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Jerry & his fans
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New contributions to this page are always welcome! If you'd like to see a picture included of Jerry together with you and/or other fans, you can send it to webmaster@jerryleelewis.nl. And of course the story behind that special picture is also welcome!
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Jerry and Els Versteijnen in Brussels (March 15, 2007)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
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Jerry and Rita Boden in Oslo (March 4, 2007)
Picture: Petter Bakke
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Sebastiaan Roelands and Jerry in New York (January 19, 2007)
Picture: Kay Martin
Sebastiaan:
"Kay Martin and I gave Jerry and Cecil copies of the Last Man Standing Reviews Book I had
compiled. When Jerry signed a copy for me, Cecil asked him to sign his copy as well!"
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Elliot Ricci and Jerry in New York (January 19, 2007)
Picture: Kay Martin
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Kay Martin and Jerry in New York (January 19, 2007)
Picture: Kay Martin
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Niek van de Klundert and Jerry in New York (April 17, 2006)
Picture: Kay Martin
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Maarten van der Tol and Jerry in New York (April 17, 2006)
Picture: Kay Marin
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Jerry and Els Versteijnen in Bocholt (March 11, 2006)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
Piet:
"Jerry explaining to Els he suffered a sore throat and he was sorry he couldn't put on the show he wanted to, knowing a lot of his most dedicated were in the audience."
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Jerry and Doug Cooke in North Bethesda (January 20, 2006)
Picture: Doug Cooke
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Jerry, Harry Martin and Kay Martin in Lancaster (May 6, 2005)
Picture: Kay Martin
Kay:
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Before the show in the dressing room, Jerry enjoyed meeting all his old friends and a few
new ones. It never ceases to amaze fans when Jerry remembers them and even where he met them before!
That's my brother Harry behind Jerry and me. This is the first time in all the
years I've known JLL that he finally got to see a show and meet Jerry. Both of them were impressed with the other and my brother had a WONDERFUL time."
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Jerry, Doug Cooke and Mike Gage in Lancaster (May 6, 2005)
Picture: Doug Cooke
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TEX (The Travelin' Man), Graham Knight, Maarten van der Tol, Jerry and Niek van de Klundert at Schiphol Airport (March
2, 2004)
Maarten:
"This picture, and the picture with Kay Martin to the right, was taken the day after the
Paradiso show in March 2004. This was the last show of a succesful tour that brought him to
Scotland, England and the Netherlands. Kay Martin, Graham Knight, Piet and Els
Versteijnen, TEX (The Travelin' Man), Niek van de Klundert and myself were at Schiphol Airport to say goodbye before he flew off to Memphis TN."
See here for more pictures of this tour.
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Jerry and Kay Martin at Schiphol Airport (March 2, 2004)
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Christian Leibbrandt and Jerry in Amsterdam (March 2, 2004)
Picture: Christian Leibbrandt
Christian:
"This picture shows Jerry and me after leaving the
hotel in Amsterdam last year. I gave him a few Cohiba
cigars and he signed a few pictures for me."
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Jerry and Christian Leibbrandt in Memphis (September 29, 2001)
Picture: Christian Leibbrandt
Christian:
"This picture is showing me and Jerry in 2001 after his
birthday concert. In the afternoon I gave him a pipe
as a present and he really liked it. When he entered
the stage he smoked this pipe. After the show I met him
outside the hotel and he found out he left the pipe on
the piano. One of his bodyguards said to me that I
was not allowed to talk with Jerry. But Jerry went very mad
and said to the bodyguard: "Go back to the stage and
bring me my pipe!" and the guy started to run. Jerry
was very friendly and was willing to take a
picture with me and the pipe in his hand."
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Wim de Boer, Piet Versteijnen and Jerry in Brussels (July 15, 2000)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
Piet:
"One man who has to be on this site is, of course, Wim de Boer. For more than 42 years he
is the man behind the International Jerry Lee Lewis Fanclub and I guess he holds the
world-record in this, he should be in the "Guiness Book of Records" but we all should be
glad he's running our fanclub. In between you see me in the job as FBM photographer and
reporter. Wim and his wife Ans, Els and myself travelled all over Europe to see the best of all: JERRY LEE LEWIS."
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Jerry and Denis Angelotti ( French representative of the Jerry Lee Lewis International Fanclub) (1999)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
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Piet Versteijnen and Jerry (1999)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
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Gary Birshtein and Jerry (March 13, 1999)
Gary:
"I went to Memphis in March of 1999 to finally fulfill my dream to see Jerry Lee Lewis perform
live. He was playing at New Daisy Theater on Beale Street. The concert was amazing. I had
to pinch myself realizing that I was sitting right in the front of the stage watching The Killer
play the piano. The organizers of the concert found out that I was the only Canadian ( born
in Russia) at the show and granted me a backstage pass to meet Jerry Lee Lewis at his tour
bus right after the performance. When in the bus I was waiting for my turn to meet Jerry as
he had some of his old friends and fans that came to visit him after the show. I didn’t have to
wait long. I was asked to come in to the area at the end of the bus that was sectioned off
with curtains. Jerry was sitting on a big leather arm chair with a body guard beside him. He
was very nice, little tired and had one rose in his hand. He thanked me for coming to the
concert. I told him that he is the greatest, and that he has been such an inspiration to me
and many others. I asked if it was ok to take a picture together. Everyone looked at Jerry
and he said o.k without any hesitation. I only had seconds to think of where I can sit as this
was an opportunity of a life time. The arm rest of the chair was too big and the room was too
small so the person with the camera couldn’t really stand too far back to get both of us in the
shot. I still don’t know how I did it but I jumped right in between Jerry’s legs and sat at the
edge of the chair. I remember after the picture was taken Jerry jokingly said - “hoochy
coochy mama” and everyone laughed. I think he was a little surprised that someone would do something like that but made a joke out of it and it was all good. Wow, what a memory!
Thank you Jerry!!!
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Maarten van der Tol and Jerry in Amsterdam (June 28, 1995)
Maarten:
"This was the first time I met Jerry. It was a hot summer day in 1995 and the night before
Jerry had given a great show at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. I was dead nervous when I went
to his hotel next morning, trying to meet the man in person. I was happily surprised that Jerry
took all the time for chats and pictures. He was very kind to the fans, like each time I met him since then."
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Jerry and Emma Connolly in London (June 24, 1995)
Picture: Peter Checksfield
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Jerry and Emma Connolly in London (June 24, 1995)
Picture: Peter Checksfield
Emma:
"I got to sit next to him for a wonderful few hours, couldn't summon the courage to say much
though! I remember Jerry introduced me to people as his 'new wife'... Oh, the heart palpitations!! I wonder if there are any similar girlies in this generation?"
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Doug Cooke and Jerry at the 9:30 Club, Washington, DC (June, 1995)
Picture: Doug Cooke
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Chris Davies, Jerry and Lori Leigh (July 17, 1994)
Picture: Chris Davies
Chris:
"This picture was taken before the show at Humphrey's Half Moon in San Diego. It was at the last show of my 'Californian Dreaming' tour report. I love that picture!"
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Els Versteijnen and Jerry at Schiphol Airport (January, 1994)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
Piet:
"If we have the chance, we go to the Schiphol airport to give them a warm welcome and talk
a little bit about our families. The grey cap Jerry is wearing on his arrival he gave to Els
when he was was leaving again back home. He knew we had a birthday party for his son
Lee at our home with some children of his age (8 year) and he wanted to thank us for
making that 28 jan. 1994 a special day for his son. (He played at the Paradiso that day)."
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Jerry with Els and Edith Versteijnen in Amsterdam (January 28, 1994)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
Piet:
"After the show in Paradiso 1994 we had a little meeting in the dressingroom and I took a
picture of Jerry with Els and our daughter Edith. A year later we let him sign this picture and if you wonder if you have a real autograph: this one is the real."
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Edith Versteijnen and Jerry at Schiphol Airport (January 29, 1994)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
Piet:
"After the 7th birthday party for Jerry's son Lee at our house, our daughter Edith was asked to say goodbye when they left Amsterdam Airport."
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Jerry and Scandinavian fans (August 25, 1993)
Picture: Folke Myrvang
Folke:
"Like me, Henrik Almgren had several unsuccessful attempts of getting a good pic with Jerry
until I was able to snap this one at the doors of the hotel in Sarpsborg after the 1993 show.
The picture is like a who's who of Scandinavian JLL fans: Jan Jensen, Hans Jabell, Petter
Bakke and his brother (Petter is to the right, but its hard to tell them apart), Åge Helmersen
and I think its Per Åke Blohm smiling above Jerry's left shoulder. Jerry looked up at tall
Henrik and said "Man, you're tall, ya one a them Vikings are ya??" Henrik grinned wide all
night long and was also lucky enough to stay in the bar for the jam session no one thought
would happen. I didn't, which is the story of my life, Åge and I had to work the next day and we left soon after this pic was taken."
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Jerry and TEX (The Travelin' Man) in Dublin (May 28, 1993)
Picture: TEX (The Travelin' Man)
See the page From the collection of TEX (The Travelin' Man) for more pictures.
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Petter Bakke and Jerry at the Kings Hotel, Wales (March, 1993)
Picture: Petter Bakke
Petter:
"Jerry asked me to make funny faces to the photographer."
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Peter Checksfield and Jerry in Birmingham (December 6, 1992)
Picture: Peter Checksfield
Peter:
"Here's a photo of me with The Killer backstage in Birmingham, England, on December 6th 1992. The guy with the cap on in the background is Lloyd Price!"
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Michael Trotz and Jerry in Apeldoorn (February 23, 1991)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
Piet:
"Jerry wanted me to take this picture because he loved this tattoo very much and he couldn't
stop talkin' about this very tall German guy, and he's a nice guy too, Michael Trotz."
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Kenny Lovelace, Els Versteijnen and Jerry (1991)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
Piet:
"We always see pictures of Jerry and Kenny on stage but never a picture back-stage, so when we got the chance we took this picture."
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Jahn Bakke, Petter Bakke and Jerry at Oslo INt. Airport (April 1989)
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Folke Myrvang and Jerry at Memphis Airport (1988)
Picture: Folke Myrvang
Folke:
"This is me in 1988 when I finally got to have a good picture taken with Jerry. We had seen
Jerry play 6 wild shows at a Casino in Atlantic City and out of 115 songs, there were 80
different titles. Quite interesting. Bonnie (of Robert Blake fame) was at our table at one
show and we met wonderful people like Kay, Gary Skala, Nick and Mara and many others.
The pic was taken at the Memphis airport and Jerry knew exactly who we were although we had not been introduced to him at all during the weekend. He was chatty and funny and I
was impressed by his friendliness. The pic is taken by Stephen Ackles."
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Gunder Svendsen and Jerry at Fornebu Airport (April 7, 1985)
Picture: Folke Myrvang
Folke:
"On the 1985 tour I had my first chances to meet and say hello to Jerry in person. He was
taken from show to show and to the hotels by a couple of rough security guards that didn't
give him much time to roam around the hotel lobbies, but we did our best to meet him and
have pictures taken with him. Mine were unsuccessful, but I was able to snap these shots of my friends Gunder Svendsen and (the next picture) Åge Helmersen."
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Jerry and Åge Helmersen in Norrköping (April 5, 1985)
Picture: Folke Myrvang
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Jerry and Per Kallin at the Plaza Hotel in Stockholm (April 4, 1985)
Picture: Per Kalin
Per:
"My biggest treat came in 1985 when I saw Jerry in
Stockholm. I was 18 at the time. He put on a fantastic show! Then after the show I was lucky
to be in the hotel´s piano bar where Jerry later played for us fans for almost 3 hours (exactly about 2 hours and 50 minutes).This was my best rocking night ever!!!!!"
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Peter Checksfield and Jerry at Gatwick Airport (April 22, 1983)
Picture: Peter Checksfield
Peter:
"A photo of when I first met Jerry Lee Lewis back in 1983. This was at the end of a European
Tour when he was leaving to go home, at Gatwick Airport (London) on April 22nd 1983.
Sitting next to him (but not in the photo) was his soon-to-be wife, the late Shawn Stephens. I was 20 years old at the time."
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Jerry with Els Versteijnen in Rotterdam (April 20, 1982)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
Piet:
"Jerry arriving at the Hilton Hotel in Rotterdam on April 20, 1982. He saw Els (thanks to the famous red cap) and hugged her, so I could take the picture."
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Jerry with
Matthew Gilliam in Paintville (November 26, 1980)
Picture: Matthew Gilliam
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Jerry with Els Versteijnen and Henk van Raaij in Amsterdam, Jaap Edenhal (November 11, 1978)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
Piet:
"Jerry's second show in Holland was in Amsterdam at the "Jaap Edenhal" and we, Wim de
Boer, Henk van Raaij en Els and I, brought Jerry some flowers and a bottle of Jack Daniels
Old nr. 7. You may guess what he liked the most. In 1977 Els started to wear a red cap so
Jerry could see her in the audience and we can see Els on many pictures standing in front
of the stage. Until this day J.W. still asks why she's not wearing it anymore."
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Jerry with Els Versteijnen in Amsterdam, Jaap Edenhal (November 11, 1978)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
Piet:
"Jerry liked the red cap from Els so much he wanted a picture taken from him with that cap, so who am I to say no."
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Jerry and Els Versteijnen in Essen (March 13, 1977)
Picture: Piet Versteijnen
Piet:
"The very first time we met the Killer himself in Essen 13-03-1977. Els is getting her
autograph and I was trying to take a picture, but my flashlight didn't work and when Jerry
noticed that he said: "Take your time Killer, I'll wait here till you've got your picture."
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Jerry and Tony Papard in Coventry (May 7, 1972)
Picture: Tony Papard
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Steve and Mimi Vandenberg and Jerry at the Plantation Supper Club, Greensboro, North Carolina (1968)
Picture: Steve Vandenberg
Steve:
"In those years Jerry would perform at The Plantation Club with seven to ten day engagements several times a year. Needless to say we were in rock and roll heaven. At that
time in his career Jerry would take requests from the audience and if he liked what you were
asking for he'd play until three or four in the morning. Incredible evenings!!"
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Jerry interviewed by Pierre Pennone, backstage in Lausanne (November 13, 1966)
Picture: Pierre Pennone
See Reports section for a report and more pictures of Jerry's shows in Lausanne and
Geneva.
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Jerry with Peter Neal, Steve Terry, Rick Matthews, Paul Sandford, Ken Marsh and Terry Adams on the HMS Daffodil on the
Rock Across The Channel (1963)
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Jerry and Breathless Dan Coffey, walking in Boulogne from the HMS Daffodil to the hall (June 1963)
Picture: Breathless Dan Coffey
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