RECOMMENDED: Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday / 2018 🎙️🎶🎷 🇺🇸

Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century.
Smoky Harlem clubs and packed-out concert halls. Struggles with addiction and her adventures.

• Published: 3 December 2018
• ISBN: 9780241351291
• Imprint: Penguin Classics
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 192

Source: penguin.co.uk

 

Previous notable versions (print):

Lady Sings The Blues Paperback – 2003
Lady Sings the Blues, Paperback – 1984

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Lady Sings the Blues – 2006
The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography
(by Billie Holiday and William Dufty / foreword by David Ritz)

„Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie’s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon. 
 
We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of “Strange Fruit”; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday’s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.”

- penguinrandomhouse.com