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Fact #153400

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Short story:

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On by Jerry Lee Lewis enters the UK pop singles chart, where it will peak at No8.

Full article:

Guy Stevens (record producer) : It all started for me when I was 11 years old and the first record I ever heard was Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On by Jerry Lee Lewis and that was the end of my school career.

What I did was to start this thing at school where every boy in the school had to pay me a shilling a week – that's 5p – to be a member of my rock and roll club, and I chose the records. We had Peggy Sue, That'll Be The Day, Larry Williams' Bony Maronie, all the hits of the time, Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls Of Fire ... and I got expelled for it eventually. (interview with Charles Shaar Murray of NME, December 1979)