My DNA has not been infused with Elvis’, but I was once offered a strand of Elvis hair and the opportunity to bring in a DNA expert to test a sweat stain in an Elvis jumpsuit. It was part of a story on the chances of cloning Elvis.
I have helped cover Elvis for The Commercial […]
[ July 27, 2007 to August 18, 2007. ] July 27 - August 18. Tyiese Scarpa, 515 South Main Street, St. 101, Memphis. Over 40 pieces of fan art from the Graceland Archives displayed in a gallery setting. Soon after Elvis Presley became an international singing sensation, fans started sending their drawings, sculptures and paintings to Graceland to him and more has […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sun Records/Memphis Recording Service. In the mid- to late summer of 1953, Elvis was a walk-in who paid $3.98 to record “My Happiness.” A year later, on July 5, 1954, he would record “That’s All Right (Mama),” often called the Big Bang of Rock and Roll.
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