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23%OFFAlan Light - What Happened, Miss Simone? - 9781782118749 - V9781782118749
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What Happened, Miss Simone?

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Description for What Happened, Miss Simone? Paperback. Inspired by the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone? is an intimate and vivid portrait of the twentieth-century icon Nina Simone. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16pp b&w inset. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVGK; AVGQ; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 242.
'From her raging, handwritten letters to late-night phone calls with David Bowie, this biography gets up close and personal with the tempestuous Nina Simone' Observer Drawing on glimpses into previously unseen diaries, rare interviews and childhood journals, and with the aid of her daughter, What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of the classically trained pianist who became a soul legend, a committed civil rights activist and one of the most influential, provocative and least understood artists of our time. This is the story of the real Miss Simone.

Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782118749
SKU
V9781782118749
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About Alan Light
A veteran music journalist, Alan Light is the author of The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of Hallelujah and Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain. Light was previously the editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin and a senior writer for Rolling Stone. He is also a frequent contributor ... Read more

Reviews for What Happened, Miss Simone?
Her willingness to speak her mind shines out of every page

The Times

Arrestive telling of the high priestess of soul's life story...What makes this portrait so compelling are the extras; think of the book as a director's cut

MOJO

She is loved or feared, adored or disliked, ... Read more

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