Jerry Lee Lewis

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Jerry Lee Lewis, wearing a striped shirt and light pants, poses with one knee on a piano bench and one hand resting on a piano, smiling at the camera, circa 1957.

Jerry Lee Lewis stands and energetically plays a piano, wearing a striped shirt and dark pants, looking toward the camera in a black-and-white photo from the 1950s or 1960s.

Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash perform together in Sun Studios, Memphis, with Presley seated at a piano and the others gathered around him.

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American musician

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Jerry Lee Lewis, wearing a striped shirt and light pants, poses with one knee on a piano bench and one hand resting on a piano, smiling at the camera, circa 1957.

Jerry Lee Lewis, c. 1957

American singer and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis electrified audiences in the 1950s with...

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Jerry Lee Lewis stands and energetically plays a piano, wearing a striped shirt and dark pants, looking toward the camera in a black-and-white photo from the 1950s or 1960s.

The Killer

Jerry Lee Lewis plying his trade.

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Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash perform together in Sun Studios, Memphis, with Presley seated at a piano and the others gathered around him.

“The Million Dollar Quartet” (from left to right: Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins,...

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