Elvis, Sam Phillips and Sun Records Revisited

When Joe Jackson was nine years old, he read The Elvis Presley Story paperback. He told his mother, “one day I’m going to Memphis, to thank Mr Phillips for discovering Elvis.” On his 10th birthday, Jackson was, he says, “practically reborn” when he discovered “real rock ‘n’ roll” thanks to a three-year-old Elvis hit called, I Need Your Love Tonight. Two years later, in 1964, he heard for the first time “classic early Elvis uncut such as Good Rockin Tonight” and thus began his lifetime passi...