Ray Charles: Man and Music, Updated Commemorative Edition

by Michael Lydon

Overview

Ray Charles stands as an influential pop musician of the last half of the 20th century. This biography covers his early life of poverty in the deep South and looks at his relationships, professional and romantic, as well as examining his influence on other singers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138473713
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/18/2020
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Lydon was a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine and one fo the most highly regarded rock journalists of his generation. He is the author of Flashbacks: Eyewitness Accounts of the Rock Revolution (Routledge, 2003). He resides in New York City.

Table of Contents

PART I YOUTH, PART II APPRENTICE, PARTIII THE 1950s: THE ATLANTIC YEARS, PART IV THE 1960s: THE ABC YEARS, PART V THE 1970s: THE INVISIBLE YEARS, PART VI THE 1980s: THE LONG COMEBACK, PART VII THE 1990s: THE GRAND MASTER

Editorial Reviews

"Lydon is obviously a very gifted and very sensitive writer—his prose lilting and poetic, drunk on the invisible rhythms of the music each syllable softly falling like beads of water against the wide windows of the dawn-hour. Readers will find this an easy book to consume- pages almost turning themselves, eyes feverishly tracking back and forth, anxious to see where everything ends." — The Electric Review

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