Jeff apter biography book

Carl Perkins is an unexpected choice of subject for the prolific musician biographer Jeff Apter, who lays out the life of the atypically modest rock star in "Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly. That best-seller by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugarman, chronicles the live-fast-die-young life of the notoriously unstable Morrison, who rarely met a drug he didn't love, especially alcohol, until his death in at age Perkins, who lived to be 65, is the anti-Morrison.

The legend who gave the world "Blue Suede Shoes" did share the prosaic disease of alcoholism with Morrison, but that's about it. Although Apter relates few drunken escapades by Perkins, the ones he does reveal are not barn burners:.

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Luckily, there's a lot more to Perkins than his faults. The Beatles certainly thought so. Apter points out that George Harrison, still recovering from treatment for throat cancer, flew to Jackson with his wife, Olivia, to attend and sing at Perkins' funeral. Paul McCartney recruited Perkins to recording sessions in Monserrat in the Caribbean in so he could feature him on one of his best albums, "Tug of War.

George Harrison used "Carl Harrison" as his stage name for a time, in tribute to Perkins, according to Apter. From Perkins' first guitar — a cigar box attached to a broom handle with two strings made from bailing wire — to his many lesser-known yet influential songs "Daddy Sang Bass," "Dixie Fried," "Your True Love" , Apter succeeds in showing how much more there was to Perkins than "Blue Suede Shoes.

He lets Cash, who employed Perkins for nearly a decade in his band when Perkins' career was flagging, make the point:.