Description
Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary Life is a definitive account of Frank Sinatra's life and career. With unique material and exclusive interviews with fellow musicians, promoters and friends, the acclaimed author Spencer Leigh has written a compelling biography of one of the world's biggest stars. With remarkable stories about Sinatra on every page, and an exceptional cast of characters, readers will wonder how Sinatra ever found time to make records. If this book were a work of fiction, most people would think it far-fetched.
About the Author
The journalist, acclaimed author, music historian and broadcaster Spencer Leigh was born in Liverpool, England, and is an acknowledged authority on popular music. He has been broadcasting his weekly show, On the Beat, on BBC Radio Merseyside for more than 25 years. He has written over twenty-five books, hundreds of album sleeve notes and he writes obituaries of musicians for The Independent and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is an Honoured Friend at Sir Paul McCartney s Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA).
Reviews
'In Spencer Leigh's mammoth and wonderful tome on Frank Sinatra, he has superbly given us Americana through the long life and career of his subject which began way before his did. Sinatra s agents, lovers, dodgy associates, show biz friends and enemies, passions, hatreds, bravery and recklessness, finesse and crudity, worldly wisdom and naivete, are all part of the complex whole and Leigh captures them all. Whether there has been a better telling of the Frank Sinatra story than Spencer Leigh s version only someone who has read all the myriad other attempts can say. I can say for sure that after reading FRANK SINATRA: AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE you may want to read more about him, but you won't need to.' Sir Tim Rice;'There will be no better book on Sinatra's career than this. The detail is superb. I think it was wise to embrace it all - the music, the films, the politics, the hoodlum exploits, the cheating and chancing, and the seemingly endless sex and booze. I remarked earlier on his extraordinary energy, a quality he held in common with some rock stars of our generation. Even as the curtain was closing, his appetites were not greatly diminished.' Liverpool Echo
Book Information
ISBN 9780857160867
Author Spencer Leigh
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint McNidder & Grace
Publisher McNidder & Grace
About the Author
The journalist, acclaimed author, music historian and broadcaster Spencer Leigh was born in Liverpool, England, and is an acknowledged authority on popular music. He has been broadcasting his weekly show, On the Beat, on BBC Radio Merseyside for more than 25 years. He has written over twenty-five books, hundreds of album sleeve notes and he writes obituaries of musicians for The Independent and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is an Honoured Friend at Sir Paul McCartney s Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA).
Reviews
'In Spencer Leigh's mammoth and wonderful tome on Frank Sinatra, he has superbly given us Americana through the long life and career of his subject which began way before his did. Sinatra s agents, lovers, dodgy associates, show biz friends and enemies, passions, hatreds, bravery and recklessness, finesse and crudity, worldly wisdom and naivete, are all part of the complex whole and Leigh captures them all. Whether there has been a better telling of the Frank Sinatra story than Spencer Leigh s version only someone who has read all the myriad other attempts can say. I can say for sure that after reading FRANK SINATRA: AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE you may want to read more about him, but you won't need to.' Sir Tim Rice;'There will be no better book on Sinatra's career than this. The detail is superb. I think it was wise to embrace it all - the music, the films, the politics, the hoodlum exploits, the cheating and chancing, and the seemingly endless sex and booze. I remarked earlier on his extraordinary energy, a quality he held in common with some rock stars of our generation. Even as the curtain was closing, his appetites were not greatly diminished.' Liverpool Echo
Book Information
ISBN 9780857160867
Author Spencer Leigh
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint McNidder & Grace
Publisher McNidder & Grace
