Great Balls of Fire : the uncensored story of Jerry Lee Lewis by Myra Lewis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
"a stick to fish the filemot frith for treasures" What the hell does that mean? Well, neither Myra nor co-author Murray M. Silver, Jr. is no [a:Tosches Nick|2720810|Tosches Nick|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png] and should leave the language stunts alone, but this is all-in-all a good music biography about The Killer and the Golden Age of Rock for which he was "a dream ... that is coming to birth". Like Elvis and others, he was drawn from a largely impoverished and illiterate South not unlike we pick out military ([b:Ambush at Fort Bragg|214722|Ambush at Fort Bragg|Tom Wolfe|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1172769939s/214722.jpg|946409]).
This book is really built around Jerry's marriage to his first cousin once removed, Myra. There are three acts: life from obscurity to fame in the Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll and marriage to Myra. Act II is the fall from grace and wilderness years after he exposure of his child bride in England with a soundtrack from the syrupy crooner era. The final act is reclaiming the throne in Elvis' twilight and the ascendancy of The Beatles and Rolling Stones while sparking the career of Tom Jones. The remaining decades covered are compressed into a breathless epilogue that touches on shooting his own bass player and other highlights of the couple's rebound years.
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