Jerry Lee Lewis (eBook)

His Own Story

Rick Bragg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
624 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-0-85786-160-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

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Rick Bragg's biography of Jerry Lee Lewis really is the business. The words on the page perfectly match the music and the man

Beautifully written

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

Excellent . . . just the sort of weighty tome you'd hope Elvis would have got around to by now

[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

This is epic Southern storytelling at its most gripping

Irresistible

Compelling . . . Bragg's book really soars . . . gives us a sense of the vastly differing sides of the man

Bragg's account does not pull punches, nor does it need to. Bragg successfully grasps the meaning of Jerry Lee Lewis and the music he begat

Jerry Lee Lewis is a fascinating guy, a really opinion-splitting kinda legend, and this is his autobiography

Bragg's book really soars . . . a compelling read

Like Byron, he seems mad, bad and dangerous to know, but his art at least reflects him truthfully

I loved every amphetamine-laced, whiskey-soaked, gun-shot page of it . . .This thing moves. It rocks. And while every review to come will no doubt mention that there has never been a more perfect union of writer and subject, I'm glad to be able to say it here first-Bragg and Lewis are a match made in heaven

There's plenty of richness in Rick Bragg's retelling of the Killer's life . . . .Bragg, a former reporter for the New York Times, hits all the legendary moments, both high and low . . . Worth reading

Absorbing . . . a thumpingly good yarn . . . thrillingly readable

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

Attempting a biography of rock 'n' roll's most notorious figure is no mean task, but Pultizer Prize-winner Rick Bragg has done an admirable job, aided by Jerry Lee-Lewis himself . . . a fascinating account of a wild, wild talent

Great insight: Bragg understands the God-fearing Southern man's push-pull of good and evil, the mutually-exclusive-for-Lewis need for rock 'n' roll and redemption and the resulting emotional turmoil that ultimately defines him

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

Hell-raising takes centre stage

This is Lewis' version of his own story, filtered through Bragg's gift for language and his feel for the South . . . His Own Story casts one of rock n' roll's outlandish lives in a new light, giving Lewis the voice in words he always had in the notes that came from the ivory keys

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2014
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Country and Western • Drugs • Gospel Music • Piano • Rock and Roll • Sex
• ISBN-10: 0-85786-160-3 / 0857861603
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85786-160-3 / 9780857861603