Elvis received rave reviews in three features in the New York Times. “He looked like a prince from another planet, narrow-eyed, with high Indian cheek bones and a smooth brown skin untouched by his 37 years,” Chris Chase wrote in the Times. “When Elvis started to work with the mike, his right hand flailing air, […] More
Elvis decides to play guitar on this closer and tells the audience he “only knows three cords”. A woman jokes to him “that’s about it.’ Elvis responds to her “That’s about it” and she laughs. Elvis proceeds to begin ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT as a male fan screams RECONSIDER BABY. We splice into the soundboard […] More
Japanese actresses visiting Elvis while filming movie KING CREOLE Hideko Takamine was a Japanese actress who began as a child actor and maintained her fame in a career that spanned half a century. She is particularly known for her collaborations with director Mikio Naruse.Elvis with Yumi Shirakawa (白川 由美), Hideko Takamine (高峰 秀子), Satoko Minami […] More
What made him stand out was less his clothes as him – because he was extremely attractive and he had this louche quality about him, which shows in how he wore the clothes. They seemed to be less fitted as draped on him, which reflected the way he moved More
A friend of mine who is a U.S. Navy chaplain shared this with me: “An Army chaplain here recently passed away (he was the dep chief of chaplains for the army back in the day). The guy who was assigned as his personal driver was none other than…Elvis Presley”. More
Elvis was in Tupelo becoming a Sheriff of Lee County, December 29, 1970. Here he’s pictured with Tupelo Sheriff Bill Mitchell doing the honours More
My parents saw Elvis here in Albuquerque, NM on April 19, 1972 at the Tingley Coliseum. He stayed at the Hilton’s presidential suite and my friend actually got to meet him there before the show! My mom was so nervous that she couldn’t put on her mascara when her and my dad were getting ready […] More
This is a genuine photo that was taken at the Shelby County Sheriff Department on October 10, 1970. A “mugshot” for a new police badge for Elvis’ police badge collection. (Elvis started collecting police badges in 1956. He received his very first police badge from Sergeant Fred Woodward of the Memphis PD. on September 29, […] More
This is Rosemary Barracco a classmate at Humes High. 1953 on a class picnic at Maywood Pool Elvis was 18 years old . More