All All. Sign In. Great Balls of Fire! List activity. Dennis Quaid. He grew up in the Houston suburban city of Bellaire. He continued study at the University of Houston, but dropped out before completing his degree. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue a film career where his brother, Randy Quaid , had already began to build a successful career. However, Dennis initially had trouble finding film roles, but began to gain notice when he appeared in Breaking Away and earned strong reviews for his role in The Right Stuff Aside from acting, Quaid is also a musician, and plays with his band, "The Sharks".
He holds a flying license and is a five handicap golfer. Jerry Lee Lewis. Jerry Lee Lewis was born on September 29, into a very religious family. His family, though not very wealthy, sold their house when he was a child to get their son a piano. He loved to play piano. He was sent to a religious school, but was soon thrown out shortly thereafter -- he did a boogie version of a song about Jesus, something the school could not accept.
At 16, he married for the first time, but it only lasted seven months. He married a second time three weeks before his divorce from his first wife was final. His second marriage lasted about four years and produced his first child.
In November he moved in with a cousin, J. Brown, in Memphis. They started a band together, with Jerry as singer. Phillips had become famous because of his discovery of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Phillips liked the song, and Jerry Lee Lewis began to establish his name in Memphis in late In January , he recorded a new song, the self-penned "End of the Road. Jerry was fresh in other ways, too. He not only wrote some of his own songs, he played piano. The piano wasn't considered a rock and roll instrument - Jerry Lee Lewis changed all that.
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A couple of 1 hits would soon follow -- "Great Balls of Fire" which became his signature song , "Breathless" and "High School Confidential". In late the audiences at one of his shows stormed the stage when he set a piano on fire. Chuck Berry was supposed to have ended the evening's show, but he refused to go on, wisely understanding that he could never top what Jerry just did.
