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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
Rick Bragg
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Description for Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
Paperback. Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, in the legend's own words. Num Pages: 512 pages, Two 16pp b&w insets. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 392.
Jerry Lee Lewis has lived an extraordinary life. He gave rock and roll its devil's edge with hit records like 'Great Balls of Fire'. His incendiary shows caused riots and boycotts. He ran a decade-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women, and married his thirteen-year-old second cousin, the third of seven wives. He also nearly met his maker, at least twice. He survived it all to be hailed as one of the greatest music icons. For the very first time, he reveals the truth behind the Last Man Standing of the rock-and-roll era.
Jerry Lee Lewis has lived an extraordinary life. He gave rock and roll its devil's edge with hit records like 'Great Balls of Fire'. His incendiary shows caused riots and boycotts. He ran a decade-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women, and married his thirteen-year-old second cousin, the third of seven wives. He also nearly met his maker, at least twice. He survived it all to be hailed as one of the greatest music icons. For the very first time, he reveals the truth behind the Last Man Standing of the rock-and-roll era.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857861597
SKU
V9780857861597
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99-99
About Rick Bragg
In 1986, Jerry Lee Lewis was the first person inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has had 14 no.1 hits and 42 top 20 singles and 22 top 20 albums and has won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. Lewis is the last surviving member of the Million Dollar Quartet which included Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley. Rick Bragg is an American journalist. He joined the New York Times in 1994 and in 1996 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Bragg is the author of five books: All Over but the Shoutin', Ava's Man, The Prince of Frogtown, I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story and The Most They Ever Had. He is now professor on the journalism programme at the University of Alabama's College of Communications and Information Sciences.
Reviews for Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
There's plenty of richness in Rick Bragg's retelling of the Killer's life . . . Hits all the legendary moments, both high and low . . . Worth reading
STEPHEN KING Rick Bragg's biography of Jerry Lee Lewis really is the business. The words on the page perfectly match the music and the man
RODDY DOYLE
author of PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA
I loved every amphetamine-laced, whiskey-soaked, gun-shot page of it . . .This thing moves. It rocks
ANN PATCHETT No one in rock and roll has ever made music and lived life with the ferocity of Jerry Lee Lewis, and no writer is better suited than Rick Bragg to tell Lewis's story. The result is a biography with the memorable language and narrative drive we expect only from the finest novels. Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the best book on rock and roll I have ever read
RON RASH Jerry Lee Lewis is a fascinating guy, a really opinion-splitting kinda legend, and this is his autobiography
NOEL FIELDING, My Life in Suitcase - Five Touring Essentials
NME
The paradox of a man defining himself through his faith while leading a far from virtuous life, drives Rick Bragg's exhaustive biography . . . There's vernacular lyricism to the way Bragg paints the key moments in Lewis's life . . . Bragg's fascination for Jerry Lee Lewis wins through, and his shining a light on the eternal dichotomy between sin and salvation makes for a fascinating, distinctly American story . . . Rick Bragg's pacey, extensively researched biography draws a portrait of a bullish man doing all the things he believes God will forgive him for, repenting, and doing them all over again
The Times
As an intimate portrait of the original rock 'n' roll wild child, it's probably the closest look that we will ever have of one of pop music's greatest talents and most mysterious enigmas
Record Collector
Hell-raising takes centre stage
GQ
Beautifully written
Mail on Sunday
[Bragg] tells the full story of a long and extraordinary life with critical honesty, describing the triumphs, disasters and scandals, the women, the drink and drugs
Daily Express
STEPHEN KING Rick Bragg's biography of Jerry Lee Lewis really is the business. The words on the page perfectly match the music and the man
RODDY DOYLE
author of PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA
I loved every amphetamine-laced, whiskey-soaked, gun-shot page of it . . .This thing moves. It rocks
ANN PATCHETT No one in rock and roll has ever made music and lived life with the ferocity of Jerry Lee Lewis, and no writer is better suited than Rick Bragg to tell Lewis's story. The result is a biography with the memorable language and narrative drive we expect only from the finest novels. Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the best book on rock and roll I have ever read
RON RASH Jerry Lee Lewis is a fascinating guy, a really opinion-splitting kinda legend, and this is his autobiography
NOEL FIELDING, My Life in Suitcase - Five Touring Essentials
NME
The paradox of a man defining himself through his faith while leading a far from virtuous life, drives Rick Bragg's exhaustive biography . . . There's vernacular lyricism to the way Bragg paints the key moments in Lewis's life . . . Bragg's fascination for Jerry Lee Lewis wins through, and his shining a light on the eternal dichotomy between sin and salvation makes for a fascinating, distinctly American story . . . Rick Bragg's pacey, extensively researched biography draws a portrait of a bullish man doing all the things he believes God will forgive him for, repenting, and doing them all over again
The Times
As an intimate portrait of the original rock 'n' roll wild child, it's probably the closest look that we will ever have of one of pop music's greatest talents and most mysterious enigmas
Record Collector
Hell-raising takes centre stage
GQ
Beautifully written
Mail on Sunday
[Bragg] tells the full story of a long and extraordinary life with critical honesty, describing the triumphs, disasters and scandals, the women, the drink and drugs
Daily Express