That September, the public learned that the crooner had married his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown. The pair had secretly wed on December 12, 1957.

Jerry Lee Lewis was rock & roll’s original prodigal son. When he burned brightly, in the mid-to-late 1950s, he was untouchable. Then, when he fell from grace, he was untouchable in a different way, ...

Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the original pioneers of rock’n’roll, has died, aged 87 at his Memphis home. The infamous musician and last surviving member of the generation of rock that included Elvis ...