Detroit is remembering native son and famed Motown songwriter Lamont Dozier, who has died at the age of 81.
Dozier's songs earned him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a place in the Library of Congress.
Dozier and his songwriting partners, the Holland Brothers, helped define the Motown sound.
In a 2019 interview, Dozier said his songs traced his own journey from growing up poor in Detroit and working as a janitor to carving a place in music history.
"But that's part of life and things I've done, you know what I mean? Some of them I wasn't that quite proud of, but after I did 'em I thought 'man, there's a song in there somewhere," he said.
Dozier wrote well over 400 songs.
Between the 1960s and 1980s more than 40 of them became number-one hits.