Rock 'n' Roll
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 ...
Elvis Presley Did Not Invent Rock and Roll but He Helped Change Who Heard It
Elvis Presley grew up in Mississippi and Memphis surrounded by gospel, blues, country and R&B. He listened closely to Black ...
Elvis Presley Kept Performing Even as His Health Was Failing
By the mid-1970s, Elvis Presley was still selling out arenas, but the man behind the famous jumpsuits was dealing with ...
From Pink Suits to Rhinestone Jumpsuits: How Elvis Presley Changed Men’s Stage Fashion
Elvis Presley understood early that people did not only hear a performer. They looked at him too. In the 1950s, ...
The Gospel Roots Behind Elvis Presley’s Voice and His Only Three Grammy Wins
Long before Elvis Presley sang “Heartbreak Hotel” or shook up American television, he was listening to gospel music in church. ...
Lana Del Rey Honors Elvis Presley
On the night of November 29, 2023, NBC did something that had never been done before. It broadcast a live ...
The Injections That Cost Priscilla Presley Her Famous Face
For years, people looked at Priscilla Presley and whispered the same cruel thing—another star who couldn’t leave her face alone. ...
The Wedding Of The Biggest Star On Earth Lasted About Eight Minutes.
On May 1, 1967, Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in a small suite at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. ...
The Day Elvis Presley Lost His Mother
Elvis Presley was the most famous young man in America. And on a summer night in Memphis, he sat on ...
Elvis Once Released an Album With No Music On It
In 1974, an Elvis Presley album appeared in shops with a very strange warning printed on the cover: “A Talking ...