Sun Studio

Sun Studio can be found at Union Ave 706. The following is offered: Tour Operators. The entry is present with us since Sep 9, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Memphis there are 18 other Tour Operators. An overview can be found here.

Peruse records, clothes and assorted treasures in the upstairs gallery or shop for T-shirts, shot glasses and a slew of Elvis memorabilia in the gift shop.

Snack on Moonpies and Coke along the booth-lined windows in the Sun Studio Cafe.

"Consistently Better Records for Higher Profits" was the mantra turned understatement of the century on producer Sam Phillips's stationery at Sun Studio, now a national historic landmark. If you are in Memphis on a pilgrimage to music shrines, you are no doubt already aware of Sun Studio's reasonable claim to be the birthplace of rock 'n' roll. It started in 1951 with the recording of Jackie...

If Elvis Aaron Presley hadn't come to Sun Studio in the early 1950s to record a song as a birthday present for his mother (so the story goes), musical history today might be very different. Owner and recording engineer Sam Phillips first recorded, in the early 1950s, such local artists as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins, who together created a sound that would...

The Background
From the gold seal on the outside to the age-old instruments in the studio, not much has changed in this classic brick building on Union Street. And just like any good...

Jerry Lee Lewis, B.B. King, Johnny Cash - they all recorded here at Sun Studio. Founded by Sam Phillips in 1950, this studio became the heart of the Memphis sound. In 1953, an 18 year old named Elvis Presley walked into the studio and paid to record two songs. The rest is history. Today, it is still a functioning studio, and modern musicians still record here to try to acquire a little of the...