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A look at live classic-rock songs that became fan favorites.

Soul music, term adopted to describe African American popular music in the United States as it evolved from the 1950s to the ’60s and ’70s. Some view soul as merely a new term for rhythm and blues. In fact a new generation of artists profoundly reinterpreted the sounds of the rhythm-and-blues pioneers of the 1950s—Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Sam Cooke, and Ray Charles—whose music found popularity among whites and was transformed into what became known as rock and roll. If rock and roll, represented by performers such as Elvis Presley, can be seen as a white reading of

Motown Records star Barrett Strong has passed away at the age of 81. Strong was Motown's primary hitmaker and songwriter as the label transitioned through the 1960s.

Barrett Strong was quietly a pioneer on the label that became synonymous with 60s soul music. Unfortunately, we must announce his passing.

Barrett Strong, whose 1959 hit, “Money (That’s What I Want),” gave a fledgling music entrepreneur named Berry Gordy Jr. the jump-start