And by 1959 wasn’t Presley – who voiced his support for the marriage, as long as the couple was truly in love – dating 14-year-old Priscilla? The marriage ended in 1970, but the couple remained in contact. (Lewis' seventh wife was formerly married to Myra’s brother.) They had tw...
” he was castigated in the press for his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, Myra. His rock’n’ roll star seemed to burn out even as it began to rise, and after a few big hits in the early 1960s his career seemed to be over. He responded by loading ...
"I probably would have rearranged my life a little bit different, but I never did hide anything from people," Lewis told the Wall Street Journal in 2014 when asked about the marriage. "I just went on with my life as usual." American rock and roll singer Jerry Lee Lewis with his third...
Myra�s account of their marriage spoke of long periods where Lewis was absent on tour, punctuated by �every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable�. His other relationships � he was married a total of seven times � werescarcely more harmoniousand he wa...
His third marriage all but killed his career. In May of 1958, he flew to London with Myra Gale Brown, his new wife. Myra and Lewis married when she was only 13 years old, and beyond that, she was his first cousin once removed. The overlapping nature of several of his marriages also...
Jerry Lee Lewis. Soundtrack: Grease. Jerry Lee Lewis was born on September 29, 1935 into a very religious family . His family, though not very wealthy, sold their house when he was a child to get their son a piano. He loved to play piano. He was sent to
Lewis died at home in Memphis, Tennessee, representative Zach Farnum said in a release. His death had been erroneously reported earlier in the week by the celebrity news site TMZ."Lewis, perhaps the last true, great icon of the birth of rock 'n' roll, whose marriage of blues, gospel, ...
Rock and roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis has died at 87. The Louisiana-born Lewis rose to fame thanks to the classic songs like "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" and "Great Balls of Fire," but he was also embroiled in controversy when he married his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown...
Hearing the complete Sun years does make one think about the possibilities that might have happened had Lewis not wound up becoming a tabloid subject after word leaked about his marriage to cousin Myra in the spring of 1958. It effectively ended his reign as a rock superstar on the charts (...
Mickey and Jimmy Lee. When he was fifteen he married seventeen-year-old Dorothy Barton; before long the marriage fell apart and he was running around with Jane Mitcham. Jane got pregnant, her brothers came after Lewis, and soon he was married again. He named their son Jerry Lee Lewis Jr...