Sun Studios founder Sam Phillips died today in Memphis at the age of 80. He was revered as one of the leading catalysts in post-World War II American music. As a record producer in the 1950s and ...

Sun Records' Sam Phillips, ... In 1953, a nervous, incredibly talented teenager who also loved black music stumbled into Sun studios to record a couple of ballads for his mother.

Gospel according to Sam Phillips. By Robert Hilburn . Aug. 2, 2009 12 AM PT . ... (Bear Family) is a three-CD set that takes us into the Sun studio while Phillips and, later, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, who decided that a then-unknown Elvis Presley deserved a recording contract when he heard him sing songs for his mother, has died. He was 80.

In this installment of our series on famous studios, we profile Sun, which was arguably the birthplace of rock and roll and launched the career of Elvis Presley. By Jim Evans. Sun Studio was opened in ...

Sun Records founder Sam Phillips speaks at an event in New York City in August 2002, a year before his death. (Getty Images) The man who brought the world Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison ...

Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘N’ Roll By ... so it seems from the endless array of names — mostly poor white Southerners — who would seemingly wander into his Sun Studio ...

Sam Phillips sold Sun Records in 1969. ... Sam Phillips, you started Sun Records, your studio in Memphis, after recording for independent companies - other people's independent companies, ...

Outdoors, the sun shines on his 10-room ranch style Memphis home, made of imported adobe. Indoors, a 26-inch gold-plated clock hangs on the wall. On the couch sits a man who is supposed to be 65 ye… ...

Opened in 1950 by Sam Phillips, Sun Studio was originally known as Memphis Recording Service. What began as a modest recording space quickly became a musical powerhouse, as it was the birthplace ...

Sun Studios founder Sam Phillips. He is revered as one of the leading catalysts in post WW II American music. As a record producer in the 1950s and 60s his recordings launched the careers of Elvis ...