Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Always the Queen: The Denise LaSalle Story by David Whiteis UPDATE

NOTE TO READERS WHO'VE READ DENISE LaSALLE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ALWAYS THE QUEEN

It turns out that Ms. LaSalle inadvertently misidentified the name of the club she was performing in,  as shown in the photo on pg. 134 of Always the Queen.  She remembered it as the High Chaparral; it was actually the Burning Spear at 5521 South State Street in Chicago, which was owned by WVON  DJs  E. Rodney Jones and Pervis Spann.  It’s the same club where Jones presented her with her Gold Record for “Trapped By A Thing Called Love” – that photo is also on pg. 134.  


The correction has already been made in the e-book version of the autobiography, and if there are any reprintings of the physical book, it will be there, too.  But I want to spread the word -- accuracy means the world to me, and I know it would be just as important to the Queen herself.
     
        David Whiteis

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