When Elvis Presley catapulted into stardom in 1956, his name sounded too good to be true, as if it had been snatched straight out of the humid Memphis air.
It proved to be the perfect foil for conservative pundits, who nicknamed Elvis “the Pelvis” and rolled their eyes at the singing hip-swiveler christened with the cornpone […]
The last motorcycle in a 30-edition “Elvis Presley 30th Anniversary Signature Motorcycle Collection” is being auctioned on eBay to benefit Presley Place, the transitional housing complex for homeless families.
The auction will end on Tuesday, Elvis’ birthday, with a reserve price of $58,815 for the motorcycle, which is designed to look like Elvis’ 1957 black Harley-Davidson […]
Elvis Presley had seen her in a TV sitcom and suggested her for a role in a 1964 movie in which he would tell her she was “as purty as a little ol’ speckled pup.”
The movie was “Kissin’ Cousins,” in which Elvis played a dual role as an Army officer and as the officer’s hillbilly […]
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 […]
Like the light from Graceland’s eternal flame flickering near the famed estate, the memory of rock and roll’s undisputed King seems inextinguishable in the public conscience.
Even 27 years after Elvis Presley died inside his Memphis residence - an event commemorated Sunday night at the annual candlelight vigil attended by an estimated 8,000 - the multimedia […]
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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