From loving Parliament to competing with Prince to struggling with drug addiction, here's what we learned from Bitchin: The Sound and Fury of Rick James
Singer explains how the 1967 hit came about while holiday shopping with co-writer Al Cleveland on first episode of AARP Studios' new series
From Sixties pop smashes to Seventies protest classics
From Dua Lipa to Smokey Robinson, here are some of the best interviews of the year on Rolling Stone Music Now
"Closing Time" montage, Smokey Robinson's 'Chanooka" lesson and Christmas joke swap highlight final Weekend Update of 2020
From re-recording "Shop Around" in the middle of the night to improvising "Ooo Baby Baby" on stage, Robinson shares his best Motown tales
Listen to our definitive interview with the Motown legend on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast
Artists' projects are part of new deal between Audible and Gunpowder and Sky
Stanley and his soul tribute ensemble cover Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "Ooo Baby Baby"
Earlier this month, Babyface and Teddy Riley duelled for R&B supremacy in front of nearly half a million people. "I'm glad it's over," he says
