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The New Releases page has been updated to include music CD, DVD and Blu-ray releases for May.

Highlights for May include:

• Rod Stewart’s “Time” (14 May US, 7 May UK)
• Huey Lewis and the News’ “Sports 30th Anniversary” deluxe edition (14 May)
• David Bowie’s “Zeit 77-79” box set (14 May)
• “The Beach Boys Live – The 50th Anniversary Tour” double album (21 May)
• Burt Bacharach’s “Anyone Who Had a Heart: Art of the Songwriter” 6-CD box set (21 May)
• North American debut for the Rolling Stones’ “Crossfire Hurricane” on DVD/Blu-ray (21 May)
• Wings’ reissue of “Wings Over America” in standard and deluxe editions (28 May)
• John Fogerty’s new duets album “Wrote a Song For Everyone” (28 May).

“Motown: The Musical” debuted at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Sunday night, following a month of previews.

The show tells the story of how Berry Gordy Jr (played by Brandon Victor Dixon) founded the Motown label and took the world by storm with more than 50 classic hits by stars such as Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Supremes, The Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas, and many more.

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The Marvelettes’ debut single “Please Mr. Postman” is Song of the Week on Classic Pop Icons.

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The New Releases page has been updated to include music CD, DVD and Blu-ray releases for April.

Highlights for April include:

• Deluxe editions of Transvision Vamp’s “Pop Art” and “Velveteen” (2 Apr)
• “The Eagles – The Studio Albums 1972-1979” 6-CD box set (2 Apr) and “History of the Eagles” DVD and Blu-ray (30 Apr)
• The Beatles’ iTunes debut for “Let It Be… Naked” (2 Apr)
• OMD’s brand new “English Electric” album in standard, deluxe and vinyl editions (9 Apr)
• Deluxe 2-CD edition of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “Kaya” (23 Apr)
• Iggy & The Stooges’ new album “Ready to Die” on CD and vinyl (30 Apr)
• Deep Purple’s new album “Now What?!” in standard, deluxe and vinyl editions (30 Apr).

Motown’s legendary house band, the Funk Brothers, will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 21.

Guitarist Eddie Willis and percussionist Jack Ashford are among the musicians planning to attend the ceremony. Guitarist Joe Messina, 86, has also expressed an interest in attending, but no final decision has been made.

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