James Gavin
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The definitive biography of George Michael, offering an expansive look at the troubled life of the legendary singer, songwriter, and pop superstar" --
George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image--that of a hypermacho sex god--loomed large in the...
Author
Language
English
Description
From his emergence in the 1950s as an uncannily beautiful young Oklahoman who became the prince of cool jazz seemingly overnight to his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, this first major biography of one of the most romanticized icons in jazz gives a thrilling account of the trumpeter's dark journey. Author James...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Including interviews with hundreds who knew Lee ... music journalist James Gavin offers the most revealing look yet at an artist of infinite contradictions and layers. Lee was a North Dakota prairie girl who became a temptress of enduring mystique. She was a singer-songwriter before the term existed. 'Lee had incredible confidence onstage, ' observed the Godfather of Punk, Iggy Pop; yet inner turmoil wracked her. She spun a romantic nirvana in her...
5) The general and his daughter: the wartime letters of General James M. Gavin to his daughter Barbara
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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