Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story Hardcover – October 28, 2014 Author: Visit Amazon’s Rick Bragg Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0062078224 | Format: PDF, EPUB
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story – October 28, 2014
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- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: Harper; 1ST edition (October 28, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0062078224
- ISBN-13: 978-0062078223
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Jerry Lee Lewis – His Own Story
By Rick Bragg
I have just finished reading this 500 page book by Professor Rick Bragg. Thanks to Amazon’s excellent service the book arrived yesterday morning at 11am and it now 3pm on the following day and it has taken me almost every hour since to read it. You have heard of books you can’t put down – well this one stopped me going to sleep.
As Jerry himself would say, there have been a “flock” of books about him but none are anything like as good as this one.
I must confess here at the outset of this review to being an avid Jerry Lee fan and I have known him personally for over 52 years and been fortunate enough to fly with him in his private plane and to stay as a guest in Jerry’s home. As such I can vouch for the veracity and truthfulness of the way Jerry and Rick describe many of the events I attended. Absolutely nothing has been glossed over. This is not a sugar-coated biography.
It is an unusual book in as much as it is more than a just a biography as the author recalls past events and jogs Jerry’s memory into commenting on them. Frequently the actions described are quite shocking and this book is definitely unsuitable for maiden aunts and anyone of a nervous disposition.
The book tells how Jerry was delivered into this world by his father as the doctor was lying drunk beside the bed. It was a breach birth and Jerry says, “I was born feet first and I have been jumping ever since.” Jerry’s father Elmo played an important part in Jerry’s life and the wild streak that runs throughout the Lewis family meant that sometimes Elmo would be serving time in the dreaded Angola prison for “bootlegging liquor.
Rick Bragg is a story teller and JERRY LEE LEWIS: His Own Story, gives Bragg a chance to write about an even better story teller. Jerry Lee Lewis has lived a life fuller than just about anyone else: great poverty, great success, the death of sons, 7 or 8 marriages, more money than Jerry Lee knew what to do with, then the IRS cleaned out his house. Rick Bragg is one of my favorite writers, but he doesn’t know Jerry Lee Lewis’s ability to expand upon the truth. Rick Bragg is more like a stenographer than an author, one who takes the stories as gospel, and why not? Jerry Lee Lewis has an overwhelming personality and you have to be aware, because Jerry Lee could go from smiling, even at 79, come at you, although he hasn’t stabbed or shot anyone recently.
The beginning of this book doesn’t stray from Myra Lewis’s GREAT BALLS OF FIRE, that exceptional autobiography of her life with Jerry Lee. But this book is a wild, wavering thing, pretty much consuming Bragg. The problem is that Rick Bragg is not familiar with the music, history and carrying ons of Jerry Lee. Mr. Bragg is late for the party and he doesn’t know enough history to see what’s tight and true and what is hyperbole. An example of this is how Bragg let’s Judson Phillips, Sam Phillips older brother, off the hook. Jud was a wise hustler. When Jerry Lee’s recording of “Breathless” was flagging, Jud came up with the idea to have Beechnut gum, Dick Clark and Sun records enter a deal where teenagers could buy a JLL signed copy of “Breathless” for gum wrappers. Only thing, the record wasn’t signed by Jerry Lee, the signature was printed onto the label. You can go on eBay today and find sellers trying to sell “Breathless” believing the fake signature is real for $50.00 and up.
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