[13], Shortly after her divorce, Brown married Pete Malito,[14] the detective she had hired to trail Lewis and document his infidelities,[15] and moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Fellow singer, Kris Kristofferson, who was also in the UK at the time,remembered the way Lewis was treated. They would sit up late at Graceland talking. CREATIVE. Change isnt something that everyone always likesPlay some Frank Sinatra, whats wrong with Sing Along with Mitch? It was a time and a place that wont come around again. Reporters discovered that the young girl traveling with him, Myra Gale Brown, was his 13-year-old bride and his cousin and that Mr. Lewis had still been married to his second wife when he . What I wanted was a baby in my arms, a home, a husband, a kitchen to cook in, a yard to raise roses," Brown said. Everything just came together and a major explosion happened.. A mean sonofabitch. Lewis was 22 and Williams was 13, and the press came down hard on him when it was revealed that she was also his second cousin and that Lewis was still married to his second wife, Jane Mitchum, when they wed. He said that Elvis called him the next day and invited him to Graceland. Youre fine. But I never felt fine. You see, Myra did not survive that marriage. "They were looking for a place to stick the knife into rock & roll. He wanted to be Othellos new lieutenant but had been passed over. But it didnt delve deep enough into exploring Lewis indomitable character. But when they landed in New York, the reception was just as bad. Elvis had been drafted into the military, and Lewis was poised to take his place as rocks biggest name. The British public, fueled by the tabloids branding Lewis as a cradle robber and a baby snatcher, practically drove him out of the country, vehemently abhorring his relationship. As well as a roster of unforgettable songs, Jerry Lee Lewis is known . Shes hittin herself in the face., Another night, when shed flushed his pills down the toilet for fear hed kill himself, he went into a rage and bashed her to the floor. With a new memoir, The Spark That Survived, she wrote at the time, sharing an image emblazoned with Whatever happened to Myra? over an old photo of her and Lewis. But friends of Jerry Lee would say that the marriage had existed mostly on paper.. I was the one who let the big ol' cat out of the bag. I got a mean streak. I gotta lay it open sometimes.. He kept marrying: In 1984, the year after Shawn Stephens death, he wed Kerrie McCarver; the couple divorced in 2005. I was serious-minded, I was like, We gotta take care of this and do this, and he was like, Wheres the piano? Thats what he is, thats what hes about. My little brother was born because I begged my parents for a baby at ten years old.. Elvis didnt marry a little 16-year-old girl, did he? On December 12, 1957, Jerry married his third cousin, Myra Gale Brown. Williams described to Light the moment when the world learned of their scandalous marriage. Lewis upended pop music with Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On and Great Balls of Fire, but his personal life was a chronicle of scandal and controversy. However, it was discovered that she was only 13, and that they had been married for five months. Myra, who was 13 years old when she got married to Jerry, was Jerry's cousin. Jerry Lee Lewis was 22 when he married his third cousin 13-year-old Myra Gale Brown. Lewis later said the pistol had simply slipped from the dashboard to the floorboard. Apparently it wasn't uncommon at the time. Tweets. Jerry Lee loved playing Iago. She was married to her cousin, rock star Jerry Lee Lewis. Instead director Jim McBride, who co-wrote the script with Jack Baran, ends up simply satirizing the argyle innocence and daffy exuberance of the 50s, according to The Times review. They were looking for a place to stick the knife into rock & roll, she said. Matthew McConaughey Voices Elvis Presley in Priscilla-Approved Animated Series Agent Elvis 1954). By the late 1960s, hed been living a punishing life on the road, drinking and taking pills steadily, going without sleep as he did it all. Didnt He, girl? He stepped from the car. Though he had gotten married again before his divorce was final, it also came out that his new wife was also his third cousin a 13-year-old named Myra Gale Brown. The trouble was, it couldnt be heard: It wasnt available in the U.S. until a 1994 release by Rhino. Lewis was 22. Myra Gale Brown's Tweets. Cause you appear to be sittin in the wrong spot, said Jerry Lee.. After the controversy in the UK, Lewis could no longer find success performing rock 'n' roll music, and found he had to pivot into country music instead. The 'Great BallsOf Fire' singer started performing in the early 1950s, in his late teens. The peptic ulcer was a sign of a bigger problem, a recurring one. When we went back home, the whole country was Shame on you, bad boy. The other thing we had back then was a hypocritical society. Little did they know what it was going to turn into," she reflected. However, she indicated that his 2012 marriage to the ex-wife of her brother had put a strain on their relationship. "I was in England when they ran him out of the country," Kristofferson said. Instead, as he stood over that small grave, he knew that his drive was the only thing that could save him.. If Myra doesnt go, he told them, Im not going.. Not only were they criticizing her age, they were also pointing out the fact that Jerry Lee Lewis had once again married before his divorce was finalized. It bumped De Gaulle off the front page of the newspaper. Myra Gale Brown, however, hadnt been told of the story and failed to follow along with the fib. He was an utterly convincing and affecting barroom singer, like Merle Haggard, and like Haggard, he wielded singular tone and timing. He could be unmerciful and abusive. Myra Gale Brown (known today as Myra Lewis William) is an American author. After their divorce in 1970, Williams said she had been "subject to every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable," but the two seemingly made peace later. Lewis lived out rock & rolls sexual and impulsive audacity in extreme fashion. "Loganville couple celebrates 75 years of marriage, music and memories", "JERRY LEE LEWIS, ROCK, STOCK AND BARREL", "The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis", "Jerry Lee Lewis's short-lived music success", "Jerry Lee Lewis Online Wild One's Clubhouse: The Largest Jerry Lee Lewis Homepage on the Internet! However, upon landing in the country with his child-bride, it became clear that the Brits were not on board with Jerry Lee Lewis. Phoebe worked for him and when I visited her I would still see him, too. However, since his marriage a few years ago to my ex-sister-in-law, who wasnt an ex yet when they got together (yes, you read that correctly), Phoebe quit working for him and I havent seen him since. Hulton Arcive / Getty Images Jerry Lee Lewis og Myra Gale Brown kort efter deres bryllup i 1957. CHESAPEAKE Myra Gail Brown was a child of the hydrogen bomb. After thirteen years of marriage, they were divorced in 1970, when Myra charged that she has been subject to every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable; Jerry Lee later said that it was all my faultshe caught me cheating. When we met, she described their relationship as a successful divorce, though more recently it seems theyve been clashing over his current, seventh wife. @cat well that's gross, but at this point, it's not all that surprising. By the time he was 21, he had begun recording with the likes of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Myra Gale Brown, now known as Myra Lewis Williams, is an American author best known for her controversial marriage to her first cousin once removed, and Rock-n-Roll Legend, Jerry Lee Lewis. In the end, she says, Jerry Lee Lewis downfall was a bigger issue than her age. He wanted to do harm. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. When Lewis didnt show for his hearing the next day, a Memphis judge ordered him arrested again, but changed his mind when he learned the piano player was in the hospital with a peptic ulcer. He had gone into the army and I was hitting big, but there were a lot of narrow-minded people who thought I was corrupting the youth. Myra Lewis Williams, as she's now known, made those comments to journalist Alan Light when he met up with her and Lewis for a 2010 story for Rolling Stone. [5] The scandal over the marriage destroyed Lewis' promising rock and roll career,[8] although he subsequently found success in country music. He came into country music with respect for its verities, but he didnt worry about respecting anybody elses likening. Her Instagram account has been dormant since early 2016. Thirteen year old Myra Gale Brown sitting on Jerry Lee Lewis lap. So whatever happened to her? And still, the world remains fascinated by the marriagewhen the Wall Street Journal asked him about it recently, he said, I probably would have rearranged my life a little bit different, but I never did hide anything from people The newspapers in England came down heavy but they didnt faze me, really. He tried marrying Myra a second time to make things right in the publics eye, and he wrote an open letter in Billboard. With cheerful impenitence, Jerry Lee is shown correcting an interviewer: Myra was one day shy of her 13th birthday on their wedding day so she was actually twelve. The nose of that Lincoln was a mile long, he said in Braggs book. Due to her marriage with Jerry Lewis, she was controversial in the media. Jerry Lee Lewis wasnt just complicated; he was fucked up. It also ruined Lewis' career. Presley was watching it all on closed-circuit television upstairs. For this sort of act, existentialists would have named Jerry Lee Lewis a rebel, though his admirers simply called him the Killer. The 1989 biopic Great Balls of Fire, which starred Dennis Quaid as Lewis and a 17-year-old Winona Ryder as Myra, was based on Williams first book of the same name. According to Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found, by author Joe Bonomo, he later said, I was a 21-year-old kid, and I didnt know whether I was comin or goin. On that day in June, Jaren was sunbathing at a friends house. After they divorced, Brown worked as a receptionist to support her daughter as a single parent. 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Jerry Lee would never accept her child as his, and no one would ever launch any legal proceeding to prove his parentage. (Lewis denied any involvement in Shawns death.). [4] Lewis asserted that Brown was 15 years old and was his wife of two months. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters. She was controversial in the news due to her marriage to Jerry Lewis. [10][11] Brown filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery and abuse,[5] stating that she had been "subject to every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable. After the two were married on December 12, 1957, Lewis planned to take Brown along on a tour of England. You should be. She married Lewis on December 12, 1957, at the age of 13. When all of this hit in London in 1958, it just took the world by storm. People didn't know it at the time that they wed, but although she was listed as a 20-year-old, legally Brown was actually only 13 (via Biography). He followed her in his car and forced her off the road. Myra Gale Brown se narodila 11. ervence 1944 ve Vicksburgu v Mississippi, dcei Lois a J.W. Thats what this book basically is, this is what happened, this is how I handled it and here I am today, she said. I could so easily have said, Im J.W. The 'Great Balls Of Fire' singer started performing in the early 1950s, in his late teens. "So when a reporter asked me, 'Who are you?' J He kept playing shows, from 1956 to 2020. ), Lewis, though, wasnt planning on leaving rock & roll. Williams also covered their marriage in the 1982 book Great Balls of Fire, which was adapted into a 1989 film starring Dennis Quaid as Lewis and Winona Ryder as Williams. @rush Poor working class, Louisiana. Browns daughter. Lewis would voice Iagos lines seated at the piano, hed mix blues cadence with Shakespeares doleful lyricism. We were just kids in love at the time. This is a video of Jerry . She was the daughter of a preacher, and their union lasted just 20 months, ending in October 1953. Really? 58 Followers. Myra was only 13 when she married Jerry Lewis. Myra Gale Brown : I don't know how to be a wife. He married a 13-year-old, Myra Gale Brown, who later said she was "subject to every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable." He shot his bass player, was a serial adulterer, abused. Myra had him by her side one moment, then he wasnt there. She is the cousin removed and former wife of late popular singer and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis. and The Frank Skinner Show. At 15, Myra was younger than Britains age of consent. The other chance that came his way was a thoroughly unlikely one. After their divorce in 1970, Williams. When the woman who owned the house could no longer see her, she sent her son to look for her. Light later recounted in a story published in Medium's Cuepoint in 2014 that Lewis and Williams "were playful and affectionate" during the photo shoot for the Rolling Stone story. What happened that night could never really be separated from the myths of the two men. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. Jerry Lee Lewis would remain a mix of good news and bad until he was too old to trouble anybody much, but that was a long time and a lot of trouble later. Or did that possibility somehow further his antihero standing? It was about being with somebody you couldnt keep: I just put in my last dime/Heard you whisper wed meet again/Another place, another time. He sang it. All Rights reserved. Myra Lewis (Myra Gale Brown) was born on 11 July, 1944 in United States, is an American author. Brown and his family. Collections; . After further digging, the newspapers revealed that Myra Gale Brown was actually 13, his cousin, and that for the second time, Lewis had failed to get divorced before remarrying. Because we have a daughter, Jerry and I remained in contact for many years, she wrote. After a long buildup, when he gets to his final declarations of You know what I want/You know what I got to have, his voice turns into a taunting laugh that is prurient and menacing. There was trouble from the start of Shawns marriage to the rock & roll legend, wrote Cramer. "Since his marriage a few years ago to my ex-sister-in-law, who wasn't an ex yet when they got together (yes, you read that correctly), Phoebe quit working for him and I havent seen him since," Brown said in another Instagram post. The book includes lots of details about Jerry's early career that a music historian might appreciate. Today, Myra Williams, 78, reflects on the scandal and her late ex-husband. He grew distant. By the time they made it home, it had been discovered that Myra was the daughter of Jerry Lees cousin and bass player, J.W. Jerry Lee would try to stop him, but they would get into fights. Thats exactly what it was. Things grew much worse when new information came back from the States: Myra was in fact 13, not 15. [6][7] In addition, Lewis had not yet divorced his previous wife, Jane Mitcham. They told him he had a 50 percent chance of survival. Her second book chronicled her experiences becoming a mother at age 14 and then again at 17 and losing their son Steve by accidental drowning in 1962. Trump Melts Down Over Murdoch Admitting Fox Lied About Election Fraud She was also Jerry Lee's second cousin, as well as the daughter of Jay 'JW' Brown, the bass player in his band. It's worth it if you are a serious fan of Jerry and very interested in his marriage to Myra - I learned a lot - I just think it could have been done so much better - so go into it with realistic . He headed out to a nightclub, then called home at 3 a.m. Myra said she pulled a pistol from a nightstand and put it to her head and told Jerry Lee what she was prepared to do. Then, when he fell from grace, he was untouchable in a different way, but he was dogged. So when a reporter asked me, Who are you?, I was the one who let the big ol cat out of the bag. ", "Myra Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis' 13-year-old bride, speaks out", "Jerry Lee Lewis Married His 13-Year-Old Cousin And Ruined His Career", "Jerry Lee Lewis' teenage bride speaks out: 'I was the adult and Jerry was the child', "Jerry Lee Lewis' Lawsuit Against Daughter Dismissed by Judge", "Cousin's ex becomes Jerry Lee Lewis' 7th wife", "The Tiny Spark That Survived: The Rock 'n' Roll Life of Star's Child Bride", "Jerry Lee Lewis' former teenage wife releases new book", "Cannes Review: Ethan Coen's 'Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind', Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits, Vol. I find living is nice and calm this way.. Around the same time, Elvis Presley was involved with Priscilla Beaulieu, who was 14 when she met him. What I wanted was a baby in my arms, a home, a husband, a kitchen to cook in, a yard to raise roses. 1 of 5. [2], On December 12, 1957, at the age of 13, Myra Brown married Jerry Lee Lewis, then 22, in Hernando, Mississippi. He kept recording, releasing more than 40 albums from 1958 to 2014. Who is Myra Gale Brown? After just a few shows, Lewis' tour was cancelled, with the British press calling him a 'cradle robber' and a 'baby snatcher'. The radio stations that didnt play it hated it. He and Myra flew back to the United States, where he expected more sympathetic treatment. And, Myra said later, she herself felt ready for marriage. But they didnt, and I didnt, and the rest is history, I guess. Jerry Lee & Myra Lewis Interview ( 1958 ) robin haugsnes 5.68K subscribers Subscribe 793 Share 365K views 14 years ago Jerry telling about his tour in London, where everything went pretty bad,. He didn't understand that at the very least, marrying someone when you're already married is illegal? During that time, Brown gave birth to two children - Steven Allen Lewis, who drowned at age three, and Phoebe Lewis, who would go on to become her father's manager for a time. [14] Although Brown found the actors to be talented and friendly, she was not satisfied with the book or the film. Options, mindsetsthis world has gone so fast the last fifty years that you cant keep up with it. She is most popular for her union with rock 'n' move performer Jerry Lee Lewis who is her subsequent cousin. Jerry Lee Lewis and Myra Gale Brown shortly after their wedding in December 1957. The police arrived, found the gun. He was in the first class inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986, along with Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, and James Brown. He was a coward, Jerry Lee told Bragg He hurt me. Still, somehow, Jerry Lee got second chances, albeit in unexpected ways. Lewis accepted the offer. Every day, you wondered what was going to happen next. Jerry Lee Lewis knew how to inhabit that role. Though his rock career was forever marred by his marriage to Myra Gale Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis eventually found success in country music. Myra Gale Brown : I don't even know what hydrogen is. And vastly more trouble-prone than all of them. A lot of ink has been spilled about his close blood relationship with Myra, and the fact that she was only 13 and still believed in Santa Claus when the pair were married. Williams maintained it was a different time, and she would now discourage any 13-year-old girl from marriage and instead pursue going to college. "Because that was the truth! Jerry Lee Lewis and his 13-year-old wife, Myra, get set for a motorcycle ride on June 14, 1958. But it brought me and Jerry very close, and we had ten incredible, wonderful years together after that. She has a career in real estate in Georgia since 1980 (under the name Myra Williams or Myra Lewis Williams). She also said she felt their marriage was their own business and not for the world to judge. Im right here! Elvis and Jerry Lee had once been close. And Jerry gave it to themwell, I did, I opened my mouth. Myra Lewis Williams has no hard feelings over the relationship and still blames the press for turning it into something wicked. Unfortunately, returning stateside did nothing to stop the flood of vitriol that was spewing about Lewis and Brown. Brown, and that the 22-year-old singer was still technically married to his previous wife, Jane Mitcham. Lewis' passing was announced on. Moreover, by the time Lewis tried to reestablish his rock & roll credentials in America, the Beatles were expanding all the possibilities of the music Jerry Lee and Carl Perkins and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley and Little Richard had pioneered, creating new styles and unprecedented dimensions in which rock artists and their audiences might shake up the world. And I really, truly wasnt a typical teenager. In September 1976, Lewis was celebrating his 41st birthday at his home when Butch Owens, his bass player, showed up with a friend. On December 12, 1957, Lewis wed a woman named Myra Gale Brown (pictured above), who was also his cousin. His second marriage in September 1953 had caused quite a stir when people realized it had taken place 23 days before his first divorce was final. I guess I went through like a trial by fire. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time American actor Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis and Winona Ryder as Myra Gale Brown in the film "Great Balls of Fire!", a 1989 biopic of the famous rock 'n' roll musician. Despite the end of their marriage, the pair remained close as they co-parented Phoebe. He went immediately from being a guy who made $10,000 a night to a guy who didnt make $100 a night.". He died on Nov. 13, 1973. It was crude and rude and ridiculous what it was doing to the teenagers. But when the Lewis party landed in London, the press wanted to know about the teenage girl at his side. A good person. One paper called for him to be deported. Brown, now 78, found some success as a writer, publishing the book Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis, in 1982. Myra Gale Brown was the daughter of J.W. She co-wrote the book Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis (1982), which was adapted into the film Great Balls of Fire! 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