Jerry Lee Lewis a.k.a. The Killer
Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis are two of the first music pioneers to begin playing and recording Rockabilly music. Rockabilly, a mixture between country and rock and Roll music, something that offended a lot of the older generations at first, But so did all of rock music during the early and late fifties. What mattered was that the younger generations loved the music, spent money on records, spent money to see them live, and it also gave them something to move their hips too. In the following is the story of a man that was a music pioneer that affected the music that we listen to today, the people in the music industry, and the lives of the people today. Also in the following the personal life of Jerry Lee that involved scandal and tragedy, consisting of weird marriages and several divorces. When Jerry Lee Lewis was born on September 29th of 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana. His parents Elmo and Mamie, said that he would be the one that becomes something, this is the one that will get us out of this sharecropping business, he'll be something someday. Ferriday is a small town that sets in Louisiana close to the mighty Mississippi River. The Lewis' throughout Ferriday were known as quite
SHE WAS MY BABY/THE WHOLE HE SAID HE`D DIG DON`T LET ME CROSS OVER/WE LIVE IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS
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