Four rock icons take the stage

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It seems too good to be true: a recording session on Dec. 4, 1956, in which Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins played and sang together for the first and only time. The session, at Sun Records’ storefront recording studio in Memphis, Tenn., was carefully planned by Sam Phillips, the “Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” who discovered all four rock icons.

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