Jerry Lee Lewis

The 20-track album will be titled "The Pilgrim". He appeared in the film Shark Tale as a Rasta jellyfish. B. King, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. A solo album, Dragonfly was released on April 15, 2003. At the presentation it was announced that his new album would be made with a line-up that will include Eric Clapton, B. Ziggy had become politically active by this time, working with the United Nations and creating a record label called Ghetto Youth United. In February 2005 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award, by the Recording Academy that also gives the Grammy Awards. As the 1990s continued, the Melody Makers' sales slowly declined, beginning with Joy and Blues (1993), Free Like We Want to Be (1995) and Fallen Is Babylon (1997).

After several years of inactivity in the studio, Lewis plans to put out a new album in 2005. The album was critically and popularly successful, as was One Bright Day (1989) and Jahmeyka (1991). He has never stopped touring and can still deliver great unique concerts that are always unpredictable exciting and personal. The band's label, EMI, wanted to market Ziggy as a solo act, and so the Melody Makers moved to Virgin Records, where they recorded Conscious Party (1988, produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth). In 1986 Jerry Lee Lewis was part of the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their debut LP was Play the Game Right, which was a very pop-oriented album, earning Ziggy some derision from critics. Nicknamed The Killer for his forceful voice and piano production on stage, he was described by fellow artist Roy Orbison as the best raw performer in the history of rock music. His father, Bob, died in 1981.

Despite the personal problems, his musical talent is unquestioned. The Melody Makers, as the group came to be known, played occasionally for several years, including at their father's funeral. Jerry Lee's sister, Linda Gail Lewis, is also a piano player, and has recorded with Van Morrison. In 1979, Ziggy and his siblings, Cedella, Stephen and Sharon, made their recording debut with their father, "Children Playing in the Streets". Swaggart is also a piano player, as is another cousin, country music star Mickey Gilley. Ziggy was born David Marley but nicknamed in reference to British glam rocker David Bowie and his 1972 album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The very public downfall of his cousin, television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, resulted in more adverse publicity to an already deeply troubled family. He learned how to play guitar and drums from his father, a legendary roots rock reggae singer.

The film was based on the book by Lewis' ex-wife Myra and starred Dennis Quaid as Lewis, with Winona Ryder, and Alec Baldwin. Ziggy Marley (October 17, 1968) is a Jamaican musician, the oldest son of Rita and Bob Marley. In 1989, a major motion picture based on his early life in rock & roll titled Great Balls of Fire brought him back into the public eye. of The Chieftains and Ziggy Marley covering Bob Marley's "Redemption Song". When questioned about why he was at the front gate, Lewis displayed a gun and told the guard he had come to kill Presley. Lewis had been invited to visit by Presley but a security guard was unaware of this.

A few weeks later on November 23, Lewis was again involved in a gun related arrest at Elvis Presley's Graceland residence. Owens miraculously survived. The gun was loaded and Lewis shot Owens in the chest. Pointing it at his bass player, Butch Owens, he pulled the trigger.

While celebrating his 41st birthday in 1976, Lewis began playing with a .357 Magnum, which he later stated he thought was unloaded. Addicted to drugs too, Jerry Lee Lewis checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic. Little more than a year later, his fifth wife was found dead at his home from a methadone overdose. Following this, his fourth wife drowned in a swimming pool under suspicious circumstances.

Lewis' own erratic behaviour during the latter part of the 1970s led to his being hospitalized and near death from a bleeding ulcer. Earlier in the sixties his first son Steve Allen Lewis drowned in a swimming pool accident. Plagued by alcohol and drug problems after Myra divorced him in 1970, tragedy struck when his 19-year-old son, Jerry Lee Lewis Jr., was killed in a road accident in 1973. Although he toured and played many sold-out concerts, he never again achieved the heights of success that he had prior to the scandal of 1958 despite a major international hit with "Chantilly Lace" in 1973.

He achieved many No.1 and Top 10 country hits. After more than a decade playing rock and roll, in 1968 Lewis began focussing on country and western music with reasonable success. His popularity recovered somewhat in Europe, especially in the UK and Germany, in the mid 1960s, but success eluded him in the USA. His only hit during this period was a cover of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" in 1962.

The scandal followed Lewis home to America and, as a result, he almost vanished from the music scene. The situation caused a public uproar and the tour was cancelled after only three concerts. Lewis’ personal life was always turbulent but kept from the public until a tour of Britain in 1958 when the press learned the 23-year-old star was with his third wife, Myra Gale Brown, who was also his 13-year-old second cousin. His dynamic performing style can be viewed in films, including High School Confidential in which he sang the title song from the back of a flatbed truck and the big-budget film The Girl Can't Help It.

He kicked the piano bench out of the way to play standing, raked his hands up and down the keyboard for dramatic accent, and even sat down on it. Lewis's performances were dynamic. His early billing was as Jerry Lee Lewis and his Pumping Piano. Watching and listening to Jerry Lee Lewis play, Elvis said if he could play the piano like that, he'd quit singing.

"Great Balls Of Fire" soon followed and would become his biggest hit. In 1957, his piano and the pure rock sound of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" propelled him to international fame. Lewis' first recording at Sun studios was his own distinct version of the country ballad "Crazy Arms". Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash also began their recording careers at Sun Studios around this same time.

In 1956, Lewis joined Sam Phillips at his Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Leaving religious music behind, but bringing its sound and his piano playing talents to the new music developing at the time, in 1954 he cut his first record. He began playing the piano at a very early age in his church, and in 1950 he attended Southwestern Bible Institute in Texas but was expelled for misconduct, including playing rock and roll versions of hymns in church. He was, like Elvis Presley, brought up singing the Christian gospel music of integrated southern Pentecostal churches.

His parents, though poor, took out a loan to buy him a piano, and within a year he had developed his mature style of playing. Born in Ferriday, Louisiana, he early showed a natural talent at the piano. Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll pioneer piano player and singer. "Breathless".

"Great Balls of Fire". "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On". "Another Place, Another Time". "Crazy Arms".

"High School Confidential". "It'll Be Me". "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)". "Who's Gonna Play this Old Piano?".

"End of the Road". "Me and Bobby McGee".