Jerry Lee wants Stones on new album
8 hours ago
Oct 25, 2008
The Press Association
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2H0tKLFbtUWaE3g9byk_UO_8xrg

Jerry Lee Lewis said he is hoping to get Mick Jagger and Keith Richards onboard for his new album.

The 73-year-old, who is planning a blues-tinged record for release next year, is headlining at the London Rock 'n' Roll Festival on Tuesday at Kentish Town Forum.

The event kicks off the Great Balls Of Fire musician's European tour.
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Saturday, 25 October 2008  UK
BBC

Lee Lewis eyes Stones for album 

Jerry Lee Lewis is about to start a tour of Europe
Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis has said he hopes to get Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to play on his new album.

The 73-year-old Great Balls Of Fire singer said he would "probably have" the two Rolling Stones stars as guests on his latest record.

"I have known them back when they were kids. Ain't that something? They ain't kids no more," said Lewis.

He described his new work as "far out stuff" as he gave a press conference ahead of a London gig next week.

Lewis is headlining the Rock 'n' Roll Festival on Tuesday. The performance will kickstart his European tour.

Lewis was asked if he was still "The Killer", as he was nicknamed.

"Yes sir. I'm a mean old man," he said. "That's the name of a song we've just recorded.

"I enjoy music and I enjoy playing the crowds. If they ever stop coming I'll just quit playing."

And he said rock 'n' roll audiences today are "just as wild as they always were".

I wonder how factual that is? Maybe he is "assuming". Sort of sounds it by the way the articles read.



Ian

seeing him tonight! 
(and Wanda Jackson)

had a great time at the Killer show, last night.

   He played everything you'd want to hear, and i can promise you, he can still play
some great rock and roll piano...no doubt about it.

   He was only onstage for 45 mins, but the opening night of his European tour, was
memorable and hugely enjoyable. 

   Wanda Jackson and Linda Gail Lewis, were also great value and got the crowd swinging.
  Fun was had.

Ade wrote on Oct 29^th, 2008 at 3:42am:


Shame I didn't see you, Ade. Were you standing downstairs or sitting upstairs??? It occurred to me you might be there, but while looking for young, tall men in "loud" shirts  I got too distracted by the old chaps "dressed up".

We got a seat at the front of the balcony,slapp-bang in the middle, with fantastic view. Personally I enjoyed most watching the couples dancing just below me, they were just crazy fun, and I loved both Jerry Lee and Lynda Gail's sets, but during Wanda Jackson's set I honestly thought I was going to lose the will to live....There is a time when some performers ought to retire, and she definitely overstepped that mark a while ago. As to her revelation that life changed when she took the Lord into her heart in 1971....Steve Earl gets on my tits with his political broadcasts, but he's still preferable to someone shoving the Lord down my throat. I mean, I am as accepting of people's belief's and creeds as the next person, but it seems she thought the concert hall was somewhere in the American Bible belt and not in Kentish town, it held a massive cringe-factor for me.....I really loved the kid playing the guitar , did you notice him ?(Tom Walsh?), those country guitarists in Jerry Lee's band were ace, but he just blew them off stage without seemingly any effort...

And Gazza is right: they better hurry up, Jerry Lee looked VERY frail indeed...