Foreword / by Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats -- Prologue: Limehouse Studios, London, England, October 21, 1985 -- The little chill bumps stood up on my arms -- The harder they fought, the louder we played -- I'm Carl Perkins and I want to make a record for you -- I thought, "You fool, that's a stupid shoe, and that's a pretty girl, man" -- I remember the Chesapeake Bay Ferry and it's the last thing I remember for three days -- Put four Cadillacs in his yard, and 200 singin' girls trying to climb the fence, and you got some trouble -- Mr. Phillips, it ain't gonna do me no good to stay down here -- I knew that I was just gonna get drunk -- I thought they looked like girls, but I liked their records straight away -- I hadn't seen audiences like that in America for years - I'd almost given up -- Johnny Cash is a humanitarian, a very charitable man - he's a fine dude -- I don't think "Blue Suede Shoes" touches a song like "Daddy Sang Bass" -- Every time I had a death in my family, Elvis knew about it -- There's no better place in the world for a man to be number one than in his own home -- You're great - you're George Harrison of the Beatles -- I am really so humbled when Eric Clapton and George Harrison say, "Carl, we like what you did" -- Not knowing about radiation, I didn't know what I was in for -- There is a deep love with this little group -- I never wanted that mansion on the hill with the iron fence around it -- Remember Carl Perkins said to you, "Winners never quit and quitters never win -- Epilogue: What happened next.