Costumes, music, album covers and photos relating to the 1960s group, from the collection of Mary Wilson who, along with Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, was one of the original Supremes.
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A wasted opportunity I thought and nowhere near the full Story of the Supremes. It seems an enormous shame that the acoustics for an exhibition about the world's greatest girl group were so muddled. Music overlapped with audio footage of Martin Luther King amongst others and made for an earache inducing hour or so that really should have proritised the music. Decent archive footage of the musicians who were fundamental to the Motown Sound would have been good but weren't there. The Standing in the Shadows of Motown documentary would have been worth plundering in this respect. Excerpts from BBC Radio's The Record Producers were good. However, the usual band stories of in-fighting, jealousy and money weren't so much glossed over as almost completely ignored. On reflection, the juxtaposition of the Supremes' glitzy on stage dresses and the arbitrary lynchings of black Americans in the fifties seems in poor taste. Save yourself the cost of a ticket and buy the Motown Gold triple CD instead.