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| Author: Sheila Weller
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  118 reviews
Sales Rank: 2310
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.2 x 2
ISBN: 0743491475
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421640922
EAN: 9780743491471
ASIN: 0743491475
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Girls Like Us June 4, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I gave this book to my 68 year old wife for mother's day and she absolutely loved it. My daughter, who lives in the Netherlands, and her 40 something friends, are also reading it and loving it. They want to know what is behind their mothers' sixties attitudes.
Girls LIke Us June 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Interesting to find out how long they took to become an overnight success and the trials and troubles encountered on the journey! Very well researched and presented. Reader can certainly tell that much time and frank dialog went into the creation of this book.
A must for fans of these women and their music June 1, 2008
Fascinating, exhaustively researched bio of all three famous singer-songwriter women. The chapters alternate between the three, showcasing their lives and the times they lived in and, at least musically, helped to shape. I devoured the Joni chapters, having always been a big fan, but found out many new things about her and loved the mostly altogether new info on King and Simon. This is an important book about the voices of women in a male dominated field, about artistic and personal choices, about the changing landscape of American music in the 50s, 60s, and 70s - and beyond. Weller traces the influence of the singers' lives as they emerged in their songs, and interviews some of the people closest to all three women, not an easy feat, and not one, I think, that's been accomplished before. Carly Simon is most available to Weller, and Joni, of course, the least, although Carole's reticence is also notable. It's not ultimately a happy book, since for all three, bad relationships and decisions color their lives and music: Joni's abandonment of her baby to an adoption home and her ceaseless quest to find the right man, Carole's early success giving way to a history of marrying men who seemed to stunt her abilities, and Carly's eleven year commitment to James Taylor, throughout which he remained a drug addict. There is much comfort to the music lover though, because all three women produced a soundtrack to the baby boomers' era and remain creative today - they are, battle-scarred and aging, still standing.
We have no Secrets...Carly, Joni, & Carol are the BEST Girlfriends! May 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm loving this journey back in time, into the lives, loves, and lessons learned, by these ground-breaking women of popular music...it might be generational as to who would enjoy this book most...but if you are in your 40's thru 60's you can easily relate...and remember where you were in life when these gals came out with their albums. The book goes back into the childhoods of these rockin' girls, and takes you along on their journey with incredible detail (alot of research was obviously done)...
I wish there were more pictures (none of Carly's family), but it's a great read!
Girls like us May 30, 2008
This was purchased for my wife's bookclub reading of the month. She found it to be a fascinating read about three women who's work in music literally changed the face of music in the US during the 60's and 70's. It will bring back many memories for anyone over the age of 45 and will impress and surprise those younger about how much influence these women had on our society.
A great read and, especially for those born in the mid to late 1950's, a walk down memory lane as well as a reminder of how we came to be who we are.
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