Hey you're listening to Rolling Stone Music Now, I'm Brian Hyatt.

Last year I sat down with Brian and Eddie Holland,

who were of course two-thirds of the Motan Records songwriting team

of Holland Dozier Holland, and they went deep into the writing of some of the

most famous songs of all time.

Today we're going to have an encore presentation of that episode and we'll be back next

week with something brand new. Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

Now we've had some legendary guests on this show, but today I think ranks pretty high. We have with

us today Eddie and Brian Holland who with Lamondosia made up one of the greatest songwriting teams ever to live. You know them

as Holland, Dozier, Holland. These two brothers wrote an amazing new book called

Come and Get These Memories about their days with Motown and a whole lot more.

And I really enjoyed reading it and I learned a lot.

And I don't know if you guys can grasp the extent to, you I'm a little younger so these songs were

just graven in stone they were always there for me and to learn the humanity behind the writing of them was an extraordinary experience.

So I guess I'll start, first of all if you could introduce yourself so our listeners know which

one is which.

Oh, I'm Eddie Holland. I'm Brian Holland. Welcome

again. There's a lot in the fascinating memories of your childhoods and

your family and you know I'd recommend everyone dig into the book and read about that but we only have so much time so I guess I'll jump ahead and just wonder if you could talk about your first encounters with Barry Gordy, which was pretty early on, obviously.

Well, I'm at Barry Gordy first.

I was about 18 years old, you know, so that was a few years ago.

And he was, you know basically a struggling songwriter and wrote

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