Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found
by Joe Bonomo
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Author: Joe BonomoEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-11-01
ISBN: 0826429661
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Continuum Pub Group
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Book Review: A great book about the greatest entertainer of them all - Jerry Lee Lewis
Summary: 5 Stars
Joe Bonomo's new book "Jerry Lee Lewis - Lost and Found" is a wonderful book. As you would expect from a Professor who teaches English, it is a scholarly work that has been incredibly well researched. It is by far the best book ever on the life and music of Jerry Lee Lewis.
Back in 1962 I was just a teenager when I met Jerry Lee Lewis for the first time. That meeting changed my life forever.
This book is a personal odyssey that started over 25 years ago when the author was himself a teenager hearing Jerry Lee Lewis for the first time. It is obvious to me that discovering Jerry Lee Lewis changed Joe Bonomo's life too.
Even today, 53 years after Jerry made his first recordings, there are still teenagers who discover Jerry Lee Lewis by chance and then become avid fans who want to read all the old newspaper stories and buy and play every record Jerry ever made.
Joe Bonomo has been on that odyssey of discovery and he documents Jerry's life and times through his music, through extracts from a plethora of books and articles, and above all from interviews with people who knew Jerry Lee Lewis personally.
Just as Jerry is "The Last Man Standing" from the famous "Million Dollar Quartet" of Carl Perkins, Elvis and Johnny Cash - some of those interviewed, like famed Memphis musician, Jim Dickinson and Sun Records owner, Shelby Singleton, have died recently. This book is therefore already a historical document.
The book's central theme is the "Live At the Star Club" album Jerry cut in Germany back in 1964. Many rate this LP as the best live album of all time. Joe Bonomo reveals many new facts about this album by interviewing the record's producer, Siggi Loch, and some of the musicians who either played on or attended the session.
The book plainly demonstrates that, alone amongst all the old rock'n'rollers, Jerry has never stopped performing what many have described as "The Greatest Live Show On Earth".
As someone who has been fortunate enough to get to know Jerry quite well, to have been a guest in his home, flown in his private plane, attended recording sessions and seen hundreds of shows - I am pleased to report that I cannot fault the accuracy of this book. In fact, the way the acknowledgements are laid out, the detailing of all the source material and the perfect indexing are themselves worthy of study by other authors.
Congratulations Joe, this book is a work of art.
Graham Knight
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PS Congratulations to Amazon for their ultra fast next day courier delivery to best ever Jerry Lee Scotland.
Summary of Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found
The story of Louisiana hellcat Jerry Lee Lewis and his 1958 wedding scandal it was discovered that at 22 he had married his 13-year old second cousin, Myra, before he was divorced from his second wife long ago took precedence over the man himself and the music he makes. In Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found, author Joe Bonomo lets others focus on the scandal and delves more deeply into the accidental intersection between fading American Rockabilly and ascending Beatlemania. By first taking a look at the critical years before his famed night in 1964 at West Germany s Star-Club what that meant not only for him but the entire live album-making world then the tumultuous years that follow, culminating in his time on the American Country charts in the late 60s/ early 70s, Bonomo brings Jerry Lee Lewis to life in new and fascinating ways.In spite of plummeting record sales and concert fees, a media savaging of his personal character, a change of record labels and management, and a considerable upturn in his drug and alcohol abuse, Jerry Lee Lewis has persevered. In between being betrayed and ignored, he would record one of the greatest rock & roll performances in history. Bonomo s thorough research includes new interviews with Live at the Star-Club producer Sigi Loch, members of the Nashville Teens, and other musicians and fans who were at the Star-Club performance, as well as with music industry figures ranging from famed Nashville producer Jerry Kennedy and legendary Memphis stalwart Jim Dickinson to Killer-influenced contemporaries John Doe and Dave Alvin. This passionate book examines and explains the almighty impact of the Father of Rock n Roll.
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