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I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher (1903) |
Daniel Akaka, Politician (1924) |
Maria Bartiromo, Journalist (1967) |
Elizabeth Daily, Actress (1961) |
Jimmie Davis, Politician (1899) |
Charles Evers, Activist (1922) |
Tony Gilroy, Writer (1956) |
Eduard Hanslick, Writer (1825) |
Serge Haroche, Physicist (1944) |
Mickey Hart, Musician (1943) |
William Dampier, Explorer (1908) |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician (1948) |
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman (1971) |
Erich Leinsdorf, Celebrity (1993) |