Thirstory: Diana ross is the boss

[monicarivers]

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/thirstory-diana-ross-cover-september-1976

Who else had this copy of Interview? “In his biography Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Up Close [[https://bookshop.org/books/holy-terror-andy-warhol-close-up/9780804169868), former Intervieweditor Bob Colacello recalls that the September 1976 issue broke all sales records in the magazine’s history.”

[SatansBlues]

First time seeing this article. Thanks for posting.

[lucky2012]

Thank you. Didn't know that issue broke all sales records. I'm sure Diana had a lot to do with it!

[vgalindo]

I have my copy.

[Jaap]

In his diary [[21 September 1978), Andy Warhol writes about seeing Diana Ross perform in Los Angeles and going back stage afterwards: "She told me she got the whole idea for her show from the Interview photo of guys carrying her down a staircase. Diana didn't say she like her cover and I just know it's because it made her look too black." Obviously, that's Warhol's interpretation [[she never said that she didn't like the cover, let alone why; he never asked her), which ties into a more general -- and rather unfair and racist, I would say -- trope at that time [[the piece by Jamaica Kincaid in the Village Voice; the comments of Ryan O'Neal about why Ross didn't want to do the bodyguard; etc.) which later was repeated [[and reinforced) by Randy Taraborrelli in Call Her Miss Ross.

[Circa 1824]

Yes, the cover pic is not flattering.

[johnjeb]

I bought a copy. I like the pic - it's artsy and eye-catching.

I seem to recall that it was an oversized publication so it really stood out on the newsstand. I wonder what decades of storage in my attic have done to it since it was newspaper type paper rather than a glossy magazine style. [[I might be mistaken, but too hot to go up to the attic to check!)