Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story - Hardcover

Tosches, Nick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385284039 ISBN 13: 9780385284035

Publisher: Delacorte Pr, 1982

Synopsis

A portrait of singer Jerry Lee Lewis details his early life, music, controversial marriage, problems and decline, endurance, and revival in popularity

About this title

Review:

'The best rock 'n' roll biography ever written... There is a novelistic intensity to this story of tragedy, triumph and love. Its portrayal of a society alien to mainstream America is riveting' Newsday

Brilliant... the best account we have of how the first rock and rollers were torn between salvation and the Devil's music (New Statesman)

From the Back Cover:

Born in Louisiana to a family legacy of great courage and greater madness, Jerry Lee was torn throughout his life between a harsh Pentecostal God and the Devil of alcohol, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. He began performing publicly at fourteen, and at twenty-one he recorded "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", which propelled him to stardom. Almost immediately, news of his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin all but destroyed his career. Over the next twenty years, Jerry Lee, ever indomitable and ever wild, would rise again as a country star, and then lose it all again to his own inner demons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Pr
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0385284039
• ISBN 13: 9780385284035
• Binding: Hardcover