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October 3, 2006

Jerry Lee Lewis: The Return of the Killer

The inventor of rock & roll excess has spent the past decade watching "Gunsmoke" reruns. Now the last Sun Records original re-emerges with a new disc, where he teaches everyone from Keith Richards to Kid Rock how it's done
April 15, 2004

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 24) Jerry Lee Lewis

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Recordings and Reviews

Last Man Standing

Jerry Lee Lewis is older and tougher than you. At seventy, he could eat your liver for breakfast, sleep with your kid sister and then burn down your house after a light lunch. So rounding up twenty-one heavy hitters (Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, etc.) for a Jerry Lee Lewis duets album eith...

2006 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Young Blood

1995

Live at the Star Club, Hamburg [Bear Family]

1989

18 Original Sun Greatest Hits

1984

Duets

1979

The Session

1973

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Honky-Tonk Woman w/ Kid Rock

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Biography

Though he had only three Top Ten hits in the first, purely rock & roll phase of his career, many believe Jerry Lee Lewis (a.k.a. "The Killer") was as talented a 1950s rocker as Sun label-mate Elvis Presley. Some also believe he could have made it just as big commercially if his piano-slamming style was not so relentlessly wild, his persona not so threateningly hard-edged.

Lewis' first musical...

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