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Rickie Lee Jones: ‘I had lived volumes long before I was famous’

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A fractured childhood, years as a hippy drifter… the musician’s new memoir tells of her incredible adventures before she found fame – and of her intense relationship with Tom Waits in the 1970s

  • Scroll down for an extract from Last Chance Texaco by Rickie Lee Jones

Rickie Lee Jones was just three years old when she made her debut as a performer, appearing briefly as a snowflake in a ballet recital of Bambi. “I heard the audience’s applause and took it personally,” she writes in Last Chance Texaco, a vivid memoir that traces the arc of her often turbulent life from unsettled childhood to uneasy fame. “I remained bowing long after the other snowflakes had melted and left the stage. The dance teacher had to escort me off, but the audience was delighted and the die was cast. I liked it up there.”

The stage, she tells me a lifetime later, “is where I belong. On stage, I’m whole.” On a good night, this is indeed the case, her voice moving effortlessly from the joyous to the seductive as she communes with the spirits. “I feel the invisible world,” she says, “It’s all around me, but I can’t translate it into words. Music comes close, but it’s really some other place that I know is here but I can’t fully express.”

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