Jerry Lee Lewis, who died at the age of 87, on Friday, was the last survivor of the generation that included Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and Little Richard.
. Raised in a Pentecostal Christian family in Ferriday, Louisiana, he always knew he was playing the devil’s music. He revelled in it. Presley had a superior voice, and Berry and Little Richard came up with nearly every distinctive instrumental lick of the era. But Lewis had it all. He could write or, like Elvis, create the definitive version of someone else’s lyric. He sang with hellacious force and conviction. He played the piano in a way that was both melodic and percussive.
In the late fifties, while Elvis was abroad and in the Army, Lewis was poised for dominance, but he undermined himself badly when reporters discovered he had married his underage cousin, Myra Gale Brown, while still married to another woman. In a typically clueless explanation, he told a reporter for themany years later, “I probably would have rearranged my life a little bit different, but I never did hide anything from people.
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