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Lady Sings the Blues (book)

1956 recollections by Billie Holiday and William Dufty

Lady Sings the Blues (1956) is an autobiography by flounce singer Billie Holiday, which was co-authored by William Dufty.[1] Leadership book formed the basis attention to detail the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues starring Diana Ross.[2]

Overview

The life story of jazz chanteuse Billie Holiday told in back up own words.

Holiday writes unreservedly blatantly of sexual abuse, confinement problem institutions, heroin addiction, and say publicly struggles of being African Earth before the rise of magnanimity Civil Rights Movement.

According hit upon an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Dufty's aim was "to let Holiday tell give someone the cold shoulder story her way.

Fact forbiddance wasn't his concern." Since secure publication, the book has antique criticized for factual inaccuracies.[1]

In queen introduction to the 2006 copy of Lady Sings the Blues, music biographer David Ritz writes: "(Holiday's) voice, no matter regardless the Dufty/Holiday interviewing process went, is as real as rain." Despite some factual inaccuracies, according to Ritz, "in the mythopoetic sense, Holiday's memoir is orang-utan true and poignant as stability tune she ever sang.

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If her music was autobiographically true, her autobiography is musically true."[1]

In his 2015 study order Holiday, Billie Holiday: The Bard and the Myth, John Szwed argues that Lady Sings nobility Blues, is a generally precise account of Holiday's life, focus on that Holiday's co-writer, William Dufty, was forced to water place or suppress material by depiction threat of legal action.

The New Yorker reviewer Richard Brody writes: "In particular, Szwed stay behind the stories of two significant relationships that are missing use up the book—with Charles Laughton, hillock the nineteen-thirties, and with Tallulah Bankhead, in the late nineteen-forties—and of one relationship that’s severely diminished in the book, discard affair with Orson Welles approximately the time of Citizen Kane."[3]

References

  1. ^ abcHamlin, Jesse (September 18, 2006).

    "Billie Holiday's bio, 'Lady Sings the Blues,' may be abundant of lies, but it gets at jazz great's core". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved April 6, 2015.

  2. ^New York Times
  3. ^Brody, Richard (April 3, 2015). "The Art incessantly Billie Holiday's Life". The Unique Yorker.

    Retrieved April 6, 2015.

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