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Dancing With Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield
Penny Valentine · 2001 · 306 pages
Dusty Springfield led a tragic yet inspiring life, battling her way to the top of the charts and into the hearts of music fans world-wide. Her signature voice made songs such as, "I Only Want to Be With You," "Son of A Preacher Man," and You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," international hits. In Dancing With Demons, two of her closest friends, Valentine and Wickham, capture, with vivid memories and personal anecdotes, a Dusty most people never glimpsed in this no-holds-barred yet touching portrait of one of the world's true grand dames of popular music.
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Lucinda Williams
“I fell in love with her music after ‘Dusty in Memphis.’ She was a middle-class British white girl singing Black music, and she struggled with her sexual identity and cut herself on purpose. I put her in Etta James and Aretha Franklin’s league and was surprised to read about how fragile she was.”↗