'If Elvis had a bit of grace to him, Jerry Lee seemed possessed; and Jerry Lee, far more than Elvis, came to represent all the mythical strangeness of the redneck South: lynch-mob blood lust, populist frenzies, even incest."
So wrote Greil Marcus, the greatest ever rock'n'roll writer, about the man he considered the second-greatest rock'n'roller after Presley. In that sentence, Marcus encapsulates the walking paradox that is Jerry Lee Lewis.
Red of hair and of neck, the Pentecostal Christian (and first cousin of Jimmy Swaggart) who vehemently denied that rock'n'roll was the devil's music, but who was thrown out of his job as a church pianist for sneaking too much boogie-woogie into the hymns, the lover of blues who used to sneak off to black nightclubs in his teens, but who also flew the Confederate flag, sang borderline-racist songs like "Ubangi Stomp" and freely used the N-word.
One oft-repeated rock'n'roll myth concerns the time, back in the Fifties, when Lewis shared a bill with Chuck Berry in New York. Having lost a coin-flip, he went onstage first, and finished his show by setting fire to his piano. As he left to deafening applause, he turned to Berry and taunted "follow that, nigger."
Shake my nerves, rattle my brainBy Simon Price
Sunday, 4 July 2004
The IndependantVersion de Price, à propos de l'anecdote plus haut "Follow that......"
Version qui diffère sur le verbe mais pas sur le mot utilisé pour désigner Berry....et puis ce ne sont probablement que des ragots de journaleux !
Seemed, represent, myth...Tu sais lire l'anglais ???

Les écrivains ont besoin de faire un roman, rien de mal à cela...pour autant, Richelieu est t'il vraiment le personnage décrit dans les trois mousquetaires ??? Bien sur que non !
Bref, j'ai des sources, tu as des à prioris, c'est bien ce que je disais !
