In ‘Went To See The Gypsy’ on New Morning, Dylan recalls how he went to see Elvis Presley in a hotel room. Did that meeting really take place? IIRC, in the ‘Careless Love‘ Elvis biography, Dylan and Lennon went to see Elvis play live in the 70s. Not a mention of Elvis meeting Dylan though. […] More
November 3 1958 – Elvis’s friend Lamar Fike said: One night some military genius decided to post Elvis on guard duty. That was completely fair, of course, but also seriously dumb. Because Elvis was huge in Europe and the fans must have had some kind of radar, because whenever Elvis was exposed where the public […] More
The King of Pop Michael Jackson, who begins his This is It concert run at the O2 arena in London apparently thinks he is bigger than the Beatles and Elvis. I am told that the alleged King of (kiddie) Poop will perform one song (I wasn’t told which one) that will compare his achievements with […] More
What are your medals for? It is all right to stand up, sir? These medals right here, ma’am, are for expert with a carbine rifle and also tank weapons. What? Tank weapon. That’s a ninety-millimeter gun. And this one right here, I didn’t do quite as well. It’s the pistol. I got a sharpshooter […] More
I got the call early on Aug. 16, 1977. My friend and guitarist Donnie Baer’s brother-in-law was a fireman who had monitored the first ambulance calls to Graceland, and he was reporting Elvis had died. I replied with one word, “bullshit.” There was nothing on radio or TV yet, and enough reason to disbelieve, at […] More
A suicide note was the unlikely inspiration behind the song that became Elvis Presley’s first No. 1 hit and million-selling single. Steel guitarist and session musician Tommy Durden read a newspaper article about a man who had killed himself, leaving behind a piece of paper with the haunting words: “I walk a lonely street.” […] More
by Jon Elliston and Stuart Gaines Around 10 p.m., the lights in the Asheville Civic Center arena darkened, and the somber strains of Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra” – the theme from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 – filled the air. The music was appropriately momentous, because the long-waited date of July 22, 1975, had arrived. A […] More
This year’s Wonders of America set climbed to second place in the most popular stamps, but Elvis is still the King, the Postal Service said Tuesday. About 124.1 million of the 1993 Elvis Presley stamps were saved by Americans, according to the post office, which does an annual survey of 10,000 households to determine which […] More
EIN has often said that Elvis has become an integral part of our socio-cultural fabric. His name, image or likeness appears regularly in our daily lives in our conversations, in movies, in newspapers and magazines, as part of television and radio commercials and on television. Many fans may not realise that Elvis has been the […] More
Elvis Presley spent three days at Fort Chaffee in March 1958 after he was inducted into the Army. It was there he received that famous haircut. Fred Kinslow of Greenwood was 24 and a barber at Fort Chaffee at the time. He was standing near the singer when the locks came off, but he was […] More