Diana Ross: Diana
Simon Witter, NME, 21 September 1985
Diana by J. Randy Taraborrelli
TALKING TO Gerri Hirshey a couple of years back, Diana Ross explained (in language not gleaned from Motown's etiquette classes) why she'd rejected juicy offers to write her ghetto-to-glamour autobiography. "This is my LIFE, this is not a fucking story."
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