{"product_id":"billie-holiday_solitude_2024","title":"Solitude","description":"Solitude is a theme that deeply permeates the music and the lives of those who create it. Think of artists as different as Bill Evans and Glenn Gould (also in this Number One Essentials collection) and consider how a neglected and abused child, Eleanora Fagan, disguised herself as Billie Holiday and presented herself to the world as a queen. Her closest court remained loyal to her, even when the fictional palace of her career began to crumble under the weight of drugs, arrests, and public humiliation. Some will say that the older Billie was merely the grotesque shadow of her younger self. But the music of her later years is cherished for a good reason. It speaks to the fragility and loneliness that inhabit us all, the need to perform when all one wants is to sleep, to be optimistic even when the eyes are heavy and the heart is aching. This is the strangely reassuring message of Billie Holiday's music.","brand":"Billie Holiday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58534484672856,"sku":null,"price":23699046.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/MjEtODMwOS5qcGVn.jpg?v=1790030865","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/billie-holiday_solitude_2024","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}