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A biography of the jazz vocalist, Billie Holiday, who died from a drug overdose in 1959. As well as a discussion of her music, this text covers her drug addiction, masochistic promiscuity and alcoholism, and examines the racial prejudice and legal harassment she suffered all her life.
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Billie Holiday, Stuart Nicholson
- Language
- Released
- 1995
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Billie Holiday
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stuart Nicholson
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 311
- ISBN10
- 0575056312
- ISBN13
- 9780575056312
- Series
- Tags
- Art, Music Theme, USA, Popular Music, Jazz, Blues
- Description
- A biography of the jazz vocalist, Billie Holiday, who died from a drug overdose in 1959. As well as a discussion of her music, this text covers her drug addiction, masochistic promiscuity and alcoholism, and examines the racial prejudice and legal harassment she suffered all her life.