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The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll: The Illustrated Story of Sun Records and the 70 Recordings That Changed the World Hardcover - 2022

by Peter Guralnick and Colin Escott

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  • Title The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll: The Illustrated Story of Sun Records and the 70 Recordings That Changed the World
  • Author Peter Guralnick and Colin Escott
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Weldon Owen
  • Date 2022-11-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # P012462
  • ISBN 9781681888965 / 1681888963
  • Weight 4.45 lbs (2.02 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.8 x 10.3 x 1.7 in (29.97 x 26.16 x 4.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Rhythm and blues music - History and, Rock music - To 1961 - History and criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.761

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  • Library Journal, 11/01/2022, Page 110

About the author

Award-winning and best-selling author Peter Guralnick is widely regarded as the nation's preeminent writer on twentieth-century American popular music. His books include the two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; and the biography of Sun records founder Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll. He is a Grammy award winner and an inductee in the Blues Hall of Fame.

Colin Escott is the foremost authority on Sun Records. He wrote the company's history in 1975 and has revised and expanded it several times since. He has published several other volumes on the early days of country music, has won a Grammy for his work on Mercury Records' The Complete Hank Williams, and received a Tony nomination for the book for Million Dollar Quartet in 2010.

Jerry Lee Lewis is a legendary musician, and a pioneer of rock 'n' roll. He is a multiple Grammy Award winner and was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.