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 […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Mourning Becomes Eclectic
They spill into Memphis from around the world, some for the first time, many more for return visits to the shrine of their rock and roll god, Elvis Presley. They show a devotion and knowledge of Elvis theology that is the envy of conventional churches. They speak with a passion unknown and […]
Once the site of Assembly of God Church, which Elvis attended through 1954, and where the Blackwood Brothers Quartet and their families were members. Elvis would sneak out of Sunday services to go a mile down the street to East Trigg Avenue Missionary Baptist Church, to hear Rev. Herbert Brewster and the singing of Queen C. Anderson and the Brewsteraires.
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