Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story (Harper), by Rick Bragg Jerry Lee Lewis was a Louisiana-born supernova who helped create rock n roll and raced toward stardom in the 1950s until his marriage to his ...

With official reports of the death of rock ‘n’ roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis’ death, music execs, musicians, Hollywood figures and fans alike have all expressed their condolences online. Dennis Quaid, ...

Rock 'n' roll's first great wild man, Jerry Lee Lewis — the singer and pianist nicknamed "The Killer" — has died. He was 87 years old. Sam Philips, the founder of Sun Records — and the producer who ...

Like a ringmaster letting a lion out of its cage to terrify and thrill the kids at the circus, Steve Allen unleashed the 21-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis to a prime-time TV audience on his July 28, 1957, ...

Elton John, Ringo Starr and Dennis Quaid were among the celebrities who paid tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis following his death at the age of 87. The rock n' roll star, whose biggest hits include "Great ...

Jerry Lee Lewis, an incendiary keyboard player and pioneering rock ‘n’ roll singer, has died at age 87. Lewis died at home on Friday morning in Desoto County, Mississippi, south of Memphis, according ...

Famed musician Jerry Lee Lewis had two sons named after him Globe Photos/ZUMAPRESS ; PA Images / Alamy Over the course of his life, the late singer Jerry Lee Lewis grew a large family. A peer of Elvis ...

Myra Lewis Williams was 13 when she married her 22-year-old cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, but she said there was no question which one of them was the grown-up. “I was the adult in the room. Always,” said ...

Those words, written vertically, one letter atop another, were printed on a ribbon that dangled Thursday night from the lone floral arrangement that had been placed on the casket that held the mortal ...