From one of the United Kingdom's most prominent music critics, a page-turning and wonderfully researched history of 33 songs that have transformed the world through the twentieth century and beyond.When pop music meets politics, the results are often thrilling, sometimes life-changing, and never sim[...]

Based on unrivaled access to archival interviews with those who knew her at every stage of her life, the most revealing biography of the incomparable Lady Day. Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself[...]

More than four decades after her death, Billie Holiday remains one of the most gifted artists of our time and also one of the most elusive. Because of who she was and how she chose to live her life, Lady Day has been the subject of both intense adoration and wildly distorted legends. Now at last, Fa[...]

Published in celebration of Holiday's centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer's extraordinary musical talent
When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia's studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in ?twentieth-ce[...]

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Two dozen songs are presented in this centennial edition saluting jazz musician and singer/songwriter Billie Holiday. It includes piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of: Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) * Crazy He Calls Me * Don't Explain * Easy Living * God Bless' th[...]

Before the legend of Billie Holliday, there was a girl named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holliday, possibly one of the greatest jazz singers of all time. Eleanora's journey into legend took her through pain, poverty and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, sh[...]

Born in Baltimore in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical. With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on behalf of a New York daily. Beyond the public scandals that ma[...]

*Includes pictures *Includes the artists' quotes about their lives *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents If Billie Holiday wanted to become a jazz singer, she chose the best of all eras in which to attempt it. A wave of great jazz and jazz/po[...]

Cd i s k digifile med texthäfte.Vi får höra Marconi, radions uppfinnare, berätta om sin historiska radiosändning över Atlanten 1901. Och vi får höra Charles Lindbergh hålla tal till den samlade världspressen när han hade genomfört världens första ensamflygning non–stop över Atla[...]