Elvis pal produces his final tributes
Jerry Schilling first left the auspices of employer and friend Elvis Presley in the late 1960s. Safe to say, he has never really left.
A former Memphian and, more to the point, member of Presley’s Memphis Mafia, Schilling - now a Los Angeles producer - has been involved in so […]
Hazel Brock still packs the same tired luggage, its seams frayed and zipper stuck after years of chasing a rock star dead two decades but never really gone.
Never gone. Not as long as Hazel and her only daughter Rodonna are able, Lord willing, to make the trip from their northeast Alabama home to this suburb […]
The latest Elvis record is not the kind you download. If you were in Memphis, you knew you weren’t on Lonely Street at all those sold-out events. But Graceland spokesman Kevin Kern says the official attendance figure for the week was 75,000. Even in the sweltering heat, 55,000 took part in the candlelight vigil. “The […]
Elvis Week kickoff starts with a rockin’ parade
For 25 years fans have been making their pilgrimage to Memphis to salute the King of Rock and Roll.
But Friday night on Beale Street, many of the King’s men and women came out to salute the fans.
For anyone living under a rock the past few days, Elvis […]
Site of Hotel Chisca, where WHBQ was broadcast. The legendary deejay Dewey Phillips — Daddy-O-Dewey — first played “That’s All Right” from the station and rushed Elvis in for a live interviw July 8, 1954, because of the overwhelming phone response to the song.
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