1963 ä tail fins were in sock hops were hot and a fairytale white
knight was president. That summer sixteen year-old singer Lesley
Gore released her debut single It's My Party propelling her to
Number One on the charts. For the next several years the crowned
Princess of Pop dominated the radio with a string of hits including
Judy's Turn to Cry She's A Fool Sunshine Lollipops & Rainbows
and the rousing anthem for independence You Don't Own Me making her
the most successful and influential solo female artist of the 60s.
But beneath the bubblegum fa§ade was a girl squirming against
social and professional pressures to simply be herself and to forge
a future where she could write and perform music beyond the
trappings of teenage angst and love triangles. Assembled over five
years of research and interviews this is the first and long overdue
biography of Lesley Gore one of pop music's pioneering Mothers
which chronicles her meteoric rise to fame her devastating fall
from popularity and struggle for relevance in the 1970s and her
reemergence as a powerful songwriter political activist and camp
icon. The biography includes behind-the-scenes stories about the
making of her hit records debunks or clarifies popular myths about
her career and places her remarkable life and times within a
historical context to reveal how her music was both impacted by and
contributed to each decade of her astounding fifty-year career.
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