He called himself “the Killer,” and he lived up to the name, if not literally then figuratively. Jerry Lee Lewis was one of rock and roll’s founding fathers, a piano-pounding boogie-woogie rocker with ...

Atom Egoyan ‘s “ Where the Truth Lies ” brings back the seamy underbelly view of the 1950s, a decade that tends to be remembered as the halcyon days of suburban America. The film is a thinly veiled ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jerry Lee Lewis, who died recently at age 87, was the last of the first generation of rock 'n' roll stars in the 1950s, known for his wild man persona on and offstage. But in the ...

Jerry Lee Lewis, one of rock and roll’s trailblazers, died in late October at age 87. The singer had been in poor health, but no cause of death was given. Nicknamed “the Killer,” Lewis epitomized rock ...

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 ...