{"id":135,"date":"2021-09-19T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T10:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o5go.com\/music\/?page_id=135"},"modified":"2021-09-19T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T10:02:51","slug":"jerry-lee-lewis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/o5go.com\/music\/jerry-lee-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Lee Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jerry Lee Lewis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Jerry+Lee+Lewis+playlist\">https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Jerry+Lee+Lewis+playlist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jerry Lee Lewis\u00a0(born September 29, 1935) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Nicknamed\u00a0the Killer, he has been described as &#8220;rock n&#8217; roll&#8217;s first great wild man and one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century.&#8221;[9]\u00a0A pioneer of\u00a0rock and roll\u00a0and\u00a0rockabilly\u00a0music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1956 at\u00a0Sun Records\u00a0in Memphis. &#8220;Crazy Arms&#8221; sold 300,000 copies in the South, but it was his 1957 hit &#8220;Whole Lotta Shakin&#8217; Goin&#8217; On&#8221; that shot Lewis to fame worldwide. He followed this with the major hits &#8220;Great Balls of Fire&#8221;, &#8220;Breathless&#8221;, and &#8220;High School Confidential&#8221;. However, his rock and roll career faltered in the wake of his marriage to\u00a0Myra Gale Brown, his 13-year-old cousin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His popularity quickly eroded following the scandal and with few exceptions such as a cover of&nbsp;Ray Charles&#8217;s &#8220;What&#8217;d I Say&#8221;, he did not have much chart success in the early 1960s. His live performances at this time were increasingly wild and energetic. His 1964 live album&nbsp;Live at the Star Club, Hamburg&nbsp;is regarded by music journalists and fans as one of the wildest and greatest live rock albums ever.[10][11][12][13][14]&nbsp;In 1968, Lewis made a transition into&nbsp;country music&nbsp;and had hits with songs such as &#8220;Another Place, Another Time&#8221;. This reignited his career, and throughout the late 1960s and 1970s he regularly topped the country-western charts; throughout his seven-decade career, Lewis has had 30 songs reach the Top 10 on the&nbsp;Billboard&nbsp;Country and Western Chart.[15]&nbsp;His No. 1 country hits included &#8220;To Make Love Sweeter for You&#8221;, &#8220;There Must Be More to Love Than This&#8221;, &#8220;Would You Take Another Chance on Me&#8221; and &#8220;Me and Bobby McGee&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewis&#8217;s successes continued throughout the decades and he embraced his rock and roll past with songs such as a cover of&nbsp;The Big Bopper&#8217;s &#8220;Chantilly Lace&#8221; and&nbsp;Mack Vickery&#8217;s &#8220;Rockin&#8217; My Life Away&#8221;. In the 21st century, Lewis continues to tour around the world and still releases new albums. His 2006 album&nbsp;Last Man Standing&nbsp;is his best-selling release to date, with over a million copies sold worldwide. This was followed by&nbsp;Mean Old Man&nbsp;in 2010, which has received some of the best sales of Lewis&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewis has a dozen gold records in both rock and country. He has won four Grammy awards, including a&nbsp;Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award&nbsp;and two&nbsp;Grammy Hall of Fame&nbsp;Awards.[16]&nbsp;Lewis was inducted into the&nbsp;Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&nbsp;in 1986, and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the&nbsp;Rockabilly Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the inaugural class inducted into the&nbsp;Memphis Music Hall of Fame.[17]&nbsp;In 1989, his life was chronicled in the movie&nbsp;Great Balls of Fire, starring Dennis Quaid. In 2003,&nbsp;Rolling Stone&nbsp;listed his box set&nbsp;All Killer, No Filler: The Anthology&nbsp;number 242 on their list of &#8220;500 Greatest Albums of All Time&#8221;.[18]&nbsp;In 2004, they ranked him No. 24 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[19]&nbsp;Lewis is the last surviving member of&nbsp;Sun Records&#8217;&nbsp;Million Dollar Quartet&nbsp;and the album&nbsp;Class of &#8217;55, which also included&nbsp;Johnny Cash,&nbsp;Carl Perkins,&nbsp;Roy Orbison, and&nbsp;Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music critic\u00a0Robert Christgau\u00a0has said of Lewis: &#8220;His drive, his timing, his offhand vocal power, his unmistakable boogie-plus piano, and his absolute confidence in the face of\u00a0the void\u00a0make Jerry Lee the quintessential rock and roller.&#8221;[20]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View more &#8211; Wikipedia.org:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Lee_Lewis\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Lee_Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Lee Lewis https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Jerry+Lee+Lewis+playlist Jerry Lee Lewis\u00a0(born September 29, 1935) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. 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