Motown - by Pete McKenna

[grapevine]

Sorry if this has been posted before ...but just spotted this new book about Motown ...published September 2020

https://www.waterstones.com/book/motown/pete-mckenna/9781912587353

Did anyone buy it? Is it any good? Is it another Berry Gordy bio? Does it offer anything new? Who is Pete McKenna? ...the website 'synopsis' doesn't bode well....

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[marybrewster]

"a white Jewish boy called Al Abrams".

Oye.

[soulwally]

Yuk and more yuk

[TheGeneral]

Sorry if this has been posted before ...but just spotted this new book about Motown ...published September 2020

https://www.waterstones.com/book/motown/pete-mckenna/9781912587353

Did anyone buy it? Is it any good? Is it another Berry Gordy bio? Does it offer anything new? Who is Pete McKenna? ...the website 'synopsis' doesn't bode well....

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There are many errors in the book that will be obvious to this group. No photos either!

[Motown4Ever518]

There are some Motown books that I have purchased over the yesrs that after reading them, I ask myself why. If I were hungry, and down to my last dollar "Would I buy a sandwich, or this record", or this book for a dollar on the resellers market?
Conversely, someone new to the site asked what would be the one Motown book that they should read and someone recommended "I Hear A Symphony". I assumed I had it, discovered I did not, and after reading it agree, it is the best book about Motown of the 150 or so that I own. And while I am centered on the Golden Age, and a few years before and afterwards, this book went up to almost the present time, certainly Motown The Musical.