Elvis Presley

From Pink Suits to Rhinestone Jumpsuits: How Elvis Presley Changed Men’s Stage Fashion

Jenna Guillaume

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

Jenna Guillaume

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 

Alyssa Lapid

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

Alyssa Lapid

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.

Alyssa Lapid

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

Alyssa Lapid

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

Alyssa Lapid

In 1974, an Elvis Presley album appeared in shops with a very strange warning printed on the cover: “A Talking ...

The Shopkeeper Who Dressed a Broke Elvis Presley on Credit — And Chose the Suit He Was Buried In

Alyssa Lapid

In the early 1950s, a man named Bernard Lansky kept noticing the same skinny teenager outside his shop window on ...

Elvis Presley’s Bandmates Quit On Him At The Peak Of His Career

Alyssa Lapid

In July 1954, three men crowded into a tiny Memphis studio and accidentally invented rock and roll. One was a ...

The Day Elvis Sold Out In New York!

Alyssa Lapid

By 1972, Elvis Presley had been famous for sixteen years. He had made 31 films, sold hundreds of millions of ...