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By 13 years.
Jerry Lee Lewis RIP
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Of course people will focus on him getting married to his 13 year old cousin and even back then it was shocking. It pretty much ended his career. Make no mistake, he was an unpleasant person.
However, that aside, he was a force of nature and a phenomenal piano player. He basically made rock n roll sound dangerous, a bit frightening. I think him and Little Richard started the mould for what rock stars should be like - wild, out of control and outrageous. That describes pretty much describes everyone who came after them from Mick Jagger to Liam Gallagher.
He was an outrageous performer, it's been said he played the piano in the 50s with the same energy and frenetic pace that we'd associate with thrash metal nowadays. I've listened to "Live at the Star Club" over the years and I can well understand how the sheer energy and it must've blown anyone away who saw him live. He was also a superb country musician too and he did some superb stuff over the years.
I think what his passing marks though is that we've lost the last of the old time rock'n'rollers - the ones who invented it. Chuck Berry, Elvis, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly and now 'The Killer' have all gone. It's the end of an era that marked the point when the austere post-war years were ending and we started to see the birth of 'modern music'. It's quite astonishing to think that Great Balls of Fire was released in 1957 and 10 years later The Beatles release Sgt Pepper.
I'm pretty sure he won't be enjoying a warm welcome in heaven, that's for sure, but what a musician he was.
However, that aside, he was a force of nature and a phenomenal piano player. He basically made rock n roll sound dangerous, a bit frightening. I think him and Little Richard started the mould for what rock stars should be like - wild, out of control and outrageous. That describes pretty much describes everyone who came after them from Mick Jagger to Liam Gallagher.
He was an outrageous performer, it's been said he played the piano in the 50s with the same energy and frenetic pace that we'd associate with thrash metal nowadays. I've listened to "Live at the Star Club" over the years and I can well understand how the sheer energy and it must've blown anyone away who saw him live. He was also a superb country musician too and he did some superb stuff over the years.
I think what his passing marks though is that we've lost the last of the old time rock'n'rollers - the ones who invented it. Chuck Berry, Elvis, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly and now 'The Killer' have all gone. It's the end of an era that marked the point when the austere post-war years were ending and we started to see the birth of 'modern music'. It's quite astonishing to think that Great Balls of Fire was released in 1957 and 10 years later The Beatles release Sgt Pepper.
I'm pretty sure he won't be enjoying a warm welcome in heaven, that's for sure, but what a musician he was.
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He's with Elvis now.
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RIP Killer.
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