Hardback
240 pages
Free Press
Illustrated with chronology.
Billie Holiday is still one of the most famous jazz vocalists of all time. Griffin argues that Holiday's image -the gifted torch singer with insatiable appetites for food, sex, alchohol and drugs-is not the full story. This investigation of Holiday, her world and how she is remembered, attempts to liberate Lady Day from the tragic songstress myth.
