This was done in a triumphant tour where JLL returned to Europe starting out with a tour of Britain that was outstanding.I've seen a film of what was no doubt the greatest single rock and roll performance of all history on that tour, one of the British teen rock shows I was recently informed was a special for Granada Television with Little Richard opening and Jerry Lee Lewis closing. It drove the studio audience into a near riot, drove me into near riot seeing it, unfortunately before I owned a vcr!

But we have this performance. Yes Jerry is cocky and Egoistic. The last time he hit Europe he was driven out of England by booing crowds because of his marriage, and when he returned to the USA his entire career fell into a shambles and he was denounced as a moral degenerate, backward "hillbilly" and thrown on the ash heep of history. Even though Lewis's music got better and better, there would be no more number one hits (he had several that went number one in R & B, Pop, and County at the same time!!!)until he went solid country in the middle 1970s. Now he has already conquered England with terrific smashing well reviewed shows and crowds that loved him. Now it is his time to celelbrate.

Here he is back, and even though he is just playing with a German pickup band, he is really burning the music out. He is in his element with a hot crowd of people who are drinking, seducing, and partying like there is no tommorrow (and probably no tommorrow but a hangover), and he is rising to the occaision.
This is his glorious triumph, there is no doubt about it when you listen to this rocking and rolling music and here the man talk as only he can.

Somehow if Jerry Lee Lewis became modest, I think someone should get him to a doctor and tell him he is THE KILLER and needs to bow his head before no man. He can't stop, like old Johnny Lee Hooker said, the boogie is in him, and it's got to get out. I saw him a couple years ago when he was 65, and he was so hot and strong, that I had to leave the concert hall when he was done, because why would you want anything else to follow him

This is one of those CDs you need. Even if you don't have a CD player, buy the CD now, get the player later!


THE GREATEST "LIVE" ALBUM EVER RECORDED!   June 16, 1999
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

Jerry Lee Lewis....in deep remorse during this period from his son's drowninaccident ...Jerry Lee Comes to Germany and EXPLODES with such ferocity that everyone who listens to this performancejust listens in awe!!!!Non-stop rock & roll....even "Your Cheatin' Heart" comes across with an anger Hank Wiliams never imagined...Props to the Nashville Teens for managing to keep up with "The Killer"!!! This performance is a MUST for anyone curious about the POWER of Jerry Lee Lewis in his prime!!! Turn this one up REAL LOUD...sit in front of the speaker, and bear witness to "The Greatest Live Album" ever recorded!


Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!   September 30, 2003
Johnny Heering (Bethel, CT United States)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

Is this the greatest live album of all time? It very well may be. At the very least, it's the greatest live album by any of the "founding fathers" of rock and roll. Jerry Lee Lewis, with the capable backing of "one hit wonders" the Nashville Teens, blazes his way through an awesome set. Jerry Lee has the crowd in the palm of his hand, and don't think he doesn't know it. This is not just a live album, it's an epic document of a man that many considered to be a has-been proving that he still could rock harder than anybody.


HARDER THAN A ROCK   March 23, 2000
James Tutwiler (Los Angeles, CA United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Jerry Lee Lewis is the Frank Sinatra of Rock and Roll. He's never written a song that matters but his interpretation and feel for music is unquestionably great. His place in American music history is equal to Howlin' Wolf in the sense that he is both mysterious and predictable, simple yet complicated. This live record is demonstrative of everything Jerry Lee Lewis was and is. It is also demonstrative of why rock and roll should never die. Because passion in art is everything. And if there's anything this artist possesses, it's true god given passion for his calling. How can one man travel this road for so long? Playing honky tonks and stadiums. Being poor then rich then poor then God knows what. The peaks and valleys of a career that's been called dead then alive more times Elvis. It has never been what Jerry Lee Lewis plays on the piano that matters, but how he plays it. The spirit and fire that emanantes from his very being is the very essence of what has given rock music the longivity it feebly holds onto. What is so incredible is that between Jerry Lee Lewis and Iggy Pop, not much else exists in the way of true living American rock and rollers. Listening to this only-could have-happened-at-this-one-time record almost explains why. Almost.