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'The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll': New book explores Sun Records' legacy, Sam Phillips' impact
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn March of 1952, Sam Phillips put out the first release on Sun Records: “Drivin' Slow,” an...
70 years of Sun Records discussed by Peter Guralnick, co-author of new retrospective
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRock 'n' roll is well shy of the tenure of blues and country in the annals of American popular...
Rock 'n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis dies at 87
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHe was hailed as rock 'n' roll’s first great wild man and lived long enough to be its last. Sun Records star, Million Dollar Quartet member and American...
Jerry Lee Lewis Dead at 87
Billboard via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJerry Lee Lewis, piano-bashing rock n’ roll founding father, swaggering country shouter and the last surviving member of the inaugural (1986) class of...
The 901: Remembering Gangsta Boo, Sam Phillips and more
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGood morning, Memphis, where the temperature can swing by 70 degrees in just a few days — the type...
Jerry Lee Lewis, rock 'n' roll pioneer and perpetual ball of fire, dies at 87
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor the longest time, it seemed that if Jerry Lee Lewis wasn’t dead already, then obviously nothing...
Are Black artists sellouts when they go pop or are they taking back something that was stolen?
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 12 months agoOPINION: In recognition of Black Music Month, theGrio breaks down the tense feelings that the Black...
Jerry Lee Lewis, Rock Pioneer and ‘Great Balls of Fire’ Singer, Dies at 87
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSinger-pianist Jerry Lee Lewis, the hell-raising, larger-than-life rock ‘n’ roll pioneer and...
The Definitive ‘Elvis’ Fact Check: What’s True and What’s Fiction in the New Movie?
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFrom the minute he burst out of Memphis in the mid-1950s, Elvis Presley became a figure of American...
Jim Stewart, founder of soul-R&B powerhouse Stax Records, dies at 92
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJim Stewart, the white country fiddler whose powerhouse R&B-soul label Stax Records launched such stars as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and Sam & Dave, has died at age 92 in Memphis, Tennessee, ...