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Ritz, David was born on December 2, 1943 in New York City. Son of Milton and Pearl Ritz.
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MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. *NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player. Read by Dion Graham Named the #1 Rock Biography of All Time in the New Book of Rock Lists. This is the definitive biography of an enormously gifted and sensitive musician. In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges here is a full-scale portrait of a charming but tortured artist, a brilliant singer with a divided soul. - - Here is Marvin's story, from his early years in the slums of Washington, DC, to his rise to the top of the Motown industry, his fall from grace, his comeback, and finally his sudden, shocking end at the hands of his own father. But it is also the story of his glorious music and the music of black America over the past fifty years, an epic tale whose cast of characters includes Diana Ross, Berry Gordie, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, and countless other icons from the world of soul music.
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( Through conversations with David Ritz, Ray Charles deta...)
Through conversations with David Ritz, Ray Charles details his life’s journey with his characteristic and uninhibited energy. He begins his story with tragic memories from his difficult childhood and of his initial professional attempts, and he focuses on the long and difficult journey he followed until he was finally considered one of popular music’s greatest artists of all time, without ever avoiding discussing some of his life’s darkest episodes. Ray Charles, conversando con David Ritz, desgrana con su característica y desinhibida energía la crónica de su peripecia vital. Su relato arranca con los trágicos recuerdos de su accidentada infancia y sus primeros tientos profesionales, y se centra en el largo y tortuoso camino que recorre hasta su consagración como uno de los grandes de la música popular de todos los tiempos, sin soslayar algunos de los episodios más oscuros de su vida.
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Drawing from interviews conducted before Marvin Gaye's death, acclaimed music writer David Ritz has created a full-scale portrait of the brilliant but tormented artist. With a cast of characters that includes Diana Ross, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder, this intimate biography is a definitive and enduring look at the man who embodied the very essence of the word soul.
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An exhilarating novel about baseball and the friendship of a poor boy and a rich boy who stick together to make an impossible dream come true.
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( Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordina...)
Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius by the age of thirty-two. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and country music, he invented, almost single-handedly, what became known as soul. And throughout a career spanning more than a half century, Ray Charles remained in complete control of his life and his music, allowing nobody to tell him what he could and couldn't do.As the Chicago Sun-Times put it, Brother Ray is "candid, explicit, sometimes embarrassing, often hilarious, always warm, touching and deeply human-just like his music."
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Ritz, David was born on December 2, 1943 in New York City. Son of Milton and Pearl Ritz.
Bachelor, University Texas, 1965. Master of Arts, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1968.
( Drawing from interviews conducted before Marvin Gaye's ...)
(An exhilarating novel about baseball and the friendship o...)
( Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordina...)
(MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. *NOTE: The MP3-CD ...)
(Reprint)
( Through conversations with David Ritz, Ray Charles deta...)
Member Phi Beta Kappa. M C.
Married Roberta, June 16, 1968. Children: Alison and Jessica (twins).