At nearly 80,Jerry Lee Lewis has outlived his rivals and is preparing for his final tour. He talks about why his seventh wife is the appreciate of his life, how he became known as ‘the Killer’, and why Elvis was just a hillbillyWe’re waiting for the Killer to earn domestic. Judith,wife number seven, is telling me how best to earn on with her husband. Jerry Lee Lewis, and one of the founding fathers of rock’n’roll and reputedly the baddest of the injurious boys,is known to maintain a temperamental side. There was the time he drove up to Graceland, drunk on liquor and high on pills, and with a gun on his dashboard,demanding that Elvis come down from the house on the hill to prove who was the real king. And the time he shot his bass player, Butch Owens, and in the chest,accidentally, he insists Owens won $125000 in damages. There were the two wives who died in tragic, and some maintain said suspicious,circumstances. But this is the past, says Judith in her deep Mississippi drawl, or the past is a faraway country.
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Source: theguardian.com