Stevie loves those high voices and knows how to use them. Such a shame he didn't get to do a full album with Jean Terrell.
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You would have really hit the roof if you had been at the Queen Aretha show where she threatened to meet a member of the house crew in the parking lot if he didn't get it together! LOL I don't have a problem with artists wanting to be comfortable on stage. I know how I am when I get hot. Other than her complaint, how was the show?
It was a really good show!
And I get wanting to be comfortable. But that comment wasn't even a tiny bit classy or professional. It put a dark cloud over the rest of her performance. Seriously, be an adult! I'm literally paying for this performance...have a good attitude about it and suck it up! Without your fans, or your crew or your venues, you wouldn't be making any money.
She told people in San Diego last year at an outdoors concert to stop eating their food because they do not do that in places like Vegas when an artist is performing! She asked them "didn't you guys eat before coming here?" The people continued to eat their food that was being sold at the venue and she eventually went back singing.
Well I can see why eating during a performance can be seen as rude.
Still. I paid money to see a legend. To see a professional. The show was entertaining, but I was cheated out of what I thought was a reasonable expectation...to see a professional. She has been performing for decades...she knows better. I would expect better even from an Ariadna grande or any other young teen idol. To have more class than...Diana Ross. sure Diana is classy in many other ways. She doesn't reveal lots of skin, she doesn't swear. But this isn't one of them apparently. And she has nobody to blame for people having those feelings, but herself.
Honestly Diana. You are the queen. Royalty doesn't behave this way. Grow up.
Diana Ross: A Biography
May 1, 2007
by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Call Her Miss Ross: The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross
Dec 27, 1988
by J. Randy Taraborrelli
The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard
Apr 1, 2008
by Peter Benjaminson
Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme
Oct 1986
by Mary Wilson
The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal
Jun 30, 2009
by Mark Ribowsky
Dreamgirl and Supreme Faith: My Life as a Supreme
Jan 11, 2000
by Mary
Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power
Oct 11, 2005
by Gerald Posner
Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound [[Music in American Life)
Oct 8, 2007
by Nelson George and Quincy Jones
Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson
May 1, 1989
by Dr. Licks and James Jamerson
Motown's First A & R Man Presents The A & R Man
Apr 29, 2015
by William Mickey Stevenson and Ashley Stevenson
All That Glittered: My Life With the Supremes by Tony Turner [[2000-06-01) Paperback – 1890
by Tony Turner [[Author)
Deliver Us from Temptation Hardcover – November, 1992
by
Tony Turner [[Author), Barbara Aria [[Author)
Forever Faithful! A Study of Florence Ballard and the Supremes Paperback – February 1, 1999
by
Randall Wilson [[Author), Thomas Ingrassia [[Author), Linda Champion [[Author)
Berry, Me, and Motown: The Untold Story Hardcover – August, 1990
by Raynoma Gordy Singleton [[
Diana Ross has not presented a case for libel or slander for any of the books. The books are well researched with 1,000s of direct witnesses contributing. These books would be extremely damaging to any performer's reputation, yet Diana Ross took no legal action to protect her image and reputation. It should also be noted, they all were published while she was alive and able to defend herself against the irreparable harm these books have done to her career. For example, all of the books about Whitney Houston were published after her death when she could not defend herself.
There are more 'tell all' books about Diana Ross' behavior than any performer I can think of. I can double the list of books if this is not sufficient. The preponderance of published evidence is too much to dismiss the allegations of bad behavior as proliferation of rumors or exaggeration and cannot be ignored.
I am shocked that this is even an issue at this late date. The question should not be IF but WHY?
Go ahead Tom and get started! Lol I love "Bad Weather" also. I don't know if Stevie doing an entire Supremes album would have propelled them back into the popular act category or even if it would have renewed interest in the group from Motown, but damn I bet that would have been a classic album. I certainly would hope that Stevie would give all three leads, but I bet Jean would have been his focus and I aint mad at it. Could you imagine Mary and Lynda [[probably Jean with them) doing Wonderlove type harmonies? What could have been...
I've read most, if not all, of the books on the list and the only thing I'm convinced of is that Diana Ross isn't perfect. And because I'm positive that no one's mouth is a prayer book [[as my grandmother used to say) I give "tell alls" the same credit I give to the internet: there may be some truth, there may be some lies, but in the end it can make for some very entertaining reading. "All That Glitters" is entertaining reading, but as Maxine Ballard told me in an email some years ago, from her perspective it was highly exaggerated. And from my perspective that's how a lot of these "stories" are: highly exaggerated to fit the myth. Isn't Tony Turner the one who intended to write a book about how Berry Gordy molested him? And I'm supposed to use his book as proof of something? RanRan79<-------Laughing hysterically!!! In the end though, who cares?
Ok, RanRan, I'm starting and you can't stop me!!!!
"Bad Weather" is really just an all-round fantastic song. Uplifting, funky, catchy, danceable [[proto-Disco even) and it has that undeniably brilliant Stevie magic!!! It has to be my all-time fave Jean performance too. And I just love that horn section and even the discotheque whistles!!
RanRan, I would like to think that a Stevie-produced Supremes album would have been as commercially successful as it would have been absolutely fantastic [[he was slap bang in the middle of his classic period after all!) but you never know. I mean, "Bad Weather" barely cracked the Hot 100, excuse my language but WTF? ;)
And, yea, I reckon Jean would get most of the leads. But I ain't complainin' neither... just look at "Bad Weather" and see how well the Stevie-Jean combination worked!!! And with Mary and Lynda on Wonderlove harmonies... ahh, what might have been... oh well! I'm just glad we got "Bad Weather" after all. :)
I am not looking to pick a fight or question your integrity:o but can you provide the e-mail of Maxine Ballard as documented proof - you've fallen into the same trap you were taking a stance against.
Regarding Tony Turner, I wasn't there so I don't know the real truth, but no legal action was taken against him and people have been sued for millions for a lot less. I've have heard some things that raised a red flag and I am leaning towards Tony right now. I thought it was trash initially. Many people who have been subjected to sexual abuse do not come forward because they will treated as attention seeking liars. He was an underage boy hanging around adults in the entertainment industry and subject to predatory behavior. I applaud him for coming forth and maybe this will help other victims heal. I felt he was taking revenge against Mary Wilson for firing him and I questioned some of the Mary Wilson horror stories.
Meeting people who have worked with Ross is no big deal. I have hearsay, hearsay, hearsay throughout the years. I have heard basically the same thing over and over and I will leave it at that. I have never met her and have no desire to.
I will go with a published book by a reputable publisher that has been cleared by legal before I go with an anonymous poster in a public forum, which I absolutely will not do. Just because something is published doesn't mean it is true. Not suing doesn't mean the books are true. Some of the books on the list are more reputable than others, but they all basically tell the same story over and over and over about Ross.... hard to ignore.
Maxine Ballard is no longer with us. She passed away 2-3 years ago. Yes when I met Tony Turner he was working for Mary Wilson. After she fired him, he wrote his books. The book he was going to put out regarding Berry Gordy got him and his publisher a hefty lawsuit so that was squashed. So many books and so many people that have not written books about Diana Ross have said so, so many negative things about her. Young artists and young managers that worked at Motown all pretty much said the same things.
If I mention some of the singers that have made negative comments about Miss Ross, it would surprise some of you that she even came in contact with them. Many of them are on social media and do not need the headache that Diana Ross fans would try to give them over their bad experiences with Ross.
Yes I did. Bettye's stories about Ross' antics were hilarious! I never viewed Ross the same again.
Here's one where she's telling someone who cannot see the stage because of others standing up in her very "classy" audience that if they don't like it, they can go......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olCQq11kToM
It would be great to have the one where she beats the woman in the head with her hat box that has a dog in it that she is trying to carry on board a flight.
Oh ok... yea, I suppose so. Then again I'm not sure I really want to know!
I am sure you know about the time she shoved the 3 year old little girl into a door:
http://mediatakeout.com/shocker-dian...l-into-a-door/
How could you not know about how she exploded in that restaurant LaScala? I think you're just being modest, or just being something LOL!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2424572.html
I like that when asked to produce documented proof you did, instead of presenting silence or ignoring the requests.
It looks like with certain celebrities their behavior never changes with time! I am disgusted!
If I'm honest I don't think I really care [[or should care!) about these quite petty stories. I don't know. They don't really interest me. I'd much prefer an article on 'How we made Baby Love' or something like that. I mean, I can't name instances in which Diana has done something awful but I can give you my favourite Diana songs from 1974 if you like. I'm all about the music!
I need a holistic approach to things. These stories offer an explanation as to why someone is at a particular juncture and how they are handling it. Disturbing. There is noting petty about being investigated by the authorities for possible assault on a three year old. There was an investigation because a complaint was filed against the person in question! Many questions that have been presented are already answered if you read the signs in front of you. Thanks again Marv2, very valuable and significant information.