Quote Originally Posted by ralpht View Post
I think Motown simply outgrew Berry. It was no longer fun for him. With the addition of videos on the scene, production costs on a given song became prohibitive. He loved mixing with my brother until an aide would come and whisper in his ear that he had a meeting to attend. He would tell my brother that he had to go meet with "The college boys". I've said it before: Berry was, besides being a shrewd business man, was a song writer and record producer. Once deprived of being just that, the fun was history.
Wow! I didn't know he still liked being in the studio. Could he have done like Herb Alpert did, turn over executive duties to others and carry on with the creative things?