Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield

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This Hardcover Book item from St. Martin´s Press was reviewed on 26-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield by St. Martin´s Press. In this book an old friend gives her rememberances of Dusty Springfield, and offers up other friends memories which she filters through to the pages of statistics and gossip and yes....truths....which needed to be told. Vicki, perhaps knowing her for so long, misses the magic.

I certainly hope this is just one simple building block to a real biography that will better explain how fame, the church and being gay would defeat her for a time until the last years of her life. She spent those in true grace.¤

2) Hardcover Book Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield by St. Martin´s Press. i never liked the title of this book. i always thought it should have been called ´see all her faces´, after one of her most thought-provoking songs.

i also bought this book without thinking about it. but it´s because i wanted to know something more about dusty springfield than her music.

i thought the book was generally well-written and deeply felt. and it helped me understand some of what made dusty springfield the type of singer that she was.

i would have liked more pictures. visuals alway help. and i wish that her brother would have spoken more in the book. but judging from the childhood she had, discussion was not a priority.

some of the aspects of her life would have broken a weaker person. but many people said that she was a survivor and she was. that does come through in this book.¤

3) Hardcover Book Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield by St. Martin´s Press. Many here do not seem to like this book and that´s ok. I´ve always loved Dusty´s voice, but of course there was a real person behind that voice and when you know what someone has gone through I think it makes you not only feel closer to that person, but to appreciate their talent even more. The book certainly covers her musical career, though of course not definitively, but also covers her life, warts and all. I have even more respect and love for Dusty after reading this. It was well worth my time.¤

4) Hardcover Book Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield by St. Martin´s Press. If you are a Dusty Springfield fan, as I am, you will be appalled and fascinated by this book. Her manager and some "friends" tell everything she ever did, and how hard she could be to get along with. There is to this day a huge number of DS fans who continue to talk about her and admire her fabulous musical qualities. She died in 1999 of breast cancer after overcoming most of her demons. Dusty was known all over the world as a great musican, and you can still hear her voice on that diamond ad, in the movie about Enron, and once you get tuned in, you will hear her constantly in movies and on TV as accent music.
This books has a lot of errors, but it still stands as the definitive book on Dusty. I sure hope when I die, my friends don´t get together and tell everything I ever did!! Wow....¤

5) Hardcover Book Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield by St. Martin´s Press. Authorized, I don´t think so...
This book, as well as being 95% negative, is very poorly written.
It´s difficult to follow at times, even rereading some of the long run on sentences...It appears that no one edited it before publication.
Some of the "facts" and dates, even names (Dinah Washington is refered to as Ella Washington), are questionable.
It does shed light on the seemingly very sad life of Dusty Springfield, but is the most poorly written book I´ve come accross ever.¤

6) Hardcover Book Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield by St. Martin´s Press.

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