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JERRY LEE LEWIS : His Own Story

Rick Bragg
LIGHTLY USED, PAPERBACK

RM18.00

Captivating Biography Of The Wild Man Of Rock N Roll

Remarks Free Cover-Pages Wrapping
ISBN 9780140126389
Book Condition LIGHTLY USED
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 28 Oct 2014
Pages 512
Weight 0.81 kg
Dimension 23.3 × 15.3 × 4 cm
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★★ New York Times Bestseller★★

★★ One of Rolling Stone’s 10 Best Music Books of the Year★★
 
“I was born to be on a stage. I couldn’t wait to be on it. I dreamed about it. And l’ve been on one all my life”
–Jerry Lee Lewis

 
The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis—and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time.
 
Otherwise known as The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis has lived an extraordinary life. A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi. Galvanized the world with hit records like “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of Fire,” that gave rock and roll its devil’s edge.


Caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances. Nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin—his third wife of seven. Ran a decades-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women; nearly met his maker, twice. Suffered the deaths of two sons and two wives, and the indignity of an IRS raid that left him with nothing but the broken-down piano he started with.
 
Performed with everyone from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Bruce Springsteen to Kid Rock—and survived it all to be hailed as “one of the most creative and important figures in American popular culture and a paradigm of the Southern experience.”
 
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the Killer’s life as he lived it, and as he shared it over two years with our greatest bard of Southern life: Rick Bragg. Rich with Lewis’s own words, framed by Bragg’s richly atmospheric narrative, this is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, come to life on the page.
 
Now, for the first time, Lewis’s story is told in full, as he shared it over two years with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Rick Bragg. From the fields and levees of Depression-era Louisiana to the legendary Million Dollar Quartet session at Sun Records; from barnstorming tours with Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Holly to his lifelong rivalry with Elvis; from comedown to comeback, here is the story of the Last Man Standing.
 
This is the fascinating authorised biography of this musical genius in his own words. For the very first time, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story reveals the truth behind the Last Man Standing of the rock-and-roll era.
 
From encounters with legends including Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, John Lennon, Mick Jagger and more, to hair-raising first-person accounts of Jerry’s lifelong rivalries with Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry for the title of king of rock-and-roll, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg traces the incredible story of a young man from the American South who used his piano to drive the world into a music revolution. Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the last great untold rock-and-roll story.
 
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About the Author :
 
Jerry Lee Lewis was the very first performer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His #1 hit records, including ”Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and ”Great Balls of Fire,” helped define the wild frontier of rock and roll. His most recent albums, Last Man Standing and Mean Old Man, were his most successful in thirty years. Still performing today, he recently opened Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cafe and Honky Tonk on Beale Street in Memphis. He lives in Nesbit, Mississippi.
 
Rick Bragg is the author of three bestselling books, Ava’s Man, All Over but the Shoutin’, and The Prince of Frogtown. As a feature writer for the New York Times, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his ”elegantly written stories about contemporary America.” He divides his time between New Orleans and his native Alabama.

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