October 7, 2013
Digging through my files for a blog this week, I came across photos of "The Killer", Jerry Lee Lewis, at Summerfest on July, 19, 1972!
He got the nickname "The Killer", because of his wild and crazy piano playing shows! One of my photos here shows Jerry Lee climbing his piano! He did have a wild show that night I saw him at Summerfest.
These photos are old but well worth looking at. Doing my blog makes me digitize these old pictures and restore them.
Jerry Lee Lewis, is known for a lot of crazy things like marrying 8 times! One of those marriages was when he was 22, and it was to a minor who was 13 and his first cousin once removed!!
His start was in Louisiana, playing piano with Mickey Gilley and TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart!
Some of his shows included his sister, Linda Gail Lewis, who can be seen here in the photographs from Summerfest.
Enjoy these pictures of "The Killer", and have a great week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann