Jerry Lee Lewis, Influential and Condemned Rock & Roll Pioneer, Dead at 87

"The Killer" embodied rock rebellion with songs like "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire," but drew widespread outrage for marrying his 13-year-old cousin in 1957
Jerry Lee Lewis, Influential and Condemned Rock & Roll Pioneer, Dead – Rolling Stone

 

All the original rockers leaving the stage, he would have been much bigger if the media didn't railroad him His music will live on and on RIP

 

I heard this recording years back, interesting to hear these 4 playing together, now they are all gone.
Probably downloadable somewhere.


Million Dollar Quartet
Million Dollar Quartet - Wikipedia

"Million Dollar Quartet" is a recording of an impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash made on December 4, 1956, at the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. An article about the session was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar under the title "Million Dollar Quartet". The recording was first released in Europe in 1981 as The Million Dollar Quartet with 17 tracks. A few years later more tracks were discovered and released as The Complete Million Dollar Session. In 1990, the recordings were released in the United States as Elvis Presley - The Million Dollar Quartet. This session is considered a seminal moment in rock and roll.

 

RIP

 

Well… maybe not quite so dead as reported.

 

I stand corrected, I’d heard he was dead (but wasn’t really), and now he has died. RIP JLL

 

Then he wakes up again and finds himself standing on a stage with a bunch of musical instruments sitting around. A moment later people start coming on stage and picking up the instruments. Whoa… he sees Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and John Lennon. Then out comes Jerry Garcia, Curt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Freddie Mercury, even Dusty Hill and more.
Jerry Lee gets real excited and says, “Whoa, Is this like Heaven or what?!” Hendrix starts laughing and sarcastically responds, “HEAVEN?”
Then Karen Carpenter sits behind the drums, taps the sticks together slowly establishing a beat and says, “All right boys, Close To You! A one, and a two…”

 

An ego to match his talent and man o man what a talent! Growing up in small town Texas you could be at the cafe and here Jerry Lee, Elvis, Buddy,and Chuck Berry mixed in with Bob Wills, maybe Hank Thompson, certainly Ernest Tubb. I guess you could say I grew up with a wide ranged musical education. Of course this was before the Redcoats invaded.....again, but they wouldn't let us shoot 'em this time. R.I.P. to all the original rockers.