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Live at the Star Club, Hamburg [Rhino]

Live at the Star Club, Hamburg [Rhino]
 

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Jerry Lee Lewis

Live at the Star Club, Hamburg [Rhino]

 
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Label: Rhino Records
Rating: 4.5
 
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Description: Take one oversize talent with an ego the size of the chip on his shoulder. Put him in front of a frenzied German audience, and set him loose. What do you have? One of the greatest live albums in rock & roll history. Recorded in 1964 at the same club where the Beatles cut their teeth, Live at the Star Club, Hamburg captures the Killer when he was on the outs as a recording artist. (It took him years to recover from the scandal that ensued when he wed his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown.) Lewis didn't require acceptance, however; he just needed an audience, a piano, and a rhythm section willing to hang on to "old Jerry Lee" for dear life. The repertoire is rife with staples of the day--"Money," "Mean Woman Blues," "Long Tall Sally," "Hound Dog"--but the Killer has no trouble customizing them with his pumping piano and insinuating vocals. "When Jerry does something, I do it mighty good," he boasts in "What'd I Say." No argument here. --Steven Stolder
 
 

 
Tracklist of Live at the Star Club, Hamburg [Rhino]

Disc 1
1 Mean Woman Blues  2:24 no lyrics yet - submit it
2 High School Confidential  2:31 view lyrics
3 Money (That's What I Want)  2:36 no lyrics yet - submit it
4 Matchbox  1:44 no lyrics yet - submit it
5 What'd I Say, Pt. 1   no lyrics yet - submit it
7 Great Balls of Fire  1:53 view lyrics
8 Good Golly Miss Molly  2:13 view lyrics
9 Lewis Boogie  1:59 view lyrics
10 Your Cheatin' Heart  2:33 no lyrics yet - submit it
11 Hound Dog  1:28 no lyrics yet - submit it
12 Long Tall Sally  1:53 no lyrics yet - submit it
13 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On  2:52 view lyrics

Reviews:

Incredible

In 1964 Jerry Lee Lewis was old news, a has-been, a performer whose time had come and gone--or so everyone must have thought. Everyone but the man himself; in this performance the Killer leaves NO doubt that he's the King of Rock 'n Roll.

The band does an impressive job of (mostly) keeping up with a man who sounds on the point of spontaneous combustion, but the spotlight is all his; the fire and fury that pack this set are beyond belief. And Jerry Lee never lets up, as if his reputation as one of the most talented and passionate performers of the century rested on this one show. If it did, he would still have earned it.

The egoist

I bought the vinyl version of this some decades back in Calais, France. I was passing time in a record shop whilst waiting for the ferry to the U.K.and came across 'Live at the Star Club, Hamburg'.

Being a fan of the Killer I had to have the album but there was a problem as the shop was soon to close. I recall running to a bank to get the necessary Francs and then running back to the shop to get the necessary record; I was not dis-appointed.

If you want Jerry Lee at his arrogant best, telling the world that he is the best, at least of Rock 'N' Roll and Country (we have Your Cheating Heart here), then get this album.

Jerry lives here with an interpretation of Rock 'N' Roll at the very edge of his talent; if he went wilder he would have lost the plot, if he was calmer then you would have got the more measured, but still high energy recordings of 'The Greatest Live Show on Earth' lp's.

To sample the Rock 'N' Roll genre at its very best; sex, drugs, spin on this, and have the hairs on your neck rise to a monumental level, get this music from Jerry Lee.

Sincerely,

Paul Clark.

The triumphal return

In the early 1960s on to the 1970s, Jerry Lee Lewis was probably doing the best rock and roll ever done by anyone. It is unfortunate that this was not what people were listening to at the time, but we do have this CD.

This was done in a triumphant tour where JLL returned to Europe starting out with a tour of Britain that was outstanding.I've seen a film of what was no doubt the greatest single rock and roll performance of all history on that tour, one of the British teen rock shows I was recently informed was a special for Granada Television with Little Richard opening and Jerry Lee Lewis closing. It drove the studio audience into a near riot, drove me into near riot seeing it, unfortunately before I owned a vcr!

But we have this performance. Yes Jerry is cocky and Egoistic. The last time he hit Europe he was driven out of England by booing crowds because of his marriage, and when he returned to the USA his entire career fell into a shambles and he was denounced as a moral degenerate, backward "hillbilly" and thrown on the ash heep of history. Even though Lewis's music got better and better, there would be no more number one hits (he had several that went number one in R & B, Pop, and County at the same time!!!)until he went solid country in the middle 1970s. Now he has already conquered England with terrific smashing well reviewed shows and crowds that loved him. Now it is his time to celelbrate.

Here he is back, and even though he is just playing with a German pickup band, he is really burning the music out. He is in his element with a hot crowd of people who are drinking, seducing, and partying like there is no tommorrow (and probably no tommorrow but a hangover), and he is rising to the occaision.
This is his glorious triumph, there is no doubt about it when you listen to this rocking and rolling music and here the man talk as only he can.

Somehow if Jerry Lee Lewis became modest, I think someone should get him to a doctor and tell him he is THE KILLER and needs to bow his head before no man. He can't stop, like old Johnny Lee Hooker said, the boogie is in him, and it's got to get out. I saw him a couple years ago when he was 65, and he was so hot and strong, that I had to leave the concert hall when he was done, because why would you want anything else to follow him

This is one of those CDs you need. Even if you don't have a CD player, buy the CD now, get the player later!