Billie Holiday: The Last Interview (Holiday Billie)(Paperback / softback)

The first-ever collection of interviews with the tortured but groundbreaking singer Billie Holiday, part of Melville House's beloved Last Interview series Legendary singer Billie Holiday comes alive in this first-ever collection of interviews from throughout her career, including her last, as well as the transcript of an interrogation by US Customs officers, part of a harasment campaign waged against the singer by law enforcement officials. Drawn from music magazines, late-night radio programs, and newspapers from across the United States and Canada, in these conversations Holiday discusses her childhood, the musicians who influenced her, her friendship--and falling out--with the influential saxophone player Lester Young, her chosen symbol (the gardenia), why she quit Count Basie's band, her substance abuse problems, song-writing and memoir-writing, and more. In
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