Table of Contents
Introduction Khanya Mtshali vii
Billie Holiday: "I'll Never Sing With A Dance Band Again": Interview with Dave Dexter, Jr. DownBeat Magazine November 1, 1939 3
"Don't Blame Show Biz!": Interview with Michael Levin DownBeat Magazine June 4, 1947 11
MacDougall and Friends: Interview with Dick MacDougall August 16, 1952 19
The Lost Billie Holiday Interview: Interview with George Walsh The Green Room on KNX radio Los Angeles September 1956 33
Voice of America Jazz Hour: Interview with Willis Conover March 20, 1956 47
Night Beat (Dumont Television): Interview with Mike Wallace November 8, 1956 57
Statement of Mrs. Elanor Gough Mckay, also known as Miss Billie Holiday: Taken in the office of the Supervising Custom Agent, 201 Varick Street, New York 14, N.Y., Room 455 3:40 p.m. on January 15, 1959 77
The Last Interview: "I Needed Heroin to Live" by Billie Holiday Confidential Magazine October 1959 97