Motown's Berry Gordy Autobiography : & DISCO?

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Finally obtained a copy of Motown founder Berry Gordy's TO BE LOVED autobiography from 1994 :icon_cool:

and to see where and how often "DISCO" gets referenced in it ,
I right away looked up the word in the index

and
oh----oh ......


not there ! :icon_eek:



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OK we've got a "DISCO" sighting here ..... :icon_mrgreen:




Now the book is more or less chronological so we're just now exiting the sixties and getting ready to move on into the seventies when during a brief
synopsis of The Temptations break-ups (departing members)

Berry Gordy says this:

Page 254-255


This was not the last time the Temptations lineup would change . Years later Eddie Kendricks decided to follow a solo career staying with the company. Working with producers Frank Wison and Leonard Caston he conquered the seventies DISCO market with hits like "KEEP ON TRUCKIN'" and "BOOGIE DOWN. "

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OK I am well into the seventies now and its clear there are TWO things dominating Berry Gordy's mind during this time:

Diana Ross

and -

The movies of Diana Ross .


music ???..... disco ???? ........what's that ???



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Page 334:

Being an entrepreneur the way I was - having a hand in everything at my company - had always worked for me . But looking back , I can see it was around this time , in the mid-seventies , that it started working against me.

The chain of command was fuzzy since everybody knew only one real boss -me . And their boss had a major preoccupation -making his second movie -

MAHOGANY

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In many ways , Berry Gordy's autobiography sort of comes to grinding halt after one particular event that happened in February of 1975 on the film set of Mahogany .

Diana Ross got tired. She got bitchy. Then, she wanted to go home. Then she did something else .

Page 344:

When Diana came to the set her nerves were on edge. Everything I said to her, good or bad was met with cool. We had just finished shooting one of the pick-up scenes when I told Diana we had to do another take.
Turning to me with steely eyes she said, "No we're not, I'm going home!"
"What?"
Everyone on the set stopped what they were doing.
"What do you mean you're going home? I want another take."
Then she did something.
I don't know for sure what it was , a slap, a shove, something. Whatever it was , it sent my glasses flying across the room as I turned to see her storm off to her trailer.

EMBARRASSING. I stood there looking down but glancing at the people who were just sort of staring at me with stunned looks on their faces. I hurried after her, still in a daze .

This painful episode lead to Berry Gordy concluding the 1971-1975 chapters with this :

Page 350:

Despite that major triumph, MAHOGANY was a personal disaster in that things would never be the same between Diana and me. My favorite line from the movie "Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with" had become painfully relevant. Memories of that slap that last day, followed by her walking out after I had begged her to stay ,reverberated in my mind , signaling the beginning of the end of a great symphony.

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