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Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found | 
| Author: Joe Bonomo
Publisher: Continuum Pub Group
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 49731
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0826429661
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780826429667
ASIN: 0826429661
Publication Date: November 1, 2009
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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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Essential for Killer fans January 12, 2010
John Wilkie (Pittsburgh, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Given the stature of Jerry Lee Lewis as a performer in several genres, as well as his longevity (the "last man standing" recorded his first side for Sun in 1956), one would expect there to be far more out there in the way of serious literature on the Killer. Nick Tosches came out with his book in 1982, and there's good reason it's been called "the best rock 'n' roll biography ever written...." Now there's finally something out there that deserves a place on the bookshelf next to Tosches's masterpiece. While still not the in-depth, full scale biography his life surely merits, Bonomo delivers a brilliant look at Lewis's fall from grace and subsequent rise, climaxing with a fascinating look at the 1964 show at Hamburg's Star-Club that will leave you almost feeling you were a witness to what many believe to be the greatest live rock 'n' roll performance ever put to record. If you're a fan of the Killer's music, or just looking for some great rock 'n' roll writing, you'll want to own this superb book.
Bonomo Captures Live Killer December 30, 2009
R. A. Cramblitt (Cary, NC United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For Killer fans or just those who love great rock-and-roll writing, check out Joe Bonomo's "Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found." Word of warning: carve out time, cause you're not going to put this one down. As riveting as the Killer performances it describes.
Bonomo has a rare skill: Describing a live performance or recording in a way that instills an excitement similar to being there at the event or the listening experience itself. Now, if someone would address the grevious oversight of this record not being in print in the U.S...
Incisive accurate reporting December 29, 2009
Kay Martin (Brooklyn, NY United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Joe Bonomo, a huge Jerry Lee Lewis fan, has written a wonderful treatise interweaving Jerry's career moments up to and including the creation of the live album at the Star Club in Germany, critically acclaimed as the best live album ever. A must read for any rock fan.
Heavy praise from me, the creator in 1957 of the Jerry Lee Lewis International Fan Club and still at it....
Delighted to Find: "Lost and Found" ! December 24, 2009
J. Weissmann (Los Angeles, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found
With a teenage background as a 1960's NYC rock and roll pianoplayer, my personal obsession with JLL music had as its "Nazareth" an intense focus on his '60's live album "The Greatest Live Show On Earth", from a Birmingham, Alabama JLL concert.
Mr. Bonomo's superb book has shifted my "JLL geopolitical center" from Birmingham, Alabama to....Hamburg, Germany! (The home city of 'The Star Club'). I had always been enamored, even owned and repeatedly played the Star Club performance (audiocassette), but never thought of Hamburg, Germany as "The '60's Holy Grail of JLL".
Until now.
Mr. Bonomo writes an absolutely fascinating perspective that opened my eyes to the supreme importance of the myriad influences that created the incredible magic of this great book, "Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found": The Beatles' and other British (what could these 'foreigners' possibly ever, ever REALLY know about rock and roll????) outrageous invasion and hostile takeover of the rockin' world; JLL's determination to NEVER succumb to the tabloid-style career-destroying castigation of JLL and his infamous teen-cousin marriage (now the British even have supreme knowledge of True Love????. The only (slightly) unkind word I'll now add is that it doesn't EVER help to be an aging and chubby rocker.
Mr. Bonomo, I salute you as the best writer on JLL!
And I've read it A L L ! (Books, magazines, videos, film, etc., that are all about one of my lifelong "piano teachers"!)
Please accept my most sincere congratulations.
A great book about the greatest entertainer of them all - Jerry Lee Lewis November 25, 2009
G. I. Knight (Aberdeen, Scotland)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
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