Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the Dirty World of Blues and Rock 'N' Roll

A wild insider's ride with one of music's most notorious journalists.

Here are 15 music profiles, guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat:

- Leiber & Stoller, the white fathers of R&B and rock and roll, who possess what is perhaps the last great untold story of the music biz. They created the American songbook of the '50s and '60s, led by Elvis, the Coasters, and the Drifters.

- Doc Pomus, the only white blues singer in America making records in the 1940s. Half of the hit songwriting team of Pomus-Shuman during the Brill Building era, Doc had the biggest heart in the music business.

- A sad, comic-tragic romance with the Ronettes' Ronnie Spector, dubbed an "oldie" once she left her teens.

Author: Josh Alan Friedman
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
Published: 03/01/2008
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.89h x 6.17w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780879309329

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2008 pg. 87

About the Author
Josh Alan Friedman (Dallas, TX) authored of Tales of Times Square (978-0922915170) which will be published in a 21st anniversary edition in fall 2007. His two other nonfiction books are When Sex Was Dirty and the memoir I, Goldstein: My Screwed Life (978-1560258681).