Jerry Lee Lewis
Ramada Inn, Boston, Massachusetts, 1976
Jerry Lee, a.k.a. "The Killer," is in
the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame, but his roots are deep country and
his life pure soap opera. He set his stage piano on fire, married
his thirteen-year-old cousin, and endured health problems and family
tragedies. The story was well told in 1989's Great
Balls of Fire, with Dennis Quaid as The Killer. After his rock
career died, Lewis was a constant presence on the country charts in
the 1960s and 1970s, with songs that sound much like his life: "What's
Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)," "She
Still Comes Around (to Love What's Left of Me)," "There
Must be More to Life Than This." |
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