Call Her Miss Ross: Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross

by J.RandyTaraborrelli (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.36

  Diana Ross is the biggest-selling female recording artists in history, topping the charts for thirty years since she ran and began The Supremes. She is a figure of enormous press attention and fanfare; a woman of immense and undeniable talents. Call Her Miss Ross is the result of research into the life, personality and vision of the woman who calls herself Miss Ross . J Randy Taraborrelli has compiled a hard-hitting and critical biography - filled with anecdotes and explosive revelations - which unravels the public and private lives of the woman who came out of Detroit to bridge the gap eventually between the black and white worlds. Her triumphs, tragedies, virtue and vices are told in a frank style by a writer who has studied her for more than 20 years. Based on hundreds of interviews with family members, friends and colleagues, Call Her Miss Ross describes her tempestuous romances with Smokey Robinson, Ryan O'Neal, Gene Simmons and, of course, Berry Gordy; her two marriages, the first to a white public relations man she hardly knew, the most recent to Arne Naess, one of the world's richest men; her peculiar, on-again-off-again relationship with Michael Jackson; the antagonistic rivalry engendered among the other Motown artists who felt she unscrupulously clawed her way to the top; the purported Mafia affiliations of Motown, for whom she recorded; how devastated she was when she lost the Best Actress Oscar for Lady Sings the Blues ; and her eccentric behaviour, as recounted by those who have borne the brunt of it. J. Randy Taraborrelli discovered Diana Ross when he was a child, organizing the first international fan club for the Supremes aged eleven. This passion eventually led to a career in writing about music personalities for a variety of magazines. He is the author of four books including Motown , Cher and Laughing Till It Hurts: The Complete Life and Career of Carol Burnett . He is the former publisher and editor-in-chief of Soul magazine.