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! Read # Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus by Alex Halberstadt ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus One of the most original, influential, and commercially successful American songwriters, Doc Pomus (1927-1991) was a role model for several generations of composers, renowned for his mastery of virtually every popular style, and for the numerous hits he wrote during rock ’n’ roll’s first decade. But despite his successes, few knew that this writer of jukebox hits led one of the most dramatic lives of his time. Spanning the extremes between extravagant wealth and desperate pover
| Title | : | Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (677 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306815648 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
He takes readers to 1940s nightclubs where Pomus was the only white man around; hotel lobbies where Pomus spent afternoons listening for "the random brilliance of overheard speech"; and Pomus's hotel room when Bob Dylan came calling. John. Halberstadt, who writes on music and pop culture, can be awkward writing about Pomus's intimate life, although he definitely knows his music history. From then on, his life was all about music; he started bands, wrote music and promoted artists until the day he died. Pomus (1925–1991) himself was more of a blues story than anything he could have written. Halberstadt's understanding of how J
One of the most original, influential, and commercially successful American songwriters, Doc Pomus (1927-1991) was a role model for several generations of composers, renowned for his mastery of virtually every popular style, and for the numerous hits he wrote during rock ’n’ roll’s first decade. But despite his successes, few knew that this writer of jukebox hits led one of the most dramatic lives of his time. Spanning the extremes between extravagant wealth and desperate poverty, suburban fami
Five Stars Jake Elwood An interesting and talented man.. "Inspiring book" according to Jon Hildreth. Easily the best rock & roll book I ever read. A year ago I didn't know who Pomus was: now he towers above everybody else on the fifties music scene. An interesting read about an extraordinarily courageous and resilient man who managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.. Kevin Killian said Lonely are the Brave. He wrote many of the lyrics you've sung to yourself again and again, his catchy phrases sticking in your head like musical seaweed in the tide basin of memory. He was intimate with the likes of Duke Ellington, Rodney Dangerfield, and John Lennon. Phil Spector depended on him,
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