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Distributed
By Fourteen
years in the making, this film is based upon a book of the
same title that won the 1989 Rolling Stone / BMl "Ralph
J. Gleason Music Book Award", STANDING IN THE SHADOWS
OF MOTOWN was shot in 35mm film, on location in Detroit and
elsewhere. This one hour and forty-eight minute documentary
and performance film tells the Funk Brothers' saga through
archival footage and still photos, narration, interviews, re-creation
scenes, 20 Motown master tracks, and twelve new live performances
of Motown classics with the Funk Brothers backing up Chaka
Khan, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Montell Jordan, Meshell Ndegeocello,
Joan Osborne, and Gerald Levert.
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