You Send Me - The Life and Times of Sam Cooke

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Wolff with S.R Crain, Cliff White, and G. David Tenenbaum Klappentext When Sam Cooke was shot dead in a cheap motel in Hollywood he was one of America's most successful pop stars. He left a world in which he had been born poor and had become very rich from the success of such records as "You Send Me" and "A Wonderful World" yet his body lay unrecognised in a morgue for two days. This biography follows Cooke's life in a racist America where his voice was one of the first to reach beyond the segregated audiences and command a white following Cooke himself becoming a player in the fledgling civil rights movement. This award-winning biography is a full and sometimes shocking story of a man whose songbook is revered by great performers such as Otis Redding Rod Stewart and Aretha Franklin. Zusammenfassung When Sam Cooke was shot dead in a cheap motel in Hollywood, he was one of America's most successful pop stars. This biography follows Cooke's life in a racist America where his voice was one of the first to reach beyond the segregated audiences and command a white following, Cooke himself becoming a player in the fledgling civil rights movement.

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• Authors: C, S. R. Crain, S.R Crain, G David Tenenbaum, G. David Tenenbaum, Tenenbaum G. David, Cliff White, White Cliff, Daniel Wolff, Daniel Crain Wolff, Wolff Daniel
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2011
• EAN: 9780753540022
• ISBN: 978-0-7535-4002-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Soul and Funk, Rhythm and Blues, R’n’B, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Social & cultural history, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance, Social and cultural history, Popular Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Soul & R 'n B, Soul & R 'n' B