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...Ike Turner walked into Sam Phillips' studio in Memphis, Tenn. and, along with his band, helped create a sound that still echoes through history like thunder across the sky. The original song they recorded, Rocket 88, may well have been the first rock 'n' roll record, and in the years that followed, innumerable music reference sources, from The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll ("frequently cited as the first rock & roll record") to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum ("widely considered the first rock and roll record"), have backed up that title...
...place where I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw." (One could reasonably argue that Crudup's original That's All Right, which rocks at least as hard as Presley's follow-up take, is actually the first rock song) Ike Turner has said that when he performed in the black sections of Memphis in 1952 Presley would attend his concerts. In an interview with London's Daily Telegraph in 2001, Turner recalled that at the time he thought Presley "was just a white boy that would come over to black...
Showing compassion and command, Ike's portrait is considered one of the best. But some veterans wish the World War II hero had posed in his signature Eisenhower jacket...
PEOPLE: Billy Joel's latest auto crash; Selleck plays Ike; Madonna talks treason...
Forget Extreme Makeover. Look what a haircut and a shave will do. TOM SELLECK got rid of his famous mustache and almost all of his hair to play General Dwight Eisenhower in A&E's biopic Ike: Countdown to D-Day, about the 90 days leading up to the Allies' invasion of Normandy. "I didn't want to screw it up," says Selleck, who also prepared for the role by talking with Eisenhower's son and learning an appropriate President-to-be's voice. So what does he think of TV these days? Selleck refers to a gig he once...