- Gebundene Ausgabe: 248 Seiten
- Verlag: Citadel Press (Dezember 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1559723157
- ISBN-13: 978-1559723152
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 16 x 2,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
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Bego has found a groove writing about or acting as coauthor with such divas as Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt, and Martha Reeves (Dancing in the Streets, 1994). Here he offers an unauthorized portrait of the generous, socially responsible, and ever-creative Bonnie Raitt. Bego does gush, but we Raitt fans demand a certain amount of reverence for our heroine, and Raitt has kept her private life so private we're grateful for any information, however facile. Raitt comes by her music and her political activism naturally: her mother is an accomplished pianist, her father is Broadway star John Raitt, and both are Quakers. But her love for the blues, her feisty independence, and her artistic authority are all her own. Bego lovingly describes the production of each of Raitt's innovative and heart-winning albums, capturing the essence of her highly original, sexy, "womanly-wise" music. Commercial success was long in coming to Raitt because she never played glamour girl or compromised her artistic integrity, so when she received four Grammy Awards in 1990, her many loyal fans rejoiced. And they'll be on the lookout for this overdue tribute. Donna Seaman
From Library Journal
It took Raitt over 20 years to make it big as a mainstream blues singer, and her struggles are chronicled in this unauthorized account by prolific celebrity biographer Bego (most recently as ghostwriter for Martha Reeves's Dancing in the Streets, LJ 8/94). Though such bios usually put fear in the hearts of their subjects, this is an unabashedly flattering portrait. Raitt was born into show business (her father is Broadway star John Raitt). She left college to become a serious student of the blues and a political activist. She struggled and partied until alcoholism led her to Alcoholics Anonymous. Two years later she won four Grammies and, at age 40, found personal happiness with her marriage to actor Michael O'Keefe. Bego did not work with Raitt but relied mostly on print interviews, and that is the book's greatest weakness. It is detailed in its discussion of each of Raitt's songs but weak when it comes to her private life. Purchase according to demand.?Rosellen Brewer, Monterey Bay Area Cooperative Lib. System, Cal.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Without going into alot about this book, it was first, unauthorized so it just isn't going to have the impact as if Bonnie was sitting there by the fire on a cold night, playing some acoustic slide and starting from the beginning, but there are alot of people out their who are new to Bonnie's music and don't know much about her and it was informative without getting into a whole personal detail. I enjoyed this for what it was, some day Bonnie will sit down and tell all but until then I just get off on her music and the great human being she is. That is all you need to know, just listen to what her song say to the heart and mind.
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One of the most disappointing books I've ever read! There's nothing new here, no results of interviews with Bonnie or her close friends, just a rewrite of already available material. Believe it or not, entire pages were devoted to the names and styles of the songs on her albums, the musicians and producers! What a rip off!
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18. November 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Instead of spending money on this book, just go back and read every review written on Bonnie Raitt's work, and you will get the same information. Mr. Bego offers nothing new and no inside information, no childhood background, no authorization or cooperation from the artist herself. Disappointing.
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Worst star biography written in recent years
25. August 1997
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
The book is basically all the interviews I've ever read about the life of Bonnie Raitt, rolled together in one book and sold for an exorbitant amount of menoey. Bego promised new information about her life, but there was none whatseover that I could find. There are glaring typographical errors, that even the most perfunctory copy editor shounld have picked up. Furthermore, the writing style is absolutely awful. Bego thinks he's a writer, and tries to be suave but his trite commentary on Ms. Raitt's extrordinary life left me wondering why I'd even opened the book in the first place
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I enjoyed the book....but
6. August 1999
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Without going into alot about this book, it was first, unauthorized so it just isn't going to have the impact as if Bonnie was sitting there by the fire on a cold night, playing some acoustic slide and starting from the beginning, but there are alot of people out their who are new to Bonnie's music and don't know much about her and it was informative without getting into a whole personal detail. I enjoyed this for what it was, some day Bonnie will sit down and tell all but until then I just get off on her music and the great human being she is. That is all you need to know, just listen to what her song say to the heart and mind.
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