They Can't Hide Us Anymore

by Havens, Richie; Davidowitz, Steve; Jones, James Earl

• ISBN13: 9780380803781
• ISBN10: 038080378X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

In a candid, heartwarming memoir, the popular singer-songwriter offers a fascinating glimpse of the creativity and social conscience of the 1960s, profiling many of the great musicians of the period, and describes his continuing musical career and dedication to the causes of conservation, children's rights, and peace. Reprint.

Author Biography

RICHIE HAVENS has been performing and recording for more than thirty years. He has also been active in environmental, young people's, and nonviolence causes. He lives in New Jersey. STEVE DAVIDOWITZ, a longtime friend of Richie Havens, is one of the country's most respected racing writers and author of the seminal guide to handicapping, Betting Thoroughbreds. He is also an amateur guitarist and a photographer who exhibits periodically in New York and the Midwest.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
James Earl Jones
Introduction	xiii
Richie Havens
August 15, 1969	1	(3)
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn	4	(11)
It Takes More Than a Village	15	(11)
Greenwich Village, U.S.A.	26	(5)
Wha? Wha? What Did They Say?	31	(19)
Catching 1,000 Rising Stars	50	(8)
From Portraits to Songs	58	(8)
Live in New York City	66	(7)
The Man Who Changed My Life	73	(5)
Turning Pro	78	(15)
Show Business Disease	93	(15)
Mixed Bag	108	(10)
Like a Small Earthquake	118	(16)
To Make and Interpret Songs	134	(17)
Stormy Forest	151	(13)
``The Clock on the Wall''	164	(9)
Meeting Michael Sandlofer	173	(13)
What Does Extinct Mean, Daddy?	186	(16)
Getting a ``Great Blind Degree''	202	(19)
From the Twentieth Floor to Common Ground	221	(14)
Miracles in the Middle East	235	(18)
The Aliens Among Us	253	(11)
The Truth About Drugs	264	(10)
Back to the Future	274	(17)
They Really Can't Hide Us Anymore	291	(12)
Acknowledgments	303	(4)
Discography	307	(18)
A Parting Word from Steve Davidowitz	325	(2)
Index	327