What Happened, Miss Simone?
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“I’ve been scared to be happy”: NS to Andrew Stroud, July 5, 1962.
“After that beating”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“sacrificed it all for my career”: NS, interview by Mary Anne Evans, 1984.
“You weren’t ever supposed to even fuck”: NS, interview by Mary Martin Niepold, August 16, 1980.
“How’s the baby?”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, July 5, 1989.
“The first three hours after Lisa was born”: NS, interview by Mary Martin Niepold, August 16, 1980.
“I had to show the servant girl”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, July 5, 1989.
“Nina hated her”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“Let’s face it”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone Kelly.
“Andrew was funny”: Frances (Waymon) Fox, interview by Stephen Cleary, January 3, 1990.
“Subsequently, when Nina would visit her family”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“I am so proud”: NS to Andrew Stroud, December 4, 1962.
“Everything happened in that bedroom”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“He used to tell me to put on the blackboard”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, July 5, 1989.
“Andrew loved me like a serpent”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 6
“There were two things”: Andrew Young, interview by Stephen Cleary, January 6, 1990.
“Every time a record came out”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“He was the original Puff Daddy”: Lisa Simone Kelly, interview by Liz Garbus, April 10, 2014.
“especially in theNew York Times”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“She was nervous”: Al Schackman, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“We had a party after”: Al Schackman, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“It felt glorious”: Nina Simone (NS), appearance on Tom Schnabel (host), Morning Becomes Eclectic (radio program, KCRW), February 20, 1985.
“Nina idolized Lorraine Hansberry”: Al Schackman, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“Lorraine was a very staunch activist”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“When you reference political enlightenment”: Attallah Shabazz, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“I didn’t get political”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, July 4, 1989.
“I never did agree too much”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, May 27, 1990.
“I’m not nonviolent”: Al Schackman, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
Nina went “ballistic”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“When they killed those children”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, July 4, 1989.
“It also put in perspective her childhood”: Carrol Waymon, interview by Stephen Cleary, February 4, 1990.
“all they wanted to get was the words”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, May 22, 1990.
“There is something about a woman”: Dick Gregory, interview by Liz Garbus, March 14, 2014.
“I think everybody up this late”: Steve Allen during NS’s appearance on The Steve Allen Show (TV program, ABC), September 10, 1964.
“Mom said that her voice broke”: Lisa Simone Kelly, interview by Liz Garbus, April 10, 2014.
“There are people who see injustice”: Ilyasah Shabazz, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“I think she felt she could influence people”: George Wein, interview by Liz Garbus, March 14, 2014.
“Every home I went to”: Andrew Young, interview by Stephen Cleary, January 6, 1990.
“There was a concert in Chicago”: Al Schackman, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“here was a black woman”: Angela Davis, liner notes to Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone, RCA, 2015, CD.
“She was an actress”: Stanley Crouch, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“a very Simone idea”: Roger Nupie, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“He was a gigantic man”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, May 23, 1990.
“my real daddy for about ten years”: Ibid.
“I loved it”: NS, diary, March 16, 1964.
“Washington D.C. yesterday”: NS, diary, May 24, 1964.
“rich black bitch”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“side-tracked with the revolution”: Ibid.
“She was becoming successful”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“They don’t want to be told”: Ibid.
“He wanted her to be able to win”: Lisa Simone Kelly, interview by Liz Garbus, April 10, 2014.
“She wanted everything”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“Dear Andy—I’m sorry”: NS, diary entry, August 6, 1964.
“Do I want sex?”: NS, note to self, on record sleeve, September 1964.
“I can sleep when and if I choose”: NS, diary entry, September 19, 1964.
“It is not at all farfetched”: James Baldwin, “Sweet Lorraine,” introduction to Lorraine Hansberry, To Be Young, Gifted and Black: An Informal Autobiography (New York: Signet Paperback, 1970).
“Her creative ability”: Martin Luther King Jr. quoted in Robert Nemiroff, “Born Black and Female,” liner notes to To Be Young, Gifted and Black, Caedmon Records, TRS 342, 1971, available online at Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust, lhlt.org/born-black-and-female.
Stroud, meanwhile, said: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“I was always a Malcolm X fan”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, May 27, 1990.
CHAPTER 7
“Music can change your moods”: Nina Simone (NS), diary entry, June 13, 1966.
“Mount Vernon was perfect”: Attallah Shabazz, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“I think of her at home”: Ilyasah Shabazz, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“Music, impromptu music”: Attallah Shabazz, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“All I know is that we had a new sister”: Ilyasah Shabazz, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“When you have a tribe”: Attallah Shabazz, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“Andrew says I’ve been giving him hell”: NS, diary entry, February 12, 1965.
“The argument today started”: NS, diary entry, February 24, 1965.
“Well, I don’t think we can take off”: Al Schackman, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“She sang ‘Mississippi Goddam’ ”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“A number of stars came down”: Andrew Young, interview clip, 1991, in Nina Simone: La Légende, TV movie (documentary), dir. Frank Lords, prod. La Sept, System TV, and BBC, 1992.
“I wanted to stay down and help”: Al Schackman, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“a wild Beast of a man”: NS, diary entry, March 22, 1965.
“Dear Andrew—I resented you”: NS, diary entry, April 10, 1965.
“I live inside a cave”: NS, diary entry, April 10, 1965.
“rules to remember”: NS, diary entry, June 13, 1966.
“The Animals (the rock & roll group…)”: NS, to Sam Waymon, July 15, 1965.
“Because of the lack of respect”: NS, interview by unnamed French journalist, 1965, quoted in “Nina Simone Sings of Social Injustice in a 1965 Dutch Television Broadcast,” Open Culture (website), October 17, 2012, http://www.openculture.com/2012/10/nina_simone_sings_of_social_injustice_in_a_1965_dutch_television_broadcast.html.
“She was towering, formidable”: Pete Townshend, interview by Alan Light, May 29, 2015.
“really troublesome”: Ibid.
“Nina Simone terrified me”: Viv Groskop, “We Weren’t Lovers: Dusty Wasn’t My Type,” Sunday Express, August 13, 2000.
“It’s not much fun”: Sharon Davis, “Dusty f
rom the Soul,” Blues and Soul 564 (1990), http://www.cpinternet.com/-mbayly/article6.xhtml.
“She is a tall, powerful woman”: Maureen Cleave, “Daddy and Mama Always Wanted Her to Play at Carnegie Hall,” Evening Standard, October 7, 1965.
“Ms. Simone believes”: Ibid.
“When Andrew Came to Paris”: NS, poem to Andrew Stroud, 1965.
“The first five years”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“it leveled off”: Ibid.
“That’s when she started complaining”: Ibid.
“everything is going to be fine”: NS, telegram to Andrew Stroud, 1966.
“my frame of mind is the same”: NS, diary entry, January 27, 1966.
“I’m looking at ‘The 3 faces of Eve’ ”: NS, diary entry, February 6, 1966.
“It was like a fairy tale”: Lisa Simone Kelly, interview by Liz Garbus, April 10, 2014.
“I don’t want her to ever feel like she’s alone”: NS, appearance on Dick Hubert (host), Celebrity’s Choice (radio program, WABC), November 12, 1967.
“a shocking revelation”: NS, diary entry, February 14, 1966.
“A List of Happy Times”: NS, diary entry, June 13, 1966.
“with Andrew it feels like”: NS, diary entry, June 6, 1966.
“had a new feeling yesterday”: NS, diary entry, February 24, 1966.
“Today is Father’s Day”: NS, card to Andrew Stroud, June 19, 1966.
CHAPTER 8
“ ‘Four Women’ was a song”: Nina Simone (NS), interview by Stephen Cleary, May 27, 1990.
“The first time I wore my hair African”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, 1989.
“The ‘black beauty’ thing”: Roger Nupie, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“She would get very depressed”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“I can’t be white”: NS, diary entry, n.d.
“I decided today that I wanted”: NS, diary entry, February 20, 1966.
“The civil rights movement”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, May 22, 1990.
“Iamcivil rights”: Al Schackman, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“I didn’t educate myself very well”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, May 22, 1990.
“My mind during this time”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, July 5, 1989.
“One of the things she said to me”: Andrew Young, interview by Stephen Cleary, January 6, 1990.
“Langston Hughes was befriending me”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, May 27, 1990.
“She thought herself the equal”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“During the ’60s, my people started having riots”: NS, interview in Arthur R. Taylor, Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews (New York: Perigee, 1982).
“She went absolutely crazy”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“The protest stuff…created a negative atmosphere”: Ibid.
“She became embittered”: Ron Delsener, interview clip, 1991, in Nina Simone: La Légende, TV movie (documentary), dir. Frank Lords, prod. La Sept, System TV, and BBC, 1992.
“I have no faith”: Nina Simone, appearance on Eric Kulberg (host), Jazz Now (radio program, WAMU), May 1966.
“ ‘Four Women’ is four distinctive descriptions”: NS, interview by Mary Anne Evans, 1984.
“Dad claims”: Lisa Simone Kelly, interview by Liz Garbus, April 10, 2014.
“Nina was Peaches”: Al Schackman, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“I could feel the emotions”: Leopoldo Fleming, interview by Liz Garbus, April 10, 2014.
“ ‘Four Women’ was an opportunity”: Attallah Shabazz, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“I thought it was stupid”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, May 27, 1990.
“very hurt when they giggled”: NS, diary entry, February 20, 1966.
“Black people thought it was insulting”: Roger Nupie, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“I have always admired”: RCA Victor press bio, n.d.
“the kind of woman who had so much integrity”: NS, appearance on Kulberg (host), Jazz Now.
“I think they do it”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, May 22, 1990.
“I was never influenced by Billie Holiday”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, April 4, 1989.
“I would travel five hundred miles”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, May 27, 1990.
“These were brilliant”: Attallah Shabazz, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“I loved her, and she was like an aunt”: Ilyasah Shabazz, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“I remember sitting in the car”: Lisa Simone Kelly, interview by Liz Garbus, April 10, 2014.
“Andrew—Again I say”: NS, handwritten note to Andrew Stroud on record sleeve.
“Nina Simone has exploded”: “Nina Simone: Angry Woman of Jazz,” Sepia 16 (March 1967), quoted in liner notes to Silk & Soul, RCA Legacy reissue, 2006, CD.
“I wasn’t going to interfere”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“My husband discovered me”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, July 4, 1989.
“partly incoherent”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“After a few days’ rest”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 9
“I’ve had a couple of times onstage”: Nina Simone (NS), interview clip, 1968, from Nina, documentary short (24 min.), dir. Joel Gold, prod. Peter Rodis, 1970.
“If you compare the Philips records”: Gerrit De Bruin, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“They are songs of the soil”: Sid McCoy, liner notes for Nina Simone Sings the Blues, RCA Victor, 1967, LP.
“I remember Royal Albert Hall”: Dick Gregory, interview by Liz Garbus, March 14, 2014.
“I climbed up the stage”: Gerrit De Bruin, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“My music, I feel, is the same”: NS, appearance on Sid Mark (host), The Mark of Jazz (radio program, WHAT), 1967.
“She will play Las Vegas yet”: Leonard Feather, “Nina Simone, from Bach to the Blues,” New York World Journal, February 12, 1967.
“I gave up in two weeks”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, November 10, 1989.
“I’ve always thought”: NS, interview clip, 1968, from Nina (dir. Gold).
“I don’t sleep with [Andrew]”: NS, diary entry, December 1, 1967.
“I didn’t picture it as a problem”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“unless I get to you soon”: NS, to Andrew Stroud, December 25, 1967.
“I don’t think I’d ever realized”: NS, to Andrew Stroud, December 28, 1967.
“This vacation is wonderful”: Ibid.
“There are nineteen people”: NS, interview clip, 1968, from Nina (dir. Gold).
“As the fame grew”: Frances (Waymon) Fox, interview by Stephen Cleary, January 3, 1990.
“If a band does a European tour”: Al Schackman, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“[Stroud] didn’t understand Nina”: Sam Waymon, interview clip, 1991, in Nina Simone: La Légende, TV movie (documentary), dir. Frank Lords, prod. La Sept, System TV, and BBC, 1992.
“It was Nina Simone’s voice”: Angela Davis, liner notes to Nina Revisited, RCA, 2015, CD.
“It’s very frustrating”: NS, interview clip, 1968, from Nina (dir. Gold).
“How did you feel when Martin Luther King died?”: exchange between Tim Sebastian (host), Hard Talk (TV program, BBC), and NS, March 25, 1999.
“We’re glad to see you”: John Lingan, “How Nina Simone and James Brown Mourned MLK, Jr. Onstage,” Atlantic, April 4, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/04/how-nina-simone-and-james-brown-mourned-mlk-jr-onstage/274605/.
“We learned that song that day”: Sam Waymon, appearance on “ ‘Why?’: Remembering Nina Simone’s Tribut
e to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Lynn Neary (host), Weekend Edition (radio program, NPR), April 6, 2008.
“Participation in activism”: Attallah Shabazz, interview by Liz Garbus, May 16, 2014.
“I choose to reflect the times”: NS, interview clip in Nina Simone Great Performances: College Concerts and Interviews (DVD), concert and interview footage from the late 1960s, released as a DVD in 2009.
“If you just think about what everybody is looking for”: NS, interview by Fred Weintraub, transcript, Live at the Bitter End, 1967.
“Andy told me that in 1968 something changed”: Gerrit De Bruin, interview by Liz Garbus, March 26, 2014.
“In her sane moments”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“She was looking for answers”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“If you listen to some of those great recordings”: Paul Robinson, interview by Liz Garbus, March 25, 2014.
“I think that the artists who don’t get involved”: Nina Simone, appearance on Del Shields (host), Night Call (radio program, WRVR), May 6, 1969.
“To me, an artist doesn’t necessarily have to take a political stand”: Ibid.
“We go to bed happy”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“I walked out on Andy”: Nina Simone with Stephen Cleary, I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone (New York: Da Capo Press, 1992), 119.
“I wanted a rest from him”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, November 6, 1989.
“Had no idea how tired”: NS, diary entry, August 28, 1969.
“It’s nice to to [sic] feel like a queen”: NS, to Andrew Stroud, August 31, 1969.
“Let’s face it—you + I”: NS, to Andrew Stroud, September 2, 1969.
“Half of it was in jest”: NS, interview by Stephen Cleary, November 6, 1989.
“The first day she arrived”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“Now that she had been by herself”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Lisa Simone, 2000s.
“Did she have any marks on her?”: Andrew Stroud, interview by Joe Hagan, 2009.
“The fact that I knew and I saw”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 10
“People seem to think”: Lisa Simone Kelly, interview by Liz Garbus, April 10, 2014.