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On January 19, 1998 : Carl Perkins dies at the age of 65.
Carl Perkins, who wrote the hit song ``Blue Suede Shoes'' that helped lift Elvis Presley to stardom, and who became a legend himself as one of the founders of rock and roll, died at age 65.
A family spokesman said he died of complications from a series of three strokes suffered in the past two months at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.
The son of a tenant farmer in Tennessee, the singer-guitarist was among several rockabilly performers to emerge from Memphis' famed Sun Studios whose fast-paced tunes and twangy lyrics would influence dozens of rockers to come, including the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton.
At the same time that Perkins was helping launch rock music from his country roots, Chuck Berry's machine-gun guitar licks were reinventing the Blues as rock and roll.
The two are acknowledged as perhaps the key figures in the birth of rock music in the late 1950s.
John Lennon once said ``there was no music before Sun (Studios),'' and the Beatles would record three Perkins songs after meeting him at a 1964 recording session -- ``Honey Don't,'' ``Matchbox,'' and ``Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby.''
Before Presley turned ``Blue Suede Shoes'' into the first song to simultaneously top the pop, country and rhythm and blues charts, Perkins received his first dose of stardom when he recorded it in 1956 and sold two million copies.
Carl Perkins was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in 1986 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a year later.
In 1991, he had to stop touring to undergo treatment for lung cancer and later successfully battled throat cancer. He endured surgery on a blocked artery in his neck in June last year and subsequently suffered a series of strokes.
Back on stage after his initial bout with cancer, he said ''I know how precious and fragile life is now.''
In his later years, Perkins was often accompanied by his sons Stan on drums and Greg on bass. He also helped found a center for child abuse victims in his long-time hometown of Jackson.
Well it's a one for the money, two for the show
Three to get ready, now go cat go but don't you step on my blue suede shoes
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes
Well you can knock me down, step in my face
Slander my name all over the place and do anything that you want to do
But ah ah honey lay off of my shoes and don't you step on my blue suede shoes
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes
Well you can burn my house, steal my car
Drink my liquor from an old fruit jar and do anything that you want to do
But ah ah honey lay off of my shoes and don't you step on my blue suede shoe
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BIOGRAPHY
Carl Perkins, the Tennessee sharecropper's son whose first guitar was made from a cigar box and a broomhandle and whose famous "Blue Suede Shoes" was written on a potato sack, died Monday at the age of 65. Perkins died at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital from complications related to a recent series of strokes, according to family spokesman Albert Hall.
The tall, broad-shouldered Perkins was famed as one of the proponents of rockabilly music, a cross of rhythm-and-blues and country music that came out of Sun Records in Memphis in the mid-1950s.
He also wrote some of the top hit records in rock 'n' roll and country music. A near-fatal traffic accident in 1956, coupled with alcoholism and Elvis Presley's rise, kept him from achieving the kind of stardom some thought was his due.
Perkins wrote and recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" in 1956, and his version sold 2 million copies before Presley's rendition became a hit. He also wrote the rockabilly standard "Dixie Fried" and the songs "Honey Don't," "Matchbox" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby," which were later covered by the Beatles.
His relationship with the Beatles lasted long after the group's breakup in 1970. Perkins sang a duet with Paul McCartney on the country ballad "Get It," a song off McCartney's 1982 album, "Tug of War." On the same record, he played rhythm guitar on the McCartney-Stevie Wonder hit duet, "Ebony and Ivory."
Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr appeared with him in a cable TV special in London, "Carl Perkins and Friends: A Rockabilly Session."
"George Harrison told me 'Man, you wrote your songs, you sang your songs, you played your guitar,'" Perkins said once in an interview. "'That's what we wanted to do.'"
Perkins credited the Beatles and the Rolling Stones with taking rockabilly further than he thought it could go. "They advanced it so much," he said. "That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was."
"They put a nice suit on rockabilly," he said in another interview. "They never really strayed from the simplicity of it. They just beautified it."
The son of a tenant farmer, Perkins grew up picking cotton, and was fascinated by the gospel music sung by blacks working in the cotton fields. He would also go behind the family chicken house and pretend he was singing on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.
At 7, he began playing a guitar that his father had made from a cigar box, broomstick and baling wire.
He wrote "Blue Suede Shoes" after hearing a boy telling his prom date not to step on his blue suede shoes. Perkins went back to his home in a housing project and wrote the song on a brown potato sack.
Shortly after recording the song, Perkins was hurt in a traffic accident and spent a year recovering. It not only prevented him from capitalizing on his fame, but also marked the start of a long struggle with alcoholism.
He said he finally overcame the addiction after throwing his last bottle of whisky into the Pacific Ocean near Encino, California, in 1967.
But it was during the hiatus caused by the accident that Presley recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" and capitalized on the popularity Perkins had been building.
"I was bucking a good-looking cat called Elvis who had beautiful hair, wasn't married, and had all kinds of great moves," Perkins said years later.
The '80s provided a renaissance of sorts for Perkins. In 1985, he taped the cable TV special that included famous musicians such as Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr who were influenced by his pioneering style.
In 1986, he joined Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison on the album "Class of '55." It was a reprise of an informal jam session he, Presley, Cash and Lewis had done in the 1950s that was later released as an album.
Perkins was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 but said his biggest thrill was getting a gold record for "Blue Suede Shoes."
"After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood," he said. "It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it."
Carl Perkins is survived by his wife, Valda, three sons and a daughter.
DISCOGRAPHYDance Album of Carl Perkins (Sun, 1958)
Teenbeat -- The Best of Carl Perkins (Sun, 1958)
Whole Lotta Shakin' (Columbia, 1958)
Country Boy's Dream (Dollie, 1967)
Carl Perkins' Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1969)
Carl Perkins On Top (Columbia, 1969)
Boppin' The Blues (Columbia, 1970)
Carl Perkins (Harmony, 1970)
Original Golden Hits (Sun, 1970)
Blue Suede Shoes (Sun, 1970)
Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Harmony, 1972)
Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1973)
Carl Perkins (Columbia, 1973)
Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1973)
My Kind Of Country (Mercury, 1973)
The Carl Perkins Show (Suede, 1976)
The Best Of Carl Perkins (Trip, 1976)
Matchbox (Pickwick, 1977)
Carl Perkins: The Sun Story (GRT, 1977)
Ol' Blue Suede's Back (Jet, 1978)
Rock N' Gospel (Koala Aw, 1979)
Sing A Song With Me (Koala Aw, 1979)
Country Soul (Koala Aw, 1979)
Cane Creek Glory Church (Koala Koa, 1979)
Best Of Carl Perkins (Koala Koa, 1979)
Carl Perkins Live At Austin City Limits (Suede, 1981)
Carl Perkins -- Mr. Blue Suede Shoes (Realm IV, 1981)
That Rockin' Guitar Man -- Today (Soh Ag, 1981)
Country Soul (Charvan, 1981)
Presenting Carl Perkins (Accord, 1982)
Boppin' The Blues (Accord, 1982)
Born To Boogie (O'Hara, 1982)
The Survivors (With Johnny Cash, Kerry Lee Lewis) (Columbia, 1982)
The Heart And Soul Of Carl Perkins (Allegiance, 1983)
Gospel (Sagittarius, 1984)
Carl Perkins (Dot, 1985)
Up Through The Years 1954-1957 (Bear Family, 1986)
Class of 55 (With Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis)
(America, 1986)
Class of 55 (Picture Disk (Polygram, 1986)
Interviews From The Class Of 55 Recording Sessions (America/Smash, 1986)
Li'l Bit Of Gold (Rhino, 1988)
18 Super Hits (Laserlight, 1988)
Honky Tonk Gal: Rare And Unissued Sun Masters (Rounder, 1989)
Born To Rock (Universal, 1989)
The Million Dollar Quartet (With Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis) (BMG, 1990)
The Classic Carl Perkins (Bear Family, 1990)
Jive After Five: The Best Of Carl Perkins (1958 — 1978) (Rhino, 1990)
The Dollie Masters: Country Boy's Dream (Bear Family, 1991)
Restless: The Columbia Recordings (Columbia, 1992)
Friends, Family & Legends (Platinum, 1992)
Introducing Carl Perkins (Fresh Sounds, 1992)
Carl Perkins -- Memorial (Fresh Sounds, 1992)
Re-Union (Belle Meade, 1992)
Carl Perkins & Sons (BMG, 1993)
Take Me Back (BMG, 1993)
Disciple In Blue Suede Shoes (BMG, 1993)
Best Of Carl Perkins (Curb, 1993)
Go, Cat, Go (1996)
Known Bootleg Albums
Carl Perkins (Bopcat, 1978)
The Rockin' Guitar Man (Bopcat, 1978)
To All My Friends From Jackson, Tennessee (Lake County, 1978)
Mr. Country Rock (Demand, 1983)
Carl Perkins (Picture Disc, 1983)
Carl Lee Perkins -- British Tour 1964 (Doctor Kollector, 1984)
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