Guralnick, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 1994
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Summary: The author of 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 Phillips shaped in his tiny Memphis studio, with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ike Turner, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: "Peter Guralnick's remarkable work... covers old ground from new perspectives, offering deeply felt, masterful, and strikingly personal portraits of creative artists, both musicians and writers, at the height of their powers. "You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us," rock critic Lester Bangs wrote of Guralnick's earlier work in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll: 70 Years of Sun Records is the official history of this legendary label, and looks at its story in a unique way: through the lens of 70 of its most iconic recordings. From the early days with primal blues artists like Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King to long nights in the studio with Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, you will see how the label was shaped and how it redefined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2022
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Summary: This book continues "Last Train to Memphis" by the same author. Here at last is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography. Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "a triumph of biographical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRESLEY, ELVIS GURCooke, Sam.
Contents: Feel it (3:41) -- Chain gang (3:19) -- Cupid (2:46) -- Medley. It's all right ; For sentimental reasons (5:06) -- Twistin' the night away (4:20) -- Somebody have mercy (4:38) -- Bring it on home to me (5:42) -- Nothing can change this love (3:40) -- Having a party (4:09).
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Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES COOPresley, Elvis
Contents: The master takes: That's all right (1:56) ; Blue moon of Kentucky (2:03) ; Good rockin' tonight (2:12) ; I don't care if the sun don't shine (2:27) ; Milkcow blues boogie (2:34) ; You're a heartbreaker (2:12) ; Baby, let's play house (2:15) ; I'm left, you're right, she's gone (my baby's gone) (2:36) ; Mystery train (2:25) ; I forgot to remember to forget (2:28) ; I love you because (2:42) ;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1987