New series 1/4.
Paul Gambaccini profiles Motown giants the Four Tops, who - alongside the Supremes - perfected soulful pop melodramas with huge chart success. Sixties gems include Baby I Need Your Loving, I Can't Help Myself, Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over), Reach Out I'll Be There, Standing in the Shadows of Love, Bernadette and 7 Rooms of Gloom, plus dozens of other hits across three decades. With input from Motown songwriting giants Brian Holland and Eddie Holland , Mary Wilson (of the Supremes), and Four Tops Abdul "Duke" Fakir and Renaldo "Obie" Benson, who died in July. Producer Graham Diss