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The only biography of the colorful and legendary songwriter of such enduring hits as "Lonely Avenue," "Save the Last Dance for Me," and "Viva Las Vegas"
Praise for Lonely Avenue Boston Globe, 10/26/14 "How one great artist converts feelings--love, jealousy, worry, willfulness--into a great song, resonates through Alex Halberstadt's Lonely Avenue." Stereophile, May 2016 "A vivid, multidimensional, flesh-and-blood portrait...A lively chronicle of a singular musical figure who was as tough as he was tender."
Alex Halberstadt's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, Los Angeles Times, Salon, the Oxford American, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.