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 […]
If the fans remember one thing about Vigil night on the 30th Anniversary of Elvis’ death, they’ll remember the heat. It was the kind of legendary heat we like to brag about in the South, but don’t ever want to be in. Plantation hot. Lemonade commercial hot.
We knew last Sunday it would be an […]
Our friends Pam and Terry, Beale Street singing duo, wrote a song commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Elvis’s death. They’ll open for BJ Thomas Friday night at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre, and you can catch them Saturday (Aug. 18) from noon to 3 p.m. at King’s Palace Patio on Beale.
Here’s the tune: pam-and-terry-elvis.mp3
The small town of Holly Springs (pop. 8,000) is midway between Tupelo and Memphis, and any pilgrimage to either Elvis destination must include a stop to visit the Biggest Elvis Fan in the Universe.
His name is Paul McLeod, and he lives in an antebellum home called Graceland Too, at 200 East Ghoulson Avenue.
McLeod collects and […]
After this summer, “Elvis Expert” gets officially added to my resume.
I claim this endorsement through the following:
Six years as an entertainment writer in Memphis. Many steamy vigil nights filing past his grave. A ghostly encounter on the Memphian Theatre balcony. And breathing the dust cloud after the Baptist Memorial implosion, which caused his […]
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 […]
Robert William Dye helped run the family grain elevator construction business during the day, but at night he was on the town photographing everybody from Minnie Pearl to Elvis Presley.
One of Dye’s Navy buddies had been chief photographer aboard the USS Decker during World War II, and Dye learned enough from him that when he […]
Elvis and Priscilla Presley studied under Kang Rhee in the early 1970s at the master’s studio at 1911 Poplar, where the Hi-Tone Cafe is located today.
