Wishing on the Moon: Life and Times of Billie Holiday

by Donald Clarke (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $3.36

  This biography of Billie Holliday describes the music business and club scene of her youth and her childhood in Baltimore (where the author suspects she was a teenage prostitute and an abused child) before she became a dancer and then a singer. The book presents her life and achievements in the context of the music industry of the period. With accounts of the recording sessions and club dates, in chronological order.

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $6.70

  This biography delves behind the myths that surround Billie Holliday, the woman who has been described as the most influential singer of the century. The author has had access to unpublished interviews with people who knew Billie from her illegitimate birth through the years of her fame and up to her death at the age of 45. Donald Clarke is the editor and principal author of The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music .