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The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
Little, Brown and Company
November 2015
On Sale: November 10, 2015
Featuring: Sam Phillips
784 pages
ISBN: 0316042749
EAN: 9780316042741
Kindle: B00U6DNYZE
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
The author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley
biography Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of
Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly
steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records.
The music that he shaped in his tiny
Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis
Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and
Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been
heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and
white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the
American vernacular tradition while at the same time
declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated
musical day. With extensive interviews and firsthand
personal observations extending over a 25-year period with
Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all
the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us
an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as
compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or
Thomas Edison.
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