Recently I came to celebrate my “3.000th Follower” : THANKS to everyone!
And now TODAY, with THIS MIX, I contribute to celebrating something else:
REMEMBER WHEN …? „LOVE HANGOVER“ was your favourite tune for three years in a row ? You don´t ? I DO ! – You weren´t born in a Disco ? Me, for sure. Or in an “old cold rundown tenement slum”, Love Child ? Me neither.
But I was born near an AFN/ American Forces Network Radio Station, and discovered that “Beatles”, “Stones” and all those whiteasses were utterly BORING, their sounds I felt as callous, INSENSITIVE TRASH - compared to all that “Black Music”, “Soul”, “Funk”, Philly Grooves, Stax, Memphis, Chicago, Detroit Sounds.
I was into all of that since I was a six, seven year old, in a small little central German town – TOTALLY into BLACK MUSIC ! Odd ? Everyone stared at me disbelieving, or disgusted. But I didn´t care. But even then, though I enjoyed “Black Music”, I was annoyed by all these “(Black) Stereotypes”: 
“(Black) People” should be this way that way, they should sing and play this way that way : “Identity Politics” in the 1960s/1970s. But I: HAVE A DREAM ! Everyone should be the way they REALLY FEEL, no matter what it is, what “colour”, “where they come from”.
ALL LIVES MATTER !
Sure I also adored Aretha or Chaka, but then DIANA: she was different. She didn´t care about what presumably “A Black Woman in the 1960s/70s/80s” should be like, what she should say, feel, sing and think like. 
She walked her OWN way. HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY, DIANA ROSS !

(http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/a-taste-of-paradis-diana-ross-in-conversation-with-andy-warhol)

-Picture to this Mix “DIANA&LUTHER” is showing Diana Ross at age 29–and me at 29 (some time ago already)-

PLAYLIST „DIANA&LUTHER“ Mix for 80th Birthday of DIANA ROSS – 2024-03-26

01.DIANA ROSS-Brown Baby – from LP “Touch me in the morning/ Expanded Version” (1973)
02.MFSB – Touch me in the mornimg – from LP “Love is the message” (Philadelphia
International Rec., 1973)
03.DIANA ROSS-Touch me in the morning (1973)
04.DIANA ROSS&MARVIN GAYE - Don´t knock my love, from LP “Diana&Marvin”,1973
05.DIANA ROSS – Surrender, from LP “Surrender” (Motown/USA, Vinyl LP MS 723), 1971
06.– Baby it´s me, from LP “Baby it´s me” (1977)
07.– Mirror Mirror, from “Why do fools fall in love” (1981)
08.– Chain Reaction, from “Eaten alive” (1985)
09.– Getting´ready for love, from “Baby it´s me” (1977)
10.– Who, from “Silk Electric” (1982)
11.– The Boss, from “The Boss” (1979)
12.– Top of the world, from “Baby it´s me” (1977)
13.– Lovin´livin´&givin´, from “Ross” (1978)
14.– What you gave me, from “Ross” (1978)
15.– No one gets the prize  (Ron Disko 2020 Extended Edit), orig. from “The Boss” (1979)
16.– Love Hangover (Extended Version), from “Diana Ross” (1976)
17.– Once in the morning, from “The Boss” (1979)
18.– Give up, from “diana” (1980)

DIANA & LUTHER - DJ Luther Taylor MIX On 80th Birthday Of DIANA ROSS 2024 - 03 - 26

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