The Killer! Rock and Roll Legend and influential king of all piano rock and rollers has left us at age 87 on October 28th in a press release from his publicist. Noted for his smoking piano runs and stool-kicking charismatic playing, Jerry Lee Lewis was an American original.
Lewis cuts his first tracks, including his debut single “Crazy Arms,” for Sun Records in Memphis. Engineer Jack Clement recorded Lewis’s rendition of Ray Price’s “Crazy Arms” and his own composition “End of the Road”. In December 1956, Lewis began recording prolifically, as a solo artist and as a session musician for other Sun artists, including Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. Lewis helped introduced piano into rockabilly and the genre has never been the same since.
