Rock 'n' Roll
Ed Sullivan Rejected Elvis Then Paid $50,000 to Get Him
In 1956, Ed Sullivan initially wanted nothing to do with Elvis Presley. Elvis’s hip movements during “Hound Dog” on The ...
Elvis Presley Once Bought a Cadillac for a Complete Stranger
Elvis Presley loved expensive cars, but sometimes he seemed to enjoy giving them away even more than owning them. Graceland ...
Inside Elvis Presley and Linda Thompson’s Four-Year Love Story
Elvis Presley met Linda Thompson on July 6, 1972, at a late-night movie screening at Memphis’ Memphian Theater. Linda was ...
At 81, Priscilla Presley Opens Up About Her Grievances
She has spent almost seventy years being looked at. She met Elvis Presley when she was 14 years old, married ...
One Line In A Newspaper Turned Elvis Presley Into A Star
In the fall of 1955, a Florida musician named Tommy Durden read a newspaper story he could not shake. A ...
The Main Man Behind Elvis Presley
The man who controlled the biggest career in music history did not come from Hollywood or Nashville. He came from ...
Elvis Presley & Karate
In the 1950s and 1960s, many famous people were handed black belts they never earned. Elvis Presley was not one ...
Two Legends, One Song
In the mid-1950s, two young men were signed to the same tiny record label in Memphis. One would become the ...
22-Year-Old Elvis Presley’s Most Honest Interview
Picture a cold, echoing sports locker room underneath a football stadium. Concrete floors. Wooden benches. Reporters crowded shoulder to shoulder, ...
The Most Underrated Performance of Elvis From The ’68 Comeback
When people talk about Elvis Presley’s 1968 Comeback Special, they nearly always talk about the same two things: the black ...