A Kelly Klassic – Another Legend is no more – Jerry Lee Lewis – “Precious Memories” – by Des Kelly JERRY LEE LEWIS, also known as ‘The Killer’, started very young, even before his teens, teaching himself to play an old ‘pianner’ at home, playing Gospel songs and singing them at Church, then goes down to the old ‘Sun’ recording studio, meets up with Johnny Cash, Elvis  Presley, Carl Perkins and a couple of other would be Country Legends to start recording some Country-Gospel songs, backing himself with his own inimitable style of Piano-playing, that made everyone who saw him play, STOP & listen, in amazement.   That done, he goes out and marries his 13 year old cousin, followed by no less than six more wives, changes over to Rock n Roll Music, playing the piano like no-one could do, to the extent that no other entertainer even wanted to follow ...

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  “ORION, PERSONIFICATION OF ELVIS” – By Des Kelly Very recently, a television documentary caught my attention, and held it tenaciously, even though it was a fairly long “true story” regarding James (Jimmy) Ellis, a simple Americsn Country lad whose only wish was to be a great entertainer, pursued his dream, made his way to the “big sticks”, to finally be presented with the stage-name Orion, the masked “ghost” of the king of rock n roll Elvis Presley.           This is just an introduction to what was a most interesting story, which proves how tremendously difficult it is, for anyone to gain recognition, let alone “Star-status”, in   the entertainment field, in America, or anywhere else, for that matter. Orion “made it” alright, but only as a masked  Lone Ranger figure, emulating his own idol, Elvis, who had already passed on. Orion did not need that mask, ...

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Stories in Song” Series 2019 –  “I CAN HELP” – By Des Kelly Born on the 5th day of September,1962,  in Svenstavic, Jamtland (Sweden), just a few months after this Writer had emigrated to Australia. I did not recognize the Name Micke Muster at all, hadn’t heard of him, until very recently, when brother Ian sent me this video-clip on facebook, from Sri Lanka. Where Ian got the clip from, I’ll never know, but suffice to say that my family use this “platform” for “uplifting material” rather than the rubbish presented by individuals who seem to delight in publicising violence like the tragic events that just occured in New Zealand, last week.      Facebook, or ANY BOOK, should be extremely careful about what publicity is given & to whom, or else this “platform” may well also collapse, like faulty scaffolding one sees all too often, nowadays.      Apologies for the digression on my part. ...

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PRECIOUS MEMORIES by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’   Something very different, something astounding, something that had me completely gob-smacked & I’ve been around for eighty three years. When we say the name Jerry Lee Lewis one immediately thinks about “rock n roll”, a mad wild-haired pianist with a reputation to match. Born in 1935, the good old days, “the killer”, as he was called, started “entertaining” at a very young age, went through the usual “sex, drugs & rock n roll” period but out-lived dozens of the “Stars” who surfaced in the same era. Jerry is still living in Memphis Tennessee, still very much in charge of his faculties & the reason why I think HE was the “Star of Stars”, is because he does everything he does, with a “finnesse” that is his and his alone. “Rock n roll”, “Gospel”, “Blues”, you name it, Jerry Lee Lewis does ...

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