Elvis Presley
The Night Elvis Stopped His Own Concert Because of Who Was Watching
By 1974, Elvis Presley was 39 years old, and something had shifted. He was still selling out arenas, still the ...
Elvis Never Set Foot in Japan. Fifty Years Later, They Still Dance for Him Every Sunday.
Elvis Presley played over 1,600 concerts in his lifetime. Every single one of them was in North America. He never ...
The Last Song Elvis Ever Recorded
On 29 October 1976, Elvis Presley recorded a song in his own living room. It was called “Way Down.” It ...
“I Always Wanted a Little Brother. Now I Have Three.” — The Day Three Boys Moved Into Graceland
In the spring of 1960, a black Lincoln Continental pulled up outside a boarding school in Virginia to collect three ...
A 20-Year-Old DJ Recorded Elvis in a Locker Room in 1957 — And It Became One of the Best Tapes We Have
On 31 August 1957, in the changing rooms underneath a football stadium in Vancouver, a 22-year-old Elvis Presley sat down ...
The Most Hostile Interviews of Elvis’s Career — And His Unshakable Response
In 1956, a large part of the United States decided that a 21-year-old truck driver from Memphis was a danger ...
The Biggest Night of Elvis’s Career Ended With Him Splitting His Trousers in Front of 62,000 People
On New Year’s Eve 1975, Elvis Presley walked onto a stage in Pontiac, Michigan, and played to the largest crowd ...
Elvis Hated One Nickname His Whole Life — And Told Reporters Exactly What He Thought of It
Everybody has heard it. It’s in books, documentaries, and newspaper headlines to this day: “Elvis the Pelvis.” It’s the phrase ...
“Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow” — The Haircut 55 Reporters Turned Up to Watch
In 1958, the most famous man in America sat down in a barber’s chair on an army base — and ...
Six Weeks Before He Passed, Elvis Sat Down at a Piano and Gave the Performance of His Life
By June 1977, Elvis Presley was in a terrible state. He was 42 years old, and his body was failing ...