Elvis Presley

In 1969, Elvis Walked Back Onstage and the Whole World Remembered Why
For most of the 1960s, Elvis was more of a movie star than a performer. The films kept coming, the ...

The Midnight Race Between Elvis and Steve McQueen Makes a Great Story. Did It Happen?
It’s a great scene. Warm night up in the Hollywood Hills, the city quiet down below, two of the most ...

Gladys Presley Had Everything Money Could Buy and Missed the Days She Had Nothing
Gladys Presley was the mother of the most famous entertainer alive, and by a few accounts she was happier before ...

At Ten Years Old, Elvis Stood on a Chair to Reach the Microphone
Way before any of the fame, there was a ten-year-old in Tupelo who had to stand on a chair just ...

Gladys Presley Only Knew Her Son as a Star for Two Years
It’s easy to picture Gladys Presley watching her boy’s whole career from a chair at Graceland. The real story is ...

Elvis Was Not Supposed to Be Buried at Graceland. One Shocking Plot Changed That
People walk through the Meditation Garden at Graceland every single day to stand at Elvis’s grave, and it feels like ...

The Songwriter Behind “In the Ghetto” Never Got Over the First Time He Saw Elvis
Mac Davis knew talent from the inside out. He was a hit songwriter himself, and he handed Elvis some of ...

A Musician Who Shared Elvis’s Stage in 1972 Saw Something the Fans Could Only Feel
The crowd felt the pull of an Elvis show from out in the seats. The musicians standing a few feet ...

Every January 8, We Remember the Boy From Tupelo Before He Was the King
Before any of the crowns and comebacks, a baby was born in a little two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi, on ...

The Elvis Stories That Never Made the News Were the Ones That Mattered Most
Most of what Elvis gave away never made the papers. He just did it, quietly, for people who couldn’t pay ...