The Funk Brothers played on more number 1 singles than any other band in history. Sadly, their status as sidemen for Motown Records largely consigned these unsung pioneers to the forgotten corners of ...

Joe Messina, one of the original guitarists for Motown Records' in-house backing band the Funk Brothers, died on Monday at the age of 93. Born on Dec. 13, 1928, in Detroit, Messina began playing ...

Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit “Ball of Confusion” and Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” died ...

Pledging "there ain't no party like a Funk Brothers party," the former Motown studio band turned the lawn at Chateau Ste. Michelle into a giant dance floor. The veteran band that backed so many famous ...

A public viewing will be held Thursday in Livonia for late Funk Brothers guitarist Joe Messina. Messina, who played on myriad Motown hits in the '60s and early '70s as part of the iconic studio band, ...

Joe Messina, the original guitarist for legendary Motown Records studio band the Funk Brothers, has died. Billboard reports that Messina died yesterday in Detroit after a 12-year battle with kidney ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Messina was by all accounts, including his own, a soft-spoken guy who was happiest while playing his guitar. But as one of ...

Joe Messina, the prolific guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers can be heard on an array of Motown classics, died Monday, April 4, the Detroit Free Press reports. He was 93. Messina died at his ...