This biography of Billie Holliday describes the music business and club scene of her youth and her childhood in Baltimore (where the author suspects she was a teenage prostitute and an abused child) before she became a dancer and then a singer. The book presents her life and achievements in the context of the music industry of the period. With accounts of the recording sessions and club dates, in chronological order.
- ISBN10 0140247548
- ISBN13 9780140247541
- Publish Date 26 October 1995 (first published 23 February 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 January 2010
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Penguin Random House Australia
- Format Paperback
- Pages 480
- Language English