Lewis has been married seven times:[REF] His first marriage, to Dorothy Barton, lasted for 20 months, from February 1952 to October 1953 [REF].
As a teenager, Lewis studied at the Southwest Bible Institute in Waxahachie, Texas before being thrown out for daring to play a boogie-woogie version of "My God Is Real", and that early incident foreshadowed his lifelong conflict over his faith in God and his love of playing "the devil's music."