Jerry Lee Lewis His Own Story
- 4 Jun 2015
- 9780857861597
- £14.99
- 512 pp
- 129×198mm
- 28 Oct 2014
- 9780857861603
- £11.99
- 512 pp
In a few words
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, in the legend’s own words.
In a few words
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, in the legend’s own words.
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 HAThere'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
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 HAMore about
the book
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.
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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.
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
NMEThe 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
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
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
NMEThe 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
