In merry May will come Elvis onslaught

CBS will be the Elvis network during May sweeps. The network has scheduled a four-hour miniseries about the singer May 8 and 11. But wait, there’s more!
On May 13, CBS will air “Elvis by the Presleys.” Here, Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley “speak with unguarded candor about their lives with the legendary Elvis Presley and […]

Elvis is everywhere - sometimes just a foot tall

Former East Memphian Jenny Wade D’Amore always knew about Elvis Presley, but now living in Phoenix with her husband Marc she knows a lot more about the King of Rock and Roll. “I’m the Elvis girl at work,” she said.
When D’Amore, licensing manager of McFarlane Toys, began working for the company, the talk of an […]

Fans from all over toast Elvis’s 70th

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 […]

Elvis encounters - In 1956 he wanted to be just one of the GIs

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 […]

It’s a hunka-hunka-burnin’ Birthday — What would Elvis look like at 70? Here are what several regional artists envision

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 […]

What if his beat went on? — Had Elvis lived to see 70, how might his career have continued?

The king of rock and roll moved easily from “Hound Dog” to “How Great Thou Art,” and, had he been resuscitated in 1977, a newly health-conscious Elvis likely would have moved closer to his gospel roots. That’s the one major consensus among a sampling of musicians and friends of Elvis.
What if Elvis had lived? He […]

TV is making sure you get your Elvis kicks

Elvis at 70. White suede shoes. Heartbreak hospital. A little more conversation, a little less action.
It didn’t happen. Elvis Presley died unexpectedly in 1977 at age 42, so he isn’t turning 70 Saturday the way he should have. But he remains forever young (relatively) and hot (in his younger years anyhow) on film.
Examples? Here comes […]

Red, Hot and Elvis — Thoughts of Elvis at 70 inspire musical reflections

By the time Elvis Presley walked into American Sound Studios in early 1969, guitarist Reggie Young had cut hit songs by the dozens.
Seminal records by the likes of Dusty Springfield ( Dusty in Memphis and its signature tune “Son of a Preacher Man”), Neil Diamond ( Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show ), B.J. Thomas (”Hooked […]

Viva Elvis — Pop star dropped in on top cop — Disguised Presley soaks up lowdown on drug operation

The first thing you notice when entering the inner sanctum of Memphis Police Department Director Larry A. Godwin’s Downtown office on the 12th floor of 201 Poplar is how warm and welcoming the room is.
To help commemorate what would have been the 70th birthday on Jan. 8 of the city’s most famous resident, Godwin talked […]

Viva Elvis — Every day’s a date with Presley’s past

In collaboration with Elvis Presley Enterprises, executive director of Memphis Heritage June West unveiled the Memphis Heritage calendar for 2005 at the organization’s Downtown offices on South Main.
The calendar represents black-and-white Don Newman images of Memphis that have a direct connection to the life of Elvis.
Images such as the Memphis Public Employment office, where Elvis […]

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