Legendary producer Nile Rodgers has revealed that Diana Ross "didn’t unrstand" that her 1980 h 'I’m Comg Out' "was a gay thg."
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- NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
- NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
- DIANA ROSS ‘DIDN’T UNRSTAND THAT “I’M COMG OUT” WAS A GAY THG’, SAYS NILE RODGERS
- NILE RODGERS SAYS DIANA ROSS “DIDN’T UNRSTAND THAT ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS A GAY THG”
- DIANA ROSS DIDN'T KNOW 'I'M COMG OUT' WAS A 'GAY THG,' ACRDG TO PRODUCER NILE RODGERS
NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
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“He thought that that would be Diana sayg that she was gay, ” says Rodgers. Sign up to Rois O’Connor’s ee weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the si track on all thgs micGet our Now Hear This email for eeMic producer Nile Rodgers has said that Diana Ross “didn’t unrstand” that her h 1980 song “I’m Comg Out” ”was a gay thg”.
”Ross loved the song, Rodgers said, addg: ”she didn’t unrstand that that was a gay thg - that that was a person sayg, ‘I’m g out of the closet’. ”“I’m Comg Out” peaked at No5 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, but has endured as an anthem the gay 1980, Ross has ed the track to open her live performanc.
NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
Nile Rodgers has said that Diana Ross “didn’t unrstand” that her 1980 h ‘I’m Comg Out’ “was a gay thg.
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DIANA ROSS ‘DIDN’T UNRSTAND THAT “I’M COMG OUT” WAS A GAY THG’, SAYS NILE RODGERS
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