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.”
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 […]
Even international political summits don’t generate as much activity as Elvis Week will on the 20th anniversary of Presley’s death.
You could attend the several conferences in town and run out of time for anything else. Elvis 20/20: Past and Future, a six-day convergence of high and low thinking on the King at the Memphis College […]
Once the site of the Memphis Draft Board, where Elvis reported in March 1958 for his induction into the Army.
i visited graceland in june 2007. not a fan, i grew up with disco…well now i’m a fan…don’t believe he is dead..i had a dream!!!
i have four times visit graceland.
the first wars 1981 ant to that time goes we walking from the street and gate to the home graceland of elvis and by the way i pick up from the way a small stone as souvenier and that stone is here by me on the computer-tabel.
i love elvis and bill black too.