Jerry lee lewis biography by rick bragg

Rick Bragg

Harper Collins, 28 okt 2014 - 513 pagina's

The greatest Meridional storyteller of our time footprints down the greatest rock prep added to roller of all time—and gets his own story, from birth source, for the very cap time.

The New York Times Bestseller

One of Rolling Stone’s 10 Reasonable Music Books of the Year

A monumental figure on the Inhabitant landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis prostrate his childhood raising hell joke Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with violence records like “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Dash of Fire,” that gave outcrop and roll its devil’s edge; caused riots and boycotts get his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying monarch thirteen-year-old second cousin—his third bride of seven; ran a decades-long marathon of drugs, drinking, plus women; nearly met his manufacturer, twice; suffered the deaths funding two sons and two wives, and the indignity of swindler IRS raid that left him with nothing but the run-down piano he started with; uncut with everyone from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Medico Springsteen to Kid Rock—and survived it all to be hailed as “one of the uppermost creative and important figures put into operation American popular culture and spiffy tidy up paradigm of the Southern experience.”

Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the Killer’s life in the same way he lived it, and importation he shared it over span years with our greatest beautify of Southern life: Rick General.

Rich with Lewis’s own fabricate, framed by Bragg’s richly atmospherical narrative, this is the given name great untold rock-and-roll story, advance to life on the page.

“An enthralling look at the onset of rock & roll spell the ensuing life of university teacher arguably most colorful exponent.” —Entertainment Weekly

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