Full Description
}Soul evolved from gospel and blues to speak to an entire generationblack and whiteabout the importance of pride, freedom, determination, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Nowhere to Run examines the lives behind the legends of soul with energy, warmth, and emotionthe same qualities that characterized songs such as Baby, I Need Your Loving, Papas Got a Brand New Bag, and I Heard It Through the Grapevine. Author Gerri Hirshey takes us on a bus tour with the Temptations and on the backroads of rural Georgia with James Brown. Diana Ross reminisces about her lean teen years in Detroit; at home in California, ex-Supreme Mary Wilson fills out the story. The Wicked Wilson Pickett tells his best stories long after the midnight hour in a New York City dressing room. And Michael Jackson, driving his Camaro and singing along to the radio, talks about opening shows for the great soul acts when he was a child.But soul faded, giving way to disco, rap, and black pop. And the artists who once captured the heart of the world soon had, as Martha and the Vandellas 1965 hit put it, Nowhere to run to baby, nowhere to hide. In this enthralling narrative, Gerri Hirshey captures the triumphs and failures of soul like no one else before or since, telling the soul story through the eyes of those who lived the dreamand the often harsh reality. }
Contents
Singing Both Sides; Sympathy for the Devil; Sweet Inspiration; Uptown, Saturday Night; High-Octane Dreams; We Sang Like Angels; City Soul; Pressing Hits, Spo-Dee-O-Dee; Broadway Fricassee; Lady, You Shot Me; Motown Redux; Still Smokin; The Girls, Part One; The Girls, Part Two; Are You Ready for a Brand-new Beat?; Shake Me, Wake Me (When Its Over); Roadrunners, Trouble Men, and Thrillers; Aretha Franklin: A Womans Only Human; They Also Sang; Southern Soul; Superbull, Superbad; Soulsville, U.S.A.; Soul Men; Respect When I Come Home; And the South Shall Rise Again; No More Runnin
