Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee

by PeterRichmond (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $3.29

  Peggy Lee was everyone's favourite singer, from Judy Garland to Diana Krall. Discovered in a Chicago nightclub in 1941 by the bandleader Benny Goodman, from the late fifties till the late sixties she was regularly voted Best Female Vocal star for classic songs like Fever , Alright, Okay, You Win and I'm Gonna Go Fishin . She was at her peak during one of the greatest eras in American music, when singers like Frank Sinatra and jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong were in their prime. Peter Richmond tells the definitive story of Peggy Lee's tough and tempestuous life: born Norma Delores Egstrom to an alcoholic father, and enduring an abusive stepmother and four marriages in the course of a journey to Broadway, Vegas and Hollywood.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $6.85

  She was once America's most popular female singer, with four albums in the Top 10 simultaneously. She gave the world such sublime numbers as Fever and Is That All There Is? Frank Sinatra said that 'her wonderful talent should be studied by all vocalists'. Peter Richmond's definitive biography tells the story of her unhappy, tortured life - an alcoholic father, abusive stepmother, four marriages and a sad decline in later years - and sets her alongside Armstrong, Crosby and Sinatra in 'the great quartet' of exponents of the American songbook.