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[[Category:New Reviews|Entertainment]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Dylan Jones|title=The Eighties: One Day, One Decade|rating=5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Most of us can count on the fingers of two hands, perhaps only one, a select few special days when it was as if the eyes of the world were focused on one major event. These include 9/11; the day Princess Diana was killed; and for those of us with even longer memories the day Kennedy was shot. Add to that grim litany an event which had far more positive results.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094132</amazonuk!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->}}

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert SellersPatti Smith|title=What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorised Biography Year of Oliver Reedthe Monkey|rating=54

|summary=For rather more On the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of his career than hethe monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, his family and closest friends might have liked, the name Oliver Reed was unexpected moments. In a byword for boozestranger's words, brawls and ''Anything is possible: after all types of laddish behaviour. As Sellers’ very full and remarkably objective biography reveals, it was a funny yet sad life all at once. For although he repeatedly played up to 's the image year of the lovable rogue which he had created, underneath monkey''. As Smith wanders the bad boy coast of popular legend he was at heart Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a professional actor who could always deliver a firstyear that brings huge shifts in her life -rate performance loss and ageing are faced head on , as it the film set when requiredshifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147210112X</amazonuk>1526614758

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sylvie SimmonsWalton_Ask|title=I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard CohenAsk For Blues|author=Malcolm Walton|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=If you or I wanted to write Malcolm Walton's book is clearly a story memoir about an imaginary figure who began as a novelist his introduction to the Trad Jazz scene of the late 1950s and poetearly 1960s, then became acclaimed as but he has chosen to write it in the form of a singer-songwriter novel, claiming in his prologue that this would give the swinging sixties, made book a different approach to the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's mantle and lost begins with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into a fortunelove of music, became a monkinitially taking piano lessons, and returned to a musical career at an age when most mortals are well later delving into retirement, and found himself not only more popular than ever but also playing to his true love – the trumpet.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Moore Bientot|title=A Bientot...|author=Roger Moore|rating=4|genre=Entertainment|summary=The news of the largest audiences death of Sir Roger Moore in his entire life, it May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one of those people you knew would be dismissed as total fantasygo on forever. Nobody could make it up – and nobody needs to, because There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news that a nutshell that is matter of days before his death he'd delivered the life (so far) finished manuscript of Leonard Cohenhis book, ''À bientôt…'', the subject of this biography to his publishers. Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and surely one of the music business’s most unique figuresI didn't even bother to look as though I could resist reading it straight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549328</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nige TassellMaslanka Sherlock|title=Mr GigSherlock: The Puzzle Book|author=Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|rating=4.5

|summary=Born too late to remember the 60s and early 70s, music lover and journalist Nige Tassell, who has written for ''The Guardian'', ''New Statesman'Who doesn' and others, lived the life for some years as punter, reviewer, roadie, DJ and promoter. Then he married and became t love a fathergood puzzle, and especially those really fiendish ones that get the most important gig (if the one with brain working extra hard? There really is nothing to compare to that buzz we get from the least comfortable seats) was the kids’ primary school nativity play ten days before Christmas. Around 2010 the midlife crisis hit with a vengeanceAha! moment, when everything falls into place and the urge solution reveals itself. If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to put your grey cells to hit the road in search of what live music was all about these days came upon him. That does not just require private transport capable of taking roads the length and breadth of the land in its stride (and the car passed the test - just)with ''The Sherlock Puzzle Book'', it also requires a certain amount of couragebased on the popular TV series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721617</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Christophe CastelliCorcoran_Dylan|title=Making of Life of Pi - A Film, A JourneyDo You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors|author=Neil Corcoran

|summary=Before I'd seen the film of Yann MartelBob Dylan's novel Life award of Pi I knew the end result would leave me either wondering Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 'how did they make that?!' or 'WHY did they make that?!for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'proved highly controversial. The fact I ended up watching it twice before the general public had their chance, and lapped up a repeat viewing within a fortnight, says it all. There's no plot spoiler It inevitably led some people in the fact that the creators left us with a visually dazzling, splendidly luxurious-looking piece of cinema, one that left me scrabbling for tiny faults literary world to nitpick with take stock and just acknowledging how brilliant the FX look at his work and acting werereputation with a fresh eye. And, as the resulting question This volume of essays was the right onefirst published in 2002, I am still interested very much in the answer - luckily for me this book provides itand is now reissued with a new foreword by Will Self.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166382</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FisherKyncl_Stream|title=Tommy Cooper 'Jus' Like That!': A Life in Jokes and PicturesStream Punks|ratingauthor=4|genre=Biography|summary=I grew up watching Tommy Cooper, and watching my dad do impressions of Tommy Cooper. I thought he was hilarious (the real Tommy!) and loved his expressions as he repeatedly tried and failed to do magic tricks! This book is rather unusual as although it is a biography of sorts, giving information about Tommy's life and his history in the world of entertainment, it isn't text heavy, and so mostly Tommy's story is told through photographs Robert Kyncl and pictures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184809311X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=J F Roberts|title=The True History of the Blackadder: The Unadulterated Tale of the Creation of a Comedy LegendMaany Peyvan|rating=34.5

|summary=If you need I watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play music videos when I want to know everything about the history of listen to a particular song I don''Blackadder'' and all who worked on t already have in my collection. I use itto find out how to do things, this is probably with the book instruction videos they seem to have for youpretty much anything. It has inAt the gym, I'll stick it on on my phone, prop it up on the cross-depth biographies trainer and watch some behind the scenes interviews with the cast of all of the main actors involvedmy favourite shows. And sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, lots of details about their prior achievementsexclusively on YouTube. Having a new smart TV adds an extra, and easy way to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a huge amount of information which includes scripts of deleted scenessmall phone screen. That saidSo yes, itI like YouTube and I use YouTube. But I didn's staggering that t know a book whole lot about one of the funniest TV programmes ever made can be anywhere near site it until I read this dullbook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848093462</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francine StockJVDK_Swing|title=In Glorious TechnicolorWe Can Swing Together: A Century The Story of Film and How it has Shaped UsLindisfarne|author=John Van der Kiste

|summary=Many It all began with a group of us have been captivated from an early age by youngsters in North Shields. Rod Clements, Simon 'Si' Cowe, Ray 'Jacka' Jackson and Ray Laidlaw formed ''The Downtown Faction'', soon changing the world of movies, whether introduced name to them ''Brethren'' when they were joined by visits singer-songwriter Alan Hull. As a US-based group had a similar name they opted to change the cinema, or watching them on TV, video name again - and latterly DVD''Lindisfarne'' (with the name taken from an island off the Northumberland coast) was born. Author More than forty years on and presenter Francine Stock’s lifelong love affair with numerous changes of personnel the medium began when she was taken as a child to see ‘My Fair Lady’ on the large screenband is still very much around. A little later, for her the most memorable thing about They might not be touring or producing much in the summer way of 1970 was not the weathernew material, but repeated viewings they still perform, with Rod Clements, one of ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’original members on his fourth stint with the group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535645</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin KelnerJVDK_ELO|title=Sit Down and CheerElectric Light Orchestra: A History of Sport on TV|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=Like many English sports fans, the majority of the calories I burn are used up Song by shouting at the TV and occasionally going to the shops for more beer and crisps. Sports books tend to be about the sport itself or biographies of those who expended great effort to reach the top of their chosen sport. But in Martin Kelner's 'Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TV', there is finally a book for the less energetic among us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140812923X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSong|author=Peter Doggett|title=The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970sJohn Van der Kiste

|summary=With hindsight, it’s difficult to argue with the oft-expressed opinion that David Bowie was the single most important rock musician My memories of pop music in the 1970s. Having been a perpetual ‘one to watch’ from early sixties revolve around 1966 onwards but guitars and drums, sometimes the piano with only one hit during that decadeoccasional excursions into strings and brass. Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn't long before the basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, ‘Space Oddity’The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to experiment, from 1972 onwards he went through several remarkable self-reinventions in musical stylewith other groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, with an uncanny knack of being able Roy Wood. Wood wanted to pre-empt develop the next big trend. In examining his whole career group's sound by adding more instruments but focusing largely on his work throughout that particular decade, Peter Doggett looks specifically at every song was prevented from achieving what he recorded, including cover versions. There are also boxed-out features on each album, wanted by cost limitations and articles on related topics such as ‘The Art of Minimalism’ and ‘The Heart because the rest of Plastic Soul’. He concludes that by 1979 the man’s extraordinary creativity was more or less spent and his subsequent output, successful though it may have been, was in effect treading water up to group didn't really share his ‘elegant, unannounced retirement’ in 2007enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548879</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scarlett ThomasWatkins_Lets|title=Monkeys with TypewritersLet's Make Lots of Money: How to Write Fiction and Unlock My Life as the Secret Power of StoriesBiggest Man in Pop|author=Tom Watkins

|genre=ReferenceEntertainment|summary=I really wasn't expecting Who on earth would be a manager in the larger than life, here today gone tomorrow world of pop? Anybody with an ego, a book about how ruthless streak, an opportunity to write fiction embrace the chances and accept that it's not going to change my TV viewing habitslast, evidently. Alter my reading? PossiblyTom Watkins is just one of several to have walked the fine line and, for part of the time, quite successfully. Improve my writing? HopefullyAs his memoirs suggest, part of the time was achievement enough. But watching Grand Designs in a completely different light?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857863789</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lois BannerKendrick_Scrappy|title=Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=With the possible exception of Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe is probably the most written-about deceased woman in twentieth-century history. The thirty-six years of her life and the manner of her death will no doubt continue to provide an opportunity for as many writers as they have since her sudden passing. After a decade of research Lois Banner, a Professor of History and Gender Studies at university in California, has added another weighty tome to the relevant shelves. As a self-styled pioneer of second-wave feminism and the new women’s history, she has some interesting insights to offer into her subject’s life as a gender role model.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408814102</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewScrappy Little Nobody|author=Kirk Blows|title=Hammered: Heavy tales from the hard rock highwayAnna Kendrick|rating=3.5

|summary=Kirk Blows is Celebrity autobiographies. It's a genre long tainted by the former editor examples of hard rock journal Metal Hammer. Just people who clearly didn't deserve to confusebe a celebrity, he is also well known as let alone have a sports ghost-writer create their book, and an authority on 'the other Hammers', namely West Ham FC. However this book is nothing by those who did so little but managed to do with sportchurn out five memoirs before they were even thirty. Instead But more recently it devotes its attention to 's become a brace way of his interviews with various hard rock luminariesstaking a claim to importance for female comics. These took place They've not all written autobiographies, as Bridget Christie proved, but enough have to provide for a rapidly-filling shelf at the journal some years agobookstore. 2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a GoodReads award, Lena Dunham's been at it, and have now been revised we've also got Anna Kendrick. Now she's not a strict comic – not all of her films are designed to make you laugh, and updated for book publicationsome of them that are just don't – but this has to be in the same bracket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859654850</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude CarriereRopek_Tragic|title=This is Not the End Tragic Magic: The Life of the Book;Traffic's Chris Wood|author=Dan Ropek

|summary=In many waysChris Wood was a member of Traffic, the cover of my edition of this book is perfectly appropriategroup formed by Steve Winwood in 1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group. HugeA gifted musician best known for his flute and saxophone work, bold serif scripthe also played keyboards, with nothing but the typeface; bass guitar and contributed backing vocals as well as having a declamatory instance hand in writing several of the art in songs and one or two instrumentals. This biography takes its title from the most common name of fonts, and that perfect semi-colon at the end one of the book's name - proving that that itself is not the be-all and end-all. Buy this book, as you can, in electronic form, and you might see this cover his compositions for ten seconds at most, but it is so much part and parcel of what's withintheir fifth album.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552450</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly CarrDolby_Sound|title=A Sherlock Holmes Who's Who (With of Course Dr.Watson)|rating=2.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Given the amount written about Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, even the most dedicated of Sherlockians must sometimes require a refresher on the characters. As I'm certainly not the most dedicated of anything, although I love Holmes and have read the entire canon, I was eagerly anticipating the chance to remind myself The Speed of those within. Sadly, this book has done little to quench my anticipation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920822</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSound|author=Robert Cannon|title=OperaThomas Dolby

|summary=OperaFrom struggling post-punk musician to pop star, Cannon tells us in the introduction from Silicon Valley innovator to this bookuniversity professor, 'Thomas Dolby has never ceased to grow and change – had a remarkable if not unique career, often quite radicallyreinventing himself on the way.' His aim This memoir is to describe and show the many different facets of opera in its development over the centuries, based on his extensive notes and its relevance to the modern world. While he does not intend to write a history as such, he has organised this book chronologically as opera developed in a very conscious way across Europejournals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521746477</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca BeaumanMorris_Legion|title=Shapely Ankle Preferr'dThe Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: A Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History of the Lonely Hearts Advertisement|author=Jon Morris

|genre=HistoryEntertainment|summary=You might think the Lonely Hearts ad a trivial matter. You might think it should appear in lower case As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not be capitalised, but you'd be in disagreement with Ms Beauman, who gives a big L and a big H to it every time she writes of it in her survey of its history. What's more, she gets to write about a lot more than just the contents of the adverts in this brilliant book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009951334X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin Grant|title=– I & I: The Natural Mystics|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Just mention the word reggae, and the name that nearly always springs have to mind is that of Bob Marley and the Wailers. The music has always been very much a product of the Jamaican culture, nurtured in years of turbulent history. In this book Colin Grant, born in Britain of Jamaican parents, goes back deep into its roots, and in the process examines the childhood lives of the Wailers’ three main personalitiesadmit one thing, namely Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Neville Livingston, better known as Bunny Wailer, to provide an account of the group – but much more than that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526727</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bruce Robinson|title=The Rum Diary - A Screenplay|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Kemp has lied his way onto a failing newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rica, as the only candidate for the job, and villains in them are a semi-comatose state induced by too many miniatures from the hotel minibar, stumbles into a conspiracy of epic proportions, via classic bar room brawls and nightclub mayhembit pants. On What is The Penguin but the way he (almost) writes horoscopes and bowling championship stories, meets the fantastically erotic girlfriend of the evil businessmanworld's worst Mafioso, and teams up with a proto-Nazi out hobby of waddling along like his mind on a cocktail pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of hootch and LSD, and a photographer side kick. There is no question that this is Hunter S Thompson territory, especially when all the above is combined with things by playing a witty, slowtwo-talking hero bit killer who just fell in spite of his alcoholic haze sees clearly through the exploitation of a third world country by its massive first world near neighbour. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555697</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mick O'Shea|title=Amy Winehouse: A Losing Game|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=At the risk vat of stating the obviousrandom chemicals and changed colour, this is and got mardier as a sad book. Writing this review some five months after her death, now the immediate smoke has cleared, it is apparent from this book result (as well as other general sourcesalthough recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there) that she was a gifted performer, ? And what is it with a jazz voice which could have qualified her for a lengthy career long after scores of aspiring Xthe gimp in the see-Factor contestants had given up singing and opted for less glamorous, more steady careers. After all, her idols had been not only near-contemporaries like Michael Jackson and Missy Elliott, but also those through plant pot because he is the embodiment of an earlier generation such as the classic 1960s girl groups, as well as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, with whom she was thrilled to record a duet four months before she died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859654826</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Lynne|title=A Dancer in Wartime: One Girlcold? And that's Journey from just some of the Blitz to Sadlerbetter-known enemies of 's Wells|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=At eight years old, Gill Pyrke was driving her parents crazy, as she couldn't sit still and was nicknamed ''wriggle-bottomBatman'', one of the better goodies. Her mum took her You can imagine how awful the baddies related to see the family GP and told him in great detail how annoying she wasbad goodies can be. The doctor asked And if he could talk to Gill alone and put on some music. She started to dance around and climbed on to his desk. He prescribed ballet classes. She started off in a Bromley dance class where one of her classmates was later to be the famous ballerina Beryl Grey. This story is lovely and funnyyou can't, and has lots of elements of a dream story, yet this is told in a very down to earth style which makes it very convincing. The same could be said of the whole of Gillian Lynne's memoir of her early years, starting out on a brilliant career in danceperfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701185996</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jermaine JacksonFletcher_Midnight|title=You Are Not AloneIn the Midnight Hour: Michael Through A Brother's EyesThe Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett|author=Tony Fletcher

|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary=It is inevitable that Tamla Motown groups and singers apart, in the books we have already seen about Michael Jackson mid-sixties there were three major names in the two years since his sudden passing will be merely the tip soul music field who mattered above all. James Brown was something of a cult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the iceberg. Yet for those which comprise singles charts, and are based Otis Redding was on first-hand knowledge the verge of his life and deathshooting into the stratosphere when he died in an aeroplane crash. The other was the man from Alabama, there will surely be few if any to rival this account by his brother Jermaine and ghostwriter Steve Dennis'the wicked Pickett'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007435665</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark KermodePaling_Reading|title=The Good, the Bad Reading Allowed: True Stories and the MultiplexCurious Incidents from a Provincial Library|author=Chris Paling

|summary=Ionce made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, but it certainly didn've been theret put me off returning. I once declared in a self-important way that I would start at the beginning of the books for young children and not stop til the end, then do the same for those for the older children – ''and sothen do it all over again with them'', despite all number of free press screeningsI said, has Mark Kermodepointing at the large-print shelves. When a major cinema chain ''I probably shouldnhope not''t name, was the response – but will - Odeon - moved from their smelly inner-city fleapits to little me was only aware of a major new development far from any convenient bus routes, they started their multiplex life with the best intentions, having an arthouse film every week, on a Wednesdayneed for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, and an offer of free entry courtesy of the local newspapernot for any other reason. This was brilliant for me - or would have been Since then I've needed libraries, if they'd managed and going to keep up with my expectationsthem has been second nature. On the dole I lost track of made sure I could use the number of weeks free Internet they had the wrong film provided to pay me back for my council tax; later I was intent on the projectorfinding out if a Senior Library Assistant girl was worthy of her title, and particularly how many times they started the right one without glimpsing that of course, it was being shown saved a fortune on the wrong-sized screen, through the wrong lenses, books for study and fun. I'm not matching with alone in sharing the gate, or even upside down. The projectionist warmth of course had eleven other screens both their heating system and the very thing they were born to worry aboutprovide – books, pressing but there was still a button for each huge step up between my level of use and never needing (or wanting?) knowledge of them to watch a movieactually working in one. Kermode Which is correct where Chris Paling comes in that if we must still think of cinemas in the parlance of theatres, and film-showings as performances, the projectionist can ruin a show just as a bad actor can a stage play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946038</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert RossSpringsteen_Born|title=Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Some years ago, I was given a Penguin edition of Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', with what looked like an uniquely fearsome face on the front cover. A year or two later, I saw a photograph of Marty Feldman and was convinced he must have inspired it if not actually been the model.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857683780</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBorn to Run|author=Nick Hasted|title=You Really Got Me: The Story of The KinksBruce Springsteen|rating=4.5

|summary=No, you haven't stumbled into a music review from the 1970s, I'People in America talk m talking about The Boss'The Beatless autobiography. Lots of books have been written about Springsteen by folk who knew him, worked with him and by others who have only read the cuttings. Over the Stoneslast seven years he has been going about – not putting the record straight, The Whoexactly – but telling it from his own perspective. As he puts it: ' For me it's Writing about yourself is a funny business'The Beatles, the Stones, The Kinks.' Those words, quoted in the book, are those of Pete Townshend of The Who himself. He is certainly not alone in By his verdict thatown admission, at it isn't the height of the swinging sixties whole truth, discretion holds him back but ''in Britaina project like this, the Muswell Hill quartet were No 3 in writer has made one promise, to show the premier music leaguereader his mind. Patchy chart success since their heyday has done nothing '' ''In these pages, I've tried to diminish their reputation, or that of leader Ray Davies as one of the most gifted British songwriters of the last fifty yearsdo this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849386609</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus GrayJVDK_Beatles|title=Route 19 RevisitedA Beatles Miscellany: The Clash and London CallingEverything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=4.5

|summary=When I began reading these 500 pages or so, my initial feeling was – how You might have thought that just about everything which could anybody write a book THIS long on one album? Soon, it became clear that I be said about the Beatles had been slightly misled by the title. Although 'London Calling', long feted as the best LP (now a CDsaid and certainly, naturally) ever made by one of punkthere's most seminal groups, is the focal point, this volume also charts in detail the history and development been no shortage of the Clash to that pointbooks about what went wrong, their subsequent career (and decline), and their legacy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099524201</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Barbara Sinatra|title=Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank Sinatra|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Barbara Blakeley, born in 1926, was married firstly what happened to Robert Oliver, an executive, with whom she had a son, the money and secondly to Zeppo Marxeven what went right. But it was the already thricewhat I've never seen before is a 'miscellany' -married all those little facts which are so hard to track down and thrice-divorced Francis Albert Sinatra, whom she had idolized as this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a singer man with an eye for detail and the ability to bring everything together into a long time, with whom she would make her most enduring marriage, and vice versavery readable whole. They tied It's a wonderful collection of the knot in 1976, and stayed together until his death in 1998small facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937248</amazonuk>