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She was once America's most popular female singer, with four albums in the Top 10 simultaneously. She gave the world such sublime numbers as "Fever" and "Is That All There Is?" Frank Sinatra said that 'her wonderful talent should be studied by all vocalists'. Peter Richmond's definitive biography tells the story of her unhappy, tortured life - an alcoholic father, abusive stepmother, four marriages and a sad decline in later years - and sets her alongside Armstrong, Crosby and Sinatra in 'the great quartet' of exponents of the American songbook.
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"* *****'Well written and well researched' MOJO * 'Richmond approaches his subject with a scholastic thoroughness, providing an astute analysis of the shifting musical trends and tastes that brought Lee to prominence and then cast her aside... What comes through unswervingly is the "electric blue voice" of Lee herself, and all the demons and contradictions behind it' Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph * 'This fan has immersed himself in Lee's music enough to understand it to the core' International Herald Tribune 'I love everything about her: her elegance, her wit. And she is one of the greatest influences in what I do as an artist' - Diana Krall 'If I'm the Duke, man, Peggy Lee is Queen' Duke Ellington 'I started listening to her when I was around 19, and I became a complete junkie for her after that' - k.d. lang"
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Peter Richmond is an award-winning reporter and feature-writer for GQ magazine., who has also written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine and Rolling Stone. He lives in New York state.
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- PublisherAurum Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1845132297
- ISBN 13 9781845132293
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- Number of pages448
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