Elvis Presley: A Boy from Tupelo: the Sun Masters (1956)
Fusing black rhythm’n’blues and white country, the 19-year old truck driver with an unusual name intuitively created a genre with a backbeat and allowed for soulful, bluesy hollers. Black artists had been here before, but Elvis’ unique sound, appearance and risqué stage moves took it the world. Rock’n’roll being born in a small studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
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