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Motown Invades the U.K.

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Marc Myers
Sep 09, 2020
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When the Beatles were here, they weren't there. The same goes for the many other British pop-rock bands that abandoned the U.K. for America in the mid-1960s in search of fame and fortune. Which left Britain with something of an excitement gap. The first American groups to fill the void in the U.K. recorded for Motown. First came the Tamla singles from A…

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