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    "title": "Lady Sings the Blues",
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    "description": "\n\nThe fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation\u2014a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David Ritz\n\nTaking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday\u2019s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem\u2019s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie\u2019s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon.\n\nWe are with her during the mesmerizing debut of \u201cStrange Fruit\u201d; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday\u2019s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.\n",
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