#Berry Gordy

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Diana Ross: As we all know that Diana is the lead singer of the iconic girl group "The Supremes." I guess we could start with her Motown days. It's been said by a lot of artists working at Motown that she was in love with Eddie Kendricks of "The Temptations." The problem with this relationship is that Eddie had a string of women, causing Diana to go insane. He also married a woman named Patricia while they were dating, resulting in Diana throwing a brick at his window. Many people declared that Eddie was the love of her life. Although she loved Eddie, she messed around with Smokey Robinson. Eventually, in the 80s, Diana started dating Gene Simmons after Cher told him to go Christmas shopping with her best friend Diana. She was also rumored to have dated Lionel Ritchie, Michael Jackson & Barry Gibb of the BeeGees.

Lovers: Eddie Kendricks, Smokey Robinson, Gene Simmons, Lionel Ritchie, Michael Jackson & Barry Gibb

Can you give us a rundown on all rockstars black lovers?

I could give a you a few but there was a lot of black lovers back then, it wasn’t too far fetch there was a lot of rockstars who slept with a black woman. I’ll do multiple threads because I sometimes can’t think of all of them. For starters of course, Mick! He’s slept with a bunch of black women, but then again he’s English, he doesn’t care. Cleo was his first love, PP Arnold dated him and gave details about their affair in her book “Soul Survivor”, I’ve heard he’s slept with Inez Foxx from the brother- sister duo, he’s been around Patti Labelle and the BlueBells and I’ve heard rumors about him sleeping with Patti and Cindy Birdsong (before she was a supreme) also read in a book somewhere that Nona Hendryx possibly slept with Keith, he’s gotten with Claudia Lennear from the Ike & Tina Revue, several black models (maybe Donyale Luna she used to do his makeup, Pat Cleveland, I know there’s more but can’t think of them) I know his slept with black groupies Devon Wilson & Winona Williams, Marsha Hunt, Ava Cherry was doing threesome with him and David Bowie, Estelle Bennett from the The Ronettes, and Rae Dawn Chong while they were filming a movie together.

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The Last Dragon (Michael Schultz, 1985)

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With Motown’s Berry Gordy and one of his children; photo by Dezo Hoffmann.

“Tamla Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. The Impressions. Marvin Gaye. The Exciters.” - George Harrison, The Beatles’ Detroit press conference, September 6, 1964 “I’ve always liked Smokey Robinson and The Miracles.” - George Harrison, A Personal Music Dialogue With George Harrison At 33 & 1/3, 1976 “We [The Beatles] always loved those American girls groups, like the Shirelles and the Ronettes. So yeah, we developed our harmonies from trying to come up with an English, male version of their vocal feel. We discovered the option of having three-part harmonies, or lead vocal and two-part backup, from doing that old girl-group material. We even covered some of those songs, like ‘Baby, It’s You,’ on our first album.” - George Harrison, Guitar World, 1992, published January 2001 (x)

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Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, and Marvin Gaye

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Berry Gordy *November 28, 1929

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Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records and songwriter - circa 1970s

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Mahogany, Spanish lobby card. 1975

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On Jan. 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit. #OnThisDay 🎼

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The Fashion Designs of Diana Ross

From casual to high fashion, Diana Ross created 50 outfits as the costume designer for Berry Gordy's 1975-directed film, Mahogany, where Diana also portrays the lead character, Tracy Chambers, an aspiring fashion designer from Chicago who finds success as a supermodel.

In a 1976 interview, Diana stated:

"I begged to design the clothes [in Mahogany] because in high school I majored in fashion design and costume illustration. I had a pretty good background in that. That’s what I thought I wanted to be. Singing was fun for me. I enjoy doing it. Then when the movie came along, I said: ‘That would be great research for me to do the movie. I could spend time finding exactly what a designer has to go through to make a collection.’"

After convincing Berry, Diana went on to commit 8 months to researching and completing those 50 designs. For the looks in the Asian-inspired fashion show at the end of the film, Diana was inspired by little paper kites she saw in a shop in Los Angeles.

Here's more of her costume illustrations, which she included in her 1977 concert program, An Evening With Diana:

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Berry Gordy having a pool party in his backyard, sometime in the 70s. 💚

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Born 1929

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The Flying Lizards

"Money"

Live performance on TopPop, 1979

Song written by Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford

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diana ross, mahogany |1975|

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Mahogany, Spanish lobby card. 1975