He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Oct. Lewis won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. Getty Imagesĭennis Quaid played Lewis in the 1989 biopic “Great Balls of Fire!,” while Winona Ryder portrayed Myra. Bettmann Archive Jerry Lee Lewis at the Country Music Hall of Fame announcement of honorees in May 2022. Lewis recorded several country albums and saw renewed interest in his career when he was inducted into the first class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. The tour was promptly canceled, and radio stations wouldn’t play his records. The union - which occurred while he was still married to another woman - was revealed when Lewis embarked on a British tour in 1958. Lewis signed with Sun Records in 1956, but his scandalous marriage to his then 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown, threatened his ascent to stardom. Getty Images The rock pioneer was born in Ferriday, Louisiana, on Sept. Rock ‘n’ roll icon Jerry Lee Lewis died Friday after a false report of his passing earlier this week. He attended Bible school in Texas, where he was reportedly expelled for a bad attitude and misconduct, including playing rock ‘n’ roll versions of hymns. His first public performance came at the age of 14, at the opening of a car dealership.
In his biography, he recalled learning to tickle the ivories at age 9, with his father mortgaging the family farm to buy him his first piano shortly thereafter.
The rock pioneer was born in Ferriday, Louisiana, on Sept. He was known for his boogie-woogie style with 1957 hits “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of Fire.” Nicknamed “The Killer,” the electric showman was one of the first stars inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. TMZ reported Wednesday that Lewis had died, but then retracted the report and blamed a bad tip. Rock ‘n’ roll icon Jerry Lee Lewis died at his Mississippi home Friday, representative Zach Farnum said in a news release.
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