Dee-Brief: The Life and Crimes of Jerry Lee Lewis

This week, Dee turns the piano up to eleven for a wild ride through the life of Jerry Lee Lewis - the rock’n’roll prodigy known as The Killer.

A piano-pounding genius who inspired Elvis and scandalised the world, Jerry Lee’s story is one of gospel and guilt, sin and salvation - and enough scandal to fill a dozen tabloid front pages.

We trace his meteoric rise from the cotton fields of Louisiana to Sun Records, the hits that shook the 1950s ('Great Balls of Fire' and 'Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On'), and the personal chaos that almost destroyed him.

Was Jerry Lee Lewis a rock’n’roll pioneer or a walking cautionary tale? As he once said himself, 'There’s a difference between a sinner and a criminal. I might be both.'

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📚 Sources

• Los Angeles Times – 'Jerry Lee Lewis Dies at 87' (2022)
  

• The Guardian – 'Jerry Lee Lewis: A Life of Sin, Salvation, and Scandal' (2022)
  

• Rolling Stone – 'The Untold Story of Jerry Lee Lewis’s Fifth Wife’s Mysterious Death' (2014)
  

• Rick Bragg, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story (HarperCollins, 2014)
  

• BBC News – 'Jerry Lee Lewis – Rock’n’Roll’s Wildest Star' (Obituary, 2022)
  

• New York Times Archive – 'Singer’s Teenage Wife Rocks Britain' (1958)
  

• People Magazine – 'The Killer’s Trail of Tragedy' (1984)
  

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