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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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But Rodgers and Edwards helped make that superstar she brighter than ever: Ross’ classic “Diana” album — released 40 years ago on May 22, 1980 — went on to bee the bt-sellg LP of her reer wh hs such as “Upsi Down” and the gay anthem “I’m Comg Out. ” “But she didn’t unrstand that that was a gay thg, that that was a person sayg, ‘I’m g out of the closet, ’ ” says Rodgers.
NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
“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”.
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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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