1st Edition
Ray Charles Man and Music, Updated Commemorative Edition
By Michael Lydon
Copyright 2004
488 Pages
38 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
488 Pages
by
Routledge
472 Pages
38 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Ray Charles: Man and Music is a complete biography of this seminal singer/pianist who has been active on the American music scene since the mid-'50s. Originally published in 1995 by Penguin Books, and universally hailed as the definitive biography, this new edition will bring Charles's life up to date, covering the last 7 years of his life.There are only a few legendary singers who have... Read more
PART I YOUTH, PART II APPRENTICE, PARTIII THE 1950s: THE ATLANTIC YEARS, PART IV THE 1960s: THE ABC YEARS, PART V THE 1970s: THE INVISIBLE YEARS, PART VI THE 1980s: THE LONG COMEBACK, PART VII THE 1990s: THE GRAND MASTER
Biography
Michael Lydon was a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine and one fo the most highly regarded rock journalists of his generation. He is the author of Flashbacks: Eyewitness Accounts of the Rock Revolution (Routledge, 2003). He resides in New York City.
"Lydon is obviously a very gifted and very sensitive writer--his prose lilting and poetic, drunk on the invisible rhythms of the music each syllable softly falling like beads of water against the wide windows of the dawn-hour. Readers will find this an easy book to consume- pages almost turning themselves, eyes feverishly tracking back and forth, anxious to see where everything ends." -- The Electric Review
