This podcast - based on my eBook Elvis, Sam Phillips and Sun Records Revisited - picks up where my last Sam Phillips podcast ended. There are a few lines that overlap. I had phoned Sam to talk about a new rumour that Elvis peddled speed at Sun Records, and after he addressed that question Sam himself admitted there was another subject that made him take the call and want to set the record straight. It was not an issue I intended to raise, although it had hit newspapers in America and in Europe, where I am based. But Sam did, and this podcast has his response.

"Elvis would kill with his bare hands anyone who said that about himself and his mother or himself and Nick Adams," Sam Phillips 1992 set the record straight.

Joe Jackson is a journalist, interviewer, author and IMRO-Award nominated radio presenter/producer. He has interviewed roughly 1,400 people in the world of the arts, politics, and entertainment for all major media outlets in Ireland, including RTE Radio 1, The Sunday Independent, The Irish Times, and Hot Press. His articles have been published globally in magazines such as Vox, Rolling Stone, and Snoozer. His radio shows include The Years Go Pop, 26 one-hour documentaries a 26 on the history of popular culture, People Get Ready, 52 one-hour documentaries on the greatest music acts of the 20th century, and Under The Influence, which was nominated for a 'Best Music series' award. In 2018, his documentary about Elvis Presley, Conversations about the King, was nominated for an IMRO Award in the 'Best Music Documentary' category.

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"Elvis would kill with his bare hands anyone who said that about himself and his mother or himself and Nick Adams," Sam Phillips 1992 set the record straight.

"Elvis would kill with his bare hands anyone who said that about himself and his mother or himself and Nick Adams," Sam Phillips 1992 set the record straight.

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