Alyssa Lapid
What Linda Thompson Revealed About Elvis Presley
Linda Thompson was 22, newly crowned Miss Tennessee, when she met Elvis Presley at a midnight film screening in Memphis ...
The Guitar From the Comeback Special Was Not His. Elvis Borrowed It.
The image is fixed in everybody’s memory. 1968. Elvis Presley in black leather, seven years off a concert stage, standing ...
MJ And His Secret Sports Obsession
In the last years of his life, living quietly in Las Vegas, Michael Jackson had a way of unwinding that ...
MJ Wrote Down Who He Wanted to Become. Then He Went and Did It.
In 1979, Michael Jackson sat down and wrote himself a list. He was 20 years old and had already been ...
MJ Took $100 Notes Out of His Manager’s Hand and Threw Them Off a Balcony
The man was Frank DiLeo — a short, cigar-smoking music executive who became Michael Jackson’s manager in 1984, right as ...
Elvis’s Biggest Hits Were Cover Songs
Elvis Presley never wrote a song in his life. Not one. He recorded roughly 700 of them and wrote none ...
Eleven White Cadillacs Led Elvis Presley’s Procession
On 18 August 1977, the streets of Memphis were lined with people who had traveled from around the world to ...
Elvis Presley Slipped Past Security Into a Boxing Camp to Meet Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali was mid-training at Deer Lake, his secluded camp in the Pennsylvania mountains, dripping with sweat between rounds. Ali ...
The Day Michael Lost An Award But Won Hearts
On 2 March 1988, Michael Jackson performed live on television for the first time in five years at Radio City ...
Michael Jackson’s 1993 Grammy Speech Took a Heartbreaking Turn
On 24 February 1993, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Michael Jackson was given the Grammy Legend Award — ...