Jerry Lee Lewis Last Emotional Video A Day Before Death

Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock n roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal, died Friday morning at 87. The last survivor of a generation of groundbreaking performers that included Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Lewis died at his Mississippi home, south of Memphis, Tennessee, representative Zach Farnum said in a release. The news came two days after the publication of an erroneous TMZ report of his death, later retracted. Of all the rock rebels to emerge in the 1950s, few captured the new genres attraction and danger as unforgettably as the Louisianaborn piano player who called himself The Killer. Tender ballads were best left to the old folks. Lewis was all about lust and gratification, with his leering tenor and demanding asides, violent tempos and brash glissandi, cocky sneer and crazy blond hai