BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Many of the greatest pop hits of our collective lifetimes just keep on coming in “Motown: The Musical,” and there simply is no resisting the powerfully familiar music that rocks the rafters of the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, where the new Broadway show opened on Sunday.

A multimillion dollar jukebox musical crammed with golden oldies, “Motown” is producer Berry Gordy’s account of his remarkable life and times in the music industry, circa 1950s-70s. The legendary pop stars he discovered and cultivated – and eventually lost, in some cases – are too numerous to cite here, but most of them are depicted in Gordy’s rudimentary though relatively painless bio-script.

The music mogul’s slant on his romance with Diana Ross seems rather sweet,