The Nacogdoches Shrine Club will present the Remembering Jerry Lee Lewis concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at Appleby Sand Mercantile in Nacogdoches. The concert features Jerry Lee’s sister, ...
That September, the public learned that the crooner had married his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown. The pair had secretly wed on December 12, 1957.
The Killers paid tribute to The Killer, and rock music had its spotlight moment as the second day of the second annual RiverBeat Music Festival in Memphis came to a close. Sandwiched in between ...
The landscape of rock music shifted forever in July 1957, when Jerry Lee Lewis made his TV debut on The Steve Allen Show. For more than seven decades, the Louisiana-born rockabilly pioneer churned out ...
Jerry Lee Lewis was one of the rock and roll stars in the world during the genre’s infancy. Iconic songs like “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of Fire” brought him crossover hits and ...
Jimmy Swaggart, a scandal-plagued Pentecostal televangelist who was known for his fire-and-brimstone sermonizing, and who waged a fiery campaign against rock ‘n' roll even though he was the cousin of ...