In the mid-’50s, Sun Studio owner Sam Phillips helped launch the careers of four music legends, including the biggest star of his generation. Phillips signed Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Ask Cal linebacker Tristan Jernigan to identify the most famous person to come from his hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi, and the answer comes without hesitation.
The early days of rock and roll, with Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, and Elvis Presley, were over by the late 1950s. Don McClean famously wrote American Pie, about Holly’s tragic 1959 plane crash.
Tuesday marked the 77th anniversary of the release of a classic country love song, one that was covered by music icons such as Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley.
With the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death approaching on Aug. 16, one of his most personal-sounding recordings is returning to the spotlight. Yet the real surprise behind “Always on My Mind” is that Presley neither wrote nor recorded it first—and another country legend ultimately turned it into a Grammy-winning landmark.
Elvis Presley may have been the King of Rock and Roll, but the Queen of Country demands respect when it comes to covering her songs. Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You," while perhaps better known in recent years as Whitney Houston's swansong in the 1992 film The Bodyguard, was an instant classic from its release in 1974.
Paul Simon thinks Elvis Presley wasted his "great talent" after 1957. The 84-year-old music star was a huge fan of Elvis during his younger years, but he believes the King of Rock and Roll squandered his talent after 1957, as he started to make teen-focused pop songs, like many other artists of that era.
Las Vegas is reinforcing its position as a global center by integrating events, teams, and tourism within a citywide system. This system is supported by investment and a long-term growth strategy.
Everyone's related to someone. These 20 stars are related to Old Hollywood icons.
Plenty of Old Hollywood stars were snubbed, just like the stars of today. These icons were never nominated for an Oscar, despite their massive fame.
Sir Paul McCartney sang an Elvis Presley song with Austin Butler on a train. Elvis director Baz Luhrmann has revealed the star of his 2022 big screen biopic
Priscilla Presley thinks Elvis Presley would still be touring if he was alive today. The King of Rock and Roll - who died on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42 – would have turned 91 this month and his former wife Priscilla believes he would still be working if he was alive now.
Lisa Marie Presley was in a very difficult and prolonged health battle that stretched over several years before her passing. Her life was full of health challenges due to both continuing medical issues and the after, effects of drug addiction.
Priscilla Presley learned Elvis Presley had been unfaithful to her by reading his fan mail. The 79-year-old actress - who divorced the late singer in 1973,
Trying to narrow down an Elvis Presley playlist to 25 can't-go-without tunes was daunting. But we pulled it off. Enjoy.
Here are 18 facts about “Elvis” that will have you all shook up.
Wise men say only fools don't listen to Elvis. The man could make reading the phone book entertaining (see: Memphis, Tennessee ), and he took music out of the doldrums of doo-wop into the delights of rock and roll.
his film career wasn’t quite as successful as his music career, but that doesn’t mean he was without his triumphs. Elvis definitely made a splash on the big screen.
Steve Martin has an epic Elvis Presley story, and he shared it while appearing on The Howard Stern Show on Wednesday.
Kruse GWS Auctions has placed Presley's original white eyelet jumpsuit and eyelet cape up for auction,. The opening bid for the jumpsuit sits at $350,000, and the cape's $45,000, with live bidding set to begin Saturday (Sept. 4).
Quincy Jones told The Hollywood Reporter's Seth Abramovitch that he received "an intervention" from his daughters after his brutally honest and viral Vulture interview in 2018, but "Loose Lips Quincy Jones" is at it again.
Sir Tom Jones is known for his Grammy-nominated 1965 single "It's Not Unusual," but the story he shared about Elvis Presley while virtually visiting The Kelly Clarkson Show is patently unusual.
Rita Moreno is already in rare EGOT company, and she just solidified her GOAT status. "I dated Elvis because I was trying to get even with Marlon Brando," the West Side Story star wrote in first-person essay for Esquire's "What I've Learned" series.
The numbers are in for this week's Billboard 200, and Justin Bieber's sixth studio album Justice is debuting at No. 1.
It's 42 years this month (August 16, at age 42) that the world lost one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Four decades later, "The King" is perhaps even more beloved than ever.
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