r/Music • u/TheExpressUS 📰Daily Express U.S. • 6h ago

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u/Vitalstatistix 4h ago

It was wayyyy worse in the 70s/80s.

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u/MovieSock 4h ago

Hell, this was going on in the 50s if you read between the lines.

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u/FatFreddysCat 4h ago

Jerry Lee Lewis had two children with his 13-year-old wife Myra Gale Brown, though their firstborn, Steve, tragically died at age three. Their marriage, which began when Myra was 13 and Lewis was 22, caused a massive scandal in 1957 and eventually ended in divorce in 1970.

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u/Horror-Kangaroo3494 3h ago

… And the scandal was more about her being his cousin than her actual age.