“Talk about GREAT ‘Balls of Fire!’”

In 1958, while on tour with Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and The Chantels, the promoter wanted Berry to close the show. Jerry Lee Lewis thought he should close the show. The promoter said “No” so when Lewis finished his performance – as the second to last act – he set his piano on fire. The event is immortalized in the movie GREAT BALLS OF FIRE starring Dennis Quaid – and confirmed by Lewis.

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Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

“Talk about GREAT ‘Balls of Fire!’”

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