Elvis Presley’s Graceland kingdom would be totally transformed - the king’s mansion aside - in a $250 million improvement plan led by CKX Inc. chief executive Robert F.X. Sillerman.
There would be a new boutique convention hotel, a potential second hotel, a new visitors center, new attractions and new shops within five years - provided local […]
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 […]
One of the byproducts of Elvis Presley’s personal demise was the decline — both in quantity and quality — of his studio output during the latter years of his life.
Following the ‘68 Comeback Special on television, Presley achieved a kind of creative and commercial high-watermark with the 1969 sessions at American Sound Studio […]
Site of Hotel Chisca, where WHBQ was broadcast. The legendary deejay Dewey Phillips — Daddy-O-Dewey — first played “That’s All Right” from the station and rushed Elvis in for a live interviw July 8, 1954, because of the overwhelming phone response to the song.
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