Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama & chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 & tore it apart in personal political & interracial disputes It is the story of Motown the break-up of The Supremes & the damaging disputes at the heart of the most successful African-American music label ever Set against a backdrop of urban riots escalating war in Vietnam & police corruption the book weaves its way through a year when soul music came of age & the underground counterculture flourished LSD arrived in the city with hallucinogenic power & local guitar band MC5
- self-styled holy barbarians of rock
- went to war with mainstream America A summer of street-level rebellion turned Detroit into one of the most notorious cities on earth known for its unique creativity its unpredictability & self-lacerating crime rates The year 1967 ended in social meltdown rancour & intense legal warfare as the complex threads that held Detroit together finally unravelled Features the true story of DETROIT now a major motion picture