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Author Remnick, David, author.

Title Holding the note : profiles in popular music / David Remnick.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3071514~S1
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Description xiv, 276 pages ; 25 cm
Contents How the light gets in / Leonard Cohen -- Soul survivor / Aretha Franklin -- Holding the note / Buddy Guy -- Groovin' high / Keith Richards -- Let the record show / Paul McCartney -- The gospel life / Mavis Staples -- The bird watcher / Charlie Parker and Phil Schaap -- We are alive / Bruce Springsteen -- The last Italian tenor / Luciano Pavarotti -- Restless farewell / Bob Dylan -- Vagabond / Patti Smith
Summary "The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing "Respect" or Bob Dylan performing "Blind Willie McTell," have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years"-- Provided by publisher.
Note "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Subject Singers -- Biography.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
Musicians -- Biography.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9781400043613 hc.
1400043611 hc.
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