BERRY GORDY MANSION HOLDING HUGE ESTATE SALE/AUCTION!

HERE IS A GREAT CURBED DETROIT PREVIEW

The former Berry Gordy aka The Motown Mansion in Boston-Edison and Detroit will be auctioning Motown music memorabilia and other items as well in October. The Mansion finally sold earlier this month for $1.65 million, 918 West Boston Boulevard will be open for a huge estate sale.

The sale will be in October. Aaron Siepierski, owner of Aaron’s Estate Sales, The sale of any historic or Motown items will be auctioned off live and it will be broadcast worldwide.

This sale will take place in a two parts!

ACTUAL ESTATE SALES EVENT: The actual estate sale will run three days in October and it will have a variety of wonderful articles for sale, home furnishings, antiques and one-of-a-kind original Motown Records Company items acquired from Berry Gordy by the current owner.

LIVE AUCTION EVENT: The Live Auction will take place at the residence and will occur after the second day of the estate sale. This event will be open to international bidders to acquire exclusive High End Antiques, Historical Detroit Objects and Motown Paraphernalia. All Motown items will be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity!

They plan to have on hand, several Motown artists who will be available to autograph the Motown items, making them instant collectibles for the Motown fans!

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MOTOWN 25:YESTERDAY-TODAY-FOREVER MARCH 25 1983

Highest moment was Michael Jackson's solo perfomance

The landmark television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever was filmed before a rapturous live audience on March 25, 1983, the Motown 25 special is perhaps best remembered for Michael Jackson’s performance of “Billie Jean,” which brought the house down and introduced much of the world to the “moonwalk.”

There were other great performances that night, too, but there were also moments that revealed cracks in the joyous-reunion image that Motown chief Berry Gordy sought to portray.

Motown 25: Yesterday Today Forever

The most glaring breakdown in decorum came during what could have been the evening’s greatest triumph: the reunion of Diana Ross and the Supremes. When Ross, Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong performed together that night for the first time in 13 years, they took to the stage with something closer to 20 years’ worth of unresolved resentment among them.



Early in their performance of “Someday We’ll Be Together,” as Diana slowly moved upstage, Mary and Cindy had the audacity to keep stride alongside her. Diana turned around and angrily pushed Mary back—a move that was carefully edited out of the later broadcast but which prompted Smokey Robinson and others to take the stage and form an impromptu chorus/demilitarized zone between the warring Supremes.

RETRO: HISTORIC MOTOWN PHOTOS