Holiday's quite candid biography (although some suspect she embellished parts of it) gets a new foreword and revised discography. Whether true or just "mostly "true, based on her continued stature, this title will be wanted by all music collections.--From publisher description.
This book is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. From Holiday's rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis…
Holiday's quite candid biography (although some suspect she embellished parts of it) gets a new foreword and revised discography. Whether true or just "mostly "true, based on her continued stature, this title will be wanted by all music collections.--From publisher description.
"Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, "Now, finally, we have a definitive biography," said Booklist of Donald Clarke's Billie Hol…
"Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, "Now, finally, we have a definitive biography," said Booklist of Donald Clarke's Billie Hol…