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On December 12, 1957, at the age of 13, Myra Brown married Jerry Lee Lewis, then 22, in Hernando, Mississippi. [3] [2] When Lewis arrived in London for a 37-date tour in May 1958, Brown revealed to a reporter at the airport that she was his wife. [4] Lewis asserted that Brown was 15 years old and was his wife of two months.
In his book Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story, biographer Rick Bragg notes that the songs Lewis was recording "were of the kind they were starting to call 'hard country', not because it had a rock beat or crossed over into rock in a real way, but because it was more substantial than the cloying, overproduced mess out there on country radio".
The album was created during a turbulent period in Lewis' career. He struggled with the Internal Revenue Service, [8] [9] his fourth wife drowned in 1982 and his fifth wife died in 1983 within three months of their marriage. [10] The latter death resulting in rumours of murder. [11]
Jerry Lee Lewis' marriage to his 13-year-old cousin in 1957 nearly ended his career. Today, Myra Williams, 78, reflects on the scandal and her late ex-husband.
Myra Lewis Williams, also known as Myra Gale Brown, was the third wife of late rock ’n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and — more infamously — his 13-year-old cousin at the time they got married.
Jerry Lee Lewis led a prolific music career. But that career hit a sharp nosedive when his marriage to 13-year-old Myra Gale Brown became public.
In 1990, Bakley began pursuing singer Jerry Lee Lewis. [12] Bakley eventually did meet Lewis and even became close friends with Lewis' sister, Linda Gail Lewis. [14] In 1993, she claimed that the daughter she gave birth to, Jeri Lee, was Lewis' child. However, DNA tests later disproved her claim. [7] After Jeri Lee's birth, Bakley decided to ...
Jerry Lee Lewis, 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 ...