Memphis

This article discusses Memphis's role in rock and roll history and evidence supporting the claim that Memphis is the birthplace of rock and roll. Throughout the article, the author also talks about different historic sites and figures in Memphis who were influential in rock and roll history.

This photograph, titled, “Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee," was taken by Marion Post Wolcott in circa October 1939. 

Sun Records Studio where Elvis Presley got his break into the music business. Sun Studio was opened by rock pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 3, 1950.

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">A disease that no one understood laid waste a major American city. Five thousand died in two months, and Memphis was never the same again.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A BOLD NEW KIND OF COLLEGE COURSE BRINGS the student directly to the past, non-stop, overnight, in squalor and glory, for weeks on end.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A gracious antebellum city of stern-wheelers and cotton money; a restless, violent city with a hot grain of genius at its heart; a city of calamity, desolation, and rebirth; a city that changed the way the whole world hears music. It’s all the same city, and it is this year’s Great American Place. Thomas Childers answers a summons to Memphis, Tennessee.</span></p>