There is a very sound reason Motown music legend Smokey Robinson doesn't perform "The Impossible Dream," the classic song of hope and self-affirmation from the 1965 Broadway musical, "Man of La Mancha."
"Being able to have a musical career was my impossible dream. I always wanted a musical career, but I didn't think I'd get it," said the 1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, who is also a 1990 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and the 2016 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honoree.
The singularity of his career — first as a staff songwriter at Motown Records and the leader of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, then as a solo artist — has long been a matter of record. Or, as Paul McCartney once described Robinson's impact on the early Beatles: "Smokey Robinson was like God in our eyes."
