When Sam Cooke was shot dead in a cheap motel in Hollywood, he was one of America's most successful pop stars. He left a world in which he had been born poor and had become very rich from the success of such records as "You Send Me" and "A Wonderful World", yet his body lay unrecognised in a morgue [...]
"Wonderfully evocative a grand, sad story of racism and real estate, political hardball and seaside pleasure-seeking."--A.O. Scott, "New York Times Book Review"
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When Bruce Springsteen called his first album "Greetings from Asbury Park," he introduced a generation of fans to a fallen seaside[...]