Chris Clark liked to court controversy. At 16 she was busted by the vice squad for singing under age in a bar for her parents’ 18th wedding anniversary bash. On signing to Motown in 1963, as one of the label’s handful of white singers that included colleague R Dean Taylor, she was boo-ed on stage – “they never realised I wasn’t black from listening to my voice and records” – couldn’t adlib – “Brian Holland just looked at me puzzled” – and when she recorded her debut single Do Right Baby Do Right in 1965 at Studio A, the entire staff were peering through the window to check her out. After recording two albums for the company, 1967’s superb *Soul Sounds and 1969’s *CC Rides Again, largely a covers album on the offshoot Weed, a precursor for the Rare Earth subsidiary, she turned to photography, visually documenting the label’s artists. Later that same year she became the vice president of Motown’s film department and in 1971 co-penned the script to Lady Sings The Blues. “I had a fantastic time,” she tells Lois Wilson, “I learnt so much, it was tough and at times intimidating but I wouldn’t have missed out for the world.”