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Post by Magical Froggy on Dec 11, 2016 0:17:16 GMT
Desert Island Discs: My Supreme love by ‘Mr Motown’
MOTOWN founder Berry Gordy has revealed how he forgave Diana Ross for signing a £14million deal with a rival record label despite making her “the biggest star in the world”. Gordy, 86, nicknamed Mr Motown after founding the Detroit label in 1960, told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that developing Ross’s career with The Supremes was one of his greatest achievements.
The couple also had a six-year love affair that produced a daughter Rhonda in 1971.
The man behind best-selling acts that included The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops and Marvin Gaye, said: “Many of them were bought by these companies with the power and money, including Diana who left for $20million to go to RCA.
“I had been so hurt they had left me at a critical time in my career. But I could not close the door on these people. If it had been me and somebody had offered me $20million, I might have gone too. Diana was very special. She and I just are the greatest friends as are all Motown acts that I dealt with.”
Born in Detroit in 1929, the former boxer was 23 when he opened his first record store selling jazz but it flopped.
Everyone wanted to listen to the Blues. Bankrupted, Gordy took a job on the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company and wrote music in his breaks
Despite being married with three young children, he quit his job for song writing, prompting the first of his three wives to throw him out of the house.
I had been so hurt they had left me at a critical time in my career
Berry Gordy
It was while he was staying with his sister that he wrote his first hit for Jackie Wilson, To Be Loved, which he chose as one of his castaway tracks.
First called Tamla after the hit song in the 1957 Debbie Reynolds film Tammy and the Bachelor, Tamla was merged with Motown – a mix of motor and town, Detroit’s nickname – by Gordy in 1960.
As well as producing 110 top 10 hits from 1961 to 1971, Motown also released three of Martin Luther King’s speeches as the most powerful African-American record label in the business.
The head guy said, ‘Maybe you don’t know it but this is our family and we’re staying here’.”
Admitting it was “very tough” to pick just eight tracks, Gordy also chose I’ll Try Something New, by his protege Smokey Robinson – still his best friend – and I Hear A Symphony by Diana Ross and The Supremes.
Gordy, who sold Motown to MCA for £42million in 1988, chose the complete works of Rudyard Kipling as his book and a cellar of fine wine as luxury item
Berry Gordy is full of crap when he says he didn’t marry Diane because she wanted stardom. How about he was already married and doing Dusty Springfield and Chris Clark. Let’s keep it real Berry.
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Post by Magical Froggy on Dec 11, 2016 0:27:25 GMT
Berry Gordy is full of crap when he says he didn’t marry Diane because she wanted stardom. How about he was already married and doing Dusty Springfield and Chris Clark. Let’s keep it real Berry.
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Post by hector on Dec 11, 2016 1:59:11 GMT
Berry Gordy is full of crap when he says he didn’t marry Diane because she wanted stardom. How about he was already married and doing Dusty Springfield and Chris Clark. Let’s keep it real Berry.
What he really said (in print, in Ebony Magazine!) was "If I married Diane, I would have to be kissing her ass all the time. I need someone kissing my ass!". He went on to say to a friend "Black (his nickname for Ross) is kinda of bitchy ain't she?". Berry Gordy also said marry her? Marry her for what? She has me anyway.................".
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Post by Derelict In The Basket on Dec 11, 2016 2:15:37 GMT
Berry Gordy is full of crap when he says he didn’t marry Diane because she wanted stardom. How about he was already married and doing Dusty Springfield and Chris Clark. Let’s keep it real Berry.
I HEARD MARTHA WAS DOING CHRIS TOO.
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Post by mpn1jco on Dec 11, 2016 12:41:51 GMT
Chris Clark and Martha Reeves are probably the only two people Ross didn't fuck.
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Post by hector on Dec 11, 2016 15:03:31 GMT
Chris Clark and Martha Reeves are probably the only two people Ross didn't fuck. I heard that Diane fucked a guy at the back of the bowling alley they use to hang out at.
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Post by mpn1jco on Dec 12, 2016 1:01:57 GMT
There is some sort of parallel universe thing going on here with Soulful Detroit. That being said, I went to SD ( first time in weeks ) to see what is going on. Ross DieHards Roberta75, Bluerock, JobeteRob etc. bash Mary Wilson and make catty remarks to Marv2. Marv2, no Ross fan, calls her up on her behavior when they have their tongues too far up Ross' ass or pussy. However, Mary Wilson is an open target for attack but saying anything negative about Ross is sacrilegious and the Die Hards gang up and vilify the offender in print.
I despise hypocritical behavior. Vgalindo and his brain dead post about being embarrassed about the negative side of the forum is a perfect example. Ross has more bash books on the market than any performer I can think of. If anyone can think of someone who has more, please let me know. Is it humanly possible to be stupider than these people?
Reach out and smack, Reach out and punch indeed
If I did not already know that the person in this picture was Diana Ross, I would have to ask what is this old woman holding up to her head? My God! She looks absolutely awful. There has to be something seriously wrong with her. I am not joking or taking a shot. She looks like something is going very wrong with her. Her face looks swollen and her hands look like those of some kind of an animal or monster! Is she crying? Ross is aging quickly. Ross looks worse in her early 70s than many other women. These days, the early 70s is not considered old. Ross is doing something that is taking its toll on her. Maybe it is the wear and tear of being on the road non-stop for ten years.
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Post by hector on Dec 12, 2016 1:36:52 GMT
If I did not already know that the person in this picture was Diana Ross, I would have to ask what is this old woman holding up to her head? My God! She looks absolutely awful. There has to be something seriously wrong with her. I am not joking or taking a shot. She looks like something is going very wrong with her. Her face looks swollen and her hands look like those of some kind of an animal or monster! Is she crying? Ross is aging quickly. Ross looks worse in her early 70s than many other women. These days, the early 70s is not considered old. Ross is doing something that is taking its toll on her. Maybe it is the wear and tear of being on the road non-stop for ten years. I was thinking maybe the skin bleaching practice is backfiring on her, causing her to age rapidly. Black women especially do not age this hard.
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Post by mpn1jco on Dec 12, 2016 1:41:03 GMT
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Post by mpn1jco on Dec 12, 2016 1:44:19 GMT
Ross needs to age gracefully and give up the Thorazine/Haldol/Risperdal hair do.
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Post by GARY on Dec 12, 2016 1:47:18 GMT
I DON'T READ THE SHIT YOU IGNORANT ASSES WRITE. I JUST LOOK AT THE PICTURES.
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Post by chainreaction on Dec 12, 2016 2:53:01 GMT
You are in good company, dear. Jobeterob, Roberta75, Ollie9, CaptainJames, Soulster and many others are mentally challenged.
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Post by drummer on Dec 12, 2016 4:23:02 GMT
Ross needs to age gracefully and give up the Thorazine/Haldol/Risperdal hair do.
maybe she just had electroshock therapy treatment
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Post by midnightman on Dec 13, 2016 22:51:23 GMT
Ross needs to age gracefully and give up the Thorazine/Haldol/Risperdal hair do.
maybe she just had electroshock therapy treatment Hi MARV/HECTOR. I THINK U R STUPID!
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Post by hector on Dec 14, 2016 2:31:28 GMT
maybe she just had electroshock therapy treatment Hi MARV/HECTOR. I THINK U R STUPID! I heard your Mom wears combat boots! nah , nah, nah , nah!
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