Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306815648 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Spanning the extremes between extravagant wealth and desperate poverty, suburban family life and the depths of New York’s underworld, enduring love and persistent loneliness, and touching on more than a half-century of American popular music, Lonely Avenue reveals with novelistic flair the whole of Doc’s experience-one of the great untold American stories.. 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
Five Stars An interesting and talented man.. Inspiring book 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.. Lonely are the Brave Kevin Killian 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, yet drove him crazy with his manic behavior. And with Elvis, the king of rock and roll, the two of them forged a musical partnership that swelled in the years just after Elvis' return from Germany after serving in the US Army and meeting Priscilla.Who you might ask is this man? The one and only Doc Pomus who wrote SAVE TH
(Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Pomus (1925–1991) himself was more of a blues story than anything he could have written. This strangely affecting biography follows a straight chronology, including wonderful excerpts from Pomus's own diaries and a great selection of rarely seen photos. . From Publishers Weekly One of America's most popular songwriters was Jerome Felder, better known as "Doc Pomus." For decades he wrote big hits ("Save the Last Dance for Me," "This Magic Moment," "A Teenager in Love") for such artists as Dion, Fabian, the Drifters, Elvis and Dr. All rights reserved. From then on, his life was all about music; he started bands, wrote music and promoted artists until the day he died. Halberstadt, who writes on music and pop culture, can be awkward writing about Pomus's intimate life, altho