While on tour in England, Jerry Lee Lewis married Myra Gale Brown, his fourteen-year-old cousin and the daughter of J. W. Brown, who had played bass for Lewis. They divorced in 1970. Lewis married Myra one week after his divorce from his second wife Jane. Lewis had previously married his first wife, Dorothy, when he was only 14 years old.
On Lewis's Sun recordings he is credited on the label as Jerry Lee Lewis and His Pumping Piano.
During one concert in the late 195Os, Chuck Berry was to have closed the show behind Jerry Lee Lewis. Immediately after finishing his set, however, Jerry Lee poured lighter fluid on his piano, set it on fire, saying "Great balls of fire," walked off stage, and said to Berry, "Let me see you top that!"
Jerry Lee Lewis and later The Yardbirds were one of the few guests on television's "American Bandstand" to perform their own songs live instead of lip-syncing, as other guests did.
Back in school in Faraday, Louisiana, young Jerry Lewis received 27 F's on his fifth-grade report card.
Two of Lewis's cousins are Singer Mickey Gilley, owner of Gilley’s, and Minister Jimmy Swaggart, who has his own radio and television program. Rocker Lewis's life has been plagued with tragedy. In 1962, his son Stephen Allen (named after television personality Steve Allen) drowned in the family swimming pool, while in1973 his only other son, Jerry Lee, Jr., was killed in an automobile accident.
Jerry Lee Lewis sang Great Balls Of Fire in the movie Jamboree (1957).
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