I knew when I saw Beck it was gonna be GREAT! :wink
The early English dudes "got" what the early rock and rockabilly forefathers were about, muuuch moreso than the folks here in America. I've always been most proud of my homecity of Jackson, TN as being "Rockabilly Ground Zero" with the godfather of Rockabilly Mr. Carl "Blue Suede Shoes" Perkins having been from here and Elvis' first guitarist Scotty Moore is from a "suburb" of Jackson in nearby Humboldt, TN. Those two guys had a HUGE impact on the electric guitar sound that eminates from Rock and really all styles of popular music today.
I was at Carl Perkins' funeral here in Jackson in '98 and his service was handled by many of his "star friends" like Winona Judd, Ricky Skaggs, Garth Brooks, Billy Ray Cyrus and many others there as well as his Sun Records friends Sam Phillips, Rufus Thomas and of course Jerry Lee Lewis. But what I was most impressed with was that Mr. Carl's service was closed by George Harrison himself! :shock: How many can say they were sent off by a Beatle??? (Sorry quality clip but here is the service and George leading with Mr. Carl's "True Love")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhodRyCifWI The Beatles were HUGE fans and became great friends with Mr. Carl. In fact George stayed with the Perkins' family the week after Mr. Carl's passing. I remember seeing George driving around in one of Mr. Carl's cars here in town. I often laugh and think how many places he went to where he wasn't recognized by some youngster behind a cash register. :smile
It's quite amazing when you study the true legends of rock and a large number of them are English acts like Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton etc... and the majority of them were heavily influenced by what we today call "early rock & roll, rockabilly" and of course the blues. Many say the Beatles "set in stone" or cut the blueprint for what a modern rock band was supposed to do and sound like. Personally I think they never would've been nearly as impactful had it not been for the guitar style of George Harrison and of course he got that straight from the early guys like Scotty Moore and ESPECIALLY Carl Perkins.
My own opinion of why "it happened" in Memphis was one simply of location. It's kinda situated between Nashville and the MS River delta so you had the black blues artists on one side of town (Beale Street) and then the influence of Nashville combined with a "church on every corner" for the gospel influence around the city. As they say, "The rest is history".
Speakin of history, I STILL say this is THE best "explanation" of it EVER done. I remember when this was done in Memphis back in 1985, still have the original cassette "Class of 55". The video was shot in Memphis with Mr. Carl, Jerry Lee "Killer" Lewis and of course a Jeff Beck player and Rolling Stones man... Ronnie Wood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG8pDnMEy1c
THANKS forda link, ALWAYS lovin respect for the guys who made it all possible. :beer:
RA
(And YEP I'll putta hitch on it and pull da big red barge for farts n giggles) 
