Jerry lee lewis biography book
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Great Books of Fire
HELLFIRE
The Jerry Lee Lewis Story
By Nick Tosches
Delta, $6.95
JERRY LEE LEWIS ROCKS!
By Robert Palmer
Delilah, $7.95
As the world's biggest rock criticism fan, I have no doubt that rock and roll inspires Iots of good writing, but as an English major who married a novelist I have to acknowledge that it hasn't produced much good literature, by which I simply mean good books. Admittedly, this is only fitting: I love rock and roll because, unlike literature, it's not caught in the cerebral, self-referential, and ultimately defeatist cul-de-sac of highbrow modernism. Physical and popular, it points the way out of (or at least waves at) a cultural dilemma in which only prodigious feats of deep feeling can achieve the political and economic equality the world depends on. And though it's much narrower than film, which is also physical and popular, its special connections to Africa and to evangelical (i.e., democratic) religion provide angles of attack that movies just don't command. Yet the good books about movies far outnumber those about rock and roll, or even American music in general.
Admittedly, this too, may only be fitting: movies are more like literature than rock and roll is. But that doesn't satisfy me. Just because I don't regard the bo
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