The passing of Michael Jackson on Thursday afternoon reignited the occasional debate between Michael Jackson, the 'King of Pop' and Elvis Presley, 'The King' of rock and roll'. Presley's was a trailblazing path'. Where Elvis co-created a musical art form, Michael largely built on one. Where Elvis changed sexual mores in the conservative wake of World War II, Michael only made shocking crotch-grabbing movements. And where Elvis, expanding on James Dean's work, harnessed a burgeoning youth culture, Michael only drew more attention to it', says Nash'. He did it brilliantly ... but his cultural impact pales in comparison to Presley's'.
Elvis Articles June 29, 2009 - 6:21:39 PM Read more

Elvis, Scotty and Bill were hired to perform at the grand opening of the shopping center on September 9, 1954. They did so on a makeshift stage built on a flatbed truck in the center's expansive, unprecedentedly large parking lot. Still relatively unknown outside of Memphis the Memphis Press-Scimitar again misspelled Elvis' name, this time with two S's in Presley. Elvis' appearance at Katz drugstore drew a a huge crowd of teenagers and is MCed by Elvis' former Humes classmate George Klein.    Read more.
Elvis Articles June 29, 2009 - 10:59:42 AM Read more

Lisa Marie Presley, who was married to Michael Jackson for 20 months following their 1994 wedding, posted the following statement (titled 'He Knew') on her MySpace blog one day after the singer's death:
Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Articles, Elvis News June 27, 2009 - 2:17:28 PM Read more

Elois Bedford was probably Elvis' first 'girlfriend' - the relationship ended after perhaps one year when Elvis handed Elois a note as she was about to board the school bus. It said he had gone to another girl. Her name was Magdalene Morgan. Magdalene had had her eyes on the shy youngster for a longer time and she knew - just knew - that one day, sooner or later, they would become 'an item'.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews June 23, 2009 - 1:06:00 PM Read more

Tom Jones and Elvis Presley
Elvis Photos, Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews June 18, 2009 - 5:27:53 PM Read more

Mike Stoller: I guess it must have been in April of '57 that we met Colonel Parker for the first time. It happened over dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Jean Aberbach was the conduit. 'The Colonel wants to see you in person before you meet Elvis' said Jean. 'Is this an audition?' I asked. 'The Colonel is very careful about who he lets into Elvis' circle'. Just be on your best behavior' he told us both.
Elvis Interviews, Elvis Articles June 14, 2009 - 8:31:00 AM Read more

The connections between Elvis Presley and Australia are few. He never visited us. He never expressed any particular interest in the land 'down under' He was essentially a Memphis boy who, apart from his brief stint in the army in Germany, liked to stay in the Deep South and to spend his time in Graceland. It therefore comes as a pleasant surprise to learn that Larry Muhoberac, the man who played keyboards for Elvis for ten years, is an Aussie citizen and currently lives in a delightful home overlooking a valley full of gum trees on Sydney's northern beaches. Larry's story is one of those tales of a series of glorious accidents which led to a long period working for the most famous rock star the world has ever known.
Elvis Interviews, Elvis Articles June 12, 2009 - 2:15:42 PM Read more

 Elvis in the U.S. Army - in colour.
Elvis Presley Music, Elvis Articles, Elvis Photos June 12, 2009 - 10:14:47 AM Read more

Although Freddy Bienstock is not a household name, he is famous to many as the music publisher and plugger for Elvis Presley. But still, even to Elvis fans, he is something of a mystery figure. He is an essential component in the Elvis story. Just how important becomes clear when he said, quite matter of factly, 'For the first 12 years of Elvis' career with RCA, he wouldn't look at a song unless I had seen it first'.
Elvis Articles June 11, 2009 - 9:01:48 PM Read more

Media baron Robert F.X. Sillerman had a great run until he tried to break into real estate -- with Elvis Presley as his partner. The Vegas project is in default. Plans for a new hotel and convention center at Graceland, Elvis' Tennessee home, are on hold. FX Real Estate fell to pennies a share in April from its February 2008 peak of $7.88 and was delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Elvis Articles, Elvis News June 5, 2009 - 11:31:41 AM Read more

Palm Springs has not been on the radar of most Elvis fans except for the other house linked with Elvis in Palm Springs which is nicknamed the 'honeymoon' house. Fontana is quick to point out that the honeymoon house at 1350 Ladera Circle was never owned by Elvis Presley. According to Fontana, the house on Ladera Circle was leased only for 9 months in 1967 under Elvis' father's name of Vernon Presley.
Elvis Articles, Elvis News May 25, 2009 - 7:23:51 AM Read more

On November 23, 1976 at Graceland, Memphis tennessee, Elvis' cousin Harold Loyd, the night guard at graceland, called the police complaining of a drunk, pisto wielding man blocking the gates at Elvis Presley's home in a brand new white lincoln continental. Police approached the car cautiously, when they got to the open driver's side window, they found that the man was Jerry Lee Lewis ...
Elvis Articles May 24, 2009 - 2:19:21 PM Read more

View a photo of Elvis from Memphis Sept 20, 1957 WKNO-TV 'Safety Hit Parade' with a world globe behind showing Australia. Then isten to Elvis greet his Australian fans.
Elvis Articles May 22, 2009 - 3:32:13 PM Read more

Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, has been famous since the day she was born. Lisa Marie was the apple of her father's eye. He showered his young daughter with elaborate gifts. Elvis even named his jet after her. When Lisa Marie was just 4 years old, her parents went their separate ways. The divorce left Lisa Marie splitting her time with Elvis in Memphis at Graceland and Priscilla in Los Angeles.
Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis Interviews, Elvis Articles May 17, 2009 - 3:06:37 PM Read more

Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film director Cameron Crowe is featured in the June 2009 edition of the 'Empire' film magazine. He chooses his 'Top 10 Musical Moments in Film'. At number 8 in the list is Elvis Presley and his performance of 'Edge of Reality' from the 1968 M.G.M movie, 'Live A Little, Love A Little' ...
Elvis Articles May 15, 2009 - 9:29:06 AM Read more

   Elvis Presley - The Man And His Motorcycles.
Video and Audio, Elvis Photos, Elvis Articles, Elvis Presley Music May 15, 2009 - 8:50:43 AM Read more

Once an in-demand Hollywood actress, Dolores Hart shocked the entertainment industry when she gave up everything to become a cloistered Benedictine Roman Catholic nun. She left her career, broke off her engagement to Los Angeles businessman Don Robinson, and pursued her vocation as a nun.
Elvis Interviews, Elvis Articles, Video and Audio May 10, 2009 - 10:54:00 PM Read more

This is a list of Frequently Asked Questions from our article, For The Billionth And The Last Time - Lifting the Lid on the Kings Record Sales by Nick Keene. With answers from Nick Keene.
Elvis Articles, By Nick Keene May 7, 2009 - 2:44:13 PM Read more

The second Elvis album I ever bought was Burning Love And Hits From His Movies, back in the early 1970s on cassette, from the downtown independent record shop where the staff always looked too hip to be selling Elvis records. I could have been repelled, disgusted and baffled. Instead I was hooked by Colonel Parker's frankly mad wheeze. All the other singers and groups I knew had their thing - you always knew what their singles would roughly sound like - but Elvis was a law unto himself. Who else could take you from the childish, cloying, meek How Would You Like To Be? to the pertinent anger of Big Boss Man in just two tracks?
Elvis Articles, Elvis Reviews, Elvis CD Reviews, By Paul Simpson May 1, 2009 - 3:24:06 PM Read more

How many records has Elvis actually sold? Did he really sell One Billion records as has been claimed. Nick Keene has researched this subject in depth with help from Ernst Jorgensen and Sony BMG and has compiled the following report. This is a work in progress and will continue to be until the full facts finally emerge. Like a jigsaw puzzle the pieces are slowly coming together and beginning to make sense. Updated April, 2008.
Elvis Articles, By Nick Keene May 1, 2009 - 11:12:00 AM Read more

30 years after Elvis' death, Michele Jarrett found out that Elvis once sang about her. Michele was barely 10 years old when Elvis died, but nevertheless she's one of the very few people who can rightfully claim that The King really sang about her - a claim that even Priscilla or his daughter Lisa Marie cannot make.
Elvis Articles, Elvis News May 1, 2009 - 10:45:43 AM Read more

Interview with Elvis Presley on Monday, October 28, 1957, just after the general press conference, but prior to his debut at the Pan-Pacific in Los Angeles.
Elvis Interviews, Elvis Articles April 25, 2009 - 11:03:48 AM Read more

From the archives: August 18, 1977 : The pelvis-whirling, culture-changing, fortune-making, mind-boggling journey of Elvis Aron Presley ended at exactly 4:30 p.m. Thursday when the rock and roll star's body was entombed in a gray marble crypt 9 feet long and 27 inches high at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown.
Elvis Presley Biography, Elvis Articles April 23, 2009 - 4:06:35 PM Read more

For someone who played such a large part in the early years of Elvis Presley, helping establish the hillbilly cat, it's more than a little surprising how few and spread about are the details of Bill Black.
Elvis Articles April 19, 2009 - 3:34:00 PM Read more

The Houston Astrodome was chosen by Colonel Parker to be the first venue for Elvis to perform outside Las Vegas. After the concluding show Elvis held a press conference for about 100 journalists at Astroworld.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews April 18, 2009 - 5:09:57 PM Read more

'I think I Believe is the perfect title for a collection of Elvis' religious music because, working with him almost 15 years, I know he believed every word in these songs. It was indeed an honor to know and work with him.
We shall always treasure our memories'. – Gordon Stoker The Jordanaires.
Elvis Articles April 3, 2009 - 6:45:34 PM Read more

After Sidney Lumet had finished The Fugitive Kind, his adaptation of Tennessee William's play Orpheus Descending, he wondered if he should have cast Elvis Presley not Marlon Brando in the starring role ... Elvis was different. We can all agree on that. But that difference did not just apply to his looks, his voice, his talent. It also applied to his personality, what Lumet called his 'simplicity, lyricism and strange otherworldly quality'.
Elvis Articles, By Paul Simpson March 13, 2009 - 3:37:22 PM Read more

The first time I met Elvis, I told him my mother had predicted he'd be a big star. He just laughed shyly. In those days, he truly had no idea of how big he would become. Few know this, but there were actually two Elvises inside the one. As we traveled the road with him, we came to see both sides. He could be very, very shy, the sensitive momma's boy, and he could be as wild as a joker in a game of spit in the ocean.
Elvis Articles March 11, 2009 - 12:48:00 PM Read more

Interview with Glen D. Hardin. I Elvis him the first time when I went to an audition to play the Las Vegas show. I didn't go the first time in 1969. But I, after that, Larry Muhoberac, playing the piano before me, for reasons of his own, didn't want to go on the road anymore. Anyway, the boys in the band leaned on me and wanted to come and do it, so I went down for a little audition.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews March 2, 2009 - 4:27:00 PM Read more

Elvis' musical style, as a musician and impact as a vocalist and stage performer. Included below are over 100 comments currently available either on the internet, in reference guides, encyclopedias, or books ...
Elvis Articles February 18, 2009 - 7:21:40 PM Read more

The Academy Awards are about movies, so when the ceremony regularly gives musicians the short end of the trophy it isn't a news bulletin. For evidence, here are 10 songs that were overlooked come Oscar time.
Elvis Articles February 16, 2009 - 11:04:11 AM Read more

Elvis Presley was leaning a against his pink, 1954 Cadillac in front of Lubbock's historic Cotton Club; the small crowd mesmerized by his great looks, cockiness and charisma. He put on quite a show.
Elvis Articles February 5, 2009 - 5:38:35 PM Read more

'But nobody had done a book on Elvis in Texas. Since he had played there more than anywhere else, I thought it was a good subject and a different subject that would bring both revolutionary Elvis in 1955 and the bigger-than-life star in the 1970s', Oberst said.
Elvis Articles January 27, 2009 - 5:34:39 PM Read more

Interview with Lisa Marie by prior to the birth of her twin twin girls on Tuesday, October 7 ... Expecting twins with her fourth husband, Lisa Marie Presley talks frankly to Marie Claire about ex-husband Michael Jackson, being ripped off by her staff, and refusing to turn into her father.
Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews January 27, 2009 - 2:13:05 PM Read more

The firefighters crewing aircrane Elvis love their job so much they do it all over the world.
Elvis Articles, Elvis News January 25, 2009 - 11:22:54 AM Read more

We have the first photo of Lisa Marie's twin girls courtesy of People Magazine. Click here to view the proud mum, Lisa Marie with her twins, Finley Aaron Love Lockwood & Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood. Plus, in this week's issue of Hello! magazine, also has photos of Lisa Marie Presley with Finley and Harper. Updated.
Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Articles, Elvis News January 23, 2009 - 12:38:35 PM Read more

I met Elvis through a mutual friend of ours, and so called Memphis Mafia member, Lamar Fike ... in 1974 Priscilla came to see Elvis perform. They sat in the booth Elvis always reserved for her and when he spotted them, He sang Priscilla's Favorite song 'It's Midnight'. He walked to the edge of the stage, looked at her, and tears were streaming down his cheeks. He was all broke up. She was the only girl he really ever loved ...
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews January 14, 2009 - 3:12:39 PM Read more

Elvis, Rex Mansfield and Elisabeth Stefaniak. (And Priscilla too!)
Elvis Articles January 8, 2009 - 3:44:49 PM Read more

Unlike Chrysler and General Motors, Elvis Presley, who would be celebrating his 74th birthday Thursday, is running smoothly. 'There is only one Elvis, and you don't have to do much to keep him front and center', said Sillerman, who said President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural committee has contacted CKX to ask about using the Elvis song 'If I Can Dream' as part of an inaugural event. 'I am a big supporter of President Obama. If they want to use it, we absolutely will make it available to them. Forty years after Elvis' '68 special, we see that he's being thought of as part of a new beginning'.
Elvis Articles January 8, 2009 - 10:02:15 AM Read more

Lionel Rose: 'I was punching a heavy bag in a gym in L.A., and I hear a voice sing out, 'Hey, Lionel! What's doin'?' And it was Elvis himself', Rose recalled. 'I was in awe of him, but he said he was in awe of me'.
Elvis Articles January 7, 2009 - 9:07:12 AM Read more

Following are links to the best articles, interviews, reviews and news added to www.elvis.com.au in 2008.
Elvis News, Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews, Elvis Reviews January 1, 2009 - 4:46:56 PM Read more

Rick Husky and TKE members Don DeArmen of Corning and Jeff Sheraer of Patterson, Mo., along with faculty member and fraternity advisor Robert Howe and photographer Charles Crowe, set out for Graceland on Oct. 24, 1960 in Husky's 1956 pink and white Ford for their meeting with Elvis.
Elvis Articles December 27, 2008 - 9:59:00 AM Read more

Elvis Presley's Grandfather, Jessie D. McDowell (J.D.) Presley was born on April 9, 1896. We tell his story in great detail and with compassion, and include audio of his two songs he recorded in 1958. For the first time we name Elvis' great-grandfather on his father side and publish a photo of Elvis' great grand-mother, Rosella.
Elvis Presley Biography, Elvis Articles December 26, 2008 - 11:40:51 AM Read more

Our story begins with Johannes Valentin Bressler, the founder of the Presley family in America, who was born in the Palatinate, Germany, 1669 in the village of Hochstadt (where the Preslar family was first mentioned in 1494); Valentine was employed there as a vine dresser; he married Anna Christiana Franse and immigrated to New York in 1710; In the early generations of the family the German surnames were often turned into English (in parenthesis); after the mid-1800s many members of the family changed their last name to Pressley or Pressly. This continued down Elvis Presleys 'line' to his grandfather, Jessie (J.D.).
Elvis Presley Biography, Elvis Articles December 26, 2008 - 11:40:50 AM Read more

Here are some photos of Elvis at Christmas. The first with Lisa Marie, perhaps the one and only true love of his life. We wish you and your family a very merry Christmas and much more Elvis in 2009!
Elvis News, Elvis Articles December 25, 2008 - 5:50:00 PM Read more

Elvis Presley's Football Team. (Photo)
Elvis Articles December 18, 2008 - 12:27:26 AM Read more

So the National Enquirer is not 100% bad? Here is a front page from May 10, 1959. At least it is interesting.
Elvis Photos, Elvis Articles December 14, 2008 - 7:56:43 PM Read more

I can't remember how many times I listened to On Stage before I noticed something unusual between two of the songs. The first time I caught it, I lifted the needle up and playing the segment again to make sure I wasn't crazy. 'You're just really knocking yourself out to make everybody happy!' a woman in the audience says, between 'Polk Salad Annie' and 'Yesterday'. How had I missed hearing that all the previous times I played the record? For whatever reason, hearing stray comments of audience members during live concerts took on a fascination for me after this. Perhaps it was because it made the concerts seem more real.
Elvis Articles, By Tygrrius December 13, 2008 - 11:27:35 AM Read more

Some Elvis songs are still so fresh, so moving, they can be hard to listen to. And for me, the one song that still gives me goosebumps because of the power of the performance and the song's personal relevance to the King is If I Can Dream. It's widely known that the song almost never happened. Steve Binder, producer of the 1968 NBC TV Special that resurrected Elvis' career, was so desperate to avoid ending the show with a Christmas song - that he told Earl Brown, 'Write me the greatest song you ever wrote'.
Elvis Articles, By Paul Simpson December 13, 2008 - 10:07:21 AM Read more