Cycle of Success
I think I have a couple of more Detroit/Motown blogs in me. At least one for sure...this one. We will see. Oh, the anticipation! I think I will skip the diatribe on the clogged toilet if you have been following the thread. Although there were some good lessons in that sordid affair I shall keep them to myself. I have visited a lot of cool places in the last 25 years or so. Detroit was different. More melancholic. The pathos of Detroit is hard to shake. When visiting Motown, I purchased the autobiography of Berry Gordy Jr., the founder of Motown. It is a bit dated yet still has staying power. By any standard, Gordy is a big success story. A Black entrepreneur with a slate of mostly local Detroit young singers and homegrown songs which had an enormous impact on popular music from the 1960's onward. Unlike those born into wealth whose major task is to not blow it, it is quite another story to start with little and wind up with a lot. The autobiography seems to have been written