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When Disneyland Broke Its Own Rules for Michael Jackson
Sometime in the early 1980s, Michael Jackson was wandering through Disneyland when he stopped in the Emporium on Main Street ...
Michael Jackson Remains The Youngest Artist Ever To Top The American Chart
On 31 January 1970, a song called “I Want You Back” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The ...
A 20-Year-Old DJ Recorded Elvis in a Locker Room in 1957 — And It Became One of the Best Tapes We Have
On 31 August 1957, in the changing rooms underneath a football stadium in Vancouver, a 22-year-old Elvis Presley sat down ...
The Most Hostile Interviews of Elvis’s Career — And His Unshakable Response
In 1956, a large part of the United States decided that a 21-year-old truck driver from Memphis was a danger ...
The Biggest Night of Elvis’s Career Ended With Him Splitting His Trousers in Front of 62,000 People
On New Year’s Eve 1975, Elvis Presley walked onto a stage in Pontiac, Michigan, and played to the largest crowd ...
Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury Recorded Three Duets Together. A Llama Ended It.
In 1983, the two biggest voices in popular music sat down together in a home studio in Encino, California, and ...
Elvis Hated One Nickname His Whole Life — And Told Reporters Exactly What He Thought of It
Everybody has heard it. It’s in books, documentaries, and newspaper headlines to this day: “Elvis the Pelvis.” It’s the phrase ...
“Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow” — The Haircut 55 Reporters Turned Up to Watch
In 1958, the most famous man in America sat down in a barber’s chair on an army base — and ...
Six Weeks Before He Passed, Elvis Sat Down at a Piano and Gave the Performance of His Life
By June 1977, Elvis Presley was in a terrible state. He was 42 years old, and his body was failing ...
49 Years Later, Elvis’s Fans Still Came: Inside the Candlelight Vigil at Graceland
Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977. Almost half a century has passed. Most of the people who saw him ...