Evoking Elvis in earnest tributes for the people, by the people

There’s just something about Elvis Presley . . . still.
It’s 25 years since he died, but for months kids, born after his death, have been gobbling up his latest chart-topping single (albeit a remix). Tonight at his vigil, strangers too young to remember him alive will cry in public. And all week, grown men - […]

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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 […]

  • An American Trilogy: A love of Elvis binds three friends for life

    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 […]

  • 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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