‘You’ve Changed’: Billie Holiday’s most devastating vocal performance
The penultimate recording of ‘Lady Day’.
Billie Holiday
That eerie feeling: 10 strange songs from equally strange artists
“All songs are strange, when you’re strange.”
The first musician to change Keith Richards’ life: “I really have to thank my mum”
“I really have to thank my mum.”
Martin Luther King Jr on the music that powered the ‘Freedom Movement’: “Speaks for life”
“This is triumphant music.”
“She made music so intimate”: Linda Ronstadt on the artist that invented pop music
The core of all good pop music.
What is the “strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees” in Billie Holiday’s song?
A powerful metaphor.