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List Price: $22.98 | | Label: Bear Family
Salesrank: 66889
Released: June 27, 1994 |
| Our Price: $17.63 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Live at the Star Club, Hamburg Track Listing:
1. Mean Woman Blues - Jerry Lee Lewis, Demetrius, Claude
2. High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis, Hargrave, Ron
3. Money (That's What I Want) - Jerry Lee Lewis, Bradford, Janie
4. Matchbox - Jerry Lee Lewis, Perkins, Carl [Rock
5. What'd I Say, Pt. 1 - Jerry Lee Lewis, Charles, Ray [1]
6. What'd I Say, Pt. 2 - Jerry Lee Lewis, Charles, Ray [1]
7. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis, Blackwell, Otis
8. Good Golly Miss Molly - Jerry Lee Lewis, Blackwell, Robert "
9. Lewis Boogie - Jerry Lee Lewis, Lewis, Jerry Lee
10. Your Cheatin' Heart - Jerry Lee Lewis, Williams, Hank [1]
11. Hound Dog - Jerry Lee Lewis, Leiber, Jerry
12. Long Tall Sally - Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnson, Enotris
13. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis, David, Sonny
14. Down the Line - Jerry Lee Lewis, Orbison, Roy
Editorial Review:
Take one oversize talent with an ego the size of the chip on his shoulder. Put him in front of a frenzied German audience, and set him loose. What do you have? One of the greatest live albums in rock & roll history. Recorded in 1964 at the same club where the Beatles cut their teeth, Live at the Star Club, Hamburg captures the Killer when he was on the outs as a recording artist. (It took him years to recover from the scandal that ensued when he wed his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown.) Lewis didn't require acceptance, however; he just needed an audience, a piano, and a rhythm section willing to hang on to "old Jerry Lee" for dear life. The repertoire is rife with staples of the day--"Money," "Mean Woman Blues," "Long Tall Sally," "Hound Dog"--but the Killer has no trouble customizing them with his pumping piano and insinuating vocals. "When Jerry does something, I do it mighty good," he boasts in "What'd I Say." No argument here. --Steven Stolder
Live at the Star Club, Hamburg Reviews:
Truly Wild 
2008-07-17 - The Killer transcended the mortal coil this night. It took me a few listens to understand this. After reading the rhapsodic reviews, I listened for something discrete in his playing, bud didn't hear it. On a subsequent listen, I stopped scrutinizing it, and I felt the wildness and power of the recording. Not wild in any planned, reproducible way, the man is seemingly coming unglued mentally, much to the benefit of the music.
Jerry Lee makes us all his female dog
2008-05-14 - If Elmore Leonard is Elvis, then James Ellroy is Jerry Lee Lewis. The first is entertaining and hints at danger, the second delivers. It simply doesn't rock harder than this. His other recordings only hint at the level of malice and fury delivered here.
It must be listened to at high volume. This ain't no sippin' tea. Buy it now and blow out your stereo. Hyperbole is irrelevant here.
I Don't Care Where you Get The Money
2007-11-04 - Just buy this cd.
I bought one then another couple years later.
It is a stunner.
I got to go to the Star Club in 1982..long after the fact.
And I got chills of the history of the Beatles there.
This cd will be on the all time list of must have live performances.
Jerry Lee Lewis,my could you rock and roll !
Warning: this album will kill you.
2007-07-15 - Words really can't describe this record. It's too loud, too energetic, and far too ferocious to be contianed by lame adjectives like "loud," "energetic," or "ferocious." In fact, I think that punctuation would do a much better job of summing up the Live at the Star Club experience: "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Still not satisfied? See, the thing is, this album captures one of the most incredible performances in the entire history of rock n roll- Jerry Lee Lewis doesn't so much play these songs as demolish them, ripping through each number with the focused intensity of a laser, single-mindedly plowing through verses and choruses without so much as stopping to catch a breath. He plays the song with pure, sweaty, unhinged abandon, hurling himself across his piano, pounding the keys into submission, making it spit forth notes like a flamethrower, slaughtering the air around him with pure sound. His vocals, meanwhile, channel the very spirit of rock n roll, dripping with enough soul and sexuality to turn a nun into a go-go dancer (trust me, I've tried. Controlled experiment. I'd do anything for science, you know). His vocals transcend whatever lyrics he happens to be singing- the guy could be belting out the copyright information to a Portugese biology textbook and make it sound like a dance craze. In other words, Jerry's performance is rock in its ideal form, a frenzied blast of blood-curdling ferocity that'll make you dance, scream, and beat up the guy next to you all at the same time. Just like Beethoven or the Beatles, it's music for the ages. If you're human, get this. Get this now. Good golly.
Awesome
2007-04-17 - This is absolutely an Awesome, Incediary performance by the Killer. His backing band, The Nashville Teens, put in a great performance trying to keep up; they lose it now and again but Jerry Lee drags them back to the fold. I can't add too much more here, the other reviewers have covered this album quite well so all I'll say is go out and get it and enjoy probably the best live album ever released.
