Sun Studio Sun Studio Sun Studio is a recording studio opened by rock-and-roll pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 3, 1950. It was originally called Memphis Recording Service, sharing the same building with the Sun Records label business. Reputedly the first rock and roll single, Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats' "Rocket 88" was recorded there in 1951 with song composer Ike Turner on keyboards, leading the studio to claim status as the birthplace of rock & roll. Blues and R&B artists like Howlin' Wolf, Junior Parker, Little Milton, B.B. King, James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, and
Dan Phillips current standard building codes and building methods, which favor the use of raw materials. Phillips grew up in Littleton, Colorado. He is the youngest of three children to George Phillips, a former lumber company owner and Phoebe, a homemaker (died in 1979). Phillips undertook a master's degree in dance at Sam Houston State University. In 1969 Dan Phillips married wife Marsha Phillips, a formal high school teacher, they have two children Ian and Phoebe. Previously Phillips worked as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, and as a college dance instructor (during the 1970s), an antiques dealer/restorer (1983) and an