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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 ...