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Sam Phillips - The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll (Paperback)
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Sam Phillips - The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll (Paperback)
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Rock 'n' roll was born in rural Alabama, 1923, in the form of Sam
Phillips, the youngest son of a large family living in a remote
colony called the Lovelace Community. His father had a gift for
farming, which was brought to an end by the Depression. His mother
picked guitar and showed the kind of forbearance that allowed her
to name her son after the doctor who delivered him drunk and then
had to be put to bed himself. And yet from these unprepossessing
origins, in 1951 Phillips made what is widely considered to be the
first rock 'n' roll record, Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston's
'Rocket 88'. Just two years later a shy eighteen-year-old kid with
sideburns, fresh out of high school, wandered into his recording
studio to make a record 'for his mother', secretly hoping that it
might somehow get him noticed. His name was Elvis Presley. Elvis's
success, and the subsequent triumph of rock 'n' roll, was initially
propelled to an almost astonishing degree by a limited number of
releases by Carl 'Blue Suede Shoes' Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry
Lee Lewis - all from this tiny, one-man label. An engaging mix of
biography and anecdote, Peter Guralnick's book brilliantly
recreates one shining moment in the history of popular culture. And
Sam Phillips was the man who brought it all about.
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