July 30th, 1954. The Overton Park Shell, an open air amphitheater with the crowd sitting out on the grass. Slim Whitman was the headliner. Elvis was the opening act, and the poster for the show spelled his name wrong. “That’s All Right” had been on Memphis radio for less than three weeks. Almost nobody in that audience had come to see him.
On the evening of July 30, 1954, the Overton Park Shell in Memphis, Tennessee, was…
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