Diana Ross: Rapping with Lady D
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 14 April 1973
THE DISTINGUISHED-looking old gentlemen in the red braided uniform accepts my coat with an expression of mild distaste and ushers me into the Pine Room at London's Inn On The Park.
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