McDonough manages to break through Green’s joyous veneer to reveal the contrary, tortured, and solitary individual beneath, a man who spent decades dancing an uneasy tightrope between the sacred and the profane. Until now.Īcclaimed journalist and author Jimmy McDonough expertly tackles this most elusive of subjects and aims to present readers with the definitive portrait of a man everyone knows but few understand. The now-Bishop Green is without a doubt one of the most beloved yet inscrutable figures ever to grace the popular music stage, and he has managed to magically sidestep being successfully scrutinized in print. The music legend has sold over 20 million albums and been sampled by numerous rappers, and even President Obama has been known to sing a chorus or two. “Love and Happiness,” “I’m Still in Love with You,” “Let’s Get Married,” and “I’m Tired of Being Alone” are but a sampling of the iconic songs that led a generation to embrace love in perhaps the most tumultuous period in this country’s history, an unparalleled body of work that has many calling Green one of the greatest soul singers of all time. The bestselling author of Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography presents the first in-depth biography of the legendary soul singer Al Green.Īl Green has blessed listeners with some of the biggest hits of the past fifty years.
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