Volume 53, Number 4 · March 9, 2006
'Hey, It's Me'
By Arthur Kempton
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
by Peter Guralnick
Little, Brown, 750 pp., $27.95
During the small hours of December 11, 1964, the Negro singing star Sam Cooke met his abrupt end in a cheap Los Angeles motel. In enraged pursuit of a woman he'd just checked in with, Cooke broke down the motel's office door. He was wearing only his shoes, undershorts, and suit jacket. The night manager, a fifty-two-year-old black woman, shot him, and then beat him lifeless with a stick. She'd been alone in the office. The woman Cooke was chasing had taken his pants and fled into the street.
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