Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Smokey Robinson

April 2023

  • Smokey Robinson

    ‘At 83, I still feel sexual’: Smokey Robinson on love, joy, drugs, Motown – and his affair with Diana Ross

    The music legend has just released a fabulously filthy album. He looks back on his incredible life in songwriting, and his friendships with Marvin Gaye, Berry Gordy and Aretha Franklin

November 2021

  • Vernon Pryce dancing at the last night of the Wigan Casino.

    ‘Dancing kept me sane’: how black British youth found a home in northern soul

    From winning dance competitions to confronting Nazis, black veterans of the 70s soul all-nighters share their stories – and counter the idea that the movement was exclusively white

September 2019

  • Magic men … Smokey Robinson, left, and Berry Gordy at Hitsville, USA.

    Hitsville: The Making of Motown review – a 60th birthday with soul

    Some of the archive clips trigger goosebumps, while Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson radiate charm in this affectionate anniversary tribute to Detroit’s influential record label

April 2019

  • ‘The work of someone intent on fixing the flaws in its predecessor’ ... Anderson .Paak.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Anderson .Paak: Ventura review – stripped-back soul to silence the haters

    The rapper’s new album feels like a riposte to criticism of his last one, amping up the subtlety and dialling down the grand ambition

March 2018

  • Smokey Robinson Performing

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about clocks and watches

    Scott Walker, Slowdive, Smokey Robinson and Della Reese are among the artists spinning this week’s clockwise playlist

November 2017

  • Warren Moore, second from left, with the Miracles in the 1960s.

    Miracles singer and songwriter Warren "Pete" Moore dies

    The US musician, who co-wrote multiple hits for the Smokey Robinson-led band, has died aged 78

March 2016

  • Diana Ross,backstage at Finsbury Park Astoria, London for the opening of the Tamla-Motown UK tour, March 1965

    Motown: The Sound of Young America – in pictures

    A new book collects behind-the-scenes and unpublished pictures of stars Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and many more

January 2015

  • Nick Cave

    Music blog
    The Nick Cave skateboard – and five other bizarre musical endorsements

    From the rapper who advertised penile enhancement products to the Stones selling you Rice Krispies, here are some of music’s oddest endorsements

December 2014

  • YouTube

    YouTube threatened with legal action for 20,000 videos by Pharrell and more

    Global Music Rights, which represents the likes of Pharrell, the Eagles and John Lennon, asserts that YouTube does not have the right to host videos from its artists

November 2014

  • Paul McCartney

    Album streams
    The Art of McCartney: album stream

    Hear the Cure, Brian Wilson, Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson, Corinne Bailey Rae and others perform some of Paul McCartney’s best-loved songs – and let us know what you think

September 2013

  • Manic Street Preachers James Dean

    BBC Radio 2 in the Park – review

    Glimmers of greatness amid a safe-as-houses bland-out at Radio 2's one-day festival, writes Ian Gittins

March 2013

  • billy bragg 2013

    The Guardian profile
    Billy Bragg: Barking's Woody Guthrie on 30 years of songs and activism

    From agitpop to love songs, Bragg has brought his audience through life with him, creating a soundtrack to thousands of lives

January 2013

  • South Korean girl group 4Minute on stage during the Korean Golden Disk Awards

    Smokey Robinson to The Minotaur: the week in music - in pictures

    From South Korean girl group 4Minute to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, here are some of this week's most memorable moments in music

September 2012

  • Smokey Robinson

    Smokey Robinson reinvents himself as a performance poet

    Motown man will present six poems in a new spoken-word show, taking people on 'a walk through his history'

October 2011

  • Jessie J performing ata the Mobos

    The week in music
    The week in music - in pictures

  • Marv Tarplin with the Miracles

    Marv Tarplin obituary

August 2011

  • Esther Gordy Edwards

    Esther Gordy Edwards obituary

    Key Motown Records executive who helped her brother Berry found the company

May 2011

  • Motown Records founder Berry Gordy

    Motown Records founder plans musical about his life

    Berry Gordy developing autobiographical production featuring songs by Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson, say reports

January 2011

  • The Marvelettes

    Gladys Horton obituary

    Lead singer for the Marvelettes on hits including Please Mr Postman, Motown's first No 1

December 2010

  • Teena Marie

    Teena Marie obituary

    American soul and funk musician who was one of the few successful white performers of R&B
About 30 results for Smokey Robinson
12
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：