- Paperback: 348 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press; 1 edition (Aug 21 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0306804824
- ISBN-13: 978-0306804823
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.5 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,165,728 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Barnes & Noble Review, 2/17/12
“One of David Ritz's finest r&b as-told-tos…Rich in insight as well as incident.”
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Ray Charles has led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the prevailing racism of the time, by the age of thirty-two Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and even country music, he invented, almost single-handed, what became known as soul. And over a career spanning close to fifty years, Ray Charles has remained in complete control over his life and music, allowing nobody to tell him what to do.Brother Ray was first published to great critical acclaim in 1978, and has since attained the status of a classic. In an inimitable and unsparing voice, Ray Charles here tells his whole story, from the details of his sex life and drug use to the chronicle of his musical development. Supplemented with a new epilogue updating his story to the present day, and including a complete discography, Brother Ray is as engaging, frank, funny, and soulful as Ray Charles's enduring music.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
STRAIGHT FROM RAY'S MOUTH,
By A Customer
This review is from: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story (Paperback)
I loved this autobio, the best I've ever read. While reading I felt like RC was talking directly to me. Ray just tells it the way it is with no type of fluff or excuses. In the book Ray says he selected his own clothes, dressed himself, shaved with a straight edge razor. He has even driven several cars (someone else were his eyes) and drove a moter scooter around his home (property) in L.A. The one thing that I found amazing was his drug use. RC said he used smack for about 20 yrs and he was shooting up himself, but I'm sure the first few times someone had to help. He never really said who scored the drugs for him and where he got it from. Ray said his drug use was his business and he wasn't hurting anyone. Did you know that Ray had one eye removed after being blind at a young age? He was attending a school for the blind and was great pain so it was removed. Years later as a man, he asked a few doctors what they thought of his ailment? They speculated that it was glaucoma but Ray never knew for sure. RC talks about the record companies, selling records, and tours. I thought his would be boring but the way RC tells the story it's not. I really like the way David Ritz organized the book and has a table of contents. I read every page, but the contents are good for those readers who only want to get straight to the juicy stuff. Get this book, you won't be disappointed.
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good stuff,
By A Customer
This review is from: Brother Ray (Paperback)
one of the better music bios. From RC's accounts of his tough childhood, to his audition with Lucky Millinder ("kid, you ain't got what it takes"), to drug use, sex, stardom ... he tells pretty much all of it. Now, if I could find "the genius of Ray Charles" in a decent state ...
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This review is from: Brother Ray (Paperback)
reading about this Genius,Legend etc.. is incredible.the man has led a life&then some.his music his life is all in this book.the good&the bad.this man has many faces.David Ritz is a genius.he usually hits the mark with whatever subject that he is writting about.a deep thought provoking book.
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