we had a couple of months of overlap with him and Burton where the music and harmonies were amazing. He was the voice of ‘Shakin’ All Over’ as a cover hit in Canada but he wasn’t made for life on the road and taught and sang locally instead,” Bachman said in his Face...
Jerry Lee Lewis, 87. The untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal. Oct. 28. ___ NOVEMBER __...
Jerry Lee Lewis, 87. The untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal. Oct. 28. The Rev. C...
turned professional in the summer of 1977. The band had a record deal with REL records in Edinburgh and spent a couple months recording a single 'Take a Little Time for Love', penned by David Valentine and Bobby Heatlie (who subsequently wrote number 1 hits for Aneka and Shakin' Stevens)...
The next year, he became a massive star with the seminal rock & roll tracks "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire." His popularity became deeply damaged when in 1958 he married his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown, who filed for divorce in 1970, citing extreme ...
“They said I came out of my mama with one leg shakin’. They thought I was crazy! I had so much energy they didn’t know what to do with me. When I started playing guitar, they just said, now he’s got somewhere to focus all that energy. It’s a good thing I never did any...