Lamont Dozier

Lamont Dozier

In a HARDtalk interview broadcast on 8 July 2009, Zeinab Badawi talks to the legendary songwriter, Lamont Dozier.

The death of Michael Jackson shocked the world, those who had known and worked with him in the music business as much as anyone.

Zeinab Badawi talks to Motown legend Lamont Dozier, one of the song-writing trio behind many of Motown's greatest hits.

She asks him: amidst the outpouring of grief, who or what does he think is responsible for Jackson's untimely death?

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