“Thank you. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. I’d like to say it’s a pleasure; a great honour to be back, at the fabulous, most beautiful, I mean really swinging Star Club, alright!”
That’s how Jerry Lee Lewis addresses the adoring crowd present at the Star Club in Hamburg on April 5, 1964. And from opening track Mean Woman Blues onwards. it's impossible to listen to the purest, rawest rock show ever committed to vinyl without envying those lucky souls fortunate enough to have had front row seats on the night. as 'The Killer' lives up to his moniker by decimating all other live entertainers.
Formalities dispensed with, Lewis and the Nashville Teens launch straight into a ferocious rendition of 1958 hit High School Confidential, at the end of which the crowd breaks out into hysterical screams of “JERRY JERRY JERRY!” From there on in, the Ferriday, Louisiana legend has his audience in the palm of his hand, and half hour that follows is the most relentless rock ‘n’ roll ride money can buy.
