Creem Profiles
JERRY LEE LEWIS
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
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HOME: Rock ’n’ roll dementia.
AGE: 39 and holding.
PROFESSION: Rockin’ his life away.
HOBBIES: Playing pianos, kicking pianos, smashing pianos, burning pianos, destroying pianos.
LAST BOOK READ: The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner.
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Outraging the entire Western world by introducing his 13-year-old bride, who also happened to be his cousin, before bothering to divorce his first two wives.
QUOTE: “Elvis who?”
PROFILE: Coming out of the hills of Ferriday, Louisiana, our hero was determined to prove that no one could sing prettier, play mightier, drink faster, hump harder or pray better than Jerry Lee. Whether it was the young punk at Sun Records or the middle-aged (crazy) veteran at the top ofthe country charts, he proved that no one—absolutely no one —cuts the Killer. Genuinely arrogant and totally out of his mind, Jerry Lee Lewis is the closest thing to a living national monument America has left today. Think about it!
BEER: Boy Howdy!
