With his new book, "Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar" (Chicago Review Press, $26.95), author Peter Benjaminson, a former reporter at the Detroit Free Press, now has three ...

Author Peter Benjaminson is a former %27Detroit Free Press%27 reporter Wells was Motown%27s leading female star with hits such as %27My Guy%27 in 1964 Wells paved way for other female stars at ...

Mary Wells, the first female star at Motown Records, paved the way for the success of Diana Ross and the Supremes. The singer shot to fame in the early 1960s only to fade away. She died of cancer in ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Mary Wells savors the many seasons on her land in Berlin. “Probably spring, all of... No, I summer and fall and winter sometimes,” she said. Wells grew up just down the hill.

(Reuters) - Mary Wells, Motown Records' first female star who paved the way for the success of Diana Ross and The Supremes, shot to fame in the early 1960s only to fade away as a footnote of the ...