Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (823 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1455123234 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 283 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Chinese take-out, a bottle of gin, and thou: a superb biography of Billie Holiday When writing about American jazz, Donald Clarke's prose style is often that of the hip insider: he captures Billie Holiday's world in a way no other biography or study of the singer has managed to do. This is neither a straightforward narrative or a cautionary tale, and. "Where Was The Savior?" according to Allan Suchinsky. Read this book and you'll know about everything one needs to know about this fascinating though tragically damaged woman. Her childhood was broken, which basically led her to become what she became as a person. Billie was brilliant as a vocalist, beautiful when she allo. Great book full of interesting info k619 Great book full of interesting info. It is a bit long winded so I pick it up every week or so. Reading it straight through would be a little tiresome.
In Clarke's remarkably insightful biography, a joy to read, the singer emerges as a vulnerable woman who had unrewarding affairs with unsuitable men out of her fear of deeper love. Holiday became a prostitute, and later, while achieving cult status in Harlem, a heroin addict. This marvelously evocative portrait places her performances firmly in the African American subculture from which they sprang. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Crammed with jazz history and lore and sketches of legendary mu
He lives with his wife in Allentown, Pennsylvania.. This biography separates fact from fiction to reveal the true Billie Holiday. DONALD CLARKE was the editor and principal author of The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music. No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. This is the MP3CD audiobook format. *A New York Times Notable Book* A vivid account of the life and times of jazz great Billie Holiday. His other books are Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday, The Rise and Fall of Popular Music, and All or Nothing at All: A Life of Frank Sinatra. Donald Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s with those who knew Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life--from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore, through the early days of success in New York and the years of fame, to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four. This authentic biography sets the record straight