Nick Tosches gives us a propulsive story of the usual sorrowful mess that uneducated people make out of the blowtorch success and consequent clifftop plunges intrinsic to the life of the popular musician.
Well, sometimes success is influence, and that can’t be measured. Soon she’ll have racked up more by herself than Chuck, Fats, Little Richard & Jerry Lee combined. Jerry Lee : 3 top ten hits, same in the UKĬompare that pitiful record with any successful act from today – lets pluck Rihanna from the many we could name – and we find that so far she has had 19 top ten hits.
Little Richard : 4 top ten US hits, 5 in the UK Oh, and they all had similar very brief and pretty unremarkable chart success, in spite of how their names ring out down the years.įats : 9 top ten US hits, only one in the UK The shit you can do to yourself and live! Keith Richards didn’t invent it. Having read the story of Jerry Lee Lewis I have a new respect for the durability of the human body. They took it all, drank it all, shagged it all, tore it all down and lived to a remarkable old age! Now surely that wasn’t in the script? It just ain’t rock and roll. Jerry Lee Lewis – hits 1956-7 - 79 years old, still goin strongįour of the original wild rockers. Little Richard – hits 1955-58 - 82 years old, still goin strong Why the hell aren’t these guys dead? Look at this :įats Domino – hits 1955-59 – 87 years old, still goin strongĬhuck Berry – hits 1955-61- 88 years old, still goin strong
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