Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday

Abstract

An African-American nation Baltimore the point Harlem the first records, and triumph at the Apollo the Teddy Wilson era the street that never slept on the road with the big bands 1937-9 - strange fruit the war years triumph and trouble the jailbird the gangster and bassist the last decade begins the last merry-go-round - fun, fights and fame intimations of mortality the triumphanant decline of lady day the loneliest girl in the world coda - the lady is an icon.

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