The late Tony Turner managed to take his real life experiences
with The Supremes and bring them to light with a 3-D scalpel precision.
Other books about the late Flo Ballard and the exploits of Motown and
the Supremes dance around the bitchiness, deceit and the insecurities.
Even the biography of Florence Ballard written by her own sister seemed
to stay focused on the mawkish downward slope and drunken behavior of
the star and sadly, even Mary Wilson, who attempted to "tell it like it
is" on her second book still held back a LOT. Turner took no prisoners
and he wasn't catty about it. We start off with him as a boy from the
Projects of NYC who had a chance meeting with Florence Ballard ...................
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