Jerry Lee Lewis: The Start of It All
Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 1970
I PLAYED 'Great Balls Of Fire' to some college students last week. And while it played, and while they listened, I closed my eyes and remembered hearing it all those years ago.
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