Megadeth - The Disintegrators

But in the course of the conversation, an inexorable logic is triggered, following which Phillips left African-American music for Presley: unable to adhere to his own initial decision for a long time, he was the first to start a conversation about Elvis. According to him, the invasion of Elvis in his life was both a blessing and a curse: a blessing - because he brought fabulous profits to his small recording studio, providing an enviable place in the rock and roll pantheon, a curse - because he made him forever give up the dream of to give southern rhythm and blues the world audience he deserved. “I dreamed of accomplishing what a Stax-type company did in Memphis ten years later with Otis Redding, a group of Sam and Dave or Johnny Taylor,” he admitted.