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 […]
Portrayals of Elvis in his underwear, Elvis in the arms of the Madonna (the FIRST one, of course) and Elvis “eaten by ants” offended some of the entertainer’s fans and won’t be on public view this week.
A dozen photographs and pastel drawings of the late entertainer scheduled for display during the “Elvis 20/20: Past and […]
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.”