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From music journalist and former Spin and Vibe editor-in-chief Alan Light comes a biography of incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon Nina Simone

He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it

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Up All Night: A World History of Nightlife patti smith com/release/5717781-Jaki-Byard-Giant-StepsAuthor: Imogen Willets From the glamorous depravity of Studio 54 to the underground cabarets of Weimar Berlin, from Georgian Londons gaudy pleasure gardens to the birth of techno in post industrial Detroit, a brilliantly researched history charting four centuries of nightlife, showing the fascinating evolution of how humans have gone out after dark There is a specific energy to it. Cafes and shops close their shutters. Darkness descends. The air