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Oversized Softcover book provides a visual history of Memphis concerts in 175 pages. Includes unpublished photos, concert ads, posters, and flyers, tickets, backstage passes, inside stories, and the discography of all advertised concerts in Memphis from 1955-1985. Covers the birth of rock 'n roll in the Sun and Meteor days through the folk-blues revival in the early '60s through the Soul Explosion of the mid-'60s with Stax and Hi to the arena rock era of the the '70s and the oncoming new wave punk explosion of the late '70s and early '80s.