{"id":227595,"date":"2025-06-30T21:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227595\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:25:11","slug":"diana-ross-laughs-as-she-asks-for-help-during-upside-down-at-liverpool-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227595\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Ross laughs as she asks for help during Upside Down at Liverpool show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary soul singer was laughing when she couldn&#8217;t pick up her earring after it fell<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_PXL_20250630_201128101.jpg\" alt=\"Diana Ross was left laughing as she asked for help after dropping her earring\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Diana Ross was left laughing as she asked for help after dropping her earring<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Diana Ross was left laughing as she asked for help during one of her iconic songs. The soul legend was halfway through &#8216;Upside Down&#8217; when she asked one of her band members for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The 81-year-old dropped her earring on the floor and used the microphone to ask for help. She said: &#8220;I can&#8217;t bend down like that to pick that up. You know I&#8217;m 81, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A member of her band quickly helped find the earring after it fell out during her set. Shortly after, she brought out her daughter, Rhonda Ross, to sing &#8216;Count On Me&#8217; in a moving moment at the M&amp;S Bank Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">She has performed <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/whats-on\/music-nightlife-news\/diana-ross-liverpool-setlist-full-31959000\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">the biggest tracks<\/a> from her incredible discography across a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/whats-on\/music-nightlife-news\/disco-legend-diana-ross-back-31949169\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">two-hour set at tonight&#8217;s show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Over a career that spans more than half a century, Diana has released 27 Top 40 singles, earning a Guinness World Record as the most successful female artist of all time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_PXL_20250630_201530160.jpg\" alt=\"Diana Ross brought out her daughter, Rhonda, to sing 'Count On Me'\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Diana Ross brought out her daughter, Rhonda, to sing &#8216;Count On Me&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Before the show, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/whats-on\/music-nightlife-news\/gallery\/19-stylish-fans-celebrating-diana-31962161\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">the ECHO caught up with fans<\/a> outside the M&amp;S Bank Arena with everyone excited by the memorable night ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Corly, from Chester, said she did her hair especially for the concert. She said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a fan for a long time. Her songs were always played in my house growing up. It may just be the last time I see her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sisters Christine, Karen, Diane and Donna, saw Diana perform in Birmingham 40 years ago. They said: &#8220;We just love her. We couldn&#8217;t miss her coming to Liverpool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Diana-Ross-concert-night-at-MS-Arena-Photo-by-Colin-Lane.jpg\" alt=\" The Grammy-award winning queen of disco and soul visited the city this evening as part of her eponymous world tour\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/> The Grammy-award winning queen of disco and soul visited the city this evening as part of her eponymous world tour(Image: Colin Lane\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Mother and daughter Angela and Faye, from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/maghull\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Maghull<\/a>, said they had seen Diana once before in Las Vegas in 2019. Faye said: &#8220;We thought why not come and see her again. We&#8217;re here for the costume changes. She&#8217;s brilliant live, she puts on a good show and she has a nice chat with the audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Mum and daughter-in-law Maureen and Joanne Starkey came all the way from the West Midlands to see the Motown star as part of a surprise 70th birthday present for Maureen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Maureen said: &#8220;My son wrote me a lovely poem for my 70th and I was reading it. It said from Roy, Jo and Diana. I thought, &#8216;who&#8217;s Diana? And then I just started crying, it was lovely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Diana was scheduled to perform in the city back in 2020, but her tour was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rescheduled for 2022, her performance at the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/whats-on\/music-nightlife-news\/disco-legend-diana-ross-back-31949169\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">M&amp;S Bank Arena<\/a> kicked off with &#8216;I&#8217;m Coming Out&#8217; \u2013 a collaboration with Chic&#8217;s Nile Rodgers, followed by a medley of hits from The Supremes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The vocal powerhouse delivered hit after hit, keeping both old and new fans excited. Take a look at some of the fan fashion trends on display as Diana Ross returned to Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legendary soul singer was laughing when she couldn&#8217;t pick up her earring after it fellDiana Ross was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,73172,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-227595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-ms-bank-arena","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114774430912757556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}