I saw on the news on Friday that one of the last of the archetypal rock’n’rollers, Jerry Lee Lewis, has died. He was there at the beginning of rock’n’roll and was perhaps the most prominent example of why the music was thought of as dangerous.

He always gave the impression he was living the life-style associated with it but his career was marred by scandal when it was revealed that the girl he had married – his cousin Myra Gale Brown – was only 13 at the time. He was 22. The marriage didn’t last. (He married six more women in the years since. I assume he got divorced in between.)

This is a typically energetic performance from a US TV appearance in 1957, the year of that marriage. The song was his second, and biggest, hit in the UK, making no 1.

Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls of Fire

Jerry Lee Lewis; 29/9/1935 – 28/10/2022. So it goes.