Motown hitmaker Lamont Dozier dies aged 81
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Motown legend Lamont Dozier has died aged 81.
The dying of the songwriting genius who’s liable for classics together with “Nowhere to Run,” “Baby Love,” and “You Keep Me Hanging On,” was introduced by his son Lamont Dozier Jr on Instagram.
‘Rest in Heavenly Peace, Dad!!!’ wrote his son alongside an image of the pair.
Reports mentioned a precise explanation for dying is but to be confirmed.
Another man that sat down and taught me lots about music is gone. The nice Lamont Dozier. I’ll always remember assembly and dealing with him together with the Holland Brothers in 2006.
Thank you for all you probably did for me and for the world at giant. You positively made this place higher. pic.twitter.com/m6p01h4y6K
— Brandon Williams (@bwilliamsmusic) August 9, 2022
Tributes have began pouring in for Dozier. Grammy-winning recording Brandon Williams Tweeted: “Another man that sat down and taught me lots about music is gone. The nice Lamont Dozier. I’ll always remember assembly and dealing with him together with the Holland Brothers in 2006.
Thank you for all you probably did for me and for the world at giant. You positively made this place higher,” he added.
Born in Detroit in 1941, Dozier recorded just a few unsuccessful information for various native labels earlier than teaming up with the Holland brothers as the principle songwriting and manufacturing crew for Berry Gordy’s Motown Records in 1962.
Speaking to The Guardian in 2015, Dozier defined their profitable however typically arduous songwriting course of.
“We’d get there at 9am and we would sometimes work until 3am,” he mentioned. “It was blood, sweat and tears. We pounded on the piano and put our ideas down on a little recorder and just worked and worked them out until we came up with things.”
“Lots of childhood memories came back to me and I started using them as song titles,” the BBC reviews.
Motown legend Lamont Dozier has died aged 81.
The dying of the songwriting genius who’s liable for classics together with “Nowhere to Run,” “Baby Love,” and “You Keep Me Hanging On,” was introduced by his son Lamont Dozier Jr on Instagram.
‘Rest in Heavenly Peace, Dad!!!’ wrote his son alongside an image of the pair.
Reports mentioned a precise explanation for dying is but to be confirmed.
Another man that sat down and taught me lots about music is gone. The nice Lamont Dozier. I’ll always remember assembly and dealing with him together with the Holland Brothers in 2006.
Thank you for all you probably did for me and for the world at giant. You positively made this place higher. pic.twitter.com/m6p01h4y6K
— Brandon Williams (@bwilliamsmusic) August 9, 2022
Tributes have began pouring in for Dozier. Grammy-winning recording Brandon Williams Tweeted: “Another man that sat down and taught me lots about music is gone. The nice Lamont Dozier. I’ll always remember assembly and dealing with him together with the Holland Brothers in 2006.
Thank you for all you probably did for me and for the world at giant. You positively made this place higher,” he added.
Born in Detroit in 1941, Dozier recorded just a few unsuccessful information for various native labels earlier than teaming up with the Holland brothers as the principle songwriting and manufacturing crew for Berry Gordy’s Motown Records in 1962.
Speaking to The Guardian in 2015, Dozier defined their profitable however typically arduous songwriting course of.
“We’d get there at 9am and we would sometimes work until 3am,” he mentioned. “It was blood, sweat and tears. We pounded on the piano and put our ideas down on a little recorder and just worked and worked them out until we came up with things.”
“Lots of childhood memories came back to me and I started using them as song titles,” the BBC reviews.
