Title: unworthy of its subject
Product review: The cheapest sort of tawdry showbiz writing, where everyone is referred to by either their first name ("Benny," really?, rather than "Goodman"?) or as "the guy," and where song lyrics are quoted in the tiniest chunks (and pointlessly explained) so as to skirt copyright laws. I could put up with the grisliness of style, for the sake of the information, while the author was detailing Peggy Lee's rise to fame, but as he attempted to address her complicated middle years and sad decline, I found his gaudy shallowness downright insulting, and had to put the book down.Until the day a writer who can write decides to set down an appropriate biography of this great and underappreciated singer, I'll just have to make do with her recordings, which tell us, ultimately, everything we need to know about her.
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