My earliest memory of thinking rock and roll, of holy crap that is awesome, I was maybe five years old and watching Jerry Lee Lewis bang his foot on the keyboards of his piano before jumping on on his piano stool and leaning over and playing it standing.. I remember distinctly being completely in awe.
I'd never seen anything like.
I still have never seen anything else like it.
Over the years I have seen Jerry Lee many times, never bet than an early show at Tramps in the 1990s where he was playing the piano so cool (James Burton of Presley's Taking Care Of Business band was band leader) and he just roared throught a set without a setlist, just playing anything any one shouted out.
Yeah, some career for the Killer -literally when it comes to ex-wives it's claimed. The man who believed playing rock and roll had delived him to internal damnation and STILL COULDN'T STOP.
Jerry Lee was 76 years old yesterday and he still leaves you breathless!