On the Motown Records' 25th-anniversary special -- a May 1983 TV extravaganza with notable turns by the Temptations, the Four Tops and Smokey Robinson -- it was Michael Jackson who stopped the show.

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They played behind Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and all the rest, played on more monster hits than the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys combined.

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The Temptations and the Four-Tops were his idols, but then he really got his own style.

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The white-tiled dining room has tractor-seat stools in front of the open kitchen and communal tables beneath industrial-looking lamps, plus a few two- and four-tops inside and out.

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