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"The Killer," Jerry Lee Lewis, Dies at 87

One of my all time favorite musicians. This dude blew the lid off the joint when he came out. So influential.
Yeah. Marrying his 13 year old cousin and having seven wives, with two of them being found dead under mysterious circumstances, was more than a black eye. But on stage he was a total original.

(Variety) Singer-pianist Jerry Lee Lewis, the hell-raising, larger-than-life rock ‘n’ roll pioneer and latter-day country star, has died, according to a rep, Zach Farnum. He was 87.

“Judith, his seventh wife, was by his side when he passed away at his home in Desoto County, Mississippi, south of Memphis,” Farnum’s statement said. “He told her, in his final days, that he welcomed the hereafter, and that he was not afraid.”

Lewis — an inaugural inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, a 2005 recipient of a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award and, at the age of 86, a 2022 inductee of the Country Music Hall of Fame — was a powerhouse keyboardist, mercurial vocalist and rampaging, unpredictable showman who could master virtually any song, be it rock ‘n’ roll, country, R&B, gospel or pop.


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dancingtongue · 80-89, M
Sun Music's rock-a-billies are pretty much gone: Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and now Jerry Lee. My grandson did a great impression of Jerry Lee doing Great Balls of Fire at his piano recital when he was about 10, kicking back the piano bench, everything short of playing the piano with his boot heels. Some pretty good old videos on YouTube of their Sun Music days and later revivals on The Johnny Cash Show and other TV shows.
Ynotisay · M
@dancingtongue Good one. One of my favorites, Chris Issak, released an album about ten years ago that he recorded at Sun Studios. Covers of the big boys who came out of there. Great Balls of Fire was on it. What was cool is he recorded just the way they did back then. Everyone standing around mic. He's talked about the energy in that studio. When you consider who came out of there, it's a who's-who of American rock and roll.
hunkalove · 70-79, M
@Ynotisay I was in that studio in 1978. It still had the vibe!
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
@Ynotisay Of classic country music as well.
Ynotisay · M
@hunkalove That must have been SO cool. I bet you could feel the vibe. That's a spot I'd like to check out. "If the walls could talk."