The music suited his piano style, and the lyrics fit the emotions he brought to every performance. This is FRESH AIR. Jerry Lee Lewis, who died recently at age 87, was the last of the first ...

For the longest time, it seemed that if Jerry Lee Lewis wasn’t ... Elvis movies Lewis experienced a comeback in country music during the late ’60s – around the same time he starred as ...

Initially he planned to sing country music, but the producer Jack Clement urged him to try rock ’n’ roll. The label on his first single billed him as “Jerry Lee Lewis With His Pumping Piano.” ...

Moreover, by the time Lewis tried to reestablish his rock & roll credentials in America, the Beatles were expanding all the possibilities of the music Jerry Lee and Carl Perkins and Chuck Berry ...

Lewis upended pop music with ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin ... “I was called the child bride, but I was the adult and Jerry was the child,” Williams said. “When I look back on it, how ...

Jerry Lee Lewis, who died on Oct. 28, was an unrepentant pioneer of rock ’n’ roll: a white Southerner who steeped himself in Black music, a two-fisted boogie-woogie piano player, a blues ...

both of whom started their music careers in different genres, Jerry Lee Lewis, who began as a rock performer, and the late Keith Whitley, who initially got his start as a bluegrass performer.

Jerry Lee Lewis Dead: Dennis Quaid, Ringo Starr, Elton John and More Remember Late Rocker Lewis was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame earlier this month, but he was unable to make the ...

In 1957, 22-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis married Myra Gale Brown. Lewis had been married twice before. His second marriage in ...

Jerry Lee Lewis was too sick to attend his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday (Oct. 16). The rock and country music legend instead wrote a note and asked Hank Williams Jr. to ...

Much like the piano bench he kicked mercilessly across the stage during his explosive performances, Jerry Lee Lewis helped upend the staid, polished pop music that still dominated the playlists of ...