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Born September 29, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana, Jerry Lee had only 1 or 2 piano lessons, the teacher whacking him for desperate to in his own style right from the beginning. Instead, Jerry taught himself from the radio and jukebox, absorbing the types of Hank Williams, Jimmy Rodgers, Al Jolson and different artists in a very wonderful era of Yankee fashionable music. Who would have guessed that out of all the nice musicians who created rock & roll in Memphis Tennessee at Sun Records within the 1950's, The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis would be the last man standing and still going hard. "Just purpose me to the piano and in 15 minutes, i will have 'em shaking, shouting, shivering and shacking." He will still sing and play piano like no one else and defying all the actuarial tables for rock & roll outlaws, Jerry Lee Lewis is alive and well and thrilling audiences round the world. This is a fraction of a childhood photos of Jerry Lee when he practiced as a young