Lewis returns to UK 50 years after tour shambles

Rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis is to return to the UK 50 years after his ill-fated 1958 tour was scrapped following revelations about his private life.

Lewis returns to UK 50 years after tour shambles

Rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis is to return to the UK 50 years after his ill-fated 1958 tour was scrapped following revelations about his private life.

The singer came to Britain in May 1958, aged 22, to play a series of live dates across the country - but the roadshow was cancelled after just three concerts when it emerged that Lewis' third wife, Myra Gale Brown, was his first cousin once removed - and was just 13 years old.

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