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DISCID=bb09710e
DTITLE=Jerry Lee Lewis / Live At The Star-Club Hamburg
DYEAR=1964
DGENRE=
TTITLE0=Mean Woman Blues
TTITLE1=High School Confidential
TTITLE2=Money
TTITLE3=Matchbox
TTITLE4=What'd I Say, Part 1
TTITLE5=What'd I Say, Part 2
TTITLE6=Great Balls Of Fire
TTITLE7=Good Golly Miss Molly
TTITLE8=Lewis' Boogie
TTITLE9=Your Cheatin' Heart
TTITLE10=Hound Dog
TTITLE11=Long Tall Sally
TTITLE12=Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
TTITLE13=Down The Line
EXTD=Live At The Star-Club Hamburg\n1989 Bear Family Records\n\nOrigin
EXTD=ally Released 1964\nRhino CD Edition Released March 24, 1992\nBea
EXTD=r Family CD Edition Released July 31, 1989\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: 
EXTD=Words cannot describe -- cannot contain -- the performance captur
EXTD=ed on Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, an album that contains the 
EXTD=very essence of rock & roll. When Jerry Lee Lewis performed the c
EXTD=oncert that became this album in the spring of 1964, his career w
EXTD=as at its lowest point. Following his scandalous marriage to his 
EXTD=teenage cousin, he was virtually blacklisted in the U.S., and by 
EXTD=1964 it had been six years since he had a real hit single, he was
EXTD= starting his recording career again with a new label, and, to ma
EXTD=ke matters worse, America had fallen in love with the Beatles and
EXTD= the bands that followed in the British Invasion, leaving him exi
EXTD=led from the charts. Ironically, he wound up in the Beatles' old 
EXTD=haunt of the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, in the spring of 1964
EXTD=, backed by the Nashville Teens, who still had yet to have a hit 
EXTD=with "Tobacco Road" (which would scale the charts later that year
EXTD=). Lewis and the Nashville Teens had been touring throughout the 
EXTD=group's native England for about a month, capped off by a stint a
EXTD=t the Star Club, where the band played for two weeks, but was onl
EXTD=y joined by the Killer for one night, which was what was captured
EXTD= on this incendiary recording. Who knows why this was a night whe
EXTD=re everything exploded for Jerry Lee Lewis? It sounds like all of
EXTD= his rage at not being the accepted king of rock & roll surfaced 
EXTD=that night, but that probably wasn't a conscious decision on his 
EXTD=part -- maybe the stars were aligned right, or perhaps he just wa
EXTD=s in a particularly nasty mood. Or maybe this is the way he sound
EXTD=ed on an average night in 1964. \n\nIn any case, Live at the Star
EXTD= Club is extraordinary -- the purest, hardest rock & roll ever co
EXTD=mmitted to record. It starts with the Killer launching into "Mean
EXTD= Woman Blues" at a tempo far faster than the band is prepared for
EXTD=, and he never, ever lets go from that moment forward. He pounds 
EXTD=the piano into submission, sings himself hoarse, berates the band
EXTD= ("What'd I Say, Pt. 2" has him yelling at a Nashville Teen to "p
EXTD=lay that thing right, boy!"), increases the tempo on each song, a
EXTD=nd joins in with the audience chanting his name. It's a crazed, u
EXTD=nhinged performance, with the Nashville Teens running wild to fol
EXTD=low his lead, and it's a great testament to the bandmembers that 
EXTD=they nearly manage to keep up with him. One of the profound pleas
EXTD=ures of this record is hearing the band try to run with Jerry Lee
EXTD=, which is exceeded only by the sheer dementia of the Killer's pe
EXTD=rformance; he sounds possessed, hitting the keys so hard it sound
EXTD=s like they'll break, and rocking harder than anybody had before 
EXTD=or since. Compared to this, thrash metal sounds tame, the Stooges
EXTD= sound constrained, hardcore punk seems neutered, and the Sex Pis
EXTD=tols sound like wimps. Rock & roll is about the fire in the perfo
EXTD=rmance, and nothing sounds as fiery as this; nothing hits as hard
EXTD= or sounds as loud, either. It is no stretch to call this the gre
EXTD=atest live album ever, nor is it a stretch to call it the greates
EXTD=t rock & roll album ever recorded. Even so, words can't describe 
EXTD=the music here -- it truly has to be heard to be believed.   [The
EXTD= Bear Family issue of Live at the Star Club includes one bonus tr
EXTD=ack, a version of "Down the Line" that is marred by subpar fideli
EXTD=ty, including Jerry Lee singing partially off mike -- it maintain
EXTD=s the high quality of the rest of the record, but only fanatics n
EXTD=eed seek this edition out if they can easily obtain Rhino's domes
EXTD=tic pressing.]  -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOM
EXTD=ER REVIEW\nBest Live Record Ever!, July 27, 2005 \nBy  Elliott Co
EXTD=vert (White Bear Lake, MN, USA)\nThe title of my review does not 
EXTD=exaggerate. This record makes "Live at Leeds" or "Get Your Ya-Ya'
EXTD=s Out" sound like total garbage. Lewis recorded this record at th
EXTD=e low point of his career, when he had been marginalized by The B
EXTD=eatles and all the other British Skiffle groups musically (It sho
EXTD=uld be noted that The Star Club was one of the old hangouts of Th
EXTD=e Beatles), and his marriage to his 13 year old cousin had ruined
EXTD= his personal life and professional prospects. \n\nSo how did Lew
EXTD=is exact revenge? With this truly stunning record. The piano soun
EXTD=ds like it's on fire, the drums crash along with incredible speed
EXTD=, the vocals howl like a wounded wolf, and the attitude was unden
EXTD=iably punk, thirteen years before punk even existed. It is no exa
EXTD=ggeration to call this easily the best live record ever, and mayb
EXTD=e not too much to call it the greatest rock and roll record ever.
EXTD= \n\nThe song set is incredible as well. Lewis has his way with a
EXTD=ll his rivals: Elvis (Hound Dog), Ray Charles (What'd I Say), Han
EXTD=k Williams (Your Cheating Heart), Little Richard (Long Tall Sally
EXTD=/Good Golly Miss Molly), Carl Perkins (Matchbox), and he blows al
EXTD=l of them out of the water. All throughout the record you can jus
EXTD=t see it: Lewis pounding his piano, eyes shut, beads of sweat on 
EXTD=his forehead, his incredibly outmatched band (The Nashville Teens
EXTD=) struggling to keep up with The Killer. \n\nOne of very few reco
EXTD=rds that can be called perfect. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\n
EXTD=Awesome, April 17, 2007 \nBy  Anthony S. Prowse "Blues Cowboy" (M
EXTD=elbourne, Australia)\nThis is absolutely an Awesome, Incediary pe
EXTD=rformance by the Killer. His backing band, The Nashville Teens, p
EXTD=ut in a great performance trying to keep up; they lose it now and
EXTD= again but Jerry Lee drags them back to the fold. I can't add too
EXTD= much more here, the other reviewers have covered this album quit
EXTD=e well so all I'll say is go out and get it and enjoy probably th
EXTD=e best live album ever released. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW
EXTD=\n"Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!", April 15, 2007 \nBy  George Washington 
EXTD="First President of the Uni... (Texas)\nIn 1964, when Jerry Lee L
EXTD=ewis was just about washed up and left for dead by the music indu
EXTD=stry, he made the trek to Europe, where he recorded this very alb
EXTD=um. Backed by Britsh rock group The Nashville Teens, Jerry Lee to
EXTD=re through the thirteen songs found here with a kind of rabid int
EXTD=ensity that you can't even begin to imgine, much to the delight o
EXTD=f his audience of drunken, chanting German rock 'n' roll hounds. 
EXTD=As a result, this is one of the greatest rock records ever waxed,
EXTD= live or otherwise. The songs are a fantastic mix of classic r&b,
EXTD= rockabilly, blues, and rock n roll, the backing group is a feroc
EXTD=ious hurricaine of pounding rhythms, and the atmosphere is as rau
EXTD=cous as you could ever want. Most importantly, Lewis rules: He's 
EXTD=an absolute wild man, hooting, howling, screeching, scatting, and
EXTD= generally exploding his way the setlist, all the while pounding 
EXTD=his piano into submission, turning the keys into mush while makin
EXTD=g it sing like an angry hoolagin. This may have been recorded in 
EXTD=1964, when music was still relatively safe, but it nonetheless ma
EXTD=kes the Stooges sound like Pat Boone, Metallica sound like a game
EXTD= of tic-tac-toe, and the Sex Pistols sound like an elementary sch
EXTD=ool water gun fight. If you wanna hear rock n roll at its simples
EXTD=t, rudest, and rawest, get this, now. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER R
EXTD=EVIEW\nAlmost Hynotic if not totally , September 13, 2006 \nBy  M
EXTD=. Sallee (Middle America)\nI am listening to this right now and i
EXTD=t hard to quit and turn it off. I have not heard anything like th
EXTD=is before in terms of sheer energy and passion from a live album.
EXTD= Believe you me I have my share of what is considered great live 
EXTD=albums and this one is right at the top if not the top of the col
EXTD=lection I have accumulated. Them poor Nashville Teens trying to k
EXTD=eep up with Killer, they try and do succeed but not without diffi
EXTD=culties abounding. Like the Rolling Stone review said, this was n
EXTD=ot a live album, it was a crime scene. Succinctly put. \n\n\nAMAZ
EXTD=ON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nDeceptively Simplistic but really Moderni
EXTD=st Frenzy, June 16, 2006 \nBy  D. Garcia "cordedpoodle" (Los Ange
EXTD=les)\nFirst the bad part. Not a great recording. My baby equalize
EXTD=r has a hard time finding the sweet spot. The Piano is over miked
EXTD= and drowns out everything else to some extent. Probably did at t
EXTD=he show too though. Hard to record this type of loud stuff. \n\nL
EXTD=ewis may seem like a primitive but there are quite a few modernis
EXTD=t things going on here despite the simple chord changes. Multiple
EXTD= ostinoto counterpoint, noise a l punk or Velvet Underground, ne
EXTD=ar atonal guitar solos over a cacaphonous driving chordal clouds.
EXTD= Lots of chords. Loud piano chord ostinotos. Probably feedback at
EXTD= times adding to the jumble. \n\nLewis had obviously been listeni
EXTD=ng and absorbing the ideas of the hard core rock visionaries of t
EXTD=he then current contemporary times while still retaining his own 
EXTD=frenetic style. This is not wimpy revival musak. This is not your
EXTD= average "celebrity". He's a true musician and some kind of a biz
EXTD=arre artist. Passionate in his love for a wild ride. \n\nI give t
EXTD=he band credit too. I think they were better than given credit in
EXTD= some of these reviews. \n\nRecommended despite the poor recordin
EXTD=g. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nBuy this thing!!, April 21, 
EXTD=2006 \nBy  Joseph L. Krizsa "az guy" (tucson, AZ)\nIf you like yo
EXTD=ur rock-n-roll straight...straight from the roadhouses and honky 
EXTD=tonks where it began; if you like it straight...without light sho
EXTD=ws, fog machines, computerized laser equipment, etc...then this i
EXTD=s the one. \n\nHe is smoking here, on the edge of frenzy. A great
EXTD=, great disc!!! \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nJerry kicks out
EXTD= the jams!, July 25, 2005 \nBy  E. Klosterman "music connoisseur"
EXTD= (Midwest USA)\nAs many other reviewers have mentioned already, t
EXTD=his is the greatest rock and roll live album ever recorded. Jerry
EXTD= blasts through his songs like his whole life bet on it, and his 
EXTD=backing group the Nashville Teens get swept up in the rockin' wav
EXTD=e as everyone constantly teeters on the edge of spontaneous combu
EXTD=stion. While the MC5 did justice to rock performance using chains
EXTD=aw-like guitars and radical idealism, Jerry was the first to show
EXTD= the world how to really Kick Out The Jams, using only a piano, a
EXTD= no-name teen backing band, and a tarnished reputation to boot. A
EXTD=dd an ego bigger than Texas and you've got the rawest recording e
EXTD=ver. He even breathes life into his old favorites, "Great Balls o
EXTD=f Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin". I especially enjoy it when righ
EXTD=t at the end of "Whole Lotta Shakin" when the whole band goes int
EXTD=o ludicrous overdrive speed for the last minute or so. You won't 
EXTD=be disappointed. Just be sure to have a towel to wipe off the swe
EXTD=at that will drip off the CD after you play it. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM 
EXTD=CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe Apex of Angst, Anger, and Talent, June 3, 20
EXTD=05 \nBy  David L. Meyer (Fairfax, VA USA)\nA rock 'n roll prodigy
EXTD= who could never be corralled by marketer/managers like Col. Park
EXTD=er, Lewis at the age of 29 perceived himself sidelined by a 1964-
EXTD=culture obsessed with B&B (the Beatles and the Beach Boys). So he
EXTD= finds his catharsis one night in Hamburg, Germany, with a audien
EXTD=ce that had already seen and heard it all. They knew Lewis was ge
EXTD=nuine genius when the first finger hit the keyboard. When JLL sin
EXTD=gs "Money (That's What I Want)" - - all of Lewis' trials and trib
EXTD=ulations are expunged in the best rendition of that song ever per
EXTD=formed. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nTHE GREATEST "LIVE" ALB
EXTD=UM EVER RECORDED!, June 15, 1999 \nReviewer: A music fan\nJerry L
EXTD=ee Lewis....in deep remorse during this period from his son's dro
EXTD=wning accident ...Jerry Lee Comes to Germany and EXPLODES with su
EXTD=ch ferocity that everyone who listens to this performancejust lis
EXTD=tens in awe!!!!Non-stop rock & roll....even "Your Cheatin' Heart"
EXTD= comes across with an anger Hank Wiliams never imagined...Props t
EXTD=o the Nashville Teens for managing to keep up with "The Killer"!!
EXTD=! This performance is a MUST for anyone curious about the POWER o
EXTD=f Jerry Lee Lewis in his prime!!! Turn this one up REAL LOUD...si
EXTD=t in front of the speaker, and bear witness to "The Greatest Live
EXTD= Album" ever recorded! \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nPossibly
EXTD= the greatest Rock live performance of all time, July 12, 1998 \n
EXTD=By  JL Terry (jlterry@ix.netcom.com) (Somewhere, California)\n\nI
EXTD='m told that this 1964 concert occurred during JLL's "angry" peri
EXTD=od....Well, he certainly unleashed his energy and TALENT during t
EXTD=his concert. He doesn't ease into it; he starts at full speed and
EXTD= increases his speed until, by the seventh selection, "Great Ball
EXTD=s...", the audience is whipped into a frenzy, singing along (this
EXTD= song and "What I Say"). "High School Confidential" is so intense
EXTD= that, at times, JLL's backup has trouble keeping up with him. Go
EXTD=od quality CD sound. A superb ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta, driving, JLL per
EXTD=formance. The only regret is that JLL had to travel out of the US
EXTD=A to get the audience respect he deserves! \n\n\nHalf.com Details
EXTD= \nContributing artists: Nashville Teens \nProducer: Siegfried E.
EXTD= Loch \n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel includes: Jerry Lee Lewis (vocal
EXTD=s, piano); Nashville Teens.\n\nRecorded live at the Star Club, Ha
EXTD=mburg, Germany on April 5, 1964.\n\nBy 1964, Jerry Lee Lewis' car
EXTD=eer was in a downward spiral. He had never been able to bounce ba
EXTD=ck from his scandalous marriage to his teenage cousin, and the Be
EXTD=atles hadn't yet reintroduced the world to the rock & roll heroes
EXTD= of the '50s through their own interpretations. Lewis' creative f
EXTD=ire, though, would never go out. He continued to record and to pe
EXTD=rform for the rest of the century, his power utterly undiminished
EXTD=. This live album, then, catches his star in the ascendant, at le
EXTD=ast aesthetically.\nAccompanied by the then-unknown Nashville Tee
EXTD=ns (who would later score with "Tobacco Road"), he pays tribute t
EXTD=o his Sun records pals Roy Orbison ("Mean Woman Blues") and Carl 
EXTD=Perkins ("Matchbox") in addition to delivering definitive version
EXTD=s of his own classics ("Whole Lotta Shakin'," "Great Balls of Fir
EXTD=e"). Lewis performs with such an unhinged fervor, it's a wonder h
EXTD=e didn't dislocate something on that night in Hamburg. LIVE AT TH
EXTD=E STAR CLUB represents that point where rockabilly, country and R
EXTD=&B meet, in a blueprint laid out by one of the original rock & ro
EXTD=ll architects. After the original Sun recordings, this is the Lew
EXTD=is album to own.\n\nIndustry Reviews\n...One of the most storming
EXTD= live albums ever...\nMojo (05/01/2002)\n\n...The permanently tou
EXTD=ring, biphetamin-addicted rocker and Liverpudlian house band The 
EXTD=Nashville Teens race each other to the end of every song. This mi
EXTD=ght be the most exciting performance ever recorded...\nQ (01/01/2
EXTD=002)\n\nIncluded in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - [A]
EXTD=n unbelievably seismic document of rock 'n' roll so demonic and p
EXTD=rimal it can barely keep its stage suit on....It's up there with 
EXTD=James Brown's great live albums.\nMojo (03/01/2004)
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