Recognised worldwide as the birthplace of rock and roll, Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, is famed for discovering the pioneers of rock’n’ roll – Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy ...
On this day (January 5) in 1923, Sam Phillips was born on a farm outside Florence, Alabama. He is best known for founding Sun Records and Sun Studios, where he recorded Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, B.B ...
Elvis Presley’s iconic ditty “Blue Suede Shoes” has become a definitive version of the rock and roll standard. But in 1955, one year prior to the song burning up the charts, it was Carl Perkins’ ...