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Drawing on intimate recollections from friends, family, and Motown contemporaries, Mark Ribowsky charts the Supremes' meteoric rise and bitter disintegration. He sheds light on Diana Ross's relationship with Berry Gordy and her cutthroat rise to top billing in the group, as well as Florence Ballard's corresponding decline. He also takes us inside the studio, examining how timeless classics were conceived and recorded on the Motown "assembly line," and considers the place of Motown in an era of cultural upheaval, when not being "black enough" became a fierce denunciation within the black music industry.Deftly combining personal testimony, history, and expert analysis, Ribowsky not only tells the full, heartbreaking story of the Supremes, but shows why Gordy's revolutionary concept of "blacks singing white" was essential to the modern evolution of music.
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"(t)his beautifully written, harrowing tale ends with broken Ballard's death, Wilson's disempowerment and, until Ribowsky reveals her human side in the final paragraphs, further suggestions that if there are more unpleasant people than Ross, you haven't met them."
-- Q Magazine, August 2009
"The rags-to-riches story of the Supremes is almost as captivating as their music... Reading Mark Ribowsky's diligently researched biography, you soon realise why it's the first (serious biography dedicated to the Supremes)." -- The Sunday Times, 5th July 2009
"diligently researched...Ribowsky uses a stack of previously unpublished material but he has also done a lot of original interviews and goes out of his way to print alternate views of the same events." -- The Daily Express
'(I have) never paid much attention to The Supremes (but) Ribowsky's book had my glued to YouTube clips of them from the 1960s... Ribowsky, who has also written a biography of Phil Spector, set himself the task of sifting through the `muck and mucilage' of celebrity journalism, and has produced an interesting account of the lives of the three young women who once ruled the pop world.'
-- The Irish Times, 1st August 2009
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"diligently researched...Ribowsky uses a stack of previously unpublished material but he has also done a lot of original interviews and goes out of his way to print alternate views of the same events."
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- PublisherDa Capo Press Inc
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0306815869
- ISBN 13 9780306815867
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages440
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