Joe Stubbs MOTCLP62) 1992: "Pressure Point" (Motorcity, MOTCCD80) 1996: "The Best Of Joe Stubbs" (Motorcity, HTCD 7737-2) Joe Stubbs Joe Stubbs (born Joseph Stubbles, 1942 — February 5, 1998) was an American R&B/soul singer who became the lead singer of four different groups throughout his recording career. He was the younger brother of The Four Tops' lead Levi Stubbs. Joe Stubbs was born six years after his brother Levi. The two grew up together in Detroit, Michigan. As a teenager, Stubbs joined the R&B group The Falcons in 1957 and lead them on several of their early hits, among them the million-seller,
George Stubbs included a large segment on Stubbs. In 1959 Mellon and Taylor first met and bonded over their appreciation of Stubbs. This led Mellon to create the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art (The predecessor of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) with Taylor as the director. Mellon eventually amassed the largest collection of Stubbs paintings in the world which would become a part of his larger collection of British art that would become the Yale Center for British Art. In 1971, Taylor published the seminal catalogue, "Stubbs". The record price for a Stubbs painting was set by