Jenna Guillaume
How Poverty, Family Loss and Memphis Music Shaped the Young Elvis Presley
Long before Graceland, Cadillacs and screaming crowds, Elvis Presley was born into a family that often struggled simply to get ...
Before Fame, Elvis Presley Was Rejected by the Singing Group He Wanted to Join
Years before millions of people knew Elvis Presley with a guitar hanging around his shoulders, the instrument entered his life ...
The Death of Gladys Presley Left a Wound Elvis Carried for the Rest of His Life
In 1958, Elvis Presley seemed to have everything. At only 23, he had become a global star, bought Graceland for ...
Elvis Presley Made 31 Movies but Hollywood Was Never the Career He Really Wanted
Elvis Presley did not just dominate record stores in the 1950s and 1960s. Hollywood turned him into one of its ...
How Elvis Presley Went From a $4 Demo to RCA Records in Just Two Years
In 1953, Elvis Presley was 18 years old, recently out of high school and far from famous. That summer, he ...
Michael Jackson Was Only 11 When His Voice Took the Jackson 5 to No. 1
Years before Thriller, the Moonwalk or his solo superstardom, Michael Jackson was already standing at the front of one of ...
Michael Jackson Had Luxury Bedrooms but Sometimes Chose to Sleep on the Floor
Michael Jackson could afford almost any comfort imaginable. Neverland Ranch contained an enormous private suite and during his travels he ...
Disneyland Sent Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Straight to Michael Jackson’s House
Four years before Michael Jackson moved to Neverland Ranch, he was already transforming the Jackson family’s Hayvenhurst estate into something ...
How Elvis Presley Reinvented His Sound From 1950s Rock to 1970s Las Vegas
Elvis Presley did not spend his entire career sounding like the young man who recorded “Hound Dog.” Over roughly two ...
At 50, Michael Jackson Was Still Directing Every Detail of “Thriller”
By 2009, Michael Jackson had performed “Thriller” countlss times and could easily have treated it as another old hit. The ...