Commercial comes on during the news last night. A bunch of dudes– 40-somethings, maybe — are sitting around in their clubhouse with their instruments. Jam session. They’re Elvis fans! We know because they start singing one of The King’s most rousing tunes, “Viva Las Vegas.” Only, they’ve personalized the lyrics! Each guy gets a verse. At the end of the tune they join in unison and, oh mama, it hurts to mention what they sing, so you have to just watch and cringe.
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 […]
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 […]
Once the site of Assembly of God Church, which Elvis attended through 1954, and where the Blackwood Brothers Quartet and their families were members. Elvis would sneak out of Sunday services to go a mile down the street to East Trigg Avenue Missionary Baptist Church, to hear Rev. Herbert Brewster and the singing of Queen C. Anderson and the Brewsteraires.
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BWAHAHAHAH!
Elvis would not stand for this at all if he were alive. If only there was something he could take to get him up.
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really poor taste