Live at the Star Club, Hamburg

Infobox Album
Name = Live At The Star Club
Type = live
Artist = Jerry Lee Lewis, backed by The Nashville Teens


Released = 1964
Recorded = Star-Club, Hamburg, April 5, 1964
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = German Philips
Producer =
Reviews =
*Rolling Stone Rating|5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jerryleelewis/albums/album/284513/review/5940644/live_at_the_star_club_hamburg_bear_family link]
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:oxkxu3q5an6k~T1 link]
*Amazon Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.amazon.com/Live-at-Star-Club-Hamburg/dp/B000001AW2 link]

"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.

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."Peter Checksfield, "Jerry Lee Lewis. The Greatest Live Show on Earth", "Record Collector", #188 - April 1995, p. 79.]

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 ..."Milo Miles, [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jerryleelewis/albums/album/284513/review/5940644/live_at_the_star_club_hamburg_bear_family Album review of "Live at the Star Club, Hamburg"] . "Rolling Stone", #899/900 - July 2002, p.112.]

Q Magazine:"This might be the most exciting performance ever recorded..." "Q Magazine", #1, 2002, p.59.]

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." "Mojo", 3/01/04, p.52. ]

Allmusic: "...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." Stephen Thomas Erlewine, [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:oxkxu3q5an6k~T1 Album Review: "Live at the Star Club, Hamburg"] at "Allmusic".]

Amazon (editorial review): "One of the greatest live albums in rock & roll history"."Steven Stoulder, [http://www.amazon.com/Live-at-Star-Club-Hamburg/dp/B000001AW2 Editorial review of "Live at the Star Club, Hamburg"] at "Amazon.com".]

Track listing

*A1 Mean Woman Blues (Claude Demetrius) 4:01
*A2 High School Confidential (Hargrave, Lewis) 2:25
*A3 Money (That's What I Want) (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy) 4:35
*A4 Matchbox (Carl Perkins) 2:46
*A5 What'd I Say, Part 1 (Ray Charles) 2:18
*A6 What'd I Say, Part 2 3:08
*B1 Great Balls of Fire (Otis Blackwell, Jack Hammer) 1:48
*B2 Good Golly, Miss Molly (Bumps Blackwell, John Marascalco) 2:19
*B3 Lewis' Boogie (Lewis) 1:55
*B4 Your Cheatin' Heart (Hank Williams) 3:03
*B5 Hound Dog (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) 2:28
*B6 Long Tall Sally (Enotris Johnson, Little Richard) 1:52
*B7 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Sunny David, Dave 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.

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