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This guy here, Jerry Lee Lewis,
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some of you may have a problem with.
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Many people have, actually.
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There are reasons not to like him.
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For example, he once slammed his car
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into the gates of Graceland
with a gun on the dashboard
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and may have threatened
to kill Elvis Presley.
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And then there was the
time he fired a machine gun
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over the heads of a bunch of people
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to get them to wake
up and party with him.
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But there are also plenty
of reasons to like him,
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so let's try to keep this positive.
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He was, after all, one of the
founding fathers of rock and roll.
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Thank you very, very much.
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♪ Come on over, baby, whole
Lotta shakin' goin' on ♪
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♪ Yeah, come on over, baby ♪
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♪ Baby, you can't go wrong ♪
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♪ Honey, I ain't fakin' ♪
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♪ Whole lot of shaking going on ♪
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One thing you may not
know is that the Killer,
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which is what he called himself,
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quit rock and roll and went on to become
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one of country music's greatest singers.
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The Killer. You know, if you
look at Jerry Lee long enough,
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that nickname takes
on a whole new meaning
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The Killer, he loved to perform.
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Morris "Tarp" Tarrant
spent about 15 years
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on the road with Jerry Lee, playing drums
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and occasionally pouring the drinks.
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From 1961 up to '76,
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when I caught that armed robbery charge.
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If that hadn't happened, I'd
have still been with him today.
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I remember a time we was
coming from Fort Worth, Texas,
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going to Oklahoma City.
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We were 90 miles out
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and had a flat tire on
that Lincoln limousine.
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We didn't have a jack or a new tire,
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so he told Cecil, our
manager, "Get behind the wheel
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"and drive this son of a
bitch just as fast as it'll go
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all the way to Oklahoma City."
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Cecil said, "Killer, I can't do that.
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It'll burn up the rim. It'll,
like, catch the car on fire."
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Jerry said, "I don't give a goddamn
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if it blows the whole car
up. We got a show to make."
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This is when we was making
$200-$300 a night, you know.
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"All right, any of you motherfuckers
that want to go with me, do this show,
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"better get your ass in the car,
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'cause I'm fixing to take
this Lincoln to Oklahoma City."
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Well, he cranked it up.
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He said, "Tarp, get over
there and pour drinks."
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I said, "Okay," and he drove that car
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just as fast as it would go.
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And sparks was flying.
You could smell it smoking.
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And when we got there,
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the club owner called the fire department
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to spray the car down
because it was so red hot.
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And there was no rim there.
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There was hardly... There
wasn't no axle there.
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It was pretty crazy,
actually, but he made his show.
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Let me tell you something
about Jerry Lee Lewis,
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ladies and gentlemen.
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I am a... rock and rolling,
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country and western, rhythm
and blues singing mother.
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He just, uh, knew he
was the greatest, man,
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and he actually could back it up.
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My dad would even tell
you that he was one
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of the most phenomenal piano players
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that there ever was.
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Jerry Phillips' dad, Sam Phillips,
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signed Elvis Presley at Sun Records.
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He also signed Jerry
Lee when he was just 21.
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I mean, Elvis was a great entertainer,
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and I think he, you know,
will always be the King,
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but there's no doubt had he not
married his 13-year-old second cousin,
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he would probably have been
the king of rock and roll.
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There's that. Might
as well get to it now.
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I was the 13-year-old child bride
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who was married to the wild,
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crazy man, Jerry Lee Lewis.
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My daddy, J.W. Brown,
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he played bass with Jerry, and
Daddy's Jerry's first cousin.
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We survived it. That's
about the way it was.
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Daddy was probably one of
like 60 or 70 first cousins.
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Three of the cousins actually
became pretty big names...
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Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley...
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and Jimmy Swaggart.
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I have sinned against you, my Lord.
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The three cousins, they
set on front porches
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and played guitars and mandolins
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and whatever instrument they had.
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He lived down on Black River.
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There was an old rented house
down there his uncle had.
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Man, you wouldn't believe it.
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Sometimes snakes would
fall out of the ceiling.
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But somehow, they got a hold of a piano,
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and that's how he learned to play.
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They grew up
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in Ferriday, Louisiana,
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a dirt-poor town along
the Mississippi Delta.
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We were very poor.
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We didn't even have a bathroom
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on the inside of the house.
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Linda Gail Lewis,
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also a singer and performer,
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was born 12 years after
her brother, Jerry Lee.
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Jerry would sneak off and
go down to Haney's Big House
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and listen to all those great
blues players coming down
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from Memphis, on their
way to New Orleans,
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and they called it the chitlin' circuit.
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And Jerry was definitely
influenced by that.
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He was torn from the get-go
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between the forbidden
world of rock and roll
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and the word of God.
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Jerry was out of a
Pentecostal background.
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J.M. Van Eaton was also
a drummer for Jerry Lee.
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Another J.W., J.W. Whitten,
managed the Killer for decades.
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Jerry was going to... What's it called?
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- Bible college.
- Bible college.
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And, uh, he was playing piano
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and "My God Is Real."
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And Jerry said, "Don't you think
it sounds better like this?"
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Up-tempo it, played boogie-woogie.
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Well, the, uh, music
director slapped him.
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Jerry Lee put his Bible down,
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left school, and set his sights
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on Memphis to break into rock and roll.
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He told his daddy... he said,
"Daddy, I want to go to Memphis.
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"This guy, Elvis Presley,
went to Sun Records,
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"and... and stormin'
with a song on the radio.
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I want to go there and cut me a song."
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Now, we didn't have money for the trip,
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so me and my momma and
daddy went in the henhouse
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and gathered as many eggs as we could.
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And they sold 33 dozen
eggs and came to Memphis.
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Jerry Lee moved to Memphis for good.
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Luckily, his cousin, J.W.
Brown, already lived there
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with his 12-year-old daughter, Myra.
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The first time I met Jerry,
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he was really kind of
a funny-looking guy.
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He had one tooth smaller than the other.
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His hair was cut way too short.
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His ears were kind of sticking out a lot,
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and he just sort of looked like a
good ol' goofy country boy to me.
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It was like, "Oh, hi there."
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And Jerry meandered
over to Daddy's piano.
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And I thought, "Oh my God."
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Jerry Lee moved pretty fast
in Memphis, on all fronts.
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He and J.W. started a band,
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and the very first day they
set foot in Sun Records,
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they turned out results.
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Before we got out of the studio that day,
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we had cut his first
release, "Crazy Arms."
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Cut it one time, never
dreamed it would be a release,
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but that was his first record.
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♪ Will hold somebody new ♪
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♪ But now I'm so lonely all the time ♪
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Back then, we had a show on
radio called Red Hot & Blue.
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And I heard it and, of
course, I started screaming.
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And everybody in the
house ran to my bedroom,
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and we all knew, this is it.
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And it was just like a
rocket about to take off.
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So here is the jolting,
jamboreeing, jumping Jerry Lee Lewis!
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♪ Come on over, baby ♪
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♪ A whole Lotta shakin' going on ♪
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♪ Ah, come on over, baby ♪
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♪ Baby, you can't go wrong ♪
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♪ We ain't fakin' ♪
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♪ Whole Lotta shakin' going on ♪
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The Killer played the kind of music
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you'd hear in Haney's Big House,
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with an evangelical conviction
that was hard to resist.
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♪ Come on over, we got
a bull by the horn ♪
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"Whole Lotta Shakin' Going
On" is a naughty song.
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It's a song about... making love,
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or as the kids nowadays say, having sex,
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which to me sounds...
absolutely horrible.
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Just, you know, it
drove those girls wild.
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You know, it was dangerous, man.
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He was a dangerous cat,
and that came off on stage.
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"This guy is dangerous.
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"This is the guy you probably don't want
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your daughter to be... hanging around."
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It changed all of our lives.
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We were holding our breath,
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just waiting for the
next thing to happen.
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♪ You can shake one time for me ♪
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♪ Well, I said come over, baby ♪
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♪ A whole Lotta shakin' goin' on ♪
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In the early years, he was really torn
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between wanting to go church
and just do gospel music.
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He felt like it was
wrong for him to do songs
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like "Great Balls of Fire" and
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On."
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He was fighting that
back and forth every day.
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♪ Shake! Oh! Shake, baby! ♪
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Despite Jerry's very real
fear of eternal damnation,
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"Great Balls of Fire" sold
a million copies in 10 days.
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He celebrated by sweeping
young Myra off her feet.
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He comes home and here
it is, and I looked at it.
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It said, "Jerry Lee Lewis
and Myra Gale Brown."
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It had "Marriage License" at the top.
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I said, "Jerry, I'm just a kid."
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He said, "No, you're not.
You're a grown woman."
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"Oh, no, I'm not."
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I was a little more
mature than Jerry was.
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He was 22, and I was 13.
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I was the thinking adult
in that relationship.
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The next day, Jerry Lee told J.W.
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he was taking Myra into
town to see a movie.
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By that evening, Jerry's first
cousin was also his father-in-law.
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Well, I found some rice in their clothes.
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- In Myra's clothes.
- Dead giveaway.
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Yeah, that was a big giveaway that.
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And I said, "I'm taking my gun
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I'm going up there,
and I'm gonna kill him."
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I said... I was so mad
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to think that my cousin had
married my 13-year-old daughter.
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That was enough to make anybody mad.
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It seems the money,
the fame, and the glory
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of rock and roll helped the family heal.
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All the sudden, everything
was just exploding for Jerry...
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bigger shows were coming
in, more money was coming in,
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and that's where the problems began.
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Our booking agent then,
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he had booked us on a
tour to go to England.
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We thought we'd be all right,
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but we wasn't planning on
any of the family going.
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And Jerry said, "No, I'm
not going unless Myra goes."
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Everybody was going to Jerry,
saying, "Please don't take Myra.
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Let's just keep this private."
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Nobody would tell me anything.
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I didn't know to lie, so
when we arrived in London,
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reporters came over, said,
"Oh, who are you, miss?"
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And I said, "Oh, I'm Jerry's wife."
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And he said... "How old are you?"
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And I said, "Uh"... I did
know to lie about that... "15."
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And all of the sudden,
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reporters are all around both of us,
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and it's like, "What happened?
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What... What'd I do? What'd I do?"
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I didn't know that this was gonna set off
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an explosion heard round the world.
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When they found out that, uh,
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that was his second cousin...
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but they assumed first, or whatever.
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It really doesn't matter,
a cousin's a cousin.
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Eddie Kilroy is a country music producer
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who became a confidant over the years.
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I think the one that really drove
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the nail in the coffin
for him on that whole deal
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was when they started
hammering on him about Myra.
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And he said, "It ain't no big deal.
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I got two more back in
Louisiana just like her."
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He was like, "I cannot
believe these people
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are so upset about something so silly."
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Then it came out that
Jerry had been married
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a couple of times before and
didn't bother getting divorces.
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He married one girl, he
didn't get a divorce from her.
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And then he married another girl,
he didn't get a divorce from her.
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And then he married me.
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I don't know what it is
about the people in Louisiana.
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They just don't think
divorces are necessary evils.
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When that awful publicity
came out in all those tabloids,
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that was very hard for him.
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And they were just heckling
and harassing him and all that.
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And it just got worse.
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We could not go outside of the hotel.
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If you looked out the window,
every building around us
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had people in the windows,
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hanging out the windows, looking.
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Scotland Yard said they'd
like for us to leave
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because they were afraid
that they couldn't protect us.
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When we arrived back to Memphis,
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we were certain they were gonna be like,
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"Come to Mama," you know?
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Well, the papers reported that you
were greeted with silence over there
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and with catcalls from the
audience. Is that right?
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Well, I... I can't agree
with you on that, sir.
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- Uh-huh.
- Our audience was very nice and very good.
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Were you there, Mrs. Lewis?
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I was there, but I wasn't at the shows.
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- Oh, you weren't at the shows.
- No.
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Did you notice anything like that?
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That sort of reception?
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No, it was a very good
reception, I thought.
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Uh, when were you married?
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- Pardon?
- When were you married?
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Why don't we leave our personal
questions out of this, sir?
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All right. Well, good luck.
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Thank you.
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Jerry had been making $10,000 a show.
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He's back to making $200.
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We were playing...
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...chitlin' circuit.
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Red Rooster, Bloody Bucket...
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you know, them kind of joints.
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They had chicken wire
around the bandstand.
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Those clubs is his
stomping ground, you know.
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He said, "I'll tell you one thing, Tarp.
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I'm the Killer. I'll
make it back to the top."
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Jerry and I used to go
downtown to the Malco Theater
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and watch a lot of horror movies.
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So we watched Lon Chaney in The Werewolf.
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We got ready to leave,
and went out the back
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and got in that Rolls Royce out there,
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and we were pulling
up to the main street.
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Well, this cat come
walking down the sidewalk,
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and he was dressed in full
makeup and full showbiz.
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Liberace is who it was,
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and Libby always dressed,
you know, to the hilt.
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Jerry looked at me, he said,
"You know what I ought to do?"
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I said, "What's that, Killer?"
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He said, "I ought to run
over that motherfucker.
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There'd be one less piano
player to worry about."
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I said, "Well, go ahead.
Go ahead, run over him."
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He revved the motor up...
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...put the car in gear.
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He said, "No, I reckon I'll
let him live this time."
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The Killer could be impulsive.
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He liked to have a good
time, remembers Rusty Brown,
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Myra's brother, also a
drummer for Jerry Lee.
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Well, after a show, he expected
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everybody to come to his room,
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and, like, you'd either party there
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or you'd go out to a club somewhere.
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That was every night.
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Then he rented him a...
a little office in Memphis,
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so he could have a place to go to
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till the clubs opened
back up that evening.
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The cocaine he used and the pills
and the drinking, like to killed him.
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Amphetamines, biphetamines,
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what you called Black Widows,
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the same thing everybody... Johnny Cash
would call for, everybody was taking.
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We got to the point where
the colors were the thing.
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"I'll give you two black ones
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for one of the red and white ones."
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That's the way that was.
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And we... we never
knew at a point in time
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what we were taking and
how much we were taking.
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00:16:06,379 --> 00:16:08,913
He'd been up, wired to the max,
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00:16:08,914 --> 00:16:12,517
for two, three days,
shooting up the joint...
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00:16:15,488 --> 00:16:18,189
...throwing knives.
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Raising hell, you know?
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So after like the third night,
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people were falling
asleep on sofas and stuff.
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And they were saying, "Jerry, we're
just so tired. We can't stay awake."
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00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:34,144
He'd bought a machine gun that
belonged to Machine Gun Kelly.
348
00:16:34,145 --> 00:16:35,478
He got it from a collector,
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00:16:35,479 --> 00:16:37,847
so, man, he was proud
of that old machine gun.
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So he picked up that machine gun
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and just sprayed the ceiling
with all these bullets.
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So everybody kind of woke up then.
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Next day, boy, I mean, they...
they... they were having a fit.
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He shot up a dental lab
that was next-door to him.
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Shot up $50,000 worth of false teeth.
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That was the end of his
little office right there.
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Over time, Jerry was able to
climb over the chicken wire
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and make his way back to the top,
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in part by playing gigs on the bill
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with some of his best friends
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and biggest rivals, like Chuck Berry.
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They were two really good showman...
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Chuck Berry was a good showman, too,
364
00:17:16,469 --> 00:17:19,137
but Chuck Berry had a
big ego, Jerry had ego,
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00:17:19,138 --> 00:17:21,072
and the promoter worked it out
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to where one would close the show.
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The next night, the other
one would close the show.
368
00:17:25,978 --> 00:17:28,547
Well, Jerry, obviously,
didn't want Chuck Berry
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to be able to follow Jerry Lee Lewis.
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00:17:30,483 --> 00:17:32,884
So they argued back and
forth, and Jerry goes,
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"Okay, Killer, you know,
you can close the show."
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So, Jerry, he goes out there and
does, of course, a great show.
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It was right after he
did "Great Balls of Fire,"
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and he pulled a can of lighter
fluid out of his pocket,
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00:17:46,205 --> 00:17:48,106
and squirted it inside the piano,
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00:17:48,107 --> 00:17:50,776
threw a match in there, and
caught the damn piano on fire.
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00:17:50,777 --> 00:17:52,444
He walks off stage and says,
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00:17:52,445 --> 00:17:54,713
"Follow that, motherfucker." You know.
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00:17:54,714 --> 00:17:56,981
It's hard to follow a burning piano.
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00:17:57,684 --> 00:17:59,184
Not too long after that,
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the Killer's dad, Elmo Lewis,
382
00:18:01,154 --> 00:18:04,089
apparently inserted
himself into the rivalry.
383
00:18:04,090 --> 00:18:07,725
Elmo was kind of an outlaw. He
had been in prison, what have you.
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00:18:07,726 --> 00:18:10,662
Elmo, felt that Chuck
was degrading Jerry,
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00:18:10,663 --> 00:18:12,931
and said, "I'll... I'll
throw you in the Blue Hole,"
386
00:18:12,932 --> 00:18:17,369
which is some kind of Louisiana
swamp name or something.
387
00:18:17,370 --> 00:18:20,972
I don't know what. Had a Barlow
knife, and Chuck took off running.
388
00:18:20,973 --> 00:18:24,342
And he was getting ready to go
up there and cut Chuck Berry.
389
00:18:24,343 --> 00:18:26,078
There was no doubt about
it, and Jerry stopped him.
390
00:18:26,079 --> 00:18:28,046
"Don't cut him. Daddy, don't cut him."
391
00:18:28,047 --> 00:18:30,582
And then everything settled
down, nobody saw anybody,
392
00:18:30,583 --> 00:18:32,084
but the next morning, come downstairs,
393
00:18:32,085 --> 00:18:33,818
Chuck and Elmo was sitting there
394
00:18:33,819 --> 00:18:35,959
having breakfast together
like nothing had happened.
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00:18:36,822 --> 00:18:38,557
While Chuck escaped unharmed,
396
00:18:38,558 --> 00:18:41,858
the apple didn't fall too far
from the tree in the Lewis family
397
00:18:41,859 --> 00:18:44,428
when it came to issuing
threats of violence.
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00:18:44,429 --> 00:18:47,331
Butch Owens, you know, he was
playing bass for us at that time.
399
00:18:47,332 --> 00:18:50,601
He was mad at Butch, and he kept
telling Butch he was gonna kill him.
400
00:18:50,602 --> 00:18:55,606
Butch walks in ahead of
me, and Butch said, "Jerry,
401
00:18:55,607 --> 00:18:59,410
if you don't mind, we come to
get our money, our back pay."
402
00:18:59,411 --> 00:19:03,280
And Jerry Lee said, "Well,
I got you boys' money."
403
00:19:03,281 --> 00:19:05,983
When he pulled that pistol
out, I immediately exited.
404
00:19:05,984 --> 00:19:10,754
I knew he was fixing to shoot, and I
didn't want to be in the line of fire.
405
00:19:10,755 --> 00:19:13,056
Immediately, I hear bam!
406
00:19:14,259 --> 00:19:15,792
Bullet fragments went through him,
407
00:19:15,793 --> 00:19:18,495
right out his back. But was bad...
408
00:19:18,496 --> 00:19:20,631
...was Jerry had just
put in new white carpet.
409
00:19:20,632 --> 00:19:23,333
He didn't like it because he
was bleeding on the carpet.
410
00:19:23,334 --> 00:19:26,466
So, they drug Butch outside
411
00:19:26,467 --> 00:19:27,967
and put him on the sidewalk.
412
00:19:27,968 --> 00:19:30,137
They were able to get him in a helicopter
413
00:19:30,138 --> 00:19:32,705
and get him to the hospital and save him.
414
00:19:32,706 --> 00:19:34,474
What a blessing that was.
415
00:19:34,475 --> 00:19:37,544
But you know, Jerry fired him.
416
00:19:37,545 --> 00:19:40,147
And I said, "Well, should we fire him?
417
00:19:40,148 --> 00:19:43,716
I mean, I know it was an
accident, but you did shoot him."
418
00:19:43,717 --> 00:19:46,453
And he said, "Well, I...
I've got a tour coming up,
419
00:19:46,454 --> 00:19:48,754
and I have to have a bass
player, and he can't play."
420
00:19:50,557 --> 00:19:54,593
Ultimately, the shooting was
ruled an accident by a court of law
421
00:19:54,594 --> 00:19:57,296
and Jerry Lee was charged
with a misdemeanor.
422
00:19:57,297 --> 00:19:59,398
By the time poor Butch got shot,
423
00:19:59,399 --> 00:20:03,102
the Killer had quite a
following all over the world.
424
00:20:03,103 --> 00:20:07,440
Despite Elvis, Jerry Lee was
living out his own personal dream
425
00:20:07,441 --> 00:20:10,509
of wearing the crown,
King of Rock and Roll.
426
00:20:10,510 --> 00:20:13,379
We went out to Los Angeles
on Jerry's airplane,
427
00:20:13,380 --> 00:20:16,248
and we go out there, and
we go to the Roxy Theater,
428
00:20:16,249 --> 00:20:19,585
and somebody had told me
that John Lennon was there,
429
00:20:19,586 --> 00:20:20,953
and he was up in the balcony.
430
00:20:20,954 --> 00:20:24,355
And we go out on stage to do the show,
431
00:20:24,356 --> 00:20:26,324
and there's all these clouds
432
00:20:26,325 --> 00:20:29,494
of marijuana smoke
coming from the balcony.
433
00:20:29,495 --> 00:20:33,264
Somebody is smoking a lot
of dope up in the balcony.
434
00:20:33,265 --> 00:20:35,567
So I go back to the dressing room,
435
00:20:35,568 --> 00:20:39,471
and I'm sitting there with Jerry
and a couple of guys from the band,
436
00:20:39,472 --> 00:20:41,973
and we're just sitting there,
and somebody knocks on the door.
437
00:20:41,974 --> 00:20:44,308
Well, they open the door...
438
00:20:45,277 --> 00:20:46,825
and John Lennon is standing there.
439
00:20:46,826 --> 00:20:50,628
He didn't say a word. He
walked in that dressing room,
440
00:20:50,629 --> 00:20:53,598
and he knelt down, right beside Jerry,
441
00:20:53,599 --> 00:20:56,168
and he kissed the bottom of his shoe.
442
00:20:56,169 --> 00:20:57,868
He didn't like the Beatles.
443
00:20:57,869 --> 00:21:00,737
He said, "Every time I turn on the radio,
444
00:21:00,738 --> 00:21:03,340
"it's a Beatle here and a Beatle there.
445
00:21:03,341 --> 00:21:05,943
I don't like them haircuts there."
446
00:21:05,944 --> 00:21:08,578
He had his differences with the Beatles,
447
00:21:08,579 --> 00:21:12,116
Chuck Berry, Libby, and lots of others,
448
00:21:12,117 --> 00:21:15,786
but the Killer's main rival
was always the King himself.
449
00:21:15,787 --> 00:21:18,055
Jerry was out at a nightclub in Memphis,
450
00:21:18,056 --> 00:21:20,958
he was drinking champagne, and
he was partying with some people.
451
00:21:20,959 --> 00:21:23,727
And he got a phone call.
452
00:21:23,728 --> 00:21:27,298
And somebody said, "You
need to come to the phone.
453
00:21:27,299 --> 00:21:30,034
It's for you, and it's Elvis."
454
00:21:30,035 --> 00:21:32,902
And Jerry goes in, and
he takes the phone call.
455
00:21:32,903 --> 00:21:36,272
And Elvis was depressed and unhappy,
456
00:21:36,273 --> 00:21:38,975
and Jerry said, "Don't
worry about a thing.
457
00:21:38,976 --> 00:21:41,311
"I'm gonna get in my Rolls
Royce, I'm coming there,
458
00:21:41,312 --> 00:21:44,247
I'll come and get you,
and we will go somewhere,
459
00:21:44,248 --> 00:21:46,415
and we'll both be better."
460
00:21:46,416 --> 00:21:51,254
Jerry's about half loaded, and he said,
"Well, I said I'd go on down there."
461
00:21:51,255 --> 00:21:53,990
It was about four or five
o'clock in the morning.
462
00:21:53,991 --> 00:21:55,691
So he pulled up to the gate.
463
00:21:57,461 --> 00:21:58,661
Uncle Vernon walked down,
464
00:21:58,662 --> 00:22:00,096
he said, "Tarp, how you doing, boy?"
465
00:22:00,097 --> 00:22:01,998
"Jerry Lee, you all right?"
466
00:22:01,999 --> 00:22:04,400
"Yeah, yeah, we fine.
Good to see you, Vernon."
467
00:22:04,401 --> 00:22:08,070
Said, "Open the gate. We're gonna
go up and see Elvis a minute."
468
00:22:08,071 --> 00:22:10,239
Vernon said, "Killer, I can't do that.
469
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,174
Elvis don't want nobody coming in."
470
00:22:12,175 --> 00:22:16,778
Made Jerry mad. He said, "I've been
knowing that boy since he started.
471
00:22:16,779 --> 00:22:19,181
Nothing's changed far as I'm concerned."
472
00:22:19,182 --> 00:22:22,571
And he had a... had a gun
laying over there on the dash,
473
00:22:22,572 --> 00:22:24,338
a big ol' .45 or something.
474
00:22:24,339 --> 00:22:27,341
And so they asked him...
says, "What you doing?
475
00:22:27,342 --> 00:22:29,544
Going in there to kill Elvis?"
476
00:22:29,545 --> 00:22:31,646
And he said, "That's exactly right."
477
00:22:33,415 --> 00:22:36,017
Just acting crazy and saying crazy stuff.
478
00:22:36,018 --> 00:22:38,219
Vernon said, "Jerry,
I can't open the gate."
479
00:22:38,220 --> 00:22:41,889
Jerry Lee said, "Well, I tell you what.
480
00:22:41,890 --> 00:22:43,256
We'll be back in a little while."
481
00:22:43,257 --> 00:22:48,361
So he backed the car all the
way across Elvis Presley Blvd.
482
00:22:48,362 --> 00:22:51,699
He revved the motor
up and put it in drive.
483
00:22:53,301 --> 00:22:56,670
He just took off and rammed the gate.
484
00:22:56,671 --> 00:22:59,172
We got all the way up to the house,
485
00:22:59,173 --> 00:23:01,541
and Jerry jumped out of the car,
486
00:23:01,542 --> 00:23:05,145
started banging on doors.
487
00:23:05,146 --> 00:23:09,149
And every police officer
in Shelby County...
488
00:23:09,150 --> 00:23:12,519
it looked like they
just came out of nowhere.
489
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,588
And they arrested both of us.
490
00:23:16,056 --> 00:23:18,925
Again and again, Jerry
Lee turned to country music
491
00:23:18,926 --> 00:23:22,562
to soothe the Ferriday
rock and roller within him.
492
00:23:22,563 --> 00:23:24,664
He wanted to be on the Grand Ole Opry,
493
00:23:24,665 --> 00:23:26,699
worse than anything in the world.
494
00:23:26,700 --> 00:23:31,304
And it just so happened that a dear
personal friend of mine managed the Opry.
495
00:23:31,305 --> 00:23:34,741
And I said, "Bud, Jerry,
he wants to do the Opry."
496
00:23:34,742 --> 00:23:38,245
They really didn't want us on the show.
497
00:23:38,246 --> 00:23:40,614
Roy Acuff throwed a fit.
498
00:23:40,615 --> 00:23:42,815
He says, "Kilroy, I don't know.
499
00:23:42,816 --> 00:23:44,717
This is a family deal, you know."
500
00:23:44,718 --> 00:23:46,853
I said, "I promise
you, I give you my word
501
00:23:46,854 --> 00:23:49,455
that he won't offend anybody."
502
00:23:49,456 --> 00:23:53,192
So I told Jerry... I said, "Jerry,
here's the deal, Cartwheel."
503
00:23:53,193 --> 00:23:58,429
I said, "No profanity, no vulgar moves."
504
00:23:59,232 --> 00:24:01,500
He said, "I can handle it."
505
00:24:03,036 --> 00:24:04,702
♪ One by one ♪
506
00:24:05,972 --> 00:24:10,976
♪ They're turning out the lights ♪
507
00:24:10,977 --> 00:24:15,113
He had vowed to leave rock and
roll behind five years earlier,
508
00:24:15,114 --> 00:24:17,783
but Jerry Lee was just a man,
509
00:24:17,784 --> 00:24:20,719
born to sin just like the rest of us.
510
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,776
When Jerry finished that song,
511
00:24:22,777 --> 00:24:24,610
he looked at the audience, and he said,
512
00:24:24,611 --> 00:24:26,879
"I just want you all to know one thing:
513
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,881
"The Killer's number one,
514
00:24:28,882 --> 00:24:32,684
and I am a rock and roll motherfucker."
515
00:24:35,388 --> 00:24:37,990
Then he kicked the
stool across the stage,
516
00:24:37,991 --> 00:24:40,059
and Roy Acuff was out there hollering,
517
00:24:40,060 --> 00:24:43,062
and carrying on, having a fit.
518
00:24:43,063 --> 00:24:46,931
That was the last time we
played the Grand Ole Opry.
519
00:24:48,001 --> 00:24:51,536
Jerry Lee Lewis is the last man standing.
520
00:24:51,537 --> 00:24:53,906
He outlasted Elvis, Carl Perkins,
521
00:24:53,907 --> 00:24:58,343
Johnny Cash, Liberace,
and even Chuck Berry.
522
00:24:58,344 --> 00:25:00,379
That's one of my first recordings
523
00:25:00,380 --> 00:25:03,948
on Sun Records, 1956.
524
00:25:05,618 --> 00:25:07,585
♪ Now blue ♪
525
00:25:08,488 --> 00:25:10,254
♪ Ain't the word ♪
526
00:25:11,123 --> 00:25:13,358
♪ For the way ♪
527
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:14,925
♪ That I feel ♪
528
00:25:15,995 --> 00:25:18,597
♪ And these little lonesome arms ♪
529
00:25:18,598 --> 00:25:23,300
♪ Ain't holding you no more ♪
530
00:25:25,871 --> 00:25:28,307
Jerry had such a natural talent.
531
00:25:28,308 --> 00:25:29,908
He just had it all.
532
00:25:29,909 --> 00:25:30,975
♪ I know ♪
533
00:25:30,976 --> 00:25:33,577
It think he was just born
to do what he was doing.
534
00:25:33,578 --> 00:25:35,680
He liked it, but he was conflicted,
535
00:25:35,681 --> 00:25:38,783
because he felt he wasn't doing
what he was supposed to do.
536
00:25:38,784 --> 00:25:43,288
But who knows what they're
supposed to do anyway?
537
00:25:43,289 --> 00:25:46,490
♪ Crazy arms ♪
538
00:25:46,491 --> 00:25:51,296
♪ That reach to hold somebody new ♪
539
00:25:51,297 --> 00:25:53,597
He better than Elvis, Johnny Cash,
540
00:25:53,598 --> 00:25:56,367
Carl Perkins... Liberace.
541
00:25:56,368 --> 00:25:59,537
He's still the greatest
entertainer that ever lived
542
00:25:59,538 --> 00:26:01,772
as far as I am concerned.
543
00:26:01,773 --> 00:26:04,608
He was a rock star 24/7.
544
00:26:04,609 --> 00:26:07,945
You can't just put it on and take it off.
545
00:26:07,946 --> 00:26:11,215
You got to live it, eat
it, sleep it, dream it,
546
00:26:11,216 --> 00:26:13,250
walk it and talk it. And he did.
547
00:26:13,251 --> 00:26:15,384
♪ All the time ♪
548
00:26:16,754 --> 00:26:18,388
He never killed nobody.
549
00:26:18,389 --> 00:26:20,090
Never threatened to kill nobody.
550
00:26:20,091 --> 00:26:22,326
He might have threatened to
hurt 'em, but he didn't mean it.
551
00:26:22,327 --> 00:26:23,927
Wouldn't hurt a fly.
552
00:26:23,928 --> 00:26:29,099
You don't have to believe
J.W., or any of the J.W.s,
553
00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:31,568
just take it from the Killer himself.
554
00:26:31,569 --> 00:26:34,388
Well, I wouldn't want 'em to
believe everything they heard,
555
00:26:34,389 --> 00:26:36,527
because if they believe and
read everything that they heard,
556
00:26:36,528 --> 00:26:38,696
I would be locked up in
a penitentiary for life.
557
00:26:38,697 --> 00:26:40,931
You can't do things like they said
558
00:26:40,932 --> 00:26:43,200
about Jerry Lee Lewis and get by with it.
559
00:26:43,201 --> 00:26:45,869
It's against the law.
I'm really a good boy.
560
00:26:48,639 --> 00:26:52,209
♪ Right now, ol' Killer's lonesome ♪
561
00:26:52,210 --> 00:26:56,146
♪ All the time ♪
562
00:27:07,104 --> 00:27:13,584
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