With his new book, "Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar" (Chicago Review Press, $26.95), author Peter Benjaminson, a former reporter at the Detroit Free Press, now has three ...

The singer Mary Wells had an amazing, crystal clear, voice that was to presage what was to come later with the Supremes and Diana Ross. Wells' early '60s-era singles, such as "You Beat Me to the Punch ...

Mary Wells, the first female star at Motown Records, paved the way for the success of Diana Ross and the Supremes. The singer shot to fame in the early 1960s only to fade away. She died of cancer in ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Mary Wells savors the many seasons on her land in Berlin. “Probably spring, all of... No, I summer and fall and winter sometimes,” she said. Wells grew up just down the hill.

(Reuters) - Mary Wells, Motown Records' first female star who paved the way for the success of Diana Ross and The Supremes, shot to fame in the early 1960s only to fade away as a footnote of the ...

Books about pop musicians' lives rarely talk about the music. Most—including, oddly, memoirs by the musicians themselves—focus on the sex and the drugs and never say much about the rock 'n' roll.