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    • May 17, 1958
    Ferriday, Louisiana, celebrates Jerry Lee Lewis Day and gives the singer the key to the city, following a parade
    May 22, 1958
    Jerry Lee Lewis arrives in London, where he admits he's married his teenage cousin, Myra. He's booed offstage and forced to cancel 34 of his 37 scheduled concerts
    May 30, 1958
    The movie "High School Confidential" debuts, with Jerry Lee Lewis singing the title track from the back end of a flatbed truck
    Jun 4, 1958
    Jerry Lee Lewis remarries Myra Gail Brown in Ferriday, Louisiana, after returning from a trip to Great Britain. Lewis' divorce from his second wife had not been finalized when he first married Brown, his 13-year-old cousin
    Jun 9, 1958
    Jerry Lee Lewis buys a five-page trade ad, explaining his marital problems: "I hope that if I'm washed up as a performer, it won't be because of this bad publicity...I can't control the press or the sensationalism that these people will go to"
    Nov 14, 1958
    Late guitarist Jay Perkins is honored with a memorial concert in Memphis. On the bill: Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Webb Pierce, Dickey Lee, Ernest Tubb, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Sonny Burgess, Merle Travis, Lefty Frizzell and Joe Maphis
    Feb 27, 1959
    Jerry Lee Lewis has a son, Steve Allen Lewis, in Ferriday, Louisiana. The boy is named after TV host Steve Allen
    Feb 9, 1961
    Jerry Lee Lewis records a version of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" in the first session at the Sam Phillips Recording Studio in Nashville
    Apr 22, 1962
    Jerry Lee Lewis' 3-year-old son, Steve, drowns in the family's pool in Memphis
    Apr 29, 1962
    Four years after his marriage to his teenage cousin destroyed his career in the United Kingdom, Jerry Lee Lewis makes a successful return to the UK
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