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  Title

  Jerry Lee Lewis : his own story First edition.

  Author

  Bragg, Rick,  

  Publisher:

  HarperCollins,

  Pub date:

  [2014].

  Pages:

  498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages ;

  ISBN:

  9780062078223

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Fairfield Public Library.
  

  • 9780062078223
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    Fairfield Public Library	Copies	Material Type	Current Location
    B LEWIS, J.	1	Book	Lower Stacks

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  Personal Author:

  Bragg, Rick,

  Title:

  Jerry Lee Lewis : his own story / Rick Bragg.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Physical description:

  498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

  Contents:

  Introduction: Jolson in the river -- The father of waters -- Whiskey in the ditches two feet deep -- The big house -- Mr. Paul -- Sun -- "I been wantin' to meet that piano player" -- Too hot to rock -- England -- "Who wants some of this?" -- American wildness -- "He who steals my name" -- Jet planes and hearses -- The year of the gun -- "Babies in the air" -- The fork in the road -- Last man standing -- Stone garden -- Epilogue: Killer.

  Summary:

  "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"" -- from publisher's web site.

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  FFLD-MAIN

  Personal subject:

  Lewis, Jerry Lee.

  Personal subject:

  Lewis, Jerry Lee. fast (OCoLC)fst00063533

  Subject term:

  Rock musicians--United States--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Rock musicians. fast (OCoLC)fst01099238

  Geographic term:

  United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Lewis, Jerry Lee.