Billie Holiday : the last interview and other conversations / with an introduction by Khanya Mtshali.

"Legendary singer Billie Holiday comes alive in this first-ever collection of interviews from throughout her career. Included is her last interview, given from her deathbed in a New York City hospital, where police were standing by ready to arrest her for a parole violation should she recover. Also...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Last interview series.
Other Authors:	Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (Interviewee) Mtshali, Khanya (Writer of introduction)
Language:	English
Published:	Brooklyn ; London : Melville House, 2019.
Series:	Last interview series.
Subjects:	Holiday, Billie, > 1915-1959 > Interviews. Women jazz singers > United States > Interviews. Jazz musicians > United States > Interviews. African American singers > Interviews. Holiday, Billie, > 1915-1959. African American singers. Jazz musicians. Women jazz singers. United States. Interviews.
Genre:	Interviews.
Physical Description:	xxi, 112 pages ; 21 cm.
Variant Title:	Last interview and other conversations
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction by Khanya Mtshali
Billie Holiday: "I'll never sing with a dance band again" / interview with Dave Dexter, Jr., DownBeat Magazine, November 1, 1939
"Don't blame show biz!" / interview with Michael Levin, DownBeat Magazine, June 4, 1947
MacDougall and Friends / interview with Dick MacDougall, August 16, 1952
The lost Billie Holiday interview / interview with George Walsh, The Green Room on KNX radio Los Angeles, September 1956
Voice of America jazz hour / interview with Willis Conover, March 20, 1956
Night beat (Dumont television) / interview with Mike Wallace, November 8, 1956
Statement of Mrs. Elanor Gough Mckay, also known as Miss Billie Holiday / taken in the office of the Supervising Custom Agent, 201 Varick Street, New York 14, N.Y., Room 455, 3:40 p.m. on January 15, 1959
The last interview: "I needed heroin to live" / by Billie Holiday, Confidential Magazine, October 1959.