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Live performance footage captures the energy, spontaneity, and imperfection that studio recordings polish away. The rarest live clips are from small venues, early gigs, one-off collaborations, and performances where something unexpected happened — a song played differently, a moment of improvisation, or a connection between the artist and the audience that was never repeated.
The Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.
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