[HN Gopher] Jerry Lee Lewis has died
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Jerry Lee Lewis has died
Author : SirLJ
Score : 77 points
Date : 2022-10-28 17:26 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| dpatrick86 wrote:
| This is being reported as false https://ew.com/music/jerry-lee-
| lewis-alive-after-erronerous-...
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| That was two days ago, this is today.
| DennisP wrote:
| I saw him at an outdoor concert about twenty years ago. He was
| still going completely nuts on stage, playing keys with his feet,
| belting out Great Balls of Fire and jumping around like a maniac.
| Not bad for 67 or so at the time.
| dang wrote:
| Also: https://variety.com/2022/music/news/jerry-lee-lewis-dead-
| sin...
|
| https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/arts/music/jerry-lee-lewi...
|
| (We changed the URL above from variety.com to the article that
| seems to have the most background)
| SirLJ wrote:
| Thank you Sir!
| jboggan wrote:
| No man more sinful has ever sung gospel more heavenly.
| dylan604 wrote:
| It's like it's part of the family's DNA
| bambax wrote:
| The article ends with this memorable quote:
|
| > _"I was raised a good Christian," he told Rolling Stone in
| 1979. "But I couldn't make it. ... Too weak, I guess. I can't
| picture Jesus Christ doin' a whole lotta shakin'."_
|
| ;-)))
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| I saw him in 86 in Fairfax with Fats Domino. Amazing show. That
| man could seriously play drunk.
| BirAdam wrote:
| That was probably an amazing time.
| [deleted]
| austinprete wrote:
| Highly recommend the episode about him from Mike Judge's Tales
| from the Tour Bus. A lot of overlap with the Rolling Stone
| article but a little more dynamic!
| CharlesW wrote:
| Wow -- great episode, and I had no idea this series was a
| thing. Thanks for posting!
| reidjs wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOdc_DG5EcQ
| [deleted]
| i_am_proteus wrote:
| Nick Tosches's biography of Lewis, _Hellfire_ , is a great read.
|
| https://groveatlantic.com/book/hellfire/
| mgkimsal wrote:
| Agreed. Got it as a gift a couple years back. Ended up being a
| pretty fast read as I was engrossed the whole time :)
| kennywinker wrote:
| Yikes. I knew about him "marrying" his 13yo cousin, but the
| suspicious deaths of two of his later wives? Sometimes it's worth
| it to separate the art from the artist... but in his case i have
| a hard time seeing any reason to
| dagurp wrote:
| I highly recommend the "Tales from the Tour Bus" episode on him
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UogkCxWJWw
| TremendousJudge wrote:
| He was a pioneer in the field of being a rock and roll star
| with a questionable moral record.
| coldtea wrote:
| rock n' roll was all about having a questionable moral
| record...
|
| it wasn't about people going to hear Mother Teresa singing
| tomcam wrote:
| That time she opened for the Von Trapps was amazeballs
| though. And I do not believe the rumors about MT trashing
| her room because they misplaced her rosary beads.
| bitwize wrote:
| It was right there in the contract... no brown rosary
| beads!
| tomcam wrote:
| My setup was moderately good but your payoff was
| infinitely better. O, that I had more than one upvote to
| give
| kennywinker wrote:
| If by questionable you mean hedonism, hell yeah, I'm right
| there with ya. If you mean "marrying" 13 year olds and
| possibly murdering your wives... we've got beef.
| swyx wrote:
| was her side of the story recorded at the time? what did
| her parents say? i am morbidly curious at this point how
| it happened
| croes wrote:
| She co-wrote the book Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored
| Story of Jerry Lee Lewis (1982).
| mikeyouse wrote:
| I mean, 13-year olds are actual children, so I don't know
| what "her side of the story" at the time would be. 7th
| graders don't typically have a great grasp on capturing
| narrative, or you know, basic geometry.
| Beltalowda wrote:
| Didn't that use to be somewhat common, at least in some
| parts of the US both to marry your cousin and the age?
|
| Edgar Allen Poe married his 13-year old cousin when he
| was in his mid-20s, and no one seemed to bat an eye. Of
| course, that was in 1836 and not 1957.
|
| Lewis' first marriage was when he was 16.
|
| I guess he came from an old-fashioned background?
| kennywinker wrote:
| The fact that he was essentially "cancelled" by the
| mainstream for doing it suggests it was not in fact
| normal at the time.
|
| In case anyone gets confused, his first marriage was not
| to a 13 year old. His "marriage" to his 13 year old
| cousin happened when he was 22.
| Beltalowda wrote:
| > The fact that he was essentially "cancelled" by the
| mainstream for doing it suggests it was not in fact
| normal at the time.
|
| Good thing I never said anything of the sort.
| Maursault wrote:
| > no one seemed to bat an eye.
|
| Predating eye bats is Marie of Brittany's late 14th
| century marriage.[1] In 1937, Eunice Winstead (aged 9)
| married Charlie Johns, but it was noticed. Life Magazine
| did a story on it, "The Case of the Child Bride."[2] In
| 1971, at least one of two Florida judges would grant a
| marriage license for a pregnant 11yo bride and rape
| victim (which goes without saying).[3]
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_of_Brittany,_Lady
| _of_La_...
|
| [2] https://yesterdaysprint.tumblr.com/post/143251401189/
| life-ma...
|
| [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Johnson
| user_ wrote:
| I know this is a derailment, but
|
| > "[Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a
| friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from
| God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for
| poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the
| emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory
| reproduction." -Christopher Hitchens [0]
|
| > In 2013, in a comprehensive review[8] covering 96% of the
| literature on Mother Teresa, a group of Universite de
| Montreal academics reinforced [criticism of medical care],
| detailing, among other issues, the missionary's practice of
| "caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead
| of relieving it, ... her questionable political contacts,
| her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she
| received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in
| particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce".
| Questioning the Vatican's motivations for ignoring the mass
| of criticism, the study concluded that Mother Teresa's
| "hallowed image - which does not stand up to analysis of
| the facts - was constructed, and that her beatification was
| orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign"
| engineered by BBC journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, who shared
| her anti-abortion views. [1]
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa#Criticism
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teres
| a#Qua...
| rufus_foreman wrote:
| I do miss Christopher Hitchens. He could have written a
| hit piece on anyone in the world. He later did one on
| Henry Kissinger, but not until he got Mother Teresa out
| of the way first.
| nsajko wrote:
| Also Jimmy Swaggart's cousin and friend.
| ubermonkey wrote:
| You missed the third party in that triumverate: pop/country
| artist and Houston saloonkeeper Mickey Gilley, who owned the
| (eponymous) night club setting for the film Urban Cowboy in
| Houston suburb Pasadena, Texas.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Gilley
|
| This wasn't a "oh, and they are cousins" thing. They played
| together as children.
|
| Fun Fact: I took "Mickey Gilley Boulevard" as part of my
| route to a motorcycle dealership last month.
| SideburnsOfDoom wrote:
| > Yikes. I knew about him "marrying" his 13yo cousin,
|
| Much further down, the article clarifies that to "third
| cousin": "reporters learned that Lewis had married his third
| cousin, Myra Gale Brown, the daughter of his bass player."
|
| Third cousin marriage is a) legal and b) not genetically risky.
|
| So the 13yo part is the dodgy part.
| nsajko wrote:
| 13-year-old cousin seems worse than 13-year-old nonrelative,
| given no other information, because of possible undue
| influence. I.e., Lewis could have had some power over his
| future wife as her relative. Also as her father's employer I
| assume? All in all, quite sketchy.
| BirAdam wrote:
| This was rural Eastern Louisiana, so I wonder how odd this
| would have been to people at the time. Also, his own first
| marriage was at the age of 16, and he had always spent a lot
| of time with cousins apparently. To further develop the
| image, his parents mortgaged their farm to buy his piano.
|
| I get an immediate sense of place and culture that was more
| similar to the victorian age than our modern world, or indeed
| other parts of the country at that same time.
| conductr wrote:
| Just me or does anyone else think this guy was dead decades ago?
| [deleted]
| jancsika wrote:
| chewonbananas wrote:
| The url is plainly visible.
| dexterdog wrote:
| Some people just don't know how to roll
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| Not just you. I'm surprised he was still alive given he did a
| lot of hard-living and had health problems going back to the
| 1980s.
| rsj_hn wrote:
| I'm still shocked that Henry Kissinger is still alive. At this
| point, it should be a hn story
|
| ```Kissinger still alive``` (200 comments)
| boringg wrote:
| Wait he is? Amazing. Might be able to compete at the
| Centurion Olympics
| melling wrote:
| Why are people shocked? Some people live well into their 90s.
|
| Kissinger is 99. Jimmy Carter is 98. Charlie Munger is 98.
| Warren Buffett is 92. Mel Brooks is 96. Roger Penrose is 91.
| Willie Nelson is 90. Ed Thorp is 90.
|
| Kissinger just published a book:
|
| https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Six-Studies-World-
| Strategy...
| kylecazar wrote:
| I was at a screening of a documentary in Rockefeller center
| about the liberation of Ahlem. Henry Kissinger was giving
| remarks afterward. Stopped speaking mid-sentence, and stared
| directly at me, locking eyes, in the front row for at least
| 10 seconds before resuming. Everyone around me was puzzled.
| To this day we don't know why, and my brother likes to tell
| people at parties that Henry Kissinger hates me.
| dbg31415 wrote:
| The good die young.
| foobarian wrote:
| For me, his name hashes to Jerry Lewis the comedian so I did do
| a double-take at the article.
| conductr wrote:
| That could be it for me too. Weird collision.
| asveikau wrote:
| When Jerry Lewis died 5 years ago I read an HN comment saying
| somebody thought it was Jerry Lee Lewis.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15061018
|
| I didn't remember that I made a bad joke replying to that. My
| second born child was a handful of days old at the time, must
| have been in that sleep deprived dad joke state.
| tcbawo wrote:
| I don't recall the podcast I was listening to, but several years
| ago there was a discussion about Jerry Lee Lewis's album "Live At
| the Star-Club" as one of the best live albums ever recorded. It's
| a snapshot of a unique time and place in popular music and
| highlights Jerry Lee Lewis's controversial, but unique talent.
| The energy captured on the album (described by some as
| amphetamine-fueled) is remarkable. I recommend giving it a
| listen.
| mgkimsal wrote:
| Sounds pretty clear and clean to me. Shame we couldn't have
| gotten as nice a recording of the Beatles at the Star Club just
| bit earlier :)
|
| FWIW, it's a nice live album, but doesn't strike me as one of
| the great live albums of all times. Unless there's some other
| bootleg with more. The only one I've found is... 8 songs. Tame
| audience (or they just weren't recorded?)
| psweber wrote:
| There is some kind of legal issue with the recording. I
| didn't look too deep. There were sixteen tracks recorded.
| Thirteen were on the real album, and one that had a recording
| fault was released later.
|
| Here's the songs on the original release:
| https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXRKTcRs-
| Xs7RqWKl8hqt...
| gumby wrote:
| > Tame audience (or they just weren't recorded?)
|
| If you can find a boot of Led Zeppelin's '69 recordings for
| the BBC you'll have the same impression: after each song the
| audience claps politely, as if they'd just heard some chamber
| music. I had an image of them all in short hair, dressed up,
| and sitting politely in wooden chairs or folding chairs.
|
| Perhaps they new the recording was for BBC broadcast (was it
| broadcast?) or perhaps that's just how things were in those
| days. OTOH, I visited London as a small child in 67 or 68 and
| my memories, even now, are of a pretty swinging place.
| ZoomZoomZoom wrote:
| > highlights Jerry Lee Lewis's controversial, but unique talent
|
| His morals were controversial, but his talent was anything but.
| mihaic wrote:
| Actually surprised he was still alive!
|
| The current decade is probably going to beat out all others in
| the number of famous musicians dying.
| anonymousiam wrote:
| I came across this article just two days ago:
| https://nypost.com/2022/10/26/jerry-lee-lewis-misreported-de...
|
| I was glad that he was still with us. Today I mourn his
| passing.
| harveywi wrote:
| [deleted]
| nemo44x wrote:
| ubermonkey wrote:
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