Larry Williams
- MatchLarry Williams
- 100%Gene Vincent
- 79%Billy Lee Riley
- 78%Eddie Cochran
- 65%Lloyd Price
- 64%Dale Hawkins
- 63%Bobby Freeman
- 59%Jerry Lee Lewis
- 59%Jerry Lewis
- 55%Carl Perkins
- 55%The Coasters
Biography
10 May 1935, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, d. 2 January 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA. Williams recorded a handful of raucous rock n roll songs for Specialty Records that later influenced, among others, John Lennon. Williams learned to play the piano while in New Orleans, and moved to Oakland, California, with his family while in his teens. There he joined a group called the Lemon Drops. In 1954, while visiting his old hometown of New Orleans, he met and was hired as a pianist... Read more