Jerry Lee Lewis is the wild man of rock and roll, embodying its most reckless and high-spirited impulses. On such piano-pounding rockers from the late Fifties and Sixties as “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Good Golly Miss Molly,” Lewis combined a ferocious, boogie-style instrumental style with rowdy, uninhibited vocals. While working as a session musician at Sun Records in Memphis, TN he was discovered by producer and engineer Jack Clement who recorded Lewis’ ‘Great Balls of Fire’, which immediately became a hit sensation and an instant classic of rock music. Though he had only three Top Ten hits in his first purely rock and roll phase of his career, many believe he was as talented a fifties rocker as his Sun label mate Elvis Presley. Watching and listening to Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley allegedly said that if he could play the piano like that, he’d quit singing.

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