Million Dollar Quartet” comes to the Music & Arts Community Center January 28th. It depicts a day in the life of four of ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The wife of the late, great Jerry Lee Lewis is speaking out for the first time regarding her husband’s former club, Jerry Lee Lewis’ Honky Tonk on Beale Street. “Not only were they ...
"Cash & Killer," a benefit concert for Shelby High performing arts department, will be held Saturday, Oct. 18 at Shelby High School. An upcoming concert at Shelby High School will benefit the ...
A new exhibit at the Grammy Museum Mississippi celebrates the legacies of icons and cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart ...
This week in 1957: Forty-seven people died when two military planes collided in California; U.S. launched its first space satellite; Former Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras was arrested in Miami ...
The landscape of rock music shifted forever in July 1957, when Jerry Lee Lewis made his TV debut on The Steve Allen Show. For more than seven decades, the Louisiana-born rockabilly pioneer churned out ...
One of the last surviving figures from the golden age of Memphis’ Sun Records, drummer J.M. "Jimmy" Van Eaton, has died. Van Eaton — who came to Sun as a teenager in the mid-1950s and made his ...
The Killers headlined the second night of the RiverBeat Music Festival in Memphis. The band paid tribute to Memphis music history with a cover of Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire." The Killers ...
Dunn emulated Lewis's energetic style, including kicking back his bench and sitting on the keyboard. He credits his great-grandmother for introducing him to the boogie-woogie music that led to his ...
John Lennon was influenced by many early American rock n’ roll stars and sometimes found his influences taking control of his style. He once got in trouble for ripping off Chuck Berry and went through ...