#2: Midnight Jerry Leiber/Part 1

THE IRVING BERLIN OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
We worked on a book in which he would tell off the world, to be called Kiss My Big Black Ass. It remained unfinished. But Jerry Leiber blew my mind. And he was one bitch of a chef.
- Mike, to the left of Elvis, Jerry, to the right.
- Leiber & Stoller were the architects
- Jerry Leiber’s house facing the Pacific Ocean—where our conversations heated up after midnight