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Elvis Presley amazed Paul Simon with 'unbelievable' cover
Elvis Presley covered many stunning songs throughout the years from some extremely popular artists. While performing in concert he lent his voice to such incredible tracks as Frank Sinatra's My Way, The Beatles' Something and Yesterday and even Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline. But when he recorded one of Paul Simon's songs for an album, the singer-songwriter was gobsmacked.
Jerry Lee Lewis dies at 87
Jerry Lee Lewis, the last surving member of the famed Million Dollar Quartet has died aged 87. Lewis achieved dazzling early success as a defining hero of rock'n'roll, when he muscled in among Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry, creating rock'n'roll piano from honky-tonk and hymn, as if doing so were as natural as breathing, and commandeering rhythm and blues with a casual authority achieved by no other white performer except Elvis Presley. With Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, Great Balls of Fire and High School Confidential, he made three of the genre's indispensable classics.
Interview with Steve Wynn
Interview with Steve Wynn, bother of Kenny who we recently featured an interview with. Steve Wynn graduated from The Manlius School, a private boys' school in upstate New York, in 1959. Wynn's father, Michael Weinberg, ran a string of bingo parlors in the eastern United States, and died of complications from heart surgery shortly before Wynn graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. At college, he studied Cultural Anthropology and English Literature. After college he took over running the family's bingo operation in Maryland. He did well enough at it to accumulate the money to buy a small stake in the Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, where he and his wife, Elaine, moved in 1967. Wynn managed to parlay his profits from a land deal in the early 1970s (the deal involved two established titans of the Las Vegas casino business, Howard Hughes and Caesars Palace) into a controlling interest in a dusty downtown casino, the Golden Nugget Las Vegas (he also owned The Golden Nugget in Atlantic City). Wynn renovated, revamped and expanded the Golden Nugget with enormous success, in the process attracting a new upscale clientele to downtown Las Vegas'. Steve Wynn literally helped build over half the casinos in Las Vegas and having a road was not good enough for him, in 2005 construction completed on The Wynn hotel.
D.J. Fontana Interview (1985)
I knew Elvis was different by his clothes and his actions on stage. I said, ‘The boy's got something. What it is, I don't know'. The first show at the Louisiana Hayride was kind of lukewarm. It was a country-oriented crowd, and they weren't quite used to what he was doing. They weren't ready for it. After the second or third time, that changed and we had kids coming in. But it was a gradual thing. We didn't really know it for a couple of years. We knew we were getting bigger crowds, but we didn't know exactly how big he was. I don't think he knew, because we were always going from one town to the next. We didn't have the chance to hear any critics, although we knew the security had gotten tight. But we really didn't know that he had become so famous. We didn't pay attention to it, because we were there every day. We were all still traveling in a car, and it wasn't any big deal to us'.
Elvis Presley's private Graceland upstairs rooms
Graceland is open to the public these days but nobody is allowed upstairs - just as it was when Elvis was alive. During his 20 years living at Graceland, the upstairs was off-limits except for an invite from Elvis Presley himself. Even to this day, tours of the mansion – which have been on-going for 40 years – do not include The King's bedroom and the bathroom where he died. Nevertheless, Elvis' cousin Billy Smith has described the layout of the star's private haven. Billy spent his whole life by The King's side, both as a boy living on the grounds of Graceland, and then as an inner member of the star's Memphis Mafia.
Sofia Coppola will direct a Priscilla Presley Biopic based on Priscilla's 1985 memoir
Sofia Coppola will direct a Priscilla Presley Biopic based on Priscilla's 1985 memoir, Elvis and Me. Starring Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, 'Priscilla' will chronicle Presley's torrid, one-of-a-kind romance with the king of rock and roll. Born Priscilla Ann Wagner in 1945, she was only 14 when she caught the eye of a then 24-year-old Elvis Presley during his military service in Germany. The pair eventually got married in 1967 and had a daughter, Lisa Marie, before separating in 1972. It's easy to see why Coppola would be drawn to interpreting her one-of-a-kind life for the screen.
Elvis Presley: Prodigy of SUN Records 800-page 2 x Hardcover Book Set in Slipcase
Erik Lorentzen, publisher of The Elvis Files volume 1 to 8 mammoth series of books (and many others) and co-author Robert van Beek set to release: Elvis Presley: Prodigy of SUN Records an 800-page two book formatted as an illustrated day-by-day travelogue and date book chronicling Elvis' early career and life through newspaper clippings, memorabilia and many unique and rare photos in superb quality - Date set for this Spring - over 45 years after Elvis' untimely demise.
Interview with Billy Swan
Well-known in music circles since the early 1960's as a top songwriter, sideman and producer, Swan's songs have been covered successfully by Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, and many others; one of the first he wrote, Lover Please, was a #7 hit for Clyde McPhatter in 1962, and landed a Grammy for Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge in 1975. Billy Swan's initial hit single I Can Help sold over one-million copies in Europe and over two million worldwide. Elvis recorded I Can Help on March 10, 1975.
MRS 2 LP Release - Las Vegas International Presents Elvis - Now 1971
UK Memphis Recording Service will release its vinyl 180-gram 2LP version of 'Las Vegas International Presents Elvis - Now 1971' on 25th November 2022. Live performances are 28th January (Midnight) and the closing show 23rd February 1971 from Elvis' engagement at the Las Vegas International Hotel. The 2LP's also contain bonus tracks.
Elvis: It Happened At The World's Fair 2-LP Limited Edition from FTD
FTD Vinyl is pleased to announce the release of It Happened At The World's Fair 2-LP Limited Edition. Taking inspiration from RCA Victor's originally planned but subsequently aborted deluxe soundtrack release (LOC/LSO 1080), this 180 GRAM double vinyl soundtrack companion features original soundtrack masters and excellent alternative outtakes.
Elvis: Las Vegas '71 3-CD Set from FTD
As part of its ongoing live on tour series, FTD is pleased to announce the release of Elvis: Las Vegas '71. Released as a 3-CD 5' digi-pak, this set features three 1971concerts recorded at the International Hotel on January 27 / 28 (Midnight shows) and January 29 (Dinner show). Recorded by Bill Porter, The tapes unfortunately have imperfections, but we have prioritized the historic importance and rarity of these recordings.
An ashtray for Elvis | Hollywood 1963
The journalist, Bo Hanson, had a tough time getting through the entire wall of agents and studios people, but was finally granted a ten minute interview. After waiting for two hours, the doors were thrown open and there he was: Elvis Presley. Bo Hanson later described the meeting in an article published in the Swedish magazine Allers, on May 3, 1964. He's so handsome, so beautiful in his white, tight pants, his bright red shirt and the most adorable little white bolero jacket, that it almost isn't true.
Interview with Shirley Dieu
Shirley Dieu met Elvis Presley in 1975. After becoming friends, she would spend the next 3 years touring and vacationing with him. In this exclusive Interview with Sergio Luiz Shirley tells her amazing story and how she became the 'Memphis Mafia Princess'. 'I don't think that Elvis took the vacation as a much-needed break. He had just gotten his plane The Lisa Marie and felt a certain freedom that he hadn't really had before. So since he loved Hawaii, he said 'Hey, I'm taking everyone to Hawaii. 'It was a last minute kind of thing ...'
'The Lisa Marie': Elvis Presley's Convair 880 Jet Airplane
On April 17, 1975 Elvis bought a Convair 880 Jet, recently taken out of service by Delta Airlines, for the then-substantial sum of $250,000. After refurbishing, the total exceeded $600,000. He immediately rechristened it the Lisa Marie.
John Lee Hooker talks about Elvis Presley and sings his song 'Tupelo'
Tupelo is a city in the state of Mississippi, which is best known for being the birthplace of Elvis Presley. John Lee Hooker recorded the original version of the song, 'Tupelo' in 1959, which chronicles a flood in Tupelo, 20 years previously. Said Hooker: 'People never forgot it. So when I grew up and got famous, I wrote about it and it brought back memories to a lot of people'. Inspired by John Lee Hooker's song, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds reworked it as 'Tupelo,' combining imagery of the flood with memories of Elvis Presley. It was released on the Bad Seeds 1985 album The Firstborn is Dead. Here Johm Lee Hooker talks about Elvis, and sings the song 'Tupelo'.
Whitney Houston talks about how she met Elvis in 1969
Whitney Houston : 'You don't actually MEET Elvis, you just have to LOOK at Elvis'. She goes on to explain that her mother Cissy Houston (who sang with the gospel group Sweet Inspirations), used to sing back up for Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin for many years. [Cissy Houston was actually only with Elvis for his opening shows in 1969] and how they were sitting in a room backstage and Elvis walked in with his mink (real fur), glasses on, and she just looked at him and could not say anything (star struck).
Released | Elvis Movie DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K
The Fifty Voices of Elvis Presley
So different are Elvis' voices, that if one could find a person who has never heard his recordings and you put him or her on an island and then had them listen to these fifty songs, mixed with say, those of 12 other distinctive singers, and then you then ask him or her, to classify them, to separate the singers, I could bet a million dollars that the person will never say that there are 13 singers, as would be the case, but at least 25.
Stopped By Security But Elvis Said Let Her Through
Martha Carr wanted to meet Elvis Presley. So she and a few friends from Jackson traveled to Memphis on Jan. 18, 1971, to the Jaycees' 10 Outstanding Young Men of America ceremony - now known as the 10 Outstanding Young Americans. Elvis was the final recipient that evening at the old Ellis Auditorium. 'Of course, every woman was trying to get to Elvis', Carr says. 'But security would stop them and send them back. It looked like I wasn't going to meet Elvis, after all. 'But my friends kept urging me, 'Go on, Martha. Go see Elvis'. We were only about 40 feet from him. So I finally walked over toward him'. She was stopped by security, only to have Elvis step in: 'Let her come on', he said.
Elvis Movie DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K
The 'Elvis' movie will be released on DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K on September 21 and are now available to pre-order.
The Night Bruce Springsteen Jumped the Wall at Graceland
Bruce Springsteen was seven when he first saw Elvis on The Ed Sullivan Show. Elvis Presley's third and final appearance took place on January 6, 1957. Watching the show, Springsteen felt mesmerised: 'I couldn't imagine anyone not wanting to be Elvis Presley', he recalled ... 'I jumped up over the wall and I started runnin' up the driveway, which when I look back on it now was kind of a stupid thing to do because I hate it when people do it at my house'.
Interview with Vernon Presley (1978)
Interview with Vernon Presley by Nancy Anderson : Good Housekeeping, January 1978.
Elvis: 'Like A Black Tornado - Live At Boston Garden 1971' Vinyl LP Record from MRS
UK Memphis Recording Service will release its vinyl 180-gram LP version of 'Like A Black Tornado - Live At Boston Garden 1971' on 21st October 2022.
Review | Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD
The Memphis Recording Service (MRS), the producers of the 'Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD, boldly state on the front cover that never before have we ever had live film footage (i.e., with synchronized sound) of an Elvis concert from the 50's ... until this time. Well, we certainly do now! Elvis performing 6 songs, including Heartbreak Hotel and Don't Be Cruel, live in Tupelo Mississippi 1956. Included we see a live performance of the elusive Long Tall Sally seen here for the first time ever. This is an excellent release no fan should be without it.
- The DVD Audio section gives you sound quality superior to CD
- The DVD Video Section Contains both Video Film and synchronized Sound
Blackie | Bill Black and Elvis Presley
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 Presley and Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John saw Elvis in concert at least twice but just missed out on meeting the King of rock 'n roll. Olivia: 'I was really excited to be invited to see the King at the Hilton in Las Vegas. It was a celebrity-packed row, with Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber sitting next to me on either side. After the show, I went backstage to meet him and got another big surprise. Doris Day was there, too - I've always adored her. Doris was warm and welcoming, but sadly I never met Elvis up close and personal. His road manager said there was an emergency and Elvis had to leave the building, Literally!'
Goldie Hawn talks about meeting Elvis Presley
Goldie Hawn recalls meeting Elvis when he visited her on the 'Laugh-In' NBC set. 'I met Elvis when I was in Laugh-In ... He was on the set because we used to rehearse in the studio ant NBC ...' And in walks this guy, and he was soooo beautiful, that it just took my breath away, everybody's breath away. And he walked up to me, and he tussled my hair, and he said 'you look like a chicken that's just been hatched'. '....Brenda Lee Fondly Remembers A Special Gift From Elvis
Brenda Lee and Elvis met at Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Ga., in March of 1956 when Elvis played the first time there with June Carter and her mother and two sisters.
Interview with Glen Glenn
Well, he couldn't get out, he tried to get out one time, and walk down Hollywood Blvd. and he got all the people recognized him and pretty soon he had a mob down there and they had to call the cops to get him back to the Knickerbocker. And, one night, it must have been about 10 or 11 o'clock, where the Pantages Theatre, it's around the corner from the Knickerbocker. And, across the street from the Knickerbocker was a car, I mean a parking lot. So, people would park their car there and go to the movies at the Pantages Theatre. So, all the people were walking down Hollywood Blvd. and they'd walk across the street to go to their cars, so they wouldn't actually walk right past the Knickerbocker.
Review | Elvis: Peace In The Valley (The Complete Gospel Recordings)
Elvis : Peace In The Valley (The Complete Gospel Recordings) is a long overdue triple CD release. In 1994 we were treated to the excellent double album 'Amazing Grace' and more recently to a number of good (if forgettable) mid-price gospel albums. This set is a fitting testament to an often under-appreciated segment of Elvis' incredible musical legacy. Many fans will be surprised at the breadth of tracks on this release.
Documentary on '68 Comeback Special' Coming From Steve Binder
Hot on the heels of the success of Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, the third-highest grossing music biopic since the 1970s, Steve Binder, the Emmy-winning director of Elvis Presley's electrifying '68 Comeback Special, is producing a documentary about the experience. The documentary, coming in 2023, will take fans behind the turbulent creation of the special that revitalized Presley's career.
Songwriter Layng Martine recalls writing 'Way Down', Elvis' last hit
'Way Down' song-writer, Layng Martine Jr. remembers being in seventh grade and hearing one of Elvis Presley's earliest singles on the radio. 'It changed my entire life', he says. Two decades later, the Nashville songwriter wrote a hit for Elvis - which ended up being the final single released before his death in 1977. He remembered writing the song, and learning of Elvis' death, in a conversation with Bart Herbison of Nashville Songwriters Association International.
Piers Morgan Interview with Priscilla Presley
Priscilla Presley has discussed her relationship with Elvis, following the release of Baz Luhrmann's Elvis' biopic.
Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley
Very few women in Elvis' life meant as much to him as Ann-Margret. When Elvis later asked his 'foreman' Joe Esposito, what was so special with Ann-Margret, he replied: - She's the female you.
Elvis Presley became a rock 'n' roll icon with the help of Memphis clothier
Elvis Presley became a rock 'n' roll icon with the help of Memphis clothier: 'That changed everything'
Baz Luhrman and Austin Butler shopped with Bernard Lansky's son Hal in preparation for the biopic 'Elvis'
Baz Luhrman and Austin Butler shopped with Bernard Lansky's son Hal in preparation for the biopic 'Elvis'
Elvis Presley and Tony Joe White
I was doing a lot of Elvis on stage. I had my hair combed like Elvis. A big wave. I could sing him, copy him to a T. After 'Polk' came out and I was living in Memphis again, Elvis' producer called me. He said, 'We're flying a jet down to pick you and your wife up. We want you to come to Las Vegas and watch Elvis record 'Polk Salad Annie' for six nights, every night he does it on stage'. Elvis recorded Tony Joe White's 'Polk Salad Annie', 'I've Got a Thing About You Baby' and 'For Ol' Times Sake'. Tony Joe believed that Elvis was planning to also record 'Rainy Night In Georgia'.
Elvis Presley and Bobby Smith
By Billy Smith. My brother, Bobby, got run over down in front of Graceland. That was in '61. I guess Bobby was about nineteen or twenty. He was running across the road. He'd been talking to some friends, and he was coming back across, and a kid who wasn't much older than Bobby came out of the side-road and down Highway 51. He'd been drinking and he claimed he didn't see him. He hit Bobby dead-on. The bumper caught him and threw him up over the hood, and then he rolled on across. It crushed both of his legs, and broke his cheekbone, and cut him up a little. He had some internal bleeding, but it was mostly his legs.
Red West Remembers Writing For The King
That's Someone You Never Forget was a title that came from Elvis. He said, 'How about coming up with a song with the title of That's Someone You Never Forget?' I sat down and wrote it. I played him a demo with me singing that I cut at Gold Star Recording in Hollywood. Elvis liked it and I was in the studio when he recorded it, which was great but also nerve wrecking. Every time he'd start over and say, 'Hold it! hold it!' I'd think, 'Uh oh, he's gonna lose interest'. I like how the song turned out. That song had a strange, weird melody. I like the way Elvis recorded all the songs that I wrote. Elvis wouldn't have recorded my songs if he didn't like them. As a matter of fact there's a couple that he turned down, I wish I had written more for him.
The Million Dollar Quartet | December 4, 1956
The 'Million Dollar Quartet' is a recording of an impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash (According to Cash) and made on December 4, 1956, at the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. An article about the session was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar under the title 'Million Dollar Quartet'. Carl Perkins, who by this time had already met success with 'Blue Suede Shoes', had come into the studios that day, accompanied by his brothers Clayton and Jay and by drummer W.S. Holland, their aim being to record some new material, at at his fathers suggestion began working on a revamped version of an old blues song, 'Matchbox'.
Elvis Presley and Johnny Bragg
Johnny Bragg was imprisoned in l943,at the age of sixteen, for crimes he most likely did not commit and was sentenced to six consecutive life-terms in the Tennessee State Prison, Nashville. While serving his sentence, Bragg formed a singing group, the Prisonaires, which became a chart-topping musical act. The Prisonaires were given permission to perform at various shows. both inside and outside of the prison, by Warden James E. Edwards and by Frank Clement, the Governor of Tennessee at the time, who used the group as a showcase for his campaign for prison reform and civil rights. Clement consequently became one of Bragg's closest friends and supporters.
'Elvis' is No. 1 at the box office
'Elvis' has won its box-office danceoff with 'Top Gun: Maverick.' After the two films reported the same ticket sales Sunday, Monday's final numbers has 'Elvis', alone, as king of the weekend.
Elvis (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CD
Sony Music will release the soundtrack CD to 'Elvis' on July 29, 2022. ELVIS is an epic, big-screen spectacle from visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrmann that explores the life and music of Elvis Presley (Austin Butler) through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks).
Tom Hanks Interview
Tom Hanks Interview.
'Elvis' Fact or Fiction: What's Real and What's Not in Baz Luhrmann Biopic
Does the phrase 'That's All Right, Mama' apply to the new 'Elvis' movie… as in, 'that's all correct, ma'am'? No one is probably expecting that; any practiced watcher of biopics knows virtually any example will take deep liberties with the facts for dramatic purposes. And maybe it's a given that a director who puts hip-hop and hard rock on his period-film soundtracks, as Baz Luhrmann does, might favor effect over total verisimilitude.
Update: The Airplanes and The King Hardcover Book
The Elvis Files team finally announced that after 6 months of delays due to paper-shortage, Carlos Varrenti's book, in collaboration with Robert van Beek, 'The Airplanes & The King' was sent to the printers today. The bindery will also be ready in a maximum of two weeks from today. They stated: 'Our apologies for the long wait, but in the end you will be amazed by the quality of The Airplanes & The King book work and that may ease the suffering a little. The Elvis Files team wish you a lot of reading pleasure'. The English version is expanded to an amazing 400 pages with ja lot of unreleased material from Elvis Files' vaults and printed as a high quality hardback book.'The Airplanes & The King' by Carlos Varrenti, English version is an expanded 400-page High quality Hardback book with a lot of unreleased material from Elvis Files' vaults! Printed and distributed by The Elvis Files Team.
Interview with Ann Ellington
On March 8, 1961, Elvis addressed the Tennessee State Legislature and accepted the title of 'Honorary Colonel'. During this time Ann Ellington, the daughter of Governor Buford Ellington met Elvis and even attended his recording session at Studio B on March 23 when he recorded 'Can't help Falling In Love'. Of Elvis Ann said, 'I think any female who had an opportunity to sit down and meet him, just even for five minutes, you find a love for him that words cannot describe'.
Fans flock to stores to buy Elvis records, dramatic sales increase (August 1977)
Record stores in the Los Angeles area reported a dramatic increase in sales of Elvis Presley records Tuesday night. Salespersons at Tower Record stores in Hollywood and Westwood said they had sold 55 to 65 more Elvis records than usual.
B.B. King talks about Elvis Presley
Video, B.B. King talks about Elvis Presley, and the first time he saw him at Sun Records. Later, Elvis Presley and B.B. King backstage at the WDIA Goodwill Revue at Ellis Auditorium on December 7, 1956.
Interview with Kenny Wynn : Colonel Tom Parker's assistant
Interview with Kenny Wynn, Colonel Tom Parker's assistant. Kenny had an insider's view of the Presley empire back in the 1970s when 'The King' was selling out hundreds of performances at the Las Vegas Hilton. Wynn was in charge of the sale of Elvis Presley memorabilia and even traveled with Elvis Presley on tour.
The Night John Lennon (and The Beatles) Met Elvis Presley
No real photos were taken. No tape recordings were made. Less than twenty people were present. All of which helps to explain why the greatest summit meeting in the annals of rock 'n' roll history has remained a relatively little-known bit of rock trivia. But the facts are this: on a balmy August night in 1965, inside a rented mansion up in the tony hills of Bel-Air, Elvis met The Beatles.
Culture Factory will release the following CDs in July
Culture Factory will release the following CDs in July. These are Vinyl replica in appearance, CDs.
- Le Retour d’Elvis & His Hand in Mine 2CD set : RSD 2016 : including the original double LP set + 19 bonus tracks
- Elvis Sings the Mad Professor CD | RSD 2021 : including the original album + 7 bonus tracks
- Elvis: Something for Everybody CD : RSD 2016 : including the original album + 16 bonus tracks
- Elvis: The Forgotten Album CD : RSD 2020 : including the original album + 14 bonus tracks
Elvis Presley: Devil In Disguise - The 'Lost Album' Sessions 3 CD Box Set from FTD
As part of its acclaimed 'Sessions series, FTD is pleased to announce the release of Elvis Presley: Devil In Disguise – The 'Lost Album' Sessions. Released as a 3-CD 8" digi-pak. Recorded, for the most part, over two days in July 1963, these varied and excellent performances ended up being scattered over several RCA Victor releases between 1963 and 1968. It would not be until 1990 that the songs finally appeared as originally intended on a proper RCA vinyl album. Almost 60-years later, FTD presents all of the masters and outtakes available from the session(s).
Elvis: From Vegas To Tahoe 3 CD Set from FTD
As part of its ongoing live on tour series, FTD is pleased to announce the release of Elvis: From Vegas To Tahoe. Released as a 3-CD 5" digi-pak, this set features three 1973 midnight shows recorded on January 27 / February 21 (Las Vegas Hilton) and May 12 (High Sierra Theatre, Sahara Hotel, Lake Tahoe).
Elvis biopic: Austin Butler praised, mixed reviews for film
A new biopic of Elvis Presley has attracted generally positive reviews, with many critics praising actor Austin Butler's portrayal of the singer.
Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis': Film Review
How you feel about Baz Luhrmann's Elvis will depend largely on how you feel about Baz Luhrmann's signature brash, glitter-bomb maximalism. Just the hyper-caffeinated establishing section alone - even before Austin Butler's locomotive hips start doing their herky-jerky thing when Elvis Presley takes to the stage to perform 'Heartbreak Hotel' in a rockabilly-chic pink suit - leaves you dizzy with its frenetic blast of scorching color, split screen, retro graphics and more edits per scene than a human eye can count. Add in the stratified, ear-bursting sound design and this is Baz times a bazillion.
'Elvis' gets 12-Minute Standing Ovation
The audience at the Cannes Film Festival was trembling for Austin Butler as the King in Baz Luhrmann's world premiere of 'Elvis'. The film received an uproarious 12-minute standing ovation, the longest of this year's festival so far.
Two trailers for Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' movie
Interview with Baz Luhrmann
Mr. Luhrmann did not want to make a mere biopic. He wanted to make a wildly ambitious movie about race and sex and class and music in America through three decades, the 1950s, '60s and '70s. There are three Elvises, the rock 'n' roll punk, the movie star in the Hollywood bubble, and the drug-addled, divorced Elvis in Vegas who feels 'caught in a trap', as the line from 'Suspicious Minds' goes, and shows the fatigue of being stuck as the campy character busting out of the tight white jumpsuit. 'I'm just so tired of playing Elvis Presley', he said, the year before he died.
Released | Las Vegas International Presents Elvis - Now 1971 4 CD Book Set from MRS
'Memphis Recording Service' (MRS) has released the 4CD Deluxe titled 'Las Vegas International Presents Elvis – Now 1971' and our order is on the way to us.
Too Much Monkey Business | The story of Scatter, Elvis Presley's Pet Chimpanzee
In the early sixties, Elvis Presley's 'Memphis Mafia' (a bit of editorial license taken here) took on its most problematic and entertaining member, a forty-pound chimpanzee named Scatter. However, before Elvis, Scatter was a TV star, on local Memphis station WMC-TV. The program hosted by 'Captain' (actually, he preferred it spelled 'Cap'n') Bill Killebrew - well actually he wasn't really a captain of anything, kinda like 'Colonel' Tom Parker, well except Elvis' manager was an honorary one!
Riley Keough about Baz Luhrmann's movie 'Elvis'
ELVIS PRESLEY has a new biopic coming out this year, but this time it is coming from the mind of the visionary director Baz Luhrmann. Riley Keough, the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, has now spoken out about how 'emotional' watching the iconic star's life on the big screen was, despite the 'generational trauma' the family has endured.
Released by FTD Books 'Celluloid Sell-Out!' 448 pages of Worldwide Elvis Presley movie memorabilia
FTD Books has released 'Celluloid Sell-Out!' a 448 page book of Worldwide Elvis Presley movie memorabilia from 1956-1958 and our order is on the way to us. The large hardcover book is packed with movie posters, lobby cards, pressbooks, publicity stills, programs, standees, heralds and much more! Plus 2 bonus CDs featuring the soundtracks from LOVE ME TENDER, LOVING YOU, JAILHOUSE ROCK and KING CREOLE.
Released | Elvis: Madison To Pine Bluff Soundboard Concert CD (FTD)
As part of its ongoing live on tour series, FTD has released 'Elvis: Madison To Pine Bluff '76' and our order is on the way to us. Released as a 2-CD 5" digi-pak, this set features two shows: Dane County Coliseum, Madison, Wisconsin October 19, 1976 - 8:30 p.m. / Pine Bluff Convention Center, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, September 8, 1976 - 8:30 p.m.
Released | Elvis: Kid Galahad Soundtrack Vinyl 2 LP Record Set from FTD
FTD Vinyl have released the first official Kid Galahad vinyl soundtrack album and our order is on the way to us. It is hard to believe that it was 60 years ago that this movie first made its debut. 'King Of The Whole Wide World' sounds as fresh today as it did then. This 180 GRAM 2-LP limited edition contains all the original soundtrack masters and many excellent alternative outtakes.
Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant on Elvis Presley
Robert Plant on CBS's The Late Show with David Letterman February 4, 2011.
Lisa Marie Presley post about Baz Luhrmann's movie 'Elvis'
Lisa Marie Presley post about Baz Luhrmann's movie 'Elvis'. I do want to take a moment to let you know that I have seen Baz Luhrmann's movie 'Elvis' twice now, and let me tell you that it is nothing short of spectacular. Absolutely exquisite. Austin Butler channeled and embodied my father's heart and soul beautifully. In my humble opinion, his performance is unprecedented and FINALLY done accurately and respectfully.
What Johnny Carson really said about Elvis Presley on 'The Tonight Show'
Elvis Presley, a bona fide Greek God at age 34, flashes a lovely smile while taking questions from the press corps after his return to live performing at the Las Vegas International Hotel, August 1, 1969. A less publicized facet of Elvis Presley's fascinating character is that he admired comedy with an intense passion, staying up until the first rays of the morning light with the Memphis Mafia to screen films and television appearances from the likes of Peter Sellers, Monty Python, and Johnny Carson. Quoting entire comedy monologues or routines was a common occurrence.
Anne E. Nixon has died
Todd Slaughter shared the sad news that Anne E. Nixon died. R.I.P. - It is with great sadness, and deep regret, that I have to tell you that 'everyone's Elvis friend' Anne E. Nixon died in hospital in the early hours of this morning.
That time Elvis Presley scandalized Phoenix parents at the Arizona state fairgrounds
By the time he made his first appearance on a Phoenix stage - a sold-out concert at the Arizona state fairgrounds - Elvis Presley was the hottest rockabilly singer on the planet.
Pittsburgh memories of Elvis Presley
For the record, I cried when Elvis died. Cried again the first time I toured Graceland, his Memphis, Tenn., home. And every time I heard him sing 'Don’t Cry Daddy' - so I just stopped listening to that song.
'This Is Elvis' - The Triumph And The Tears
MEMPHIS -- Advisory to theater owners who book 'This Is Elvis,' the Warner Bros. documentary that premiered here Friday night: Stock plenty of Kleenex at the snack bar. For Presley fans, this is potent stuff.
Radio Recorders presents the following new releases
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Elvis Presley | Waco and Eddie Fadal
Elvis Presley is a name that hardly needs explanation. The king of rock-and roll stands as a cultural icon to this day, but few people know of his connection to Waco and Central Texas. In 1958, at the ripe age of twenty-two, Elvis joined the United States Army and moved to Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, for basic training.
Baz Luhrmann's Elvis gets a world premiere at Cannes Film Festival
Australian director Baz Luhrmann's new movie Elvis, a drama about the legendary king of rock and roll, will have a world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
Las Vegas International Presents Elvis - Now 1971 4 CD Book Set from MRS
UK Label 'Memphis Recording Service' (MRS) will release a 4CD Deluxe titled 'Las Vegas International Presents Elvis – Now 1971' on 27th May 2022. The 4CD's contain a varied selection of live performances drawn from Elvis' engagement at the Las Vegas International Hotel during the early part of 1971.
Lindalee Wakely (Jimmy Wakely's Daughter) Remembers Elvis and Charle Hodge
For me, it was a horrible scene, Just horrible. But Elvis turned it all around. I did a Hollywood gossip column for a fan magazine called Teen Scene. You may remember it. Well, Dad had known Elvis' manager, Col. Tom Parker, and his wife, Marie, for many years. So Dad was able to get me an interview with the great Elvis who had just come back from Germany and had come out to the West Coast to make movies. The interview was going to take a place on the set of GI Blues. It really was a fantastic break for a kid like me. I knew it. I bought new shoes. I chose a new dress. I got an appointment with an expensive hairdresser. I was shaking but I was going to look sharp and make a great impression on Elvis.
Interview with Patti Page
In the course of her remarkable recording career, Patti Page has sold approximately 100 million plus records, making her one of the biggest, if not the biggest selling female recording artist in history. She has 15 certified gold records and her recording of 'Tennessee Waltz', at ten million sold, remains, the biggest selling single ever recorded by a female artist.
Martin Sheen talks about Elvis Presley
From the Loving You DVD, Martin Sheen talks about how much Elvis meant to him, why Elvis was king. Sheen shows he is a well informed Elvis fan, and music/film lover. Martin is a big fan and tells of his love for Elvis and seeing 'Love Me Tender' about 20 times in the 50's. A great inclusion to an otherwise delightful DVD.
Elvis Presley meets Led Zeppelin | May 11, 1974
The two most popular and successful live acts of the 1970s were Elvis Presley and Led Zeppelin, who played to capacity crowds night after night. Coincidentally, both were handled by Concerts West, one of the biggest tour promoters in America. In May 1974, the company offered complimentary tickets to Zeppelin for Elvis' gig at the LA Inglewood Forum, with the possibility of meeting him afterward.
FTD Books presents 'Celluloid Sell-Out!' 448 pages of Worldwide Elvis Presley movie memorabilia
FTD Books presents 'Celluloid Sell-Out!' 448 pages of Worldwide Elvis Presley movie memorabilia from 1956-1958. It's packed with movie posters, lobby cards, pressbooks, publicity stills, programs, standees, heralds and much more! Plus 2 bonus CDs featuring the soundtracks from LOVE ME TENDER, LOVING YOU, JAILHOUSE ROCK and KING CREOLE.
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Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD
Never before have we seen an Elvis Presley concert from the 1950's with sound. Until Now! The DVD Contains recently discovered unreleased film of Elvis performing 6 songs, including Heartbreak Hotel and Don't Be Cruel, live in Tupelo Mississippi 1956. Included we see a live performance of the elusive Long Tall Sally seen here for the first time ever. + Plus Bonus DVD Audio.
This is an excellent release no fan should be without it.
The 'parade' footage is good to see as it puts you in the right context with color and b&w footage. The interviews of Elvis' Parents are well worth hearing too. The afternoon show footage is wonderful and electrifying : Here is Elvis in his prime rocking and rolling in front of 11.000 people. Highly recommended.
Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD Video with Sound.
