Billie's life was no Holiday; Reputations BBC2, 9.00pm.(Features) From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: July 28, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

BILLIE HOLIDAY, the jazz diva who's often tragic, but always fascinating, life mirrored the sorrow of the songs she sang, features in this story of her amazing life.

She became the stereotypical victim, unlucky in life and love and dead from drink and drugs at 44.

This programme questions whether her life really was nothing more than a tragedy waiting to happen.

Billie was born in Baltimore in 1915, the illegitimate daughter of a 16-year-old jazz m...

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