All The Things You Are: The Life Of Tony Bennett

Description

The first complete biography of singing legend Tony Bennett Among America's greatest entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Ray Charles, and Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett alone is still here and at the top of his game. For the first time, All the Things You Are tells the incredible story of Bennett's life and sixty-year career, from his impoverished New York City childhood through his first chart-topping hits, from liberating a concentration camp to his civil rights struggles, from his devastating personal and career battles and addiction in the 1970's to his stunning comeback and emergence as a musical statesman, America's troubadour, role model and mentor, and unmatched interpreter of the American songbook.* Takes a candid, unvarnished look at the amazing life of one of America's most enduring musical icons * Based on dozens of author interviews with Bennett's family members, agents, musicians, composers and managers, and experts on the last fifty years of popular music* Filled with stories involving leading figures and entertainers of the twentieth-century, including Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fiorello LaGuardia, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Ray Charles, Dean Martin, Billie Holliday, and more Whether you've been a Tony Bennett fan for decades or are just discovering him, this book will deepen your understanding of this hugely gifted entertainer and his music.

Author description

David Evanier is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of both nonfiction and fiction. He was formerly senior editor of the Paris Review, and his work has appeared in Best American Short Stories. He is a recipient of the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the McGinnis-Ritchie Short Fiction Award. Evanier has written for the New York Times (including "Paper Cuts", its music blog), the New York Times Magazine, the Village Voice, the New Republic, the Nation, and many other publications. He has received residence fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and the Wurlitzer Foundation, is a full-time member of the Writers Room where he wrote this book, and has taught at UCLA. His other books include Making the Wiseguys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin.

Table of contents

Introduction: Staying Real. 1 Beginnings. 2 A Young Man's Initiation. 3 "I Was Lost, I Was Drifting". 4 An Alarm Clock in Church. 5 Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay. 6 Out of the Commonplace into the Rare. 7 Good-bye to All That. 8 A Quality That Lets You In. 9 "A Pure, Simple Thing". 10 Renaissance. 11 A Partially Hidden Legacy. 12 The Next Century. 13 The Singing Waiter. Acknowledgments. Appendix: Awards, Albums, and Songs. Bibliography. Index.