Hundreds gather in cold, have cake at Graceland
Dreary weather wasn’t enough to keep faithful fans from showing up to celebrate the birthday of a music legend.
More than 700 Elvis fans, most of them from outside the United States, crowded the muddied front lawn of Graceland in 30-degree temperatures to be a part of the […]
Even so, stateside fans eager to touch the foot he tromped
In 1956 I was a chaplain with the Third Armored Division in West Germany. Elvis Presley, then serving in the Army in Texas, was sent overseas to join the division. My first contact with Elvis was when he went to a local military movie […]
Elvis at 70 - Bill DayIt took some serious rehab, but after pulling through his drug crisis Elvis cleaned up enough to mount a Schwarzenegger-like political campaign which he parleyed into a bid for the presidency.
That’s the scenario painted by one artist as he envisioned the look of Elvis Presley had he survived the ’70s […]
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 […]
For the thousands of visitors who’ll make the pilgrimage to Memphis this week to mark the 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death, the next seven days will be filled with a mix of sightseeing and book-signings, concerts and celebratory events.
But for those who knew Presley best, like his longtime friend Jerry Schilling, […]
Elvis often rented the old Memphian Theatre, now the site of Playhouse on the Square, for private screenings of movies.
