wrote one of your favorite love songs. Ashford, with wife Valerie Simpson, didn't bang out as many Motown lyrics as the Holland-Dozier-Holland trio or Smokey Robinson, but their contributions ...

Just this year Amy Winehouse recorded Ashford and Simpson’s “Tears Dry on Their Own.” But Simpson says they don’t write songs with the idea that they’ll last forever.

Ashford & Simpson have written songs together for 41 years – the past 30 of them as husband and wife. It’s a passion they continue to nurture in their home, at the studio and in a club they ...

Ashford & Simpson then joined Holland/Dozier/Holland at Motown where their best-known songs included "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "You're All I Need To Get By", "Reach Out And Touch Somebody's ...

Her voice was also a key component in Ashford & Simpson’s strong decade-plus run as recording artists with Warner Bros. after leaving Motown in the ’70s, in addition to a host of other projects.

Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson that penned elegant, soulful classics for the likes of Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye and funk hits for Chaka Khan and ...

After dozens of love songs, three gold albums and many Top 20 singles, the couple said that they preferred writing to performing. ”It`s the foundation, the baby child,” Simpson said.

Ashford and Simpson's relationship stretched more than four decades. They met in 1964 in a New York City church; Ashford, a South Carolina native, had come to the city to pursue a dance career.

Mr. Ashford, who along with wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motown's biggest hits, died in a New York City hospital, said Liz Rosenberg, who also was Mr. Ashford's longtime friend.

Singer-songwriter Valerie Simpson and her late husband Nick Ashford formed one of the most powerful musical duos of the modern era. From the Motown staple "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" to Chaka ...

Ashford & Simpson “had magic and that's what creates those wonderful hits, that magic. "Without those songs, those artists wouldn't have been able to go to the next level." ...

Ashford and Simpson's relationship stretched more than four decades. They met in 1964 in a New York City church; Ashford, a South Carolina native, had come to the city to pursue a dance career.