Diary For 2011:
ELIZABETH TAYLOR: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend
Now published by Mainstream (UK); Greystone (North America); Random House (Australasia).
www.davidbret.co.uk
Born Paris, 8 November 1954, David Bret is one of Britain's foremost authority on the French chanson, and one of the country's leading celebrity biographers. His first biography, "The Piaf Legend", was published to huge critical acclaim in 1988, since which time her has published over twenty best selling books.
Bret loathes fan forums:
"They place their idols on pedestals, which is as it should be--but with some fans they see the idols only as THEY want to to see them, and not as they really were, frequently warts and all. They think if these stars returned, they would have eyes for them alone. This would never happen. A minority of members aside, these people are psychologically disturbed. They have their idols inside their heads twenty-four-seven."
And, of those infamous one-star reviews:
"Again, most of these are written by overzealous forum members, mostly bigoted Americans and almost always with silly names, for other overzealous forum members with silly names to pick up on and comment on....and so the spectacle continues, ad infinitum. Most normal people who come to Amazon to buy books, records, etc, buy them because they WANT to buy them. They ignore such reviews and Amazon KNOW that they ignore them, otherwise such reviews would be removed. After all, what company would willingly want to DISSUADE customers from buying the product?"
David Bret's website is www.davidbret.co.uk
