Refers to american record label motown records.

This corporation was formed in 1959 by Berry Gordy, a successful R&B songwriter who required an outlet for his initial ventures into production.

He used an 800 dollar loan to finance the release of singles by Marv Johnson and Eddie Holland on his Tamla label, one of a series of individual trademarks that he eventually included under the Motown umbrella.

Enjoying limited local success, Gordy widened his roster, signing acts including the Temptations and Marvelettes in 1960.

motown became one of the most important independant record labels during the sixties.in the eighties bands like wet wet wet and george michael, who claimed to be influenced by the motown bands, became popular. The song ‘motown junk' is an attack on this senseless and useless george michael-generation.