You Send Me

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub the Date: August. 2011 Pages: 368 in Publisher by: of Virgin Publishing. When Sam Cooke was shot dead in. a cheap motel in. Hollywood. he was one of America's most successful pop stars The. Of He left a world in. which he had been born poor and had become very rich from the success of such records as You Send Me and A Wonderful World. yet his body lay unrecognised in a morgue for two days. This biography follows Cooke's life in a racist America where his voice was one of the first to reach beyond the segregated audiences and command a white following. Cooke himself becoming a player in the fledgling civil rights movement. This award-winning biography is a full and sometimes shocking story of a man whose songbook is revered by great performers such as Otis Redding. Rod Stewart and Aretha Franklin.