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The Rich Hall BBC Four Specials Collection | show | 2008 | Official Clip
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10/19/2024
A collection of ten 90-minute specials presented by Rich Hall on BBC Four, looking at US cultural history told through t | dHNfeGlVb0dLalp4YVU
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In early 1956, Sam Phillips sold Elvis Presley's contract to RCA Victor for $35,000,
00:07
coming up slightly short of his million-dollar profit projection.
00:10
Now he needed a new, greasy, chicken-fried, redneck hick to take Elvis' place.
00:16
And this time, it wouldn't be so pretty.
00:23
Jerry Lee Lewis was a redneck in every sense of the word.
00:27
He took hell-raising to a new level.
00:29
If people thought Elvis was a bad influence on America's youth,
00:32
they had no idea what Jerry Lee was about to stir up.
00:37
Somebody said to Elvis, they said,
00:40
rock and roll is corrupting America's youth.
00:43
Elvis, you're bad.
00:45
You're wearing black leather jackets and greased back hair.
00:48
Elvis said, I may be corrupting America's youth,
00:51
but Jerry Lee the killer is marrying them.
00:58
See, Jerry Lee Lewis was to music what William Faulkner was to literature
01:01
and what Tennessee Williams was to playwriting.
01:03
That is to say, indomitable.
01:06
Elvis Presley was a nice boy, but Jerry Lee Lewis was a shit-kicker.
01:10
He owns the two biggest-selling rock and roll records of all times
01:13
and he always claimed that he could out-drink, out-fuck, out-play
01:15
and out-ingest more drugs than any other human being on the face of the planet.
01:18
He shot his bass player with a .357 Magnum.
01:21
One of his wives ended up floating face-down in the swimming pool in the backyard
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and he was thrown out of England for marrying his 13-year-old cousin.
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And on top of all this, Jerry Lee Lewis claims to be a deeply religious man.
01:31
He's always said that when he dies, he's going straight to hell
01:33
and that is probably why Jerry Lee Lewis is not yet dead.
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