Mary Wells will always be remembered for one of the biggest hits in the rise of
Motown during the 1960s with the impossibly infectious, feel-good single My Guy,
a Smokey Robinson song that topped the US charts for seven weeks and was
instrumental in popularising the Motown sound outside the USA. She also famously
toured with The Beatles and recorded a successful album with fellow Motown
artist, Marvin Gaye. Yet, brought up in near poverty in Detroit suffering badly
from ill-health, she initially took up singing as an escape from her problems
and started performing in night clubs....