![]() I’m really glad I didn’t though because it’s gotten better as I’ve gotten older.” ![]() “This is the book I wanted to write then. … I guess I went through like a trial by fire. I’m stronger and appreciate different things in life that a lot of people take for granted. “I not only survived it, I’m better for it, having gone through it. “That’s what this book basically is, this is what happened, this is how I handled it and here I am today,” she said. She also described Lewis’ drug addiction, being the victim of abuse, divorcing and jumping into a rebound marriage, the Gwinnett Daily Post said. Her second book chronicled her experiences becoming a mother at age 14 and then again at 17 and losing their son Steve by accidental drowning in 1962. (She filed for divorce in 1970, citing allegations of abuse and adultery.) She also described herself as “the adult in the relationship” with Lewis. Jerry Lee Lewis is often tagged “The Last Man Standing” these days, a reference to his status among the core group of musicians who helped ignite the big bang of rock ’n’ roll of the 1950s.įor her part, Williams said that she wasn’t a fan of her first book and its movie adaptation because they were someone else’s idea about how that part of her life story should be told, the Post said. Music Review: Jerry Lee Lewis remains a musical firebrand at 83 during dynamic performance in Cerritos She described the memoir as her story “of how to overcome life’s worst tragedies and your own dumbass decisions.” Williams again addressed their scandalous relationship in her 2016 memoir, “The Spark That Survived.” While promoting the book, she took to Instagram to air some of the sordid details. ![]() “Jerry Lee Lewis may be a lot of things, but he’s not a simple cartoon.” “‘Great Balls of Fire’ is the toon of rock movies, with Jerry Lee Lewis reduced on screen to Roger Rabbit,” Times music critic Robert Hilburn wrote at the time. Instead director Jim McBride, who co-wrote the script with Jack Baran, “ends up simply satirizing the argyle innocence and daffy exuberance of the ’50s,” according to The Times’ review. But it didn’t delve deep enough into exploring Lewis’ indomitable character. The 1989 biopic “Great Balls of Fire,” which starred Dennis Quaid as Lewis and a 17-year-old Winona Ryder as Myra, was based on Williams’ first book of the same name. Lewis upended pop music with ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On’ and ‘Great Balls of Fire,’ but his personal life was a chronicle of scandal and controversy. Writer(s): TILLMAN FRANKS, MERLE KILGORELyrics powered by Jerry Lee Lewis, original wild man of rock ’n’ roll, dies at 87 Well, I'm just out of school I'm real real cool I got the jump, got the jive Got the message, I'm alive I'm a wild, I'm wild one Ooh, yeah I'm a wild one I'm gonna keep a-shakin' I'm gonna keep a-movin', baby Don't you cramp my style, I'm a real wild child Come on, baby, shake all night long Shake until the meat come off of the bone 'Cause I'm a wild one Ooh, yeah, I'm a wild one I'm gonna keep a-shakin' Gonna keep a-movin', baby Don't you cramp my style, I'm real wild child Yeah! Well, I gonna pick you up in my '88 Get ready, sugar, now don't be late We're gonna move it all night long Until a whole lotta shakin' goin' be on I'm a wild one Ooh, yeah, I'm a wild one I'm gonna keep a-shakin' I'm gonna keep a-movin', baby Don't you cramp my style, I'm a real wild child Whoa! Well, I really get to movin' when the sun goes down Oh, after dark, I can get around Gonna move on, I'll make every hop When we start to boppin', I sure can't stop I'm a wild one Ooh, yeah, I'm a wild one I'm gonna keep a-shakin' I'm gonna keep a-movin', baby Don't you cramp my style, I'm a real wild child I'm a real wild child I'm a real wild child I'm a real wild child Watch out!
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