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 […]
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 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 […]
Elvis purchased Graceland Mansion in March 1957, for $102,500. He put down $10,000 in cash, and got $55,000 in trade for the Audubon house.
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