T oday, Elvis Presley 's estate is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars — but when the young singer walked into the offices of Sun Records and the Memphis Recording Service on July 18 ...

Elvis Presley’s producer Sam Phillips made a light-hearted joke that Elvis couldn’t make worthwhile music. Elvis responded in a way that may have changed the history of rock ‘n’ roll.

How can Sam Phillips have failed when she’s never really tried (“The Power of Failure,” by Randy Lewis, July 15)? I have followed her career for 15 years: She rarely tours; when she does ...

Peter Guralnick, biographer of impresario Sam Phillips, said the man who discovered Elvis, Johnny Cash and Howlin’ Wolf believed American music had the power to give voice to all Americans ...

Sam Phillips, who discovered Elvis Presley and helped usher in the rock ‘n’ roll revolution, died Wednesday in Memphis. He was 80. Phillips died at St. Francis Hospital, spokeswoman Gwendolyn ...

Even as a small, skinny kid on a farm outside Florence, Ala., Sam Phillips was fascinated by sound, whether it was a bug buzzing across a meadow or the songs of the field hands picking cotton for ...

In his latest book, “Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll,” veteran music journalist Peter Guralnick spends a good portion of 600-plus pages backing up the claim made for the ...