Alyssa Lapid

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The Jackson Legacy Started With a Broken Guitar String and a Boy Who Was Not Supposed to Touch It

Alyssa Lapid

Everybody assumes the Jackson story begins with Michael. It does not. It begins in a small house in Gary, Indiana, ...

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How Lisa Remembered Elvis Presley In Her Final Days

Alyssa Lapid

Lisa Marie Presley was Elvis’s only child. She was nine years old when he died in 1977, inherited Graceland at ...

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When Elvis Performed In The City That Hated Him

Alyssa Lapid

In April 1956, a 21-year-old Elvis Presley was booked into the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. He was billed ...

Elvis Presley singing into a microphone during a live performance.

The Concert Where Elvis Presley Sang Through Pain

Alyssa Lapid

By 1975, Elvis Presley was 40, and his body was giving out. Years of relentless touring, a punishing diet, and ...

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Elvis’s Iconic 1971 Speech

Alyssa Lapid

In January 1971, Elvis Presley was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation by the US ...

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Michael Jackson’s Last Public Performance

Alyssa Lapid

On 24 April 2002, Michael Jackson stepped onto the stage of the Apollo Theater in Harlem — America’s most storied ...

Dynamic live music performance with two singers, one male and one female, on stage.

Prince Opens Up About Working With Jaafar Jackson For His Father’s Biopic

Alyssa Lapid

Prince Jackson is Michael Jackson’s eldest son. He was 12 years old when his father died in June 2009, and ...

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Janet Jackson Opens Up About MJ’s Deepest Regrets

Alyssa Lapid

Janet Jackson is the youngest of the nine Jackson children and Michael’s little sister. She grew up watching her brothers ...

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The Life Lesson Elvis Taught Her Daughter

Alyssa Lapid

Lisa Marie Presley was Elvis’s only child, born in 1968 and nine years old when he died. She grew up ...

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Why Elvis Presley Chose Priscilla Over Ann Marget

Alyssa Lapid

In 1963, Elvis went to Hollywood to film Viva Las Vegas opposite Ann-Margret — and she was not just another ...