Million Dollar Quartet' 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 & Johnny Cash The events of the session Very few participants survive
Includes:: interviews with the drummer & the sound engineer A detailed analysis of the music played
- & its relevance to subsequent popular music The early lives & careers of the quartet
- where they were in 1956 Relevant social & 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 The reunions of surviving members of the quartet The emergence of the tapes first on bootleg & then on legitimate CDs The genesis of the stage show & its reception
- the enduring appeal of the music