Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Jerry Lee Lewis
Live At The Star-Club, Hamburg
(Philips, 1964)
The Killer slays ’em at number 39, Grosse Freiheit.
From April 5, 1964, yet more evidence of the special Deutsche-Amerikanische Freundschaft that gave us The Monks and Malcolm Mooney-era Can. Since 1958, Louisiana rock and roller Jerry Lee had been in the outer darkness in the UK and America for his hillbilly marriage practices, but if he was back to playing the saloon bars, he was in no mood to moderate his uniquely forceful performance style, especially not for this notoriously frenzy-friendly venue. Because apart from a get-your-breath-back, lonesome saunter through Hank Williams’ Your Cheatin’ Heart and a bluesy breakdown during Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On, Live At The Star-Club, Hamburg is an astonishingly powerful rock’n’roll document. With UK hitmakers-to-be The Nashville Teens press-ganged into backing him, Jerry Lee stomps, hollers, jumps on the piano (probably) and plays at what sound like ferociously pilled-up speeds - see how, during the super-filthy High School Confidential, drummer Roger Groom hangs for grim death, forced to play like a cavemen by the sheer velocity of his singer, who responds to the no-doubt helpless gawping of his band by pouring on the heat even more. Of course, Jerry pretends this is all par for the course and maintains an almost debonair mien as he roars and showboats on the piano while gangs of adoring West German teds chant his name and swing bike chains. “It feels good!” he salivates on Great Balls Of Fire; 44 years on, it surely does.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 26/07/2008
Further Listening
James Brown – Live At The Apollo (King, 1963)
The Who – Live At Leeds (Track, 1970)
Dr Feelgood – Stupidity (UA, 1976)
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The greatest captured at his manic best!
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This truly is the essence of rock'n'roll. It doesn't get any better than this album
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RE: Jon Dennis ,you could not put it any better
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