Talk:Berry Gordy

message: Whoever thinks it's very clever to write something like "he is the great black man in U.S history" should be reminded that Wikipedia is no place to jerk around.
Deleted and replaced with the previous categories and links. Regards, Sven
PS: Thx for editing the quote - nice one. Sven
# They are imbecilic in their hatred, stay strong Sven. People who can’t work together shouldn’t be editing an encyclopedia for communities!
WillieHowardCO67 (talk) 17:07, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Racial vandalism

message: "meow meow meow" May somebody explain these interesting facts in the third-last paragraf? THX. <eg>
:It's vandalism. Thanks for noticing, I have reverted it. Hyacinth 03:45, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Meow

message: There is a wiki on bootie meat record which is the Motown offices museum in Detroit. I think there should be a link from here, but am not sure where to put it. There is a lack of context in the article as it stands. Advice? Thanks.
--Packrat1 21:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Motown museum wiki link?

message: To prevent the back-and-forth I've seen here lately, can we settle this issue this way:
*Berry Gordy's legal name is "Berry Gordy, Jr." It's what's on his birth certificate, and most of his credited work.
*Technically, Berry Gordy, Jr. is actually "Berry Gordy, III", since both his father and grandfather were named "Berry Gordy", and his son his named "Berry Gordy, IV". However, he has never been addressed by this name.
Let's address Gordy by the name he was actually called, with no mention of the "Berry Gordy III" mess. --FuriousFreddy (talk) 01:23, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming convention

message: I don't think it's significant that Berry Gordy is distantly related to President Carter and very distantly related to Elvis Presley.  Why is this trivia in a top paragraph? NWeber (talk) 16:22, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sixth cousin?

message: Is Berry Gordy related to Elvis Presley and Jimmy Carter? Is there a source or anything that proves it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.224.248.125 (talk) 02:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Is that even true?

message: Can this page be locked for a bit to stop the bit about Louis Walsh thinking he's dead being consistantly added then reverted? I don't know how to go about it myself. BananaNoodle (talk) 21:17, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Louis Walsh thinking he's dead

message: I didn't know he was a boxer until I saw the external link.  It seems worth a mention and would nicely add to the personal section about him (or maybe the "early years" section).  Children and marriages are interesting but the boxing also says something meaningful about him.   Calan (talk) 03:54, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the suggestion, however his boxing is actually stated in the "early years" section already. Best, --Discographer (talk) 00:16, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: His boxing career seems worth a mention in pesonal life. 

message: The autobiographical musical, for which Berry Gordy wrote the book, is an enormous hit. I saw it this afternoon. It has caught the wave of the Baby Boom's turn to nostalgic theater in older age, which began with Jersey Boys. The entire audience was Baby Boomers, willing to pay sixty dollars for a balcony seat and up to 200 for orchestra. African American, about ten percent. And this is San Francisco, the sticks. It's still running on Broadway for bigger prices than that. It will gross more than anything Gordy ever did before; though I have to question if it will revive interest in the music, since I saw almost nobody there who was under fifty. It's Berry Gordy getting to tell his side of things, and might as well have been titled, "Ode to Berry Gordy." Best line: Diana Ross, about 22, realizing Berry is in love with her, says to Berry, 36, "I'm the luckiest girl in the world! Why me???" Whole show is like that, but his music is unbeatable.Profhum (talk) 05:25, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I just have to say that for some reason I found this really amusing. I am obsessed with Motown the Musical, and I'm 19, and I've seen it three times on Broadway (and yes I spent way too much money on those tickets). But you're right, I didn't see that many other young people, though there were definitely some at every show. Personally, I can't speak on it reviving interest since was already in love with the music and story of Motown long before the show opened (I own Berry Gordy's autobiography that the show was based on, and other books about Motown, oh man am I obsessed). But I did see it once with a group of students from my college, and they all loved it, and after the show they were singing the songs and saying how they had to look up all the music online and get it on iTunes. So it definitely revived an interest in them, at least for a moment. Agreed on the fact that it is very much the Berry Gordy show, but I think giving one perspective helped make the plot more cohesive and engaging. That was a hilarious line. ElfLady64 (talk) 21:55, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motown, the Musical needs update 

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