Motown’s fab Funk Brothers get star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

This is the kind of news Detroit music fans, at home and around the world, want to hear. We were happy to catch up to it this weekend.

An excerpt:

Thirteen members of the Motown studio band — all but three of them deceased — were named as official star honorees by Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President Leron Gubler.

“The Funk Brothers were a closed club — we suffered together, we laughed together, we argued together, and we made hit records together,” percussionist Ashford said during a brief speech. “We didn’t make hit records for white people. We didn’t make hit records for black people. We made hit records for everybody on the planet, and that’s the excellence we strived for.”

Willis choked up as he remembered his fellow players.

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