Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
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| Live At The Star Club | ||
|---|---|---|
| Live album by Jerry Lee Lewis, backed by The Nashville Teens | ||
| Released | 1964 | |
| Recorded | Star-Club, Hamburg, April 5, 1964 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Label | German Philips | |
| Professional reviews | ||
Live at the Star Club is a live recording with Jerry Lee Lewis and The Nashville Teens playing at the Star-Club, Hamburg, Germany, April 5, 1964. It is regarded by many music journalists as one of the wildest rock and roll concert albums ever[1][2][3][4][5][6].
[edit] Album critics
Record Collector: "All but the first song from this set, recorded with the Nashville Teens, was issued on what's widely regarded as the wildest rock'n roll album of all time - Live At The Star-Club."[1]
Rolling Stone: ""Live At The Star Club, Hamburg" is not an album, it's a crime scene: Jerry Lee Lewis slaughters his rivals in a thirteen-song set that feels like one long convulsion. Recorded April 5th, 1964, this is the earliest and most feral of Lewis' concert releases from his wilderness years ..."[2]
Q Magazine:"This might be the most exciting performance ever recorded..." [3]
Included in Mojo's "The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own!" - "[A]n unbelievably seismic document of rock 'n' roll so demonic and primal it can barely keep its stage suit on....It's up there with James Brown's great live albums." [4]
All Music Guide: "...he sounds possessed, hitting the keys so hard it sounds like they'll break, and rocking harder than anybody had before or since. Compared to this, thrash metal sounds tame, the Stooges sound constrained, hardcore punk seems neutered, and the Sex Pistols sound like wimps. Rock & roll is about the fire in the performance, and nothing sounds as fiery as this; nothing hits as hard or sounds as loud, either. It is no stretch to call this the greatest live album ever, nor is it a stretch to call it the greatest rock & roll album ever recorded. Even so, words can't describe the music here — it truly has to be heard to be believed." [5]
Amazon (editorial review): "One of the greatest live albums in rock & roll history."[6]
[edit] Track listing
- A1 Mean Woman Blues (Demetrius) 4:01
- A2 High School Confidential (Hargrave, Lewis) 2:25
- A3 Money (That's What I Want) (Bradford, Cordy) 4:35
- A4 Matchbox (Perkins) 2:46
- A5 What'd I Say, Part 1 (Charles) 2:18
- A6 What'd I Say, Part 2 3:08
- B1 Great Balls of Fire (Blackwell, Hammer) 1:48
- B2 Good Golly, Miss Molly (Blackwell, Marascalco) 2:19
- B3 Lewis' Boogie (Lewis) 1:55
- B4 Your Cheatin' Heart (Williams) 3:03
- B5 Hound Dog (Leiber, Stoller) 2:28
- B6 Long Tall Sally (Johnson,Little Richard) 1:52
- B7 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (David, Williams) 4:24
The song "Down The Line", played at the concert, was omitted on the original LP due to a sound fault at the beginning, but is available on later CD editions.
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Peter Checksfield, "Jerry Lee Lewis. The Greatest Live Show on Earth", Record Collector, #188 - April 1995, p. 79.
- ^ a b Milo Miles, Album review of Live at the Star Club, Hamburg. Rolling Stone, #899/900 - July 2002, p.112.
- ^ a b Q Magazine, #1, 2002, p.59.
- ^ a b Mojo, 3/01/04, p.52.
- ^ a b Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Album Review: "Live at the Star Club, Hamburg" at All Music Guide.
- ^ a b Steven Stoulder, Editorial review of "Live at the Star Club, Hamburg" at Amazon.com.
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