Peggy Lee was everyone's favourite singer, from Judy Garland to Diana Krall.iscovered in a Chicago nightclub in 1941 by the bandleader Benny Goodman,rom the late fifties till the late sixties she was regularly voted Bestemale Vocal star for classic songs like "Fever", "Alright, Okay, You Win"nd "I'm Gonna Go Fishin". She was at her peak during one of the greatestras in American music, when singers like Frank Sinatra and jazz musiciansike Louis Armstrong were in their prime. Peter Richmond tells the definitivetory of Peggy Lee's tough and tempestuous life: born Norma Delores Egstromo an alcoholic father, and enduring an abusive stepmother and four marriagesn the course of a journey to Broadway, Vegas and Hollywood.