motorcitysixty poetry competition - £1,000 prize!
Announcing a new international poetry competition, marking the 60th anniversary of the Motown Revue tour of the UK.
In 1965 the Tamla-Motown Revue arrived in the UK for a tour of 20 cities. You could have seen Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and Martha & The Vandellas for about £4 in today’s money.
What was the soundtrack to your weekend back then, or since?
- Maybe you were weaned on Motown - the Four Tops, The Supremes or Marvin Gaye.
- Were you stirred by the words of Stokely Carmichael, Dr Martin Luther King Jnr or Ossie Davis?
- Did your weekends involve scooters, motorbikes, flares and psychedelic dresses?
- Roll on a decade or two - maybe Motown, Reggae or 2-Tone (Jerry Dammers' vision of an English Motown) was your Friday night sound?
- Did you meet the love of your life dancing to the great soul and funk tracks of the seventies and eighties, or the hip hop of the nineties and beyond - the Commodores, Rosie Gaines, Boyz II Men, Shanice, Young Boy, Lil Baby…
Full details here and at www.motorcitysixty.com
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