A New Zealand supermarket owner has spent two months fashioning toast to mark the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death.
Reuters reports that Maurice Bennett has constructed a portrait of Elvis measuring 62 square feet and crafted out of more than 4,000 small slices of toast.
Bennett - he’s done Mona Lisa, too - says Elvis has […]
John Bakke remembers all too well the first Elvis Presley seminar he organized. It was 1979, and the dust had yet to settle on Presley’s sensational death just two years prior. No one seemed willing to take either the musician or Bakke seriously.
“I was interviewed by some skeptical reporters,” says Bakke, now professor emeritus at […]
In the playful spirit of Elvis Week, The Edge community will present “EdgeFest: 25 years without a King” from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
The arts and auto repair district near downtown is staging the free street festival to promote itself on the coattails of the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death.
Activities will include live […]
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 at 70. White suede shoes. Heartbreak hospital. A little more conversation, a little less action.
It didn’t happen. Elvis Presley died unexpectedly in 1977 at age 42, so he isn’t turning 70 Saturday the way he should have. But he remains forever young (relatively) and hot (in his younger years anyhow) on film.
Examples? Here comes […]
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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