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What Happened, Miss Simone?
Alan Light
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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.
'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 to the New York Times.
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, but few who have met her music or glimpsed her soul react with moderation
Maya Angelou Explores the huge impact [Nina Simone] made for civil rights through her music, as well as her activism
Observer
Traces a path through the sad and bewildering tangle that was Simone's life
Telegraph
Nina Simone was an overwhelming artist, piano player, and singer - the kind of artist that I loved and admired
Bob Dylan Electrifying . . . Captures how unique and real she was on every page
Alicia Keys Absorbing
Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
A gripping (if often grim) portrait of a woman and her legend
Louis Wise, Sunday Times
Decent, respectful, conscientiously crafted and even-handed
Uncut
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, but few who have met her music or glimpsed her soul react with moderation
Maya Angelou Explores the huge impact [Nina Simone] made for civil rights through her music, as well as her activism
Observer
Traces a path through the sad and bewildering tangle that was Simone's life
Telegraph
Nina Simone was an overwhelming artist, piano player, and singer - the kind of artist that I loved and admired
Bob Dylan Electrifying . . . Captures how unique and real she was on every page
Alicia Keys Absorbing
Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
A gripping (if often grim) portrait of a woman and her legend
Louis Wise, Sunday Times
Decent, respectful, conscientiously crafted and even-handed
Uncut