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Jerry Lee Lewis RIP

Gribbo
Gribbo Posts: 8,484
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Didn't know he was alive. He seemed old when I was a kid and that was donkey's years ago. RIP Jerry. 
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    RIP.
    Pioneer.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    RIP
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    RIP. A rock pioneer, though his private life does make you want to sing The Addams Family song...
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    RIP to a real trail blazer, but an odd and troubled human.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,142
    Another great gone. RIP
  • thickandthin63
    thickandthin63 Posts: 2,952
    I loved this guy,no one better to get a party rocking,RIP Jerry thanks for your massive contribution to the music world
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,846
    Musical genius but questionable person 

    anyway RIP 
  • Thunders Addick
    Thunders Addick Posts: 69
    RIP! He was the last man standing from the original 50's generation and created the blueprint for high energy rock'n'roll.
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    RIP, loved his music but off stage he was a troubled man and quite obnoxious. How  at the age of 22 can you marry  your cousin, aged 13!
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,594
    Redmidland said:
    RIP, loved his music but off stage he was a troubled man and quite obnoxious. How  at the age of 22 can you marry  your cousin, aged 13!
    Move to Norwich 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,846
    Redmidland said:
    RIP, loved his music but off stage he was a troubled man and quite obnoxious. How  at the age of 22 can you marry  your cousin, aged 13!
    Before he was even divorced from first wife 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Great icon in rock n roll history and a uniquely talented musician RIP.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,103
    Goodness gracious … RIP Jerry Lee
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148
    RIP Killer. Loved his music. 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Proper Rocker and pioneer rabble rouser (though more of a Little Rihard connoisseur myself) ..  R I P
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,846
    edited October 2022
    Saw him live in Vegas as a young teenager in mid 80’s, on the same bill as Fats Domino.

    Didnt really appreciate it it then and was more interested in going to wet’n’wild (water theme park, not a Vegas club…)

    RIP
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    He married his 13 year old cousin when he was 22. 
    I couldn’t give a toss if he could play the piano.
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,927
    Amazing he got to 87 with the pills and booze he must have taken. RIP
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    edited October 2022
    Greenie said:
    He married his 13 year old cousin when he was 22. 
    I couldn’t give a toss if he could play the piano.
    Although that’s shocking to us now and even perhaps in the U.K. at the time but it was nothing untoward or illegal in Louisiana in 1922 when he was born and obviously still not 22 years later. Hard to judge without making allowances for when and where. 
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  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Greenie said:
    He married his 13 year old cousin when he was 22. 
    I couldn’t give a toss if he could play the piano.
    Although that’s shocking to us now and even perhaps in the U.K. at the time but it was nothing untoward or illegal in Louisiana in 1922 when he was born and obviously still not 22 years later. Hard to judge without making allowances for when and where. 
    Not really hard to judge. Easy to make excuses for it though. She was a child and looked like a child. A grown man should have his own moral compass.
    After their divorce in 1970, She said she had been "subject to every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable,"
    The bloke was a wrong un.

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