Man who discovered Elvis dies

SAM PHILLIPS, who discovered Elvis Presley and helped usher in the rock’n’roll revolution, died yesterday at St Francis’ Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee aged 80.

Phillips founded Sun Records in Memphis in 1952 and produced Presley’s first record, the 1954 single that featured That’s All Right, Mama and Blue Moon of Kentucky.

“God only knows we didn’t know it would have the response it did Phillips declared in an interview in 1997.