You Send Me by Daniel Wolff

You Send Me by Daniel Wolff

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When Sam Cooke was shot dead in a motel room he was one of America's most successful pop stars, yet his body lay unrecognized in a morgue for two days. This biography traces his life from its poor beginnings to success and riches as one of the first black singers to command a white following.

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You Send Me by Daniel Wolff

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.
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ISBN 13 9780753500927
ISBN 10 0753500922
Title You Send Me
Author Daniel Wolff
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Ebury Publishing
Year published 1997-06-19
Number of pages 368
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