Elvis love affair

Film crop captures a little bit of the King’s magic
Last year’s big Elvis-themed movie was 3000 Miles to Graceland, a vile and ultraviolent tale of robbery and betrayal featuring a gang of gun-wielding Elvis impersonators and Kevin Costner as a cold-blooded killer who could be Elvis’s illegitimate son.
Thank goodness for this year’s chief Elvis-related […]

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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 […]

  • ‘Ultimate rebel’ Elvis drives ‘Jailhouse Rock’ honor

    “How dare you think such cheap tactics would work with me!”
    “That ain’t tactics, honey. It’s just the beast in me.”
    - an exchange between good-girl Judy Tyler and grabby Elvis Presley in “Jailhouse Rock”
    Elvis the singer has been much honored. He’s a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of […]

  • Overton Park Shell

    Elvis, with Scotty Moore on guitar and Bill Black on bass, performed one of his first live performances at Slim Whitman’s show July 30, 1954. “We were all scared to death,” Scotty recalled. “Elvis, instead of just standing flat-footed and tapping his foot, he was kind of jiggling. … With those old loose britches that we wore, you shook your leg and it made it look like all hell was going on under there.”

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