{"id":2374019,"date":"2026-04-15T07:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2374019"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:59:03","slug":"why-motown-artists-refused-to-honor-paul-williams-after-he-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-motown-artists-refused-to-honor-paul-williams-after-he-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Motown Artists REFUSED To Honor Paul Williams After He Died!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VGwU_YIIYTw?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Why Motown Artists REFUSED To Honor Paul Williams After He Died!<\/p>\n<p>Why Motown artists refused to honor Paul Williams after he died is a question that has gone unanswered for over 52 years.<br \/>\nThe founding father of The Temptations was found dead in a car with a bullet in his head, and Motown artists went silent in ways that had nothing to do with grief.<\/p>\n<p>He had been recording new music just weeks before he died, but powerful forces inside Motown made sure that record never saw the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>What has since come to light about the circumstances surrounding his death is the part Berry Gordy never wanted exposed.<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it guys! We hope you enjoyed the video! If you did please consider leaving a like and telling us what you thought in the comments! <\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Content might be gossip, rumors, exaggerated or indirectly besides the truth. Viewer advised to do own research before forming their opinion. Content might be opinionated. <\/p>\n<p>#blackstarchronicles #blackstars #motown #thetemptations #paulwilliams #discovery<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VGwU_YIIYTw\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Motown Artists REFUSED To Honor Paul Williams After He Died! Why Motown artists refused to honor Paul Williams after he died is a question that has gone unanswered for over 52 years. The founding father of The Temptations was found dead in a car with a bullet in his head, and Motown artists went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2374020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776239941_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374021,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374019\/revisions\/2374021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}