Jerry Lee Lewis

Why The '60s Really Ended With Carole King's 'Too Late'

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, Nick Lowe, Gerry Goffin, Carole King, The Shirelles, The Beach Boys, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Kinks, Elvis Costello, James Taylor, John Hiatt, The Byrds, Video, Fifty News

Driving home to "Lawn Guyland" the day after graduating from Bucknell U. in Lewisburg, PA and blasting progressive rock station WNEW on the radio, I was struck by one of those other-worldly, pull-over-to-the curb musical moments.

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Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' Greatest Moments

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.18.2012

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"American Bandstand," which the late Dick Clark hosted from 1956 to 1989, introduced new musical acts to generations of Americans during its decades-l...

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Jerry Lee Lewis Ties The Knot AGAIN

AP | EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Posted 05.30.2012

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JACKSON, Miss. — Rock `n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis has married for a seventh time in Mississippi, and the new bride is his cousin's ex-wife. ...

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My Top 10 Most Influential Rock 'N' Roll Pioneers

Pat Gallagher | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Brenda Lee, Buddy Holly, The Platters, Connie Francis, Fats Domino, Bobby Darin, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chubby Checker, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Rock and Roll, Nostalgia, Fifty News

Teenagers back in the day who actually wore poodle skirts and experienced the Brylcreem era remember -- first hand -- the musical explosion that came to be known as rock 'n' roll.

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First Nighter: Mark Nadler's Outstanding, Outrageous 'Crazy 1961'

David Finkle | Posted 03.20.2012

When the amazing Mark Nadler performs, I never fail to find myself thinking about the talent/luck equation. If x (talent) + y (luck) = Big Star, how are x and y measured?

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Michael Jackson's "The Immortal Megamix," Plus Chatting With Chris Isaak and Phil Manzanera

Mike Ragogna | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Robert Wyatt, Chrissie Hynde, Roy Orbison, Enrique Bunbury, Eurythmics, Also Lopez Gavilan, Roxy Music, Gorillaz, Buddy Holly, Carlos Santana, Carl Perkins, Chris Isaak, David GIlmour, Paul Thompson, Buena Vista Social Club, Sun Records, Phil Manzanera, The Beatles, Brad Pitt, Stevie Wonder, David Lynch, David Bowie, Jimmy Stewart, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa, Steve Winwood, Bryan Ferry, Red Dwarf, Johnny Cash, Lucho Brieva, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Doctor Who, Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, Cheech & Chong, Brian Eno, Héroes Del Silencio, Annie Lennox, Video, Entertainment News

"I've made a lot of records because that's what I do, and I've listened to a lot of records, and I have to tell you the truth--it wouldn't have mattered if The Beatles had recorded "A Hard Day's Night" on Silly Putty. It would have sounded good."

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Million Dollar Quartet: A Trip Inside Rock History

Danny Groner | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Sam Phillips, Million Dollar Quartet, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Sun Records, Jerry Lee Lewis, Music, Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, New York News

This story about four rock n' roll legends is really a story about the record company, Sun Records, that launched their careers. Nevertheless, it's the music here that really tells the story.

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Visiting the Memphis Kings: Elvis and Dr. Martin Luther King

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Graceland, ? Sun Studio, Carl Perkins, Home of the Blues, Movement to Overcome, Memphis Sanitation Strike, Isaac Hayes, Edison Pena, Otis Redding, Dr. Martin Luther King, Birthplace of Rock N? Roll, Rendezvous, Fried Peanut Butter and Bananas Sandwich, Jr., Rosa Parks, Jerry Lee Lewis, Montgomery Bus Boycott, National Civil Rights Museum, B.B. King, Peabody Hotel Duck Parade, River Inn Harbour Town, Shure 55 Microphone, Arcade, Johnny Cash, Lorraine Motel, Beale Street, Smithsonian Rock ?N Soul Museum, Elvis Presley, Memphis, Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau, Al Green, Lunch-Counter Sit Ins, Michael Pavlosky, Chilean Miners, Duckmaster, Travel News

Photo by Eric Lindberg Edison Pena, one of the rescued Chilean miners and a huge Elvis fan, is getting his wish: Graceland and the Memphis Conventio...

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Greatest Generation, The Tonight Show, The Roaring Twenties, Hula-Hoops, Sarah Vaughn, Zeitgeist, The Millennial Generation, Marilyn Monroe, Lawrence Olivier, Fred Kaplan, Brando, Dave Brubeck, Guggenheim Museum, Slate Magazine, On the Waterfront, Dinah Washington, Non-Objective Art, I Love Lucy, The Today Show, Bill Haley, Robert Heinlein, James Dean, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, The Silent Generation, Rockabilly, Paul Newman, Abstract Expressionism, Joe Barrett, Jaspar Johns, Chuck Berry, Vladimir Nabokov, Frisbee, Doctor Zhivago, Peanuts. Playboy Magazine, Charlotte's Web, Ingmar Bergman, Rock and Roll, Don't Ask Don't Telll, Jerry Mulligan, David Halberstam, Fats Domino, The Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dizzy Gillespie, The Fifties, Rothko, Tolkein, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Jackson Pollack, Elvis, John Coltrane, Ayn Rand, Martin and Lewis, Modern Jazz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Charlie Parker, The Me Generation, Jack Kerouac, Ella Fiztgerald, The Cold War, Kandinsky, Ray Bradbury, Micro Chip, Sputnik, Brown v. Board of Education, Audible.com, De Kooning, Little Rock, Gen-X, Pepsi Cola, Arthur C. Clarke, Duck-and-Cover, Catcher in the Rye, James Bond, Mort Sahl, The Great Depression, Asimov, Fellini, Books News

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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"Who's Your Daddy!": A Playlist For Today's Rock & Roll Fathers

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adam Gorgoni, Steely Dan, Paul Simon, Queen, Wind & Fire, Loudon Wainwright III, Neil Young, Marc Cohn, The Temptations, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gladys Knight, Dan Fogelberg, James Brown, Earth, Madonna, Chris Cote, Rick Neigher, Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, The Cars, Elvis Presley, Violent Femmes, The Doobie Brothers, Freddy Curci, Who's Your Daddy!, Cat Stevens, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Morrissey, The Rays, Waylon Jennings, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

Four talented dads in my neighborhood, men with distinguished credits in music, as well as film and television, have formed an acapella group that's fittingly called Who's Your Daddy!

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Dog Ears Music: Born in September Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Cage, Sonny Rollins, BB King, Arnold Schoenberg, Danielle Evin, Music, Joan Jett (& the Blackhearts), Joey Heatherton, Cass Elliot (the Mamas & the Papas), Billy Preston, Memphis Slim, Otis Redding, Patsy Cline, mp3s, Gene Autry, John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders), Phil Ramone, Arvo Pärt, Glenn Gould, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hank Williams, Dog Ears, George Gershwin, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

This week we feature music from Jerry Lee Lewis, Sonny Rollins, Memphis Slim, Patsy Cline, John Cage, and more.

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PLAY > SKIP: New Music for Sept. 7

Shawn Amos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interpol, Stone Sour, Body Talk Pt 2, Robyn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Audio Secrecy, Kaleidoscope Heart, Mean Old Man, Sara Bareilles, Entertainment News

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Looking for an Echo (2): 10 More That Shoulda Made The Top 10

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shaver, Bonnie Raitt, Drive by Truckers, Starry Eyes, Judee Sill, Peggy Seeger, Swedish, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Billie Joe Shaver, The Records, The Move, Bessie Banks, Elvis Presley, Ewan MacColl, Jackie DeShannon, Norway, Jesse Winchester, Allan Clarke, Memphis, George Jones, Graham Parker, The Hollies, Dion, Jerry Lee Lewis, Graceland, Paul Siebel, Jimmy Webb, Art Garfunkel, Eddy Shaver, Cadillac, Chuck Cuminale, Kirsty MacColl, Entertainment News

The Multiverse Theory has nothing to do with lengthy poetry. Also known as "eternal inflation" -- a concept to which all payers of college tuition can...

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Music's Past and Future Meet on Broadway

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Day, New York City, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Broadway, Musicals, Jerry Lee Lewis, Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, American Idiot, Entertainment News

While American Idiot shows the future of Broadway musicals, Million Dollar Quartet provides the backstory to the journey that the music industry took to get us to this point.

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Actors, Singers, Dancers, Christians and a Republican: The 2010 Tony Awards Show Roasted

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

It was a poor decision to hand out the Tony awards on the day of the Gay Pride Parade and Festival in West Hollywood, thereby losing its entire West Coast audience.

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Stage Door: Million Dollar Quartet, Cirque's Ovo

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Circus Arts, Crl Perkins, Cirque Du Soliel, Entertainment, Sam Phillips Rock 'N' Roll, Music, Johnny Cash, Broadway, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, New York News

Great balls of fire! It's Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Elvis -- and in Million Dollar Quartet, they blow the roof off a one-room sound studio in Memphis.

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"Shakin' All Over": A Playlist for Southern California and Mexico

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tori Amos, Earthquake, The Lemonheads, California Earthquake, The Wiggles, Prince, Los Lobos, Jeff Beck, Eddie Money, Guess Who, mc5, The Plimsouls, The Temptations, Butthole Surfers, Mama Cass, Jackson Browne, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Del Fuegos, Entertainment News

Here -- from a guy who just left San Diego -- is a playlist to calm your nerves while there's a whole lot of shakin' going on.

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"Too Darn Hot": My Playlist To Help Heat Things Up At The Copenhagen Climate Summit

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brian Wilson, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boysl the Isley Brothers, Neil Diamond, Van Halen, New Edition, Paul Simon, Nick Gilder, Donna Summer, Pharrell Williams, General Public, Flo & Eddie, Katy Perry, Bill Lee Riley, The Beatles, Eddie Vedder, The Plastic Ono Band, U2, Crowded House, John Hall, Ella Fitzgerald, Jerry Lee Lewis, Snoop Dogg, Brad Paisley, Bobby Hebb, Quincy Jones, Green News

I really do believe in the threat of global warming, and in honor of the Copenhagen climate talks, here's my playlist to prove it.

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Rock Hall Rocks to a $4 Million-Plus Haul

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation's Joel Peresman has confirmed that last week's monster benefit concerts in Madison Square Garden will yield at least $4 million.

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