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Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis started playing piano as a teenager in Louisiana, drawing from the gospel music he grew up with. He recorded his first success, "Crazy Arms,"...

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Jerry Lee Lewis, the piano-pounding rock and roll wild man

A Louisiana-born singer and pianist whose raw energy and scandalous life defined early rock and roll.

For the full blast, start with "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." To hear him later, lean into "Rockin' My Life Away."

He gave rock and roll one of its first true wild cards. Songs like "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Breathless" were pure, unhinged energy on the piano, a sound that felt dangerous and alive. That 1989 biopic, "Great Balls of Fire," only cemented the legend of the man and the music.

He started with gospel in Louisiana and cut his first hit, "Crazy Arms," in 1956. The late '50s brought his explosive peak with "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," followed by years of steady recording through the '60s and '70s with tracks like "Rockin' My Life Away."

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Jerry Lee Lewis started playing piano as a teenager in Louisiana, drawing from the gospel music he grew up with. He recorded his first success, "Crazy Arms," in 1956, but it was the next year's "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" that really broke through. That song, along with "Breathless" and "High School Confidential," captured his raw piano style and raspy voice.

In 1958, Lewis married his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown. He kept recording through the 1960s and 1970s with songs like "Rockin' My Life Away" and "Pumpin' Piano Rock."

A 1989 biopic called "Great Balls of Fire" brought him back into public view. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him in 1986.

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