Dancing With Demons
by Penny Valentine
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Author: Penny ValentineEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-04-05
ISBN: 0340766743
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Coronet
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Book Review: A NEEDED BOOK.
Summary: 5 Stars
In this book an old friend gives her rememberances of Dusty Springfield, and offers up other friends memories which she filters through to the pages of statistics and gossip and yes....truths....which needed to be told. Vicki, perhaps knowing her for so long, misses the magic.
I certainly hope this is just one simple building block to a real biography that will better explain how fame, the church and being gay would defeat her for a time until the last years of her life. She spent those in true grace.
Summary of Dancing With Demons
Dusty Springfield made her name in the 60s with a string of top ten hits. Her unique singing style and distinctive bouffant blonde look made her famous throughout the world. Despite a period in the wilderness during the 70s and 80s, she was back at the top in the 90s until her death from cancer in March l999. Born an Irish Catholic in l939, her background set her almost schizophrenically at odds with herself as she realised her sexuality and moved further into the rock world. Both Penny Valentine and Vicki Wickham knew Dusty well, as friend and manager for much of her career. As well as charting her gay relationships, this book also looks candidly at the period of her greatest self-destruction while living in Los Angeles in the 80s. Covering every area of her career with honesty and affection, Dusty is brought vividly to life.Music Books
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