December 4th is treated with reverence in my house, the night of the Million Dollar Quartet.
On our last visit several years ago, my then 12 YO son was paying attention. The following week, his drama teacher was talking about Elvis, that he wrote Blue Suede Shoes. My son corrected her, saying that Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes.
It took a few go rounds, but the truth eventually came out...lol.
BTW, Carl Perkins was the most covered artist by the Beatles.
The Broadway play of Million Dollar Quartet is the fastest 90 minutes of entertainment I've experienced.
The movie mostly ignores Sun Studio,spending about 30 seconds on it and never mentions any Sun singer other than Elvis. Elvis,Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee, they were all friends. Never mention the name Sam Philips.
The movie fabricated way to many events. Elvis never cussed out Tom Parker on stage and the one time he “fired” him he rehired him a couple days later. In real life he was forever doing something with Lisa Marie and this was ignored. Pricilla has a minor part. His father is made to look like a wimp and his mother an overbearing hateful woman who went around cussing people out. It also ignored his love of gospel music, despite him and others going back to his room after each concert and singing gospel songs to the early hours of the morning. It never mentioned Elvis saying many times his first love was gospel and he wanted to be the lead singer in a gospel band. JD Sumner and Jack Hess and the Blackwood Brothers were his favorite gospel singers. Brushed over his military time, barely mentioned. It has Elvis cussing a lot, which it in all the information I’ve read about Elvis I’ve never read he had much of a temper or used profanity much. Never mentioned his affair with Ann Margaret. Th