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Ted Sarandos, Bob Iger, Brian Roberts and David Zaslav were all seen arriving at the sun-bleached Allen & Company’s invite-only event.
Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000. 1540: Henry VIII annuls his six month marriage to his fourth wife ...
Speaking of new audiences, Corti also pointed out that because the music and the compelling true storyline make “Million ...
From Elvis Presley to Al Green to Booker T & the MGs, here's a look at the Memphis artists in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
"Million Dollar Quartet" dramatizes the moment in 1956 when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis were in Memphis' Sun Records studio together; Sun owner Sam Phillips ...
Sam Wesley Phillips began working at Select-O-Hits first as a janitor/stockboy, then a salesman, followed by a role as studio engineer/producer. Sometime in the 1980s, he and his brother Johnny ...
The long shadow of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips would have been a hard thing for any son to escape. But Knox Phillips found a way to bring his own beatific light to Memphis. For six decades ...
Carl Mann was the “Last Son of Sun,” one of the final artists that Sam Phillips introduced to the world.
Seventy-five years ago, Sam Phillips opened the Memphis Recording Service. His early clients in 1950 included blues legends Howlin’ Wolf and B. B. King. They were among the first to record at ...
An earlier version of this newsletter misidentified the original name of Sam Phillips’s studio. It was the Memphis Recording Service Studio, not the Memphis Recording Studio.
As part of his Summer Takeaway series, Steven Rainey delved into the BBC archives to look back at the legacy of Sun Records founder, Sam Phillips, the man who discovered Elvis.