Jerry Lee Lewis is dead at 87

[johncorrigan]

One of the wildest men of Rock'n'Roll, Jerry Lee Lewis, has died at the age of 87. His life was full of controversy and scandal from his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin to his visit to Graceland to challenge Elvis to a gunfight to determine the real 'King of Rock'n'Roll'. Like Little Richard, his great songs don't span a large time frame, but the influence of his hammering boogie-woogie piano and unleashed-tomcat voice on rock music continues. Here he is with Keith Richards in the eighties on 'Little Queenie'; still the showman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHXDzpi4lTU

It still never ceases to amaze me how he played round the microphone.

[Alison]

Thanks for posting John.

[johncorrigan]

Thanks for posting John.

Jerry Lee also did fine country tunes when the R'n'R days dried up, Alison. Here he is in fine voice sounding a bit George Jones on 'Another Time, Another Place'; and those wee touches on the piano are just sublime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEXEhUO7npo

[Globaltruth]

Time to hang up your rock 'n roll shoes Jerry....

Stan Urban :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBI9a4Ox2tU

[johncorrigan]

Time to hang up your rock 'n roll shoes Jerry....

Stan Urban :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBI9a4Ox2tU

I never knew Joe Biden played the piano, Global.

[Padraig]

I never knew Joe Biden played the piano, Global.

Thanks for posting Jerry Lee, John. He's one of my 'where were you when?' memories. In 1957 I was walking towards Matchetts music shop at the City Hall in Belfast to buy a new mouthpiece for my trombone (I was a Jazzman then and had little time for the rock and roll fad),when this blared out from a juke box nearby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw7SBF-35Es

[cloughie]

Courted controversy for much of his life and not always the best behaved member of the human race, and maybe he may have been more successful had he been just a bit less wild.

However, he was what he and whilst not a role model in good behaviour his rock ‘n’ roll piano playing influenced many a player and thrilled even more.

Interestingly no contributor to the thread has yet said ‘RIP’ but if it is somewhere there his make up - RIP Jerry Lee!

[kernelbogey]

Remarkable that he made it to 87, really.