Motor City Famous: Celebrity Homes, Graves & Little-Known Locales

Most know Detroit as the hometown of Motown legends like Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. And they’re all here! But beyond the well-known list of famous Detroiters awaits a veritable who’s who of pop culture, sports, TV, movies and more.

Christie Brinkley, Robin Williams, Sonny Bono, Lucille Ball, Charles Lindbergh, Robert Wagner, Lizzo, Tom Selleck, Ty Cobb, the creator of Gumby, the guy who portrayed Jaws in the James Bond films, and many more.

Compiling over 100 names and places, author Steve Platto leads a celebrity tour of the Motor City that readers can take with them on their own travels or explore from the comfort of home.

Steve Platto grew up in Livonia, where he first got the writing bug by creating one-act plays he forced his friends to be in. Growing up, he developed a voracious love for reading...MAD magazine. He also made Super 8 movies, memorized useless pop culture trivia and drew humorous editorial cartoons for the college newspaper. This all laid the groundwork for him to become an advertising agency group creative director/writer, a career he has enjoyed for more than thirty-five years. He and his wife, Cris, live in Rochester, where they raised their three children--5.2 miles from the home Madonna grew up in.