Very interesting article on his life at the JLL website.
May he rest in peace.
He is no longer a “stranger in a strange land.”
Influenced a lot of people.
Shot by a jealous husband.
“...the last originator of rock...”
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I’m all for respecting the dead, but let’s not get carried away.
Someone mentioned that Pat Boone is still with us. He did sing white versions of R & B. I just can't get my mind around calling him a rocker.
I saw him in the audience at the Bull Pen Lounge in the basement of The Stockyard Restaurant in Nashville TN in 1990. He came there often to listen to the live music.
The house band kept asking him to get up and take over the keyboard. He refused for at least an hour.
About 2:30 AM, he finally went up to the stage to the keyboard. He started shouting “Are you ready? “ the crowd went nuts. He shouted again, “Are you ready !” The crowd went wild. He finally shouted, “Are you ready to rock and roll?” Pure bananas from the adoring crowd. He started pounding those keys and transported everyone to a galaxy far far away. He pounded those keys and sung like a man possessed as the band followed him.
He was frail and looked quite aged but the audience launched him into the stratosphere like he was shot out of a cannon.
It was truly one of the great few minutes of my life. What a talent he was !
I did not know micky was his cuz.
Jerry Lee Lewis thread - and almost half the comments are on Pat Boone!
Can’t wait for the next Keith Richards thread - half the comments will be on John Denver!
The Hard Rock Cafe eventually moved to another location and the old building was demolished, but the windows were preserved. They are shown below, displayed inside a Dallas gastro-pub called "The Meddlesome Moth".
Jerry Lee was the first to take Black Music and make it Rock and Roll as did Elvis. Cudos to both but Little Richard was the beginning of Rock and Roll as where his white counterpart, Bill Haley and the Comets. All were great.
“The Million Dollar Quartet” was the best production I ever saw on Broadway. Google it, I can’t do it justice.
Jerry Lee Lewis was Rock-n-Roll to the bone...he had nothing to do with "rock".
"Rock" is a lesser form of music.
I see that the byline is his biographer, Rick Bragg, a wonderful and acclaimed writer.
Does Cliff Richard count? He was a bit of a copycat for the sound, but then half the acts in the late 50s were ripping each other’s chord sequences and beats off. There’s more plagiarism in early rock n roll than there are unauthorised samplings in gangsta rap.
“Move It” in 1958 is wildly thought of as the UK’s first proper rock n roll hit.
Family, friends and fans bid farewell Saturday to rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis at memorial services held in his north Louisiana home town of Ferriday, La.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/family-fans-bid-adieu-music-icon-jerry-lee-92697841