Bibliograph

Jerry Lee Lewis, his own story, Rick Bragg and Jerry Lee Lewis

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Jerry Lee Lewis, his own story, Rick Bragg and Jerry Lee Lewis

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

unknown

Main title

Jerry Lee Lewis

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

877895029

Responsibility statement

Rick Bragg and Jerry Lee Lewis

Sub title

his own story

Summary

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. A monumental figure on the American landscape, Southern boy 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; married 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 Rich with Lewis's own words, set in context by Bragg's richly atmospheric narrative, filled with rare and unpublished images, this is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, come to life on the page

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