You can find a whole lotta head shakin’ goin’ on immediately after it was falsely claimed that Jerry Lee Lewis had died.
On Oct. 26, the World wide web was whipped up in a frenzy immediately after TMZ posted an short article purporting the dying of the new music legend. But, as it turned out, it was all a hoax.
“He’s alive,” a spokesperson for Lewis’ administration enterprise explained to NBC Information in response to the bogus report. “TMZ described erroneously off of a bulls— anonymous tip.”
Considering that the on the internet gaffe, TMZ deleted its initial report and published a retraction. “Jerry Lee Lewis is not dead … as we formerly reported,” the outlet’s new write-up go through. “Before today we have been advised by a person professing to be Lewis’ rep that he had passed. That turned out not to be the case. TMZ regrets the error.”
The correction arrives times soon after an update posted to Lewis’ Instagram claimed that the musician was “much too unwell with the flu to show up at” celebrations of his modern induction into the Place Music Corridor of Fame. Instead, according to the submit, Lewis chose close friend Kris Kristofferson to acknowledge the honor on his behalf.
“It is with heartfelt disappointment and disappointment that I create to you now from my sick mattress, relatively than be equipped to share my feelings in person,” Lewis wrote in an open letter on Oct. 19. “My sincerest apologies to all of you for missing this good celebration, but I hope to see you all soon.”
Reflecting on his a long time-lengthy job, the “Fantastic Balls of Hearth” singer ongoing, “I am honored to be likely into that Hall of Fame rotunda with some of my heroes—Hank Williams Sr., Jimmie Rodgers and the like—not to point out so quite a few incredible good friends who have been so excellent to me as a result of the yrs.”
He additional, “Thank you all for your assistance and like and for electing me into the Nation Music Hall of Fame, and most of all, thanks to God for allowing for me to encounter this honor when I am still right here.”
