The jazz singer and actress Abbey Lincoln, who died on Aug 14, first came to my attention via her song ‘For All We Know’, which played over the opening credits of Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy (1989). I was watching the film (as a 14 year-old, without my mother’s knowledge!) as part of the then pay-per-view Film Four channel’s Drugs for Christmas season in ’99 or ’00, and was struck by how the song perfectly captured the sad, wistful and strangely old-fashioned tone of the film.
R.I.P. Abbey
Abbey Lincoln 1930-2010
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Beautiful!
Posted by helen rogers | August 18, 2010, 2:08 pmRIP – Abbey Lincoln, 80, was a jazz singer named Gaby Lee who took a new name – a cross between Westminster Abbey & Abraham Lincoln to get a new start. She was a Hollywood princess until she embraced civil rights & found her heart. http://urdead2me.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/rip-abbey-lincoln/
Posted by urdead2me | August 20, 2010, 3:42 am