Originally Posted by
jobeterob
It was more just a case of the UK catching up to and catching on to Motown, Diana Ross, the Supremes etc. By the early 70's, my recollection is that the 70 Supremes were doing better in the UK than they were doing in the USA as well......recall Automatically Sunshine? I think it reached the Top 10 in the UK.
Diana just caught on a little bit later in the UK.
Remember when all the Motown acts went to the UK, I believe in 1965..........the tour was not successful and didn't play to full houses.
The reason Diana became a superstar and an icon was that she managed, like Madonna, to reinvent herself a number of times and that is the only way you can have her kind of longevity - as a Supreme, as the leader singer and lightning rod, as a solo act, as a movie star, as a Broadway star, as a star of TV specials and TV Movies, as a solo act in Europe, the UK and Japan..........that sort of thing.
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