Luther Vandross: Battle Of The Bulge
Mark Cooper, Q, August 1991
ON THE HOSPITALITY TABLE OF Luther Vandross's suite at Hollywood's Four Seasons Hotel, four untouched plates of king prawns lie waiting next to a half-demolished pizza. It is barely noon.
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