Ray Charles - 9781138473713

Taylor & Francis

Ray Charles stands as an influential pop musician of the last half of the 20th century. This biography covers his early life of poverty in the deep South and looks at his relationships, professional and romantic, as well as examining his influence on other singers. > Ray Charles stands as an influential pop musician of the last half of the 20th century. This biography covers his early life of poverty in the deep South and looks at his relationships, professional and romantic, as well as examining his influence on other singers. > PART I YOUTH, PART II APPRENTICE, PARTIII THE 1950s: THE ATLANTIC YEARS, PART IV THE 1960s: THE ABC YEARS, PART V THE 1970s: THE INVISIBLE YEARS, PART VI THE 1980s: THE LONG COMEBACK, PART VII THE 1990s: THE GRAND MASTER > \""Lydon is obviously a very gifted and very sensitive writer--his prose lilting and poetic, drunk on the invisible rhythms of the music each syllable softly falling like beads of water against the wide windows of the dawn-hour. Rw