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Download or read book Jackie Wilson written by Tony Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To his many fans, he was known simply as "Mr. Excitement," a singer whose music and stage presence influenced generations of performers, from Elvis Presley to Michael Jackson. Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops looks at the life and career of this deeply troubled artist. Published briefly in a limited edition in the United Kingdom, this Routledge edition makes available this definitive biography for Wilson's legions of fans. Also includes two 8-page photo inserts.
Download or read book Jackie Wilson written by Tony Douglas and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of singer Jackie Wilson who had twenty-four top forty hits during the '60s, suffered a heart attack in 1975 and remained in a vegetative state until his death in 1984.
Book Synopsis The Life of Jackie Wilson by : Brenda Wilson
Download or read book The Life of Jackie Wilson written by Brenda Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of inspiring stories and quotes from family, friends and Fans who loved Jackie.-- Brenda Wilson says, "As his daughter, I have devoted all of my efforts to keep his legacy and memory alive." --The Supremes' Mary Wilson said, "I finally got the chance to see Mr. Jackie Wilson when I was old enough to get into the Graystone Ballroom. It was one of my first concerts. We had started singing as the Primettes in 1959 and were doing local DJ shows in Detroit on the weekends. Seeing Jackie Wilson, a real pro, opened my eyes at the age of 14 to show business and, perhaps without my even realizing it, hooked me into being an entertainer."
Book Synopsis Jackie Wilson by : Doug Saint Carter
Download or read book Jackie Wilson written by Doug Saint Carter and published by Heyday Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American History, Black History and Music History. Known as Mr. Excitement and dubbed "The Black King of Rock 'n' Roll," Jackie Wilson was the greatest combination of singer and showman. The 11th artist elected into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, with one of the largest fan clubs of any American Artist. His story reads like fiction yet it's t
Download or read book Lonely Teardrops written by Tony Douglas and published by Sanctuary Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To his many fans, he was known simply as "Mr. Excitement," a singer whose music and stage presence influenced generations of performers, from Elvis Presley to Michael Jackson. Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops looks at the life and career of this deeply troubled artist. Published briefly in a limited edition in the United Kingdom, this Routledge edition makes available this definitive biography for Wilson's legions of fans. Also includes two 8-page photo inserts.
Book Synopsis Jacky Daydream by : Jacqueline Wilson
Download or read book Jacky Daydream written by Jacqueline Wilson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lots of Jacqueline Wilson's characters are well-known and well-loved by thousands of readers: Hetty Feather, Ruby and Garnet, Pearl and Jodie, Elsa, Lily and, of course, the brilliant Tracy Beaker! But how much do you know about Jacqueline herself? Jacqueline takes a look back at her own childhood and teenage years in this captivating story of friendships, loneliness, books, family life and much more. She explores her past with the same warmth and lightness of touch that make her novels so special. Best of all, she reveals how she was always determined to be a writer; from the very first story she wrote, it was clear that this little girl had a very vivid imagination! But who would've guessed that she would grow up to be the mega-bestselling, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson? With original photographs and new illustrations by Nick Sharratt, this book is a delight for all of Jacky's fans, and a treat for any new readers too.
Book Synopsis Jacqueline Du Pré by : Elizabeth Wilson
Download or read book Jacqueline Du Pré written by Elizabeth Wilson and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of one of the best-loved musicians of the twentieth-century, who was stricken with illness & died at the height of her career.
Book Synopsis Rise of the Falling Star by : Reginald Abrams
Download or read book Rise of the Falling Star written by Reginald Abrams and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Legacy of Jackie "Mr. Excitement" Wilson. Jackie Wilson was the most influential contributor to music, especially in the R&B genre. He influenced artist such as Elvis Presley, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and most of Motown Records. This iconic legend is a Hollywood Walk of Famer and is an inductee to the Rock & Roll and the R & B Hall of Fames.
Book Synopsis My Sister Jodie by : Jacqueline Wilson
Download or read book My Sister Jodie written by Jacqueline Wilson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no one quite like my big sister Jodie . . . Quiet, cautious Pearl has always adored her bold, brash, bad big sister Jodie. When their parents get new jobs at a grand, fusty old boarding school, Melchester College, the girls have to move there - and when they arrive, things start to change. Jodie has always been the leader - but now it's Pearl who's making new friends. Jodie just seems to be getting into more and more trouble - arguing with Mum, scaring the little children, flirting with the gardener. She really doesn't fit in with the posh teenagers at the school. Pearl begins to wonder if she needs Jodie as much as she used to. But when Firework Night comes around and a tragic event occurs, Pearl realises quite how much Jodie means to her . . . A touching, powerful story from the mega-bestselling Jacqueline Wilson, told with warmth and sensitivity.
Download or read book Jackie Wilson written by Tony Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rise of the Falling Star by : Anthony Wilson, Sr.
Download or read book Rise of the Falling Star written by Anthony Wilson, Sr. and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of the late Jackie Wilson American Soul Singer known throughout the world as Mr. Excitement. His original story is being told by his oldest living son Anthony Wilson, Sr. and his oldest grandson Reginald Abrams, Jr.
Book Synopsis My Secret Diary by : Jacqueline Wilson
Download or read book My Secret Diary written by Jacqueline Wilson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully written and engaging teenage memoir: read all about Jacqueline's problems with her family, her first love, her school life and her friends. Read extracts from her real diaries and the stories she wrote as a teenager; learn all about the music and books she loved, her troubled school life and her parents' difficult relationship. Written in Jacqueline's usual and inimitable style, this will be fascinating reading for her fans, and for anyone who's interested in what life in the UK was like in the fifties and sixties.
Download or read book To Be Loved written by Berry Gordy and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Motown Records and how it changed the course of American music, as told by its founder—“an African American culture hero of historic stature” (The New York Times). Berry Gordy Jr., who once considered becoming a boxer, started a record company with a family loan of $800 in 1959. Gordy’s company, Motown Records, went on to create some of the most popular music of all time. By the time he sold the company nearly thirty years later, it was worth $61 million and had produced musical legends including Jackie Wilson, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson 5. Here, the revolutionary who shattered the color barrier in the American entertainment industry and forever changed the way the world hears music, shares his story of ambition and vision. From humble beginnings, Gordy amassed a fortune and became a musical kingmaker in the cultural heydays of the 1960s and ’70s. Quelling rumors and detailing his relationships with the artists he managed, Gordy pens “a vivid recreation of a great period and a seminal company in popular music” (Kirkus Reviews).
Book Synopsis Jackie Robinson by : Arnold Rampersad
Download or read book Jackie Robinson written by Arnold Rampersad and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's widow, Rachel, to tell her husband's story, and was given unprecedented access to his private papers. We are brought closer than we have ever been to the great ballplayer, a man of courage and quality who became a pivotal figure in the areas of race and civil rights. Born in the rural South, the son of a sharecropper, Robinson was reared in southern California. We see him blossom there as a student-athlete as he struggled against poverty and racism to uphold the beliefs instilled in him by his mother--faith in family, education, America, and God. We follow Robinson through World War II, when, in the first wave of racial integration in the armed forces, he was commissioned as an officer, then court-martialed after refusing to move to the back of a bus. After he plays in the Negro National League, we watch the opening of an all-American drama as, late in 1945, Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers recognized Jack as the right player to break baseball's color barrier--and the game was forever changed. Jack's never-before-published letters open up his relationship with his family, especially his wife, Rachel, whom he married just as his perilous venture of integrating baseball began. Her memories are a major resource of the narrative as we learn about the severe harassment Robinson endured from teammates and opponents alike; about death threats and exclusion; about joy and remarkable success. We watch his courageous response to abuse, first as a stoic endurer, then as a fighter who epitomized courage and defiance. We see his growing friendship with white players like Pee Wee Reese and the black teammates who followed in his footsteps, and his embrace by Brooklyn's fans. We follow his blazing career: 1947, Rookie of the Year; 1949, Most Valuable Player; six pennants in ten seasons, and 1962, induction into the Hall of Fame. But sports were merely one aspect of his life. We see his business ventures, his leading role in the community, his early support of Martin Luther King Jr., his commitment to the civil rights movement at a crucial stage in its evolution; his controversial associations with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Humphrey, Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, and Malcolm X. Rampersad's magnificent biography leaves us with an indelible image of a principled man who was passionate in his loyalties and opinions: a baseball player who could focus a crowd's attention as no one before or since; an activist at the crossroads of his people's struggle; a dedicated family man whose last years were plagued by illness and tragedy, and who died prematurely at fifty-two. He was a pathfinder, an American hero, and he now has the biography he deserves.
Download or read book Mary Wells written by Peter Benjaminson and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete with never-before-revealed details about the sex, violence, and drugs in her life, this biography reveals the incredibly turbulent life of Motown artist Mary Wells. Based in part on four hours of previously unreleased and unpublicized deathbed interviews with Wells, this account delves deeply into her rapid rise and long fall as a recording artist, her spectacular romantic and family life, the violent incidents in which she was a participant, and her abuse of drugs. From tumultuous affairs, including one with R&B superstar Jackie Wilson, to a courageous battle with throat cancer that climaxed in her gutsiest performance, this history draws upon years of interviews with Wells's friends, lovers, and husband to tell the whole story of a woman whose songs crossed the color line and whose voice captivated the Beatles.
Book Synopsis In the Midnight Hour by : Tony Fletcher
Download or read book In the Midnight Hour written by Tony Fletcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the life and music career of prominent soul singer Wilson Pickett, chronicling the performer's rise to stardom and his self-destructive fall into alcohol and drug addiction before ending his career on a high note with a Grammy-nominated album.
Book Synopsis Little Darlings by : Jacqueline Wilson
Download or read book Little Darlings written by Jacqueline Wilson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunset lives a life of luxury with her beautiful ex-model mum, her world-famous rock star dad and her two little celebrity siblings. But life on the red carpet is no compensation for parents who constantly argue, intensive scrutiny from the media, and and having no real friends. Destiny, on the other hand, is an only child living on a rundown estate with a sickly but devoted mum who constantly tells her that she's really the daughter of a famous rock star . . . When the two girls meet in unlikely circumstances, they are surprised to find in each other something they've been missing all their lives . . .
