Obituary: Motown drummer Uriel Jones

Motown drummer who featured on many of the label's finest releasesThe contribution of the Funk Brothers, the studio band that helped to create the Motown sound in the 1960s, achieved only belated recognition: it was in 2002, with the release of the documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown, that the wider world began to understand what a huge part they had played as the engine room of hits by such names as Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, the Supremes and Martha and the Vandellas. The film prom...

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