New Diana Ross Book Gets Back to Reality

New hardcover title concentrates on
the achievements and work of superstar and Motown legend, Diana Ross.
Track by track, album by album and movie by movie, her prodigious output
is examined and evaluated in a celebration of five decades of stardom.

Kent, England (PRWE January 20, 2011

During a career spanning half a century in which a skinny little girl
from Detroit’s Brewster Projects came to be a byword for style,
professionalism and artistic integrity, Diana Ross has also become an
icon for women, for black people, for disenfranchised individuals
throughout the world.

Millions of words have been written about her – some of them true –
as writers, commentators and fantasists have scrambled to define,
package and fictionalise the person behind the achievements – to find
some mystic shorthand explanation for it all.

Grateful though she might be for the attention, the lady herself is
not the only person who thinks it’s all been done to death. Wouldn’t it
be nice if someone concentrated on her music, her unique legacy, the
breadth, the consistency and the quality of her artistic output? This
view is certainly echoed by the studio professionals who have worked
with her over those five decades.

‘Diana: Queen of Motown’ by Ian Phillips, just published in hardback by Motown specialists, Bank House Books, does exactly that.

Track by track, album by album, movie by movie and even through major
concert dates, it draws together for the first time the sheer sum of
what Miss Ross is all about – just what it is that has won over all
those generations of fans and admirers.

And, though it is in no sense another biography, it also provides a
somewhat more accurate picture of what she’s been doing all these years,
and the most convincing ‘reasons’ of all for her unique success.

Diana: Queen of Motown by Ian Phillips (ISBN 9781904408697) is
available to order from all good book retailers, online stores and
direct from the publishers at http://www.bankhousebooks.com