Elvis is consummate showman even in death, thrilling fans from screen

When Elvis Presley played the Mid-South Coliseum in 1997, it was the venue’s largest grossing event ever. It didn’t matter that Elvis had been dead for 20 years.
It didn’t matter Saturday night either - on what would have been Elvis’s 65th birthday - when the King returned to lead a 2 1/2-hour concert that was […]

Woman with Elvis no longer a mystery

For 27 years, the mother says she has remained silent, watching over and over as her daughter showed up in photographs on a motorcycle with Elvis Presley.
Each time, the daughter has been referred to as “an unidentified woman.” “I just didn’t want her to go on as an unidentified woman,” says the mother, Peggy Selph […]

Elvis streams to life across globe

Elvis Presley would have been 65 on Saturday. What that means is that the King of Rock and Roll - who died Aug. 16, 1977, at the age of 42 - never got to settle into old age as a gospel performer, oldies act or retired millionaire living off past glories.
What it also means is […]

Elvis still a vivid memory that likely will endure at least another century

The only Memphian legally buried in his own backyard in the latter half of the 20th Century is one of the few musicians who didn’t break into the business with constant reminders to “keep your day job.”
The description could be a crossword puzzle clue, and it’s one that much of the world could easily answer. […]

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  • New Elvis Record

    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 […]

  • Sincerest flattery

    Elvis Presley Enterprises produces a tribute artist concert
    Donny EdwardsDonny Edwards majored in computer science in college and was working as retail manager of a Target store in Texas when a lifelong love of Elvis Presley finally caught up with him, nudging him into what he once thought of as a joke for people who […]

  • Ranch House

    Elvis and his parents, Gladys and Vernon Presley, lived in this ranch-style house Elvis bought in 1956 for 13 months. Natalie Wood was a houseguest there four days.

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