One of the finest documentaries on Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records, is this one, directed by Morgan Neville and written by Peter Guralnick. Produced for the U.K.'s Biography Channel, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll first aired in 2000, and Peter went on to write a brilliant biography of Phillips published in 2016 with the same …
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