Articles tagged "jerry lee lewis"

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All You Need Is Love

by Zeth Lundy

[22.Jul.08] :. Tony Palmer's compelling yet frustrating 15-hour television series on the history of popular music, originally broadcast in the 1970s, finally sees a DVD release.

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Great balls of fire: Jerry Lee Lewis is still kickin’

by Jim Beckerman [The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT)]

[28.Mar.08] :. Last man standing? Anyone following the career of Jerry Lee Lewis, the great wild man of early rock `n’ roll, the guy who out-partied, out-fought and out-gunned (literally) such contemporaries...

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Jerry Lee Lewis: Greatest Live Performances of the 50s, 60s and 70s [DVD]

by Tom Useted

[10.Aug.07] :. This is absolutely essential for Jerry Lee Lewis fans, if only for an incendiary 1964 set, which features Lewis working the audience into an absolute frenzy. For everyone else, it's a worthwhile history lesson with a Killer soundtrack.

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Onstage, at least, Jerry Lee Lewis is still a ball of fire

by Thor Christensen [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[30.Mar.07] :. For the next 65 minutes, Jerry Lee Lewis is no longer a frail old man. He's the virile punk who helped invent rock 'n' roll 50 years ago.

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Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing Live

by Vladimir Wormwood

[2.Mar.07] :. Pop culture is many things, but it is often flashy, fast-paced and forgetful. Last Man Standing Live takes a moment.

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Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing

by Lou Friedman

[6.Oct.06] :. Sun Records, the IRS, alcohol, and marrying his 13-year-old second cousin had been the brunt of Jerry Lee Lewis' legacy -- until now. Here's a "duets" record that actually works completely.

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Jerry Lee Lewis

by David Pulizzi

[1.May.06] :. Jerry Lee's fingers still sting the ivories, even if, these days, there's not a whole lotta shakin' going on.

 

Jerry Lee Lewis: I Am What I Am [DVD]

by Dan Nishimoto

[13.Dec.04] :. Jerry Lee Lewis: certifiable icon or rogue caricature? The pianist-vocalist has been characterized as both, perhaps inevitably: he is known as much for his firebrand personality as for his hits. To...