• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
• Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.88 Ounces
• Director ‏ : ‎ Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour
• Release date ‏ : ‎ January 29, 2002
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Jerry Lee Lewis
• Studio ‏ : ‎ Geneon [Pioneer]
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Jerry Lee Lewis, the foundational rock-and-roll pianist, singer, and songwriter, was always true to his nickname, the Killer. Whether he was onstage, in the recording studio, or pumping out a radio commercial for McDonald’s, a brand as much a part of the landscape of the fifties as Lewis’s voice, he was a performer of alarming abandon, thrilling audiences for well over half a century. And yet his reputation will always be sullied. Celebrities are imperfect in countless ways, but not many marry their thirteen-year-old cousins.

Lewis, who died at the age of eighty-seven, on Friday, was the last survivor of the generation that included Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and Little Richard. Raised in a Pentecostal Christian family in Ferriday, Louisiana, he always knew he was playing the devil’s music. He revelled in it. Presley had a superior voice, and Berry and Little Richard came up with nearly every distinctive instrumental lick of the era. But Lewis had it all. He could write or, like Elvis, create the definitive version of someone else’s lyric. He sang with hellacious force and conviction. He played the piano in a way that was both melodic and percussive. Above all, Lewis put on one hell of a show. Long before the Who shattered their instruments or Jimi Hendrix played guitar with his teeth, Lewis was playing the piano keys with his heel or elbow in time to the music. The pace of his shows accelerated like a car running downhill without brakes. Even in his waning years, he drove audiences to the sorts of abandon that concert-hall operators and insurance adjusters always feared.

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