9780571198481 | Faber & Faber, February 1, 1995, cover price $23.95 |
About this edition: Exploring interwoven threads of personality, coincidence, progress, and taste--all essentially unrelated to music--the author explains how popular culture and business intersected in Memphis to set the stage for rock and roll well before Elvis arrived
9780743410458 | Reprint edition (Atria Books, October 30, 2001), cover price $22.95 |
About this edition: Exploring interwoven threads of personality, coincidence, progress, and taste--all essentially unrelated to music--a veteran journalist explains how popular culture and business intersected in Memphis to set the stage for rock and roll well before Elvis arrived.
9780571198818 | Faber & Faber, March 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 |
About this edition: The first book to explore the other, less obvious factors that conspired to make Memphis the birthplace of rock and roll--factors as diverse as TV cowboys, professional wrestlers and Holiday Inns--It Came from Memphis sheds new light on the origin not just of rock music, but the rock and roll lifestyle.