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Jan 14, 2010 Updated Mar 20, 2010

It was just a whisker over 60 years ago that Sam Phillips opened the doors to his studio at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis Tennessee.

With a Presto brand five-input mixer board and PT900 portable recorder crammed into a space just 25 feet deep and 35 feet wide, Sun Studio and its clients went on to transform the landscape of popular music, with artists like Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Roy Orbison...and Elvis.

When 18-year-old Presley walked into the Sun offices to enquire how much it would cost to make a record, receptionist Marion Keisker asked him "Who do you sound like?" Elvis looked up and said, "I don't sound like nobody".

Amen to that.

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