Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus

Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus
by Alex Halberstadt

Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus
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Author: Alex Halberstadt
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-25
ISBN: 0306815648
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Book Review: Inspiring book
Summary: 5 Stars

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.

Summary of Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus

The only biography of the colorful and legendary songwriter of such enduring hits as "Lonely Avenue," "Save the Last Dance for Me," and "Viva Las Vegas."

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.

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.

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