Motown music is distinct and when you hear it you know it and it was some of the best ever written imo.

Little Richard is definitely a trailblazer.

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"