Set through the tumultuous beginning of the civil rights movement in Memphis, Sun Records tells the untold story of less than the birth of rock'n' roll. Directed by Sam Phillips, young musicians like Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis mixed the fashions of hillbilly nation together with the 1950s R&.B noise created by artists like Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Fats Domino and Ike Turner, also changed the course of music forever. The series chronicles the young artists' abrupt and jarring rise to fame at the face of social unrest and sweeping political influence.
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Set through the tumultuous beginning of the civil rights movement in Memphis, Sun Records tells the untold story of less than the birth of rock'n' roll. Directed by Sam Phillips, young musicians like Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis mixed the fashions of hillbilly nation together with the 1950s R&.B noise created by artists like Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Fats Domino and Ike Turner, also changed the course of music forever. The series chronicles the young artists' abrupt and jarring rise to fame at the face of social unrest and sweeping political influence.
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