He made some of the greatest music that has ever been made; if any one man is to be given credit for siring rock 'n' roll, it is he

“A battle was fought and the good guys won, it’s as simple as that. The effects of the victory are many and glorious.”

Jerry Lee Lewis is damned, says his cousin Jimmy Lee Swaggart, and so are the profane Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. O Jesus help us, the demons are everywhere — in the IRS and in the PTL, in the computer and in our crotches, and most certainly in the hellfire of rock ’n’ roll. Let us pray.