description: Diana Ross is one of the biggest-selling female recording artists in history, topping the charts for 30 years since she began The Supremes. This book is the result of research into the life, personality and vision of the woman who calls herself "Miss Ross". J.Randy Taraborrelli has compiled a biography filled with anecdotes and revelations, which unravels the public and private lives of a woman who came out of Detroit to bridge the gap between the black and white worlds. Her triumphs, tragedies, virtues and vices are told in a frank style by a writer who has studied her for more than 20 years. Based on hundreds of interviews with family members, friends and colleagues, the book describes her tempestuous romances with Smokey Robinson, Ryan O'Neal, Gene Simmons and Berry Gordy; her two marriages, the first to a white public relations man she hardly knew, the most recent to Arne Naess, one of the world's richest men; her peculiar, on-again-off-again relationship with Michael Jackson; the antagonistic rivalry engendered among the other Motown artists who felt she unscrupulously clawed her way to the top; the purported Mafia affiliations of Motown, for whom she recorded; how devastated she was when she lost the Best Actress Oscar for "Lady Sings the Blues"; and her eccentric behaviour, as recounted by those who have borne the brunt of it. J.Randy Taraborelli "discovered" Diana Ross when he was a child, and organized the first international fan club for the Supremes at the age of 11. This passion eventually led to a career in writing about music personalities for a variety of magazines. He is the author of "Motown", "Cher" and "Laughing Till It Hurts: The Complete Life and Career of Carol Burnett", and the former publisher and editor-in-chief of "Soul" magazine.
language: English
title: Call Her Miss Ross: The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross
titlecomplete: Call Her Miss Ross: The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross
genres: Music, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 497
publisher: Pan Macmillan