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* SmallReferencePools: Many people know him only for "Great Balls of Fire".

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* SmallReferencePools: Many people know him only for "Great Balls of Fire".Fire", particularly because it was featured in ''Film/TopGun''.
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Known primarily for such hits as "[[{{Fireballs}} Great Balls of Fire]]" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", his SignatureStyle of piano-playing (flamboyant, with a lot of ''glissando'', getting up on the piano, etc.), and the KissingCousins scandal (in which his wife was discovered to not only be his first cousin once removed,[[note]]First cousins have (at least) one grandparent in common. "Once removed" means that one cousin's grandparent is the other's great-grandparent.[[/note]] but also just 13 years old--''and'' his divorce from his second - [[SerialSpouse of seven]] - wife still wasn't final) that almost completely derailed his career. Later on, he reinvented himself as a fairly successful mainstream CountryMusic artist.

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Known primarily for such hits as "[[{{Fireballs}} Great Balls of Fire]]" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", his SignatureStyle of piano-playing (flamboyant, with a lot of ''glissando'', getting up on the piano, etc.), and the KissingCousins scandal (in which his wife was discovered to not only be his first cousin once removed,[[note]]First cousins have (at least) one grandparent in common. "Once removed" means that one cousin's grandparent is the other's great-grandparent.[[/note]] but also just 13 years old--''and'' his divorce from his second wife - [[SerialSpouse of seven]] - wife still wasn't final) that almost completely derailed his career. Later on, he reinvented himself as a fairly successful mainstream CountryMusic artist.
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Known primarily for such hits as "[[{{Fireballs}} Great Balls of Fire]]" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", his SignatureStyle of piano-playing (flamboyant, with a lot of ''glissando'', getting up on the piano, etc.), and the KissingCousins scandal (in which his wife was discovered to not only be his first cousin once removed,[[note]]First cousins have (at least) one grandparent in common. "Once removed" means that one cousin's grandparent is the other's great-grandparent.[[/note]] but also just 13 years old--''and'' his divorce from his second wife still wasn't final) that almost completely derailed his career. Later on, he reinvented himself as a fairly successful mainstream CountryMusic artist.

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Known primarily for such hits as "[[{{Fireballs}} Great Balls of Fire]]" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", his SignatureStyle of piano-playing (flamboyant, with a lot of ''glissando'', getting up on the piano, etc.), and the KissingCousins scandal (in which his wife was discovered to not only be his first cousin once removed,[[note]]First cousins have (at least) one grandparent in common. "Once removed" means that one cousin's grandparent is the other's great-grandparent.[[/note]] but also just 13 years old--''and'' his divorce from his second - [[SerialSpouse of seven]] - wife still wasn't final) that almost completely derailed his career. Later on, he reinvented himself as a fairly successful mainstream CountryMusic artist.



** Set his piano on fire on television.

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** [[RockersSmashGuitars Set his piano on fire on television.]]
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Known primarily for such hits as "[[{{Fireballs}} Great Balls of Fire]]", "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", his SignatureStyle of piano-playing (flamboyant, with a lot of ''glissando'', getting up on the piano, etc.), and the KissingCousins scandal (in which his wife was discovered to not only be his first cousin once removed,[[note]]First cousins have (at least) one grandparent in common. "Once removed" means that one cousin's grandparent is the other's great-grandparent.[[/note]] but also just 13 years old--''and'' his divorce from his second wife still wasn't final) that almost completely derailed his career. Later on, he reinvented himself as a fairly successful mainstream CountryMusic artist.

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Known primarily for such hits as "[[{{Fireballs}} Great Balls of Fire]]", Fire]]" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", his SignatureStyle of piano-playing (flamboyant, with a lot of ''glissando'', getting up on the piano, etc.), and the KissingCousins scandal (in which his wife was discovered to not only be his first cousin once removed,[[note]]First cousins have (at least) one grandparent in common. "Once removed" means that one cousin's grandparent is the other's great-grandparent.[[/note]] but also just 13 years old--''and'' his divorce from his second wife still wasn't final) that almost completely derailed his career. Later on, he reinvented himself as a fairly successful mainstream CountryMusic artist.
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Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 – October 28, 2022) was an American {{Rockabilly}} music pioneer, as well as one of the Million Dollar Quartet with fellow [[Music/SamPhillips Sun Records]] artists Music/ElvisPresley, Carl Perkins and Music/JohnnyCash.

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Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 – October 28, 2022) was an American {{Rockabilly}} music pioneer, as well as one a member of the Million "Million Dollar Quartet Quartet" along with fellow [[Music/SamPhillips Sun Records]] artists Music/ElvisPresley, Carl Perkins and Music/JohnnyCash.

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