Rock 'n' Roll
Elvis Presley Took a Polio Shot Before Ed Sullivan to Influence America’s Teens
On October 28, 1956, Elvis Presley was preparing for his second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show when something unusual ...
Elvis Presley Was Born 35 Minutes After His Twin Brother Died
Elvis Presley’s life began with a tragedy that happened only minutes before his own birth. On January 8, 1935, Gladys ...
Why Elvis Presley Never Met The Bee Gees Even When They Came To Meet Him
Elvis Presley loved a Bee Gees song enough to sing it night after night in Las Vegas. It was called ...
The Song Elvis Recorded About a Grieving Father — And What It Really Meant to Him
Every year around Father’s Day, people go looking for a song that says the thing they cannot quite say out ...
Did Elvis Have Work Done on His Face?
Every so often, the internet rediscovers the same question. Somebody lines up a photograph of a teenage Elvis Presley next ...
The Story Behind Elvis Presley’s $65,000 American Eagle Suit
Elvis Presley wore dozens of elaborate jumpsuits during the 1970s, but one became more famous than almost all the others. ...
The Night Elvis Presley Was Watched by Nearly One Billion People
On January 14, 1973, Elvis Presley stepped onto a stage in Honolulu for a concert unlike anything he had attempted ...
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 ...
Elvis Presley Opens The Gate Of Graceland After Serving In The Army
On the morning of 7 March 1960, a train pulled into Union Station in Memphis in the middle of a ...