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He was the last of the pioneers. The ultimate survivor of a time when everything had to be invented. Jerry Lee Lewis died on Friday October 28 at the age of 87. “That’s really the end of rock’n’roll. Now there’s really no one left”, comments Philippe Manoeuvre, before unfolding the story of this legend like no other. Thanks to an instrument like no other. While Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and other Little Richards swore only by the guitar, he had put “the piano at the center of the debate”, says the journalist.