Jerry Lee Lewis was 87 and one of the pioneers of rock’n roll
Jerry Lee Lewisone of the pioneers of rock n roll 1950s American, is dead at the age of 87. The information was confirmed by his agents al AFP.
He was known for being difficult to get along with, for playing shorter and shorter shows, and for, one day, setting the piano on fire. Jerry Lee Lewis it was one of the most explosive expressions produced by rock and roll of its heyday.
From Ferriday, in the southern Louisiana Territories, Jerry Lee had proven himself a piano ace since learning from black kids how to boogie woogie moves on the keys. The family was poor, there were no conditions for luxuries like a piano, but the parents decided to gamble when they realized the boy’s euphoria and decided to mortgage their home to buy an instrument.
Anyone who would see him later could not believe that Lewis grew up on the pews of a Pentecostal church. For a while, but he grew up. He learned the word of God with some dedication until the day he realized that gospel music was a cousin of the blues, an almost unthinkable union since the first was for God and the second, especially according to the stories told since the beginning of The 20th century to anyone who knew Robert Johnson up close was for cramullion.
In the year 1950, the coexistence of good and evil became incompatible for the Southwestern Bible Institute of Texas and the boy Lee Lewis was expelled for “misconduct”. And playing rock and roll instead of singing the sacred songs was among them.
It was there when it all started. In 1954, the year many biographers point to as the birth date of rock and roll itself, Lee recorded his first song and quickly entered the scene that would become the first generation of the genre.
At the hands of a daring sound engineer, Jack Clement, Lewis recorded a recording for Sam Phillips’ label, Sun Records. Detail: Sum was on his way and would only find out when she returned. There, she joined the team of Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, all starting together. His successes then began to travel the world. Whole Lotta Shakin ‘Goin’ On came in 1957. Right after Great Balls Of Fire.
Lewis’s life, while all was well within the studios, seemed to want to write a dramatic screenplay for the cinema. The biggest secret of him since success was discovered as he exploded like a bomb. The press revealed that Lewis, then 23, had married a 13-year-old second cousin, Myra Gale Brown. All this on a UK tour. After the third show, the musician returned home. And there was never more peace.
The album Live at the Star Club, Hamburg (from 1964), came to restore some of Lewis’s honor and ended up becoming one of the best rock records of the time. But Lewis lost territory and even emigrated to the country in search of a new audience. The grand piano tornado phase would never have been the same as before in the UK. For the next several decades, he could only reproduce what he made of him in his few years of genius.
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