Ray Sinclair 
In a modest house on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, a former boxer and autoworker named Berry Gordy built a hit factory that would change American music forever. He called it Motown — and its motto was “The Sound of Young America.” Hitsville U.S.A. From that small studio, nicknamed Hitsville U.S.A., came an astonishing run … Read more
When Pan Am Flight 101 touched down at New York’s newly renamed JFK Airport on February 7, 1964, four young men from Liverpool stepped into a wall of screaming fans. Beatlemania had officially crossed the Atlantic. 73 Million Watching Two days later, the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. An estimated 73 million Americans … Read more
On July 5, 1954, a nervous 19-year-old truck driver walked into Sun Studio in Memphis and, almost by accident, recorded a song that would split music history in two. The song was “That’s All Right,” and the young man was Elvis Presley. A Sound Nobody Expected Producer Sam Phillips had been searching for a voice … Read more