Jerry Lee Lewis
Subtitle: his own story
By: Rick Bragg
Contributors: Lewis, Jerry Lee, author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780062078223
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Rock musicians; Biography
Description: "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"" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-481) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Jolson in the river; title: The father of waters; title: Whiskey in the ditches two feet deep; title: The big house; title: Mr. Paul; title: Sun; title: "I been wantin' to meet that piano player"; title: Too hot to rock; title: England; title: "Who wants some of this?"; title: American wildness; title: "He who steals my name"; title: Jet planes and hearses; title: The year of the gun; title: "Babies in the air"; title: The fork in the road; title: Last man standing; title: Stone garden; title: Epilogue: Killer.