I just I didn't think that Etta was out there like Winehouse and Houston. Thought she had a little more class, but maybe so. Was the Bio good?
Very good, but she was not what I would call a class act.
She drank to extremes, was a heroin addict, took up with abusive men, lived like street trash, etc, etc. Her autobiography,
Rage to Survive, is very honest and upfront about all of it.
I think it's interesting to look at the lives of people we don't know except through their music, and see the real them. I remember when I found out that Hank Williams was a drunk and junkie whose heart finally gave out on him at the ripe old age of 29 while he was being driven to a concert in WV. The driver didn't even know he'd died until he pulled over for gas. You think of these old time stars as more wholesome, and older than what they were.