An extrovert showman who became one of the primary figures in the revolutionary
rock'n'roll explosion of the 1950s, Jerry Lee Lewis – born September 29, 1935,
in Ferriday, Louisiana - helped to transform music - and with it, youth culture
- forever. Lewis started young, his parents mortgaging their farm to buy him a
piano, and he was heavily influenced by local black musicians as he developed
his distinctive boogie woogie piano style. Expelled from his church school for
playing "the devil's music", he auditioned for Sun Records where he became a
regular session pianist, playing f...