Christmas with some of Motown's biggest and brightest, alongside some of today's rising stars. What A Motown Christmas has proven is that the music will forever be timeless.

-- As a teenager, J. Plunky Branch sang Motown songs around the house. He heard them throughout high school, on dates and at school dances. During his senior year, "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love ...

At the start of this turbulent new century, music documentaries had mostly been relegated to one-hour episodes of VH1’s Behind The Music or the BBC’s Classic Albums. While both series were highly ...

The Beatles had an unmistakable connection to Motown. Outside of being huge fans of the cultural music movement, they were heavily influenced by it in their own music. After all, the band did cover ...

The music from Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism sounds very modern. Despite this, one of the album’s creators explained how Motown songs inspired it. He picked out one Smokey Robinson tune in particular as ...