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Jerry Lee Lewis, the flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll founding father, swaggering country shouter and 2005 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, died Friday. He was 87.
Lewis died of natural causes at his home in DeSoto County, Mississippi, south of Memphis, his publicist, Zach Farnum of 117 Group, told The Hollywood Reporter. TMZ prematurely reported his death earlier this week.
Nicknamed “The Killer,” Lewis was an electric performer who was still performing into his late 80s. Known for such rock standards as “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On,” “Great Balls of Fire,” “Baby Baby Bye Bye,” “Breathless” and “High School Confidential,” he accumulated 10 gold records during his career, with his biggest, the 2006 all-star duets release Last Man Standing, selling more than a half-million units worldwide.
As a piano player — and unabashed rock star — Lewis blended rockabilly, gospel, blues and country as he feverishly pounded the higher keys with his right hand.
Jerry Lee Lewis, the flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll founding father, swaggering country shouter and 2005 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, died Friday. He was 87.
Lewis died of natural causes at his home in DeSoto County, Mississippi, south of Memphis, his publicist, Zach Farnum of 117 Group, told The Hollywood Reporter. TMZ prematurely reported his death earlier this week.
Nicknamed “The Killer,” Lewis was an electric performer who was still performing into his late 80s. Known for such rock standards as “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On,” “Great Balls of Fire,” “Baby Baby Bye Bye,” “Breathless” and “High School Confidential,” he accumulated 10 gold records during his career, with his biggest, the 2006 all-star duets release Last Man Standing, selling more than a half-million units worldwide.
As a piano player — and unabashed rock star — Lewis blended rockabilly, gospel, blues and country as he feverishly pounded the higher keys with his right hand.
- 10/28/2022
- by Jennifer Frederick
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Paul soundtrack. If the baffling commercial failure of Edgar Wright’s brilliant and prescient Scott Pilgrim vs The World still leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, it is your duty to see Paul in the cinema, to ensure that Wright’s creative brothers Pegg and Frost have a box office success to trade on when it comes time to raise funds for their next comedic masterpiece. Wright took a big risk by taking on a big budget Hollywood project, and he did a super-human job, his tongue-in-cheek kinetic brio and dazzling visual style culminating in one of the most entertaining comedies this reviewer has ever seen, a work of comic wonder that speaks directly, honestly and thrillingly to a generation that came of age in the MTV era.
For their own (relatively) big budget Hollywood comedy, co-stars and co-writers Pegg and Frost have gone in the opposite direction...
For their own (relatively) big budget Hollywood comedy, co-stars and co-writers Pegg and Frost have gone in the opposite direction...
- 3/4/2011
- by Chris Neilan
- Movie-moron.com
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