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  • Music

    JERRY LEE LEWIS

  • Movies

    Great balls of Fire

  • Books

    The Devil Me and Jerry Lee
    By Linda Gail Lewis
    Great Balls of Fire!
    By Myra Gale Lewis
    Killer!
    By Jerry Lee Lewis and Charles White
    Hellfire
    By Nick Tosches
    Rockin'My Life Away:Listening to Jerry Lee Lewis
    By Jimmy Guterman
    Jerry Lee Lewis Rocks
    By Robert Palmer

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About me:

Jerry Lee Lewis was born on September 29, 1935 into a very religious family . His family, though not very wealthy, sold their house when he was a child to get their son a piano. He loved to play piano. He was sent to a religious school, but was soon thrown out shortly thereafter -- he did a boogie version of a song about Jesus, something the school could not accept. At 17, he married for the first time, but it only lasted seven months. He married a second time three weeks before he his divorce from his first wife was final. His second marriage lasted about four years and they had his first child.
In November 1956 he moved in with a cousin, J. W. Brown,(www.myspace.com/jwbrownmusic) in Memphis. They started a band together, with Jerry as singer, JW on bass, and Russ Smith on drums. They sold a copy of their first song, "Crazy Arms", to the legendary Sam Phillips, president of Sun Records. Phillips had become famous because of his discovery of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Phillips liked the song, and Jerry Lee Lewis began to establish his name in Memphis in late 1956.
In January 1957, he recorded a new song, the self-penned "End of the Road." It was unusual in that singers did not write their own songs at that time. Jerry was fresh in other ways, too. He not only wrote some of his own songs, he played piano. Other rock singer of that era played guitar, such as Elvis Presley, Tommy Steele, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, etc. The piano wasn't considered a rock and roll instrument - Jerry Lee Lewis changed all that.
Jerry got his big break in April 1957, when he went to New York and appeared on "The Steve Allen Show" (1956) with the "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On". A couple of #1 hits would soon follow -- "Great Balls of Fire" (which became his signature song) and "High School Confidential". Many people predicted that Jerry Lee would be bigger than the King of Rock-n-Roll - Elvis Presley. In late 1957 the audiences at one of his shows stormed the stage when he set a piano on fire. Chuck Berry was supposed to have ended the evening's show, but he refused to go on, wisely understanding that he could never top what Jerry just did. Elvis went into the army in the late winter of 1958, so Jerry Lee was now virtually alone at the top of the rock heap. In 1957, he married for a third time to the daughter of Lois and JW Brown, Myra Gale Brown. Her parents were upset when they found out, but after a discussion with Sam Phillips, they forgave Jerry.
Jerry and Myra had one son, Steve Allen Lewis, who passed away at the age of three. They also had a daughter, Phoebe Lewis. The couple divorced in 1970. However, Jerry's career was not completely finished. In 1968 he made his great comeback, as a country singer. During the next few years, he more and more rock 'n' roll.
He married a fourth time in October 1971 but the marriage ended two years later. That same year, Jerry's son from his first marriage died in an auto accident. The combination of divorce, personal tragedies and his career stagnation contributed to his turning to the bottle, and for the next 15 years Jerry had a severe drinking problem. His drinking also contributed to a rash of health problems, and he almost died of a ruptured stomach in 1981. People thought that The Killer was finished. But he wasn't.
Jerry Lee Lewis puts on brilliant concerts even today, in his 70's, and with his wild life behind him. He divorced his sixth wife in the summer of 2005, after over 20 years of marriage. He is still a wild man - and he is still on fire!

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Details

  • Status: Divorced
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: Ferriday, Louisiana
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Body type: 6' 0" / Average
  • Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
  • Religion: Christian - other
  • Zodiac Sign: Libra
  • Children: Proud parent
  • Smoke / Drink: Yes / Yes
  • Education: High school
  • Occupation: Musician/King of Rock N Roll
  • Income: $250,000 and Higher

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