Incest, pills, bigamy, Pentecostal rage. A frontline report on the furious battle for the tortured soul of The Killer. A flat-out Southern gothic masterpiece.
Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story by Nick Tosches (Penguin)
Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties by Ian MacDonald (Vintage)
Brilliant and scholarly critical appraisal of everything they recorded. Utterly indispensable. All that is Fab is here.
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion by Robert Gordon (Bloomsbury)
The rise and fall of a small independent record label that gave the Civil Rights movement its groove and became a monument to racial harmony in segregated Memphis.
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