Jerry Lee Lewis

His Own Story

Rick Bragg

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857861603
• Print ISBN:
  9780857861573

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also by Rick Bragg
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: Jolson in the River
• 1 The Father of Waters
• 2 Whiskey in the Ditches Two Feet Deep
• 3 The Big House
• 4 Mr. Paul
• 5 Sun
• 6 “I Been Wantin’ to Meet That Piano Player”
• 7 Too Hot to Rock
• 8 England
• 9 “Who Wants Some of This?”
• 10 American Wilderness
• 11 “He Who Steals My Name”
• 12 Jet Planes and Hearses
• 13 The Year of the Gun
• 14 “Babies in the Air”
• 15 The Fork in the Road
• 16 Last Man Standing
• 17 Stone Garden
• Epilogue: Killer
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Index