Bob Dylan Pays Tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis at Nottingham Live performance

Bob Dylan carried out a heartfelt tribute to the late Jerry Lee Lewis throughout his present in Nottingham on Oct. 28, protecting his 1970 hit “I Can’t Appear to Say Goodbye.”

After misguided experiences of the 87-year-old’s dying circulated earlier this week, Lewis’ dying was formally confirmed Friday morning. “Judith, his seventh spouse, was by his aspect when he handed away,” rep Zach Farnum wrote in a press release. “He instructed her, in his last days, that he welcomed the hereafter, and that he was not afraid.”

That very same day, Dylan paused his present in England to pay his respects, telling viewers members on the Motorpoint Area: “I don’t know what number of of , however Jerry Lee’s gone. We’re gonna play this tune, one in all his. Jerry Lee will reside eternally – everyone knows that.”

He then launched into an emotive rendition of “I Can’t Appear To Say Goodbye,” a Don Robertson unique monitor that Lewis coated on his Solar Information album “A Style Of Nation.”

In a 1969 interview with Rolling Stone, Dylan spoke briefly concerning the time he and Lewis had spent working in the identical studio. He instructed the publication that he had written “To Be Alone With You” for the latter-day nation star though Lewis by no means recorded it (which is why it wound up on Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline” album). On the time, Lewis was laborious at work on his ninth album, “She Nonetheless Comes Round (To Love What’s Left of Me.” Lewis has additionally famously coated Dylan’s “Rita Might,” a monitor co-written with Jacques Might and recorded in the course of the making of Dylan’s “Need” within the mid ’70s.

Lewis — an inaugural inductee into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 1986, a 2005 recipient of a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award and, on the age of 86, a 2022 inductee of the Nation Music Corridor of Fame — continues to encourage generations as a mercurial vocalist and musician with a variety spanning rock ‘n’ roll, nation, R&B, gospel and pop.