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Mary Wells

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....