Legendary songwriter Lamont Dozier, an integral a part of the Motown sound due to his songwriting contributions for Diana Ross and The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Martha and The Vandellas and The 4 Tops, died this morning (Aug. 9) at 81, in response to an Instagram submit from his son Lamont Dozier Jr.
In 1962, Dozier joined brothers Brian and Eddie Holland within the songwriting trio Holland-Dozier-Holland and went on to jot down scores of hits for Detroit-based Motown over the subsequent a number of years, together with 10 No. 1s for The Supremes alone. Their roster of successes is staggering and constitutes a number of the most beloved songs of the twentieth century, together with “Warmth Wave,” “Quicksand” “The place Did Our Love Go,” “Child I Want Your Loving,” “Child Love,” “Come See About Me,” “How Candy It Is (To Be Liked by You),” “Cease! within the Title of Love,” “Nowhere To Run,” “I Can’t Assist Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch),” “I Hear a Symphony,” “”This Outdated Coronary heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)” and “You Can’t Hurry Love.”
For his or her efforts, Holland-Dozier-Holland had been inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame in 1988 and the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame two years later.
The trio left Motown in 1968 and launched their very own labels, Invictus and Sizzling Wax, with Dozier recording as a solo artist for each. Amid a prolonged lawsuit with Motown over royalties and profit-sharing, the Holland-Dozier-Holland partnership dissolved within the mid-Seventies. After a few years aside, the songwriters labored collectively within the late 2000s to compose the rating for a musical adaptation of the movie The First Wives Membership.
Dozier spent the previous 4 many years recording his personal materials, together with the one “Going Again to My Roots” that disco outfit Odyssey was successful in 1981, and writing for different artists, together with Phil Collins, who received a Golden Globe and a Grammy for his or her chart-topping 1988 collaboration “Two Hearts.” Dozier additionally wrote with U.Ok. artists Merely Purple and Alison Moyet.
“God bless Lamont,” Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wooden wrote on Twitter. “His music will reside on.”
