Motown: Hot Wax, City Cool and Solid Gold (1986 updated in 1988).

Cher – A Biography (1986 updated in 1992).Diana: A Celebration of the Life and Career of Diana Ross (1985).The New York Times called Jackie, Janet & Lee 'deliciously readable'. The Gay & Lesbian Review said that Michael Jackson – The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story was a 'comprehensive and even-handed biography'. It said The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe was written by 'an indefatigable gossip hound' and criticized his vocabulary. The Observer reviewed Diana Ross – A Biography as 'fawning' and while acknowledging the comprehensiveness of the book, regretted that the writer held back unfavorable information about the subject because he was a personal fan. Kirkus Reviews found Cher – A Biography to be 'a fun read, and even moving'. It has to do with: Is it fair? Is it hurtful? Is it going to cause people pain? That’s a big part of my process today that when I was a kid, I never considered. Today, I weigh everything on a moral compass. There’s a lot of nuance that goes into a biography that is bigger than whether or not something is true. There has to be and eye toward understanding interpretation. I’ve been through enough in my lifetime to realize there has to be more of a standard in biography than just the truth. When I was a kid, my standard was very simple: If it was true, I put it in my book. I think as you get older as a writer, your standards change. In a 2015 interview with Gawker, Taraborrelli described his evolution as a writer: He also regularly appears on television as an entertainment news reporter on programs such as Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, Today and CBS This Morning. Taraborrelli is known for biographies of contemporary entertainers and political figures such as Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Madonna, the Kennedy family, the Hilton family, and Beyoncé. Prior to his book-writing career, he was a magazine journalist and editor-in-chief of Soul magazine, the black entertainment title. John Randall Anthony Taraborrelli is an American journalist and celebrity biographer. 'The Kennedy Heirs, 'Jackie, Janet & Lee'

Cher by J. Randy Taraborrelli