9 Diana Ross Love & Life

EMI, 2001

You say: A one-stop shop. Ms Ross with The Supremes, duetting and solo.” Pete Burgess, mojo4music.com

A comp that gathers the best parts of Ross’s post-Motown solo career. After the Chic LP, she departed her longtime label for Capitol and took to producing herself with mixed results. Why Do Fools Fall In

Love (1981), Silk Electric (1982) with an Andy Warhol-designed sleeve and a track, Muscles, written and produced by Michael Jackson, a floundering

Ross (1983), Swept Away (1984) with its cover of a Dylan song: all were inconsistent at best, and Barry Gibb‘s involvement in 1985’s Eaten Alive promised more than it delivered. However, in its 2-CD version,

Love & Life offers the best of that era plus duets with The Temptations, Marvin Gaye and Lionel Richie, though it duplicates some solo and Supremes tracks on other selections.