Rickie Lee

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One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now iconic performance on Saturday Night Live. The year was 1979, the song Chuck E'apos;s in Love, and the singer, donning her trademark red beret, was the soon to be pronounced Duchess of Coolsville (Time), Rickie Lee Jones.Rickie Lee Jones: The Jazz Side of Life is the first ever no-holds-barred account of the life of one of rock'apos;s hardest working women in her own words. With candor and lyricism Rickie Lee Jones takes us on the journey of her exceptional life: from her nomadic childhood as the granddaughter of vaudevillian performers, to her father'apos;s abandonment of the family and her years as a teenage runaway, her beginnings at LA'apos;s Troubador club, to her tumultuous (and private) relationship with Tom Waits, her battle with drugs, motherhood as a touring artist, and longevity as a woman in rock and roll.Including never-before-told stories and accounts of the music business as she'apos;s lived it, and illustrated with stunning personal photos, this is an indispensable chronicle of one of rock'apos;s strongest women, an innovative music icon who was listed at number 30 on VH1'apos;s 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll , has graced the cover ofRolling Stone twice, and who has been a major influence on contemporary popular music.