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Jerry Lee Lewis

JERRY LEE LEWIS

YEAR

1986

INDUCTED BY

Hank Williams Jr.

CATEGORY

Performers

Raising hell with the devil’s music.

That’s what Jerry Lee Lewis does best. He pounded the piano with such abandon that it’s a wonder it didn’t come apart. He is a defiant, reckless, indefatigable wild man that can rock you into oblivion.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Michael Hill

The mere titles of his tunes confirmed that Jerry Lee Lewis had the stuff of rock & roll legend. “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” “Great Balls of Fire” and “Breathless” succinctly describe the man and his music. Audacious and arrogant, rollicking and rowdy, Jerry Lee Lewis took spontaneity to the brink of danger.

He was an unrepentant, wild example for the naysayers to use when they spoke out against what even Lewis himself called “the Devil’s music.”

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Class of 1986
he could tear an audience apart.
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