Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll - Tapa dura

Praise for Dream Boogie
"Monumental, panoramic...an epic tale told against a backdrop of brilliant, shimmering music, intense personal melodrama, and vast social changes." "Joel Selvin, "San Francisco Chronicle"""

"Guralnick casts a penetrating eye into the darkness....He makes all other music historians look like skimmers." "Michael Corcoran, "Austin American-Statesman"""

Praise for Careless Love and Last Train to Memphis
"Peter Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Aron Presley is not simply the finest rock-and-roll biography ever written. It must be ranked among the most ambitious and crucial biographical undertakings yet devoted to a major American figure of the second half of the 20th century." "Gerald Marzorati, New York Times Book Review""

"A triumph of biographical art...profound and moving....Even the minor revelations are positively spellbinding....Mr. Guralnick's narrative is rendered with an intimate, restrained intensity eerily reminiscent of the plaintive tone of Presley's ballads, that tremulous yearning of America itself." "Stephen Wright, New York Times Book Review ""

Praise for Sam Phillips "Peter Guralnick isn't just a music writer or a biographer--he's one of the essential chroniclers of American popular culture, and his work illuminates some of the crucial components of our national identity: race, religion, fame, and the big business of having fun, among others. In this epic biography of Sam Phillips, Guralnick bears witness to the birth of rock and roll and the cultural revolution it inspired. It's not only an unforgettable portrait of an eccentric visionary, it's a testament to the power of ordinary people to change the world with nothing more than a beautiful idea and a handful of songs." "Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers""

Praise for Sam Phillips
"Peter Guralnick isn't just a music writer or a biographer--he's one of the essential chroniclers of American popular culture, and his work illuminates some of the crucial components of our national identity: race, religion, fame, and the big business of having fun, among others. In this epic biography of Sam Phillips, Guralnick bears witness to the birth of rock and roll and the cultural revolution it inspired. It's not only an unforgettable portrait of an eccentric visionary, it's a testament to the power of ordinary people to change the world with nothing more than a beautiful idea and a handful of songs." "Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers""

""Sam Phillips "is an epic biography, at once sweeping and personal, in which the gifted writer Peter Guralnick captures the voice and life of a transformational figure in American music." "Jess Walter, author of "Beautiful Ruins"""

"Beautiful and meticulous... Mr. Guralnick is the perfect man to tell this story." "Dwight Garner, New York Times"""

"Epic, elegant and crisply told." "Henry L. Carrigan, Jr., "BookPage"""

One of The Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2015
"Beautiful and meticulous... Mr. Guralnick is the perfect man to tell this story." "Dwight Garner, "New York Times"""

The author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography 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 he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.