‘Elvis had a premonition,’ hairdresser tells scholars

Larry Geller was Elvis Presley’s hairdresser, spiritual guide, on-staff confidante and the last person to touch him in the coffin when he fixed the King’s hair for the last time.
“That’s why I’m here today,” Geller testified, addressing an audience at the Memphis College of Art. He came prepared to tell secrets. His delivery was dramatic […]

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    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 […]

  • Still ga-ga over Elvis? Read’em and weep

    A plaster bust of Elvis Presley wept “miracle” tears Friday on the 25th anniversary of his death, its Dutch owner claims.
    The 50-year-old Elvis impersonator in Deurne in the southern Netherlands also said the ghost of the Elvis appeared in his house last week.
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  • Overton Park Shell

    Elvis, with Scotty Moore on guitar and Bill Black on bass, performed one of his first live performances at Slim Whitman’s show July 30, 1954. “We were all scared to death,” Scotty recalled. “Elvis, instead of just standing flat-footed and tapping his foot, he was kind of jiggling. … With those old loose britches that we wore, you shook your leg and it made it look like all hell was going on under there.”

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