Nina Simone: To Love Somebody and Here Comes the Sun

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Liz Phair wrote in the New York Times Book Review: "Freddie Mercury once said, 'I want it all and I want it now.' This appetite might aptly be called the rock ’n’ roll disease, and Dean Wareham seems to have caught it. Or is in recovery. Or is somewhere along the road. Part confessional, part unsentimental career diary, Wareham’s 'Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance' reads like good courtroom testimony: to the point, but peppered with juicy and unsolicited asides. Dominick Dunne would make sure his seat was saved before excusing himself to use the restroom. Wareham is a respected cultural figure who cut a wide swath through the ’90s independent music scene both in America and in Europe. … Wareham recalls a passion for music at a very young age, when he formed definitive opinions about records before he was even old enough to date: 'My father ... brought home Nina Simone’s ‘Here Comes the Sun,’ wherein Nina covers George Harrison and Bob Dylan and the Bee Gees, and delivers what I consider to be the greatest recorded version of ‘My Way’" ("Frontman," 4/6/08).