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BBC Four Music Specials: Season 2014

2014x12 Elvis: That's Alright Mama 60 Years On

  • 2014-08-01T20:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 1h 20m
  • United Kingdom
  • Special Interest, Documentary
Actor and musician Sam Palladio hosts a musical tribute to Elvis Presley, 60 years to the day from when he recorded his first single That's All Right at Sun Studio in Memphis on July 5th 1954. Sam traces Elvis's story from childhood poverty in Mississippi, where he had to make do with a broom for a guitar, to the moment when, by accident, he ended up recording the song that changed the history of popular music. There are performances of the finest Elvis tracks from the likes of soul legend Candi Staton, LA duo the Pierces and country star Laura Bell Bundy.
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