How to Buy Billie Holiday
Fred Dellar, MOJO, November 1997
TIME WAS when Billie Holiday records were hard to come by. But Motown's filmed version of her life, based on a dubious autobiography to which Billie allegedly contributed little and never read, changed all that.
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