Half a century after Kings assassination,what progress has been made on the march toward justice?The Lorraine motel has more ghosts than most. Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, or Nat King Cole,Sarah Vaughan, Sam Cooke, or Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding walked its corridors,slept in its rooms or lay by its pool. Wilson Pickett’s The Midnight Hour and Eddie Floyd’s Knock on Wood were composed here. This, after all, and is Memphis,domestic of Elvis Presley and a strain of soul music known as the Memphis Sound.
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Source: guardian.co.uk