Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles were the Motown legends of the 60's who are lauded for classic tunes like ''The Tracks Of My Tears'' and ''I Second That Emotion''. The groups were headed by William Smokey Robinson Junior, born in 1940, an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, who was tagged ''The King of Motown''.
He has been responsible for 37 Top 40 hits for Motown between 1960 and 1987, and was Vice President from 1961 to 1988 - The Miracles were one of the very first artists to be signed to the prestigious label.
Smokey Robinson wrote many songs for other Motown artists, including ''My Guy'' by Mary Wells and has been in the music world for over 50 years.
He quite the Miracles in 1972 to go solo and the band carried on a short while without their charismatic frontman, Smokey suffered from cocaine addition in the mid- 80s but recovered and was later inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame.
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Smokey Robinson was back in 2009 with a new album; ''Time Flies When You're Having Fun'' and performed a storming set at the Roundhouse, as part of the BBC's ''Electric Proms'' season.
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Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters, born McKinley Morganfield, was a famous and well-admired American Blues singer born in 1913 in Mississippi. He is considered as the father of Chicago Blues, and is often cited as a major influence by early 60’s Blues/rock bands.
Muddy Waters was an accomplished singer, songwriter and guitarist, though struggled in the early years to gain acceptance, particularly because he was black. Eventually he signed to the Aristocrat label in 1948 (which became Chess) and was at his professional peak during the mid 50’s however Chess rather forgot about him and for some 20 years little was recorded. In 1977 he signed for Blue Sky and had somewhat of a renaissance.
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Muddy’s ‘They Call Me Muddy Waters’ gained a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording. In subsequent years his albums and songs achieved Grammy Awards a number of times.
Muddy has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and four of his songs were listed under the category of ‘500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll’. The Blues Foundation Awards also honored Muddy .
Albums include "The Best of Muddy Waters", "At Newport 1960", "The Real Folk Blues", "More Real Folk Blues", "Electric Mud", "Hard Again", and "The Definitive Collection".
Muddy Waters died in his sleep in 1983.
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