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Diana Ross: Diana! (BBC 2)

Film/DVD/TV Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 8 October 1971

MOTOWN'S MUCH-heralded first independent production centred on Diana Ross, proved to be all it was cracked out to be – and more! Screened on B.B.C. ...

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Diana Ross: A Talking Instead Of Just A Walking Doll

Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 30 November 1968

DIANA ROSS is a living doll. But as an all-talking living doll, her new image came as quite a surprise to the pop scene last ...

Albums from the Supremes and Marvin Gaye

Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 11 January 1969

THOSE TAMLA GOODIES ...

Four Tops Hoping For British Tour, Diana Splits Next Year

Report by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 25 October 1969

ALAN SMITH reports the latest views from DETROIT, A CITY PACKED WITH NATURAL MOTOWN TALENT. ...

Motown: The Gold In Their Bodies

Report and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1970

CONSIDERED TOGETHER at a party in New York, Nina Simone, the highly political folk singer, and Diana Ross, principal exhibit of the Motown Record Corporation, ...

Diana Ross Doesn't Miss Supremes

Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 4 July 1970

DIANA ROSS is a supremely confident person. She has progressed from being a member of just another Tamla Motown group called the Supremes, to making ...

Diana Ross: Reflections on Diana's solo debut

Report by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 17 July 1970

TOURING late June, Diana Ross passed through London during a holiday period and E.M.I. Records held a reception in her honour. ...

Motown Making Millions

Profile by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 1 May 1972

Author's update, 2019. "The Manchester Guardian? That's the best fuckin' newspaper in the world!" So David Crosby told me in early 1969. He had answered ...

Lady Sings The Blues (Motown/Paramount Pictures)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, December 1972

I had to be darkened down so the show could go on in dynamic-assed Detroit. It's like they say, there's no damn business like show business. ...

Diana Ross: Lady Sings The Blues (Tamla Motown TMSP 1131)

Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 24 March 1973

Diana hits the big one ...

Marvin Gaye: Trouble Man (Motown); Diana Ross (And Others): Lady Sings the Blues (Motown)

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1973

SOCIOLOGISTS LIKE TO talk about black people mimicking whites, and I suppose that it is inherent in the presumptions most of us make about black ...

Diana Ross: Rapping with Lady D

Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 14 April 1973

THE DISTINGUISHED-looking old gentlemen in the red braided uniform accepts my coat with an expression of mild distaste and ushers me into the Pine Room ...

Diana Ross: The Lady Is A Winner

Report and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 27 April 1973

NO ONE is more aware than the lady herself of the totally negative attitude prevalent amongst quite a large number of people when it was ...

Black Music

Comment by Dave Marsh, Let It Rock, May 1973

SOMETIME LAST fall, John Percy Boyd, Mark Bethune and Michael Brown, a trio of black college students in Detroit, decided to put an end to ...

Diana Ross: Lady Sings The Blues

Review by Charlie Gillett, Let It Rock, May 1973

YOU'LL HAVE READ by now that Elvis had to cancel his 1973 tour of the UK in order to do location shooting in Las Vegas ...

The J Five Slot: Diana Ross opens the door...

Retrospective and Interview by Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 9 June 1973

WHEN LAST I left you the J5 had been formed (in 1965; the other date was my mistake) and the group had played an impressive ...

Diana Ross: Touch Me In The Morning (Motown — import)

Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 28 July 1973

Diana and that touch of drama ...

Talking With Diana Ross

Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 28 September 1973

PRE-CONCEIVED notions are always hard to forget and when one has been continually conditioned to a particular notion, time makes it that much harder to ...

Diana Ross: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 29 September 1973

DIANA ROSS may be a real superstar, as critics like Derek Jewell assert, but there's altogether too much of the "sooper" in her act for ...

Diana Ross: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 29 September 1973

ANYONE WHO doubts that Diana Ross is a star in the old-fashioned sense of the word should have been at the Albert Hall last Tuesday. ...

Singles: 'You're a Special Part of Me', Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye (Berry Gordy), G. Wright, H. Johnson, A. Porter

Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 6 December 1973

THE SMILING face of Diana Ross froze as she answered the question. The gauche bastard had just asked how she felt replacing Tammi Terrell in ...

Singles from Elton John, David Bowie et al

Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 1 March 1975

Elton gets lost ...

Diana Ross: Breakfast With Lady Diana

Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 20 March 1976

THIS IS the story: it's a champagne breakfast for Diana Ross, being held at a Top London Hotel. Which means that everybody drags in bleary-eyed ...

Diana Ross: New Victoria, London

Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 24 April 1976

WHEN WILL THE real Diana Ross sing up and be counted? ...

Diana Ross and the Supremes: 20 Golden Greats

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 10 September 1977

IF THEY weren't the highest form, they sure as hell were the most refined. The three-piece girl vocal group is almost a dying art. Only ...

Diana Ross: Baby It's Me

Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, 1 December 1977

DIANA ROSS' gifts aren't easy to capture on record. In fact, it's been a decade since anybody has done it consistently. She's campy and prone ...

Diana Ross: The Boss (Motown STML12118)

Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 14 July 1979

Ross stops the rot ...

Ashford & Simpson: Nick and Valerie's Hit Cure

Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 6 November 1979

With the success of their recent albums and the ensuing singles hit, Ashford and Simpson have truly arrived. David Nathan finds out what makes them ...

Diana Ross: Diana (Motown); Jermaine Jackson: Let's Get Serious (Motown)

Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 14 June 1980

The hit factory calls in the new technology ...

Diana Ross: Diana (Motown 8033)

Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 17 June 1980

'Upside Down'; 'Tenderness'; 'Friend To Friend'; 'I'm Coming Out'; 'Have Fun (Again)'; 'My Old Piano'; 'Now That You're Gone'; 'Give Up'. ...

Diana Ross: Diana (Motown STMA 8033)

Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 21 June 1980

WITH THE combined forces of the Chic Organization Ltd on the record, and with all the songs written, arranged, and produced by the Organization's Dynamic ...

Chic Speak

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 12 August 1980

Chic's Bernard Edwards talks about the frustrations of being underestimated outside of the disco sphere; about the problems of producing the Diana Ross album; and ...

DIANA stop DIANA stop DIANA stop DIANA

Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980

THE DPRESS CONFERENCE versus YOUR POCKET ...

Diana Ross: To Love Again (Motown STML 12152)

Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 April 1981

AFTER THE massive success of the Chic produced Diana album, the chic Ms. Ross reverts back to her sophisticated approach for this set of nine ...

The Superstar: Much More Than The Just The music

Overview by Vernon Gibbs, Billboard, 5 June 1982

IT MAY be one of the most frequently misused of the music industry's accolades, since in a business full of stars there are few genuine ...

Donna Summer: She Works Hard For The Money/Diana Ross: Ross

Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 16 July 1983

DONNA SUMMER has adopted a succession of irresistible role models – the sex Goddess of Moroder's sensual motorik disco, the modern day Cinderella of 'Once ...

Nile Rodgers: "Alright!"

Interview by Davitt Sigerson, High Fidelity, February 1984

What do Southside Johnny, David Bowie, and Diana Ross have in common? ...

Second Hand Emotion — Diana Ross: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 20 September 1985

Diana Ross's performance at the Albert Hall was a memorably touching experience — the only trouble was, reports Mick Brown, you couldn't believe a word ...

Diana Ross: Diana

Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 21 September 1985

Diana by J. Randy Taraborrelli TALKING TO Gerri Hirshey a couple of years back, Diana Ross explained (in language not gleaned from Motown's etiquette ...

Diana Ross: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 28 September 1985

DI-NAMITE! ...

Olivia Newton-John: Soul Kiss/Diana Ross: Eaten Alive

Review by Davitt Sigerson, Rolling Stone, 13 February 1986

HERE WE HAVE two of the biz' primo canaries coming up with long-awaited (and, you can bet, carefully considered) albums and not exactly setting the ...

Diana Ross: Red Hot Rhythm And Blues (EMI)

Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 30 May 1987

SO YES, alright, I did have a teenage crush on Diana Ross. No two ways about it. But now that I'm 20 I can be ...

Diana Ross: Red Hot Rhythm And Blues

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, July 1987

Miss Ross: not exactly on the front burner, but cooking nonetheless. ...

Diana Ross: A Living Legend Speaks!

Interview by Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, 1 July 1987

She's been dazzlingly famous for over twenty years, she natters to Michael Jackson on the phone all the time, she's unbelievably rich and at 43 ...

Diana Ross: The Gospel According To Miss Ross

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1987

"I'VE BEEN HERE so many times before," murmurs Diana Ross as she sweeps, surrounded by a clucking entourage, through the foyer of the EMI Records ...

The Queen of Muzak — Diana Ross: NEC, Birmingham

Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 1 May 1989

Adam Sweeting finds the Birmingham crowd more entertaining than Diana Ross ...

Talking All That Jazz: the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame

Column by Danny Fields, Spin, April 1990

The Dish, The Dirt, The Inside Dope Sussed by DANNY FIELDS ...

Berry Gordy: The Tracks of My Years

Interview by Michael Goldberg, New Musical Express, 18 August 1990

BERRY GORDY, the man who invented the "Sound of Young America", has seen the story of his monumentally influential Motown label told in a succession ...

Miss Ross the Boss

Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 1 December 1993

Singer, actress, businesswoman — Diana Ross has always been in control in 30 years of show business ...

Diana Ross: NEC, Birmingham

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 27 June 1994

Diana Ross returns to celebrate a half-century, and a mysterious 30th anniversary, at Birmingham NEC ...

Diana Ross: I Love You **

Review by Jeff Tamarkin, AllMusic.com, 2007

IN WHAT MIGHT BE the least inspired album of her career, iconic diva Diana Ross sleepwalks through a mish-mash of seemingly randomly chosen love songs, ...

Diana Ross: Mahogany and Me

Memoir by Michael A. Gonzales, Cuepoint, 19 September 2014

Diana Ross was the woman she wanted to be and I wanted to have ...

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