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Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 – October 28, 2022) was an American pianist, singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "The Killer", he was described as "rock 'n' roll's first great wild man".
Myra Gale Lewis Williams (née Brown; born July 11, 1944) is an American author, best known for her controversial marriage at the age of 13 to rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis, who was her first cousin once removed and was 22 at the time.
Produced by Huey Meaux, a fellow Louisiana wild man who had just recently gotten out of prison, the sessions commenced in September 1973, which would go on to be a hellish year for Lewis; he was jailed and fined for driving while intoxicated and, just after his release, his son Jerry Lee Lewis, Jr. was killed when a car he was towing jackknifed and hit the abutment of a bridge near Hernando ...
Jerry Lee Lewis' marriage to his 13-year-old cousin in 1957 nearly ended his career. Today, Myra Williams, 78, reflects on the scandal and her late ex-husband.
Jerry Lee Lewis led a prolific music career. But that career hit a sharp nosedive when his marriage to 13-year-old Myra Gale Brown became public.
The couple had one child, Jerry Lee III. Another son by a previous marriage, Steve Allen Lewis, 3, drowned in a swimming pool in 1962, and son Jerry Lee Jr. died in a traffic accident at 19 in 1973.
Lewis upended pop music with 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On' and 'Great Balls of Fire,' but his personal life was a chronicle of scandal and controversy. Jerry Lee Lewis, original wild man of rock ...
Jimmy Swaggart eulogized Jerry Lee Lewis as “one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived." Lewis' funeral was Saturday in Ferriday, Louisiana.