Million Dollar Quartet

<p><strong>Million Dollar Quartet</strong> is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley Jerry Lee Lewis Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash.</p><p>This thorough account of the session includes:</p><ul> <li>The events of the session. Very few participants survive.</li> <li>Includes interviews with the drummer and the sound engineer.</li> <li>A detailed analysis of the music played – and its relevance to subsequent popular music.</li> <li>The early lives and careers of the quartet – where they were in 1956.</li> <li>Relevant social and economic factors which meant that a massive audience of young people were keenly looking for a new kind of music they could call their own.</li> <li>The “reunions” of surviving members of the quartet.</li> <li>The emergence of the tapes first on bootleg and then on legitimate CDs.</li> <li>The genesis of the stage show and its reception – the enduring appeal of the music.</li></ul>