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Be My Baby
Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or My Life as a Fabulous Ronette | Ronnie Spector, Vince Waldron
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Pop icon Ronnie Spector reveals the story of her dreamlike rise from the streets of Harlem to the pinnacle of rock stardom as lead singer of the Ronettes, and her nightmare descent into madness as the wife of Phil Spector, the pop hitmaker who kept her a virtual prisoner behind the locked doors of his darkened Beverly Hills mansion. Ronnies escape from that ordeal, and her subsequent struggle to reclaim her voice, her career, and her sanity, provide an emotion-packed climax to this smart, funny, and inspiring autobiography, named by one of The Top 25 Rock Memoirs of All Time by Rolling Stone. Now available for the first time as an eBook, this new digital edition of Be My Baby is a fans dream come true. Featuring 75 stunning color and black and white photographs from Ronnies personal collectionmany appearing in print for the first timethis link-indexed eBook also includes an updated discography that provides the most complete survey of Ronnies recording career ever published. Critical Praise for Be My Baby: A lively, illuminating read... Spectors portrait of the energy of the early Sixties music scene is fascinating. Kirkus Reviews An entertaining, gossipy, whirlwind ride through the 1960s... Wendy Leigh, London Sunday Times Entertaining, often disturbing... well told and... quite moving. Be My Baby marks the passage of Ronnie Spector from victim to survivor. Alan Light, Rolling Stone Funny and observant, consistently engaging sprinkled with deadpan humor..." Mike Boehm, The Los Angeles Times Despite all the hard times, Ronnie comes across here as a survivor, and the book maintains a surprisingly jaunty tone. Ilene Cooper, Booklist An enthralling and moving Dante-esque descent through the rock n roll inferno. One of the three greatest rock n roll memoirs. Jon Wilde, Blitz (London)
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JackOBotts
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Ronnie Spector lived one hell of a life. She chased her dreams, saw those dreams come true, and fought her way through the hell of Phil Spector. Her voice shines through this memoir; it‘s like a good friend telling you their journey.

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This jumped onto my TBR after it was mentioned on #MyFavoriteMurder (a recent listen but an old episode)…so sad that we lost Ronnie in January 2022. My first exposure to The Ronettes was the opening credits of Dirty Dancing, with which 5-year-old me was *obsessed* (though clearly so much nuance of the plot flew right over my head). 💜 Rest easy, Ronnie. 💜

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I wanted to make this board to share for #litsyreadingchallenge. Music is one of my other great loves and I love a great memoir from ladies who rock. I haven't read any of these but hell do I want to. So most of these could fill a spot in either the about music, by a woc or memoir by a poc prompts. Hope it can give someone ideas. Also you know of any other music memoirs by woc please let me know! #ownvoicies #readwomen

Lola What a great list! I really want to read the Nina Simone biography, 8y
Weaponxgirl @Lola thanks so much. I'm doing a separate board for biographies and then other women's music memoirs too. I like to focus on the most marginalised voices first. It's great to finally have somewhere to share my obsessive list making on books 8y
Weaponxgirl @Lola have you watched the what happened miss simone documentary? There's a book by the same name I want to read also 8y
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Lola @Weaponxgirl I have not seen it yet, but want to watch and read, too. Thanks for the reminder! 8y
Weaponxgirl @Lola it's a good documentary, was gutted with all the stuff that went on with the biopic. I need to get to the book too but I always end up crying with bios when I get to the end and they die. It's not a spoiler I know they're dead but I'm nearly always so sad by the end 8y
CocoReads Books and music are definitely what make my world go round. Awesome choices! 8y
Weaponxgirl @CocoReads thanks, glad people like it :) 8y
SuperPunkNinja I want all of these! 8y
Weaponxgirl @McShelfington me too, excited to find out my library has at least three in for me to borrow 8y
SuperPunkNinja @Weaponxgirl That is an above average library you got! 8y
Weaponxgirl @McShelfington yea, my city won a international city of literature award. It was the only city in the uk to have this. Not sure if that's still the case but our library service was a part of it so I'm really lucky in what's available to me. My council won't risk losing the award so libraries are pretty safe for me 8y
Weaponxgirl @McShelfington it makes me feel very lucky and proud , but then at the same time I get mad that not everyone has the facilities that are available to me. 8y
SuperPunkNinja @Weaponxgirl ❤📚❤📚 8y
PurpleyPumpkin This is great, thanks for posting!🙌🏼 8y
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