DETROIT - It’s a cool moment in music history only a handful of people witnessed and it happened on a tour with The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood.
Wood was part of an entourage of about 30 people from The Rolling Stones touring party which went inside the Motown Museum over the weekend ahead of the band’s concert tonight at Ford Field.
“It was phenomenal,” Paul Barker, dir. of development for the Motown Museum told MLive. “The Stones say this leg of the tour has been kind of brutal and they hadn’t gotten to do much of anything. They said this is the one thing they wanted to do on this leg of the tour and they were so elated.”
The Museum is currently closed to the public until the summer of 2022 due to storm damage along with construction of its second phase $50 million expansion.
Not all of the museum was accessible to the touring members which included Wood’s wife, The Rolling Stones bass player, drummer, keyboardist, managers for Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, background singers and more.
The famous Studio A was available to see and anyone who’s toured Hittsville U.S.A. knows, at the end of the tour, the tour guides lead your group in song to a Motown hit right in the space many of those songs were recorded.
On this day, The Rolling Stones keyboardist, Chuck Leavell, who is a legend himself having recorded with The Stones since the early 80s and a former member of the Allman Brothers, sat down at the famous piano in Studio A, leading an epic musical moment.
“It’s the grand piano that Paul McCartney restored as his gift to us,” Barker added. “He sat down and started playing “My Girl” and the background vocalists and the whole group started to sway and sing the whole song from beginning to end. It was just a great moment.”
Barker says they love when famous musicians come to town and want to immerse themselves in the history of Motown music. Among recent artists who have visited are Snoop Dogg, Garth Brooks, Beyonce and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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