I loved Jerry Lee Lewis’s rockers, but also his country weepies, such as How’s My Ex Treating You. It was thus disconcerting to hear from a friend how the star behaved at a press conference to launch a UK tour in the early 1970s.
Lewis was taking questions amiably enough until someone asked, “Do you see yourself as more a rock’n’ roller, or a country singer?” At that he jumped down, grabbed the reporter’s tape recorder and stamped on it. He returned to his seat and, with a defiant look in his eye, quietly said: “Next question.”
Giles Oakley
