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Mumbai: Rock 'n' Roll icons come to town
Updated On: 10 December, 2017 09:40 AM IST | Mumbai | Kasturi Gadge
The Tony Award winning Broadway run will be performing for a Mumbai audience for the first time

The 1950s was a cult era that gave the world its rock 'n' roll icons. On the night of December 4, 1956, four legends — Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis — met at Sun Records Studios in Memphis to play together for the first and the only time ever. There are theories about record producer Sam Phillips orchestrating it by arranging Elvis to visit, as a bait to lure Cash who had been avoiding Phillips. A leading entertainment editor of that time wrote a piece about this jamming session the following day, titled The Million Dollar Quartet, coining a term for this chance encounter. Order of the British Empire-awarded-director Ian Talbot will soon recreate that session on stage with his Broadway style musical, for the first time in India. The musical will tell the story of this historic recording session and will include 20 songs from that night such as Blue Suede Shoes, Hound Dog, Great Balls of Fire, Fever, I Walk the Line and more.

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