Dusty: An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend - Couverture souple

Bartlett, Karen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1944713026 ISBN 13 : 9781944713027

Editeur : Lesser Gods, 2017

Synopsis

This edition has been edited for an American audience. The book includes 32 color images and 24 black and white images. Dusty Springfield was the first female entertainer to come out as bisexual. The story of her lifelong struggle to come to terms with her sexuality will especially appeal to LGBT readers and reviewers. Springfield is one of the biggest musical stars of the 20th century. She has been inducted into both the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the U.K. Music Hall of Fame. Queen Elizabeth II named Springfield an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her "services to popular music." Springfield had six top 20 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. Springfield's Dusty in Memphis, featuring the hit single "Son of a Preacher Man," has been listed among the greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone. Decades after its release, the album received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2001. The U.K. edition of Dusty was named one of the Sunday Times's best musical biographies of 2014.It received great reviews from the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph as well as music and LBGT media.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Karen Bartlett is a writer and journalist based in London. She has written extensively for Newsweek, the Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, and WIRED and has presented and produced for BBC Radio. She was the youngest director of democratic reform and human rights campaign group Charter88, and she began her career in the U.K. and South Africa. Most recently, she worked with Eva Schloss, writing her Sunday Times-bestselling autobiography After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lesser Gods
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1944713026
• ISBN 13: 9781944713027
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible