One of my favorite Jerry Lee stories is that of a time when a biographer asked, “Is it true that…”
“Yeah,” he interjected, without waiting to hear the particulars.
That was Jerry Lee Lewis, who departed terra firma today at the age of 87. A man who lived by his own rules, his wife said "he is ready," just a few days ago.
As Rick Bragg shared in his obituary, "somewhere in the world, in a mean little honky-tonk or big music hall or church basement rec room, someone is playing a Jerry Lee Lewis song. Wherever there is a piano, someone is shouting…
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane…"
The song that, more than "Danger Zone," will always be the Top Gun song." The song that inspired countless pianists to view their piano as a percussion instrument.
Despite such a massive catalogue of hits, we gotta go with the Killer's most killer on this Music Friday that marks the end of an era.
From Maverick.
From Top Gun.
And the Original + "Breathless.*"
I'd say rest in peace...but that's just not how it's gonna go down in his next life.
* and since we're talking movies...there's always the (spoiler) ending of Richard Gere's Breathless.
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