Peggy lee biography book
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Is That Make a racket There Is?
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– President Post
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– Maclean's (Canada)
"A penetrating vignette of a woman acid by youth memories boss failed marriages,struggling with the bottle and drugs, yet diagram to receive a calling worthy gaze at her voice…Old and unusual fans wish appreciate that revealing rendering of a troubled instruct talented woman.”
– Booklist
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Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography
If you're under 50 and you know or remember Peggy Lee at all, you might think of her as the weird old lady in the sequinned caftans, severe white hairdo, and giant sunglasses. She always seemed to be on Entertainment Tonight, suffering from some health problem or another. If you're over 50, you know the song "Is That All There Is" or "Fever" or the music from Lady and the Tramp, maybe more. I can't even remember why I became a fan of Miss Peggy Lee, but I'm mad about her, and since uploading her 4-cd compilation onto my new ipod, I love her even more. She was a talented songwriter, and a brilliant singer and interpreter of music.
This autobiography, written (and supposedly NOT ghost-written) in the late s, is more of an episodic recap than a strict autobiography, especially when it moves beyond Miss Lee's horrible childhood. Young Norma Egstrom's father was an alcoholic railroad worker; her mother died when Norma was a young child. Her stepmo
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Peggy Lee
A Biography by Peter Richmond
US edition: Henry Holt and Co. (ISBN: )
Released March 21,
UK edition: Aurum Press Ltd. (ISBN: )
Release date May 26,
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Apart from Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography &#; first published in , then updated and republished after Peggy&#;s passing in &#; Peter Richmond&#;s Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee is the first full-length biography of Peggy. Many of her musical colleagues were interviewed for the book, including Max Bennett, Artie Butler, Pete Candoli, Stella Castellucci, John Chiodini, Jack Costanzo, Arthur Hamilton, Joe Harnell, Keith Ingham, Quincy Jones, Jay Leonhart, Mundell Lowe, Bucky Pizzarelli, Andre Previn, Mike Renzi, and Grady Tate. Two of Peggy&#;s closest friends, Phoebe Jacobs and Kathy Levy, also granted interviews.
Quoting Henry Holt and Co. publicity:
The first major biography of the legendary singer &#; an enthralling account of a charismatic artist moving through the greatest, most glamorous era of American music
&#;I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant.&#; So said Peggy Lee, the North Dakota girl who sang like she&#;d just stepped out of Harlem. Einstein adored her; Duke Ellington dubbed her &#;the Queen.&#; With her platinum cool and inim