“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people.”
—James Baldwin, on life, love, despair and choosing who you want to be
Barrett Strong
February 5, 1941 – January 29, 2023
American Singer | Songwriter
Grammy Award Winner | Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee
Best Known for His Work as a Songwriter at Motown
Primarily working as a lyricist, in collaboration with producer Norman Whitfield
Partial List of Barrett Strong/Norman Whitfield Works:
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Edwin Starr - War
The Temptations:
Cloud Nine | Ball of Confusion | Papa was a Rollin' Stone | I Can't Get Next to You | Runaway Child, Running Wild
Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
Barrett Strong Songs have been Recorded by:
The Rolling Stones | The Temptations | Marvin Gaye | Tom Jones | Gladys Knight and The Pips | Love and Rockets | Savoy Brown |
The Slits | Al Green | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
and others
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Barrett Strong, Motown Artist and Temptations Songwriter, Dead at 81 - RollingStone
Artist sang Motown’s first major hit "Money (That's What I Want)"
Barrett Strong, singer, songwriter and Motown’s first star, dies aged 81 - The Guardian
Strong sang on the label’s first hit "Money…" in 1960 and went on to co-write landmark songs including Heard It Through the Grapevine and War
Barrett Strong, Motown Singer and Temptations Songwriter, Dies at 81 - Pitchfork
Strong’s 1959 hit “Money (That’s What I Want)” was covered by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin
I'm not surprised at the slightest about what Yandere Dev did but at same time I'm very much disappointed in YD for that crap he should have known better not do that and now his Empire is tumbling down a lot more than ever because he should have known better than that.
This is one of my favorite Beatle covers. I truly think this was the inception of punk. The way John sings this often feels so heavy and powerful to me.
Also the ending always sounds like "I wanna be pretty bitch." I don't know if that's actually what he's saying, but I like to think it might be.