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The 2000 RTL tour proved that the general public weren’t interested in DR much any more, with or without the Supremes. Before that tour, Diana was struggling to continue mounting big tours: 10,000 -...

I mean absolutely no harm... but, outside of this forum... Diana Ross is recognised as one of the most successful female entertainers of the second half of the 20th century,. Of those who are still...

« She got the money but lost her career. ». She did. But she didn’t care enough to go get it back... do whatever needed to be done... do a duet with a big male star, such as Michael or Smokey [[I’m...

Happy birthday Bluebrock! I wonder if you know how fascinating it is to hear you speak about Diana, from first hand, with honesty and integrity.

It’s a real shame. Those « biographies » fixed her temperament as a bitch, as far as the general public were concerned. But hopefully now there is a whole new younger generation who see her as,...

It was one of her first live TV performances after she left Motown. With no Berry there, notepad in hand to jot down all his corrections, it looks like she didn’t rehearse the lyrics, didn’t...

At the time the WDFFIL album was not well received. Coming straight after the wonderful ballads of late 80, early 81, « It’s My Turn » and « Endless Love », the first two singles, « Why Do Fools »...

Diana’s statement that at 35, she finally understood her sexuality explains everything. From that time on, she would no longer take orders from men: not from Berry, not from big shot Hollywood...

Bluebrock, I’ve never met you, but it is just fantastic to see you on here again. I really appreciate your personal insights on Diana the person, rather than Diana Ross, the megastar. Welcome back...

Well said. Makes me want to be snotty. That’s why we love her - she’s it and she knows it!

Randy is a horror, a nasty little bitch. In the interview he is embarrassingly camp. He made his name from making up and exaggerating stories about Diana. Avoid at all costs.

If she had used the cover photo, or something similar, TMH would have been a better selling album.

The reviewer was commenting on how rushed and breathless she sounded on tracks like « Upside Down ». Recorded, as you say, at Wembley. And in person, in Glasgow, she sounded even more rushed. She...

I saw her in March 89 in Glasgow. I’m guessing that after the show she would have gone straight to the airport [[ 15 minutes by car) and flown back to London where Arne and the boys were.

I remember reading a review at the time of release of « Greatest Hits Live » in 1989, and the reviewer asked, « Why is she singing like this? ». I wondered too. Now, of course, I know, she was in a...

RCA had fallen out of love with her. When MTV were unenthusiastic about adding « Eaten Alive » to their playlists RCA could have called in a few favours. They didn’t. After all the arguments they...

She had no business managing herself! It’s true. But we all love her so much, and we could see that if Berry hadn’t been so abusive - emotionally, psychologically and financially, then she most...

Tina, Barbra, Cher, Patti all managed it thru’ the 80s. When RCA dropped her from their Pop promo list, after « Eaten Alive », awful song, unnecessarily smutty, ruined by Barry Gibb’s horrendous...

When I first heard the album, WO, « Bottom Line » had me humming along on the first listen. It was catchy. It was sassy. A real follow up to « Upside Down ». And if it had been given a bit of a...

After « Workin’ Overtime », both because it bombed and because Diana made it worse by insisting on the title track [[just plain horrible to listen to) being the lead single, rather than the only...

Fantastic news. Stay strong Bluebrock.

Hall & Oates doing a whole album would, I imagine, have had hits and misses. I agree, « Swept Away » would have hit the top 5; but by 1984 Diana’s fan base was shrinking. But - employing H & O for...

Amazing but true! But I do think that she was mainly trying to:

[[a) Avoid spending much time in the studio.
[[b) Avoid paying for expensive writers and producing.
[[c) Avoid approaching any of...

I’ve always guessed that she was simply recording the kind of stuff that she had enjoyed best when she was a teenager. Speaking personally, the music that I liked when I was 15 has become the music...

Yes, but that’s the point: Diana was hoping to get away with releasing an album [[only because she was obliged to) with almost no time or money spent on producing it. And even hoping to make a bit of...