Updated: 07/01/05 19:09 +0200 GMT

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Elvis Radio Celebrates 1st Anniversary.

The first anniversary of the world's first all-Elvis music radio channel
will be celebrated at its Graceland studio in Memphis, Tennessee on
Saturday, July 2. Memphis Mayor Dr. Willie W. Herenton and Shelby County, TN
Mayor A.C. Wharton, Jr. have declared Saturday, July 2 as "Elvis Radio Day"
in the City of Memphis and Shelby County.

SIRIUS, the content leader in satellite radio, launched Elvis Radio, the
first officially sanctioned radio station devoted exclusively to the songs
of Elvis Presley, on July 2, 2004. Created in conjunction with Elvis Presley
Enterprises, Elvis Radio is broadcast live from its studio at Graceland in
Memphis. The commercial-free Elvis Radio channel is exclusive to SIRIUS, and
covers the entire spectrum of Elvis' amazing career - his extensive catalog
of hit singles, rare recordings, classic b-sides, legendary songs from the
Sun Records years, movie soundtracks and concerts.

The July 2 celebration will start at 12 pm CT outside the studio in
Graceland Plaza, with EPE CEO Jack Soden announcing the official
proclamation of "Elvis Radio Day," followed by a champagne toast, birthday
cake and free, limited-edition t-shirts for all celebrants (while supplies
last).

Special broadcasts and guests on Elvis Radio will also mark the anniversary,
including Soden; musicians who worked with Elvis such as James Burton, Boots
Randolph and DJ Fontana; Elvis co-stars Cynthia Pepper (Kissin' Cousins),
Suzanna Leigh (Paradise Hawaiian Style) and Charlie Hodge; Elvis music
archivist and biographer Ernst Jorgensen (Last Train to Memphis); producer/
songwriter/ musician "Cowboy" Jack Clement, Sun Records' Shelby Singleton
and others.

All "Elvis Radio Day in Memphis" activities will be broadcast live on SIRIUS
Satellite Radio channel 13, Elvis Radio.

2005/06/30  EPE /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Elvis on UK TV.

A new BBC2 series The Worlds Most Photographed begins on Wednesday 6 July
with Elvis being the first subject.

2005/06/30  Joshua  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

MARIO SINGS ELVIS.

Saturday 16th July 2005, Mario, who recently took the lead as Elvis in
"Jailhouse Rock" in the West End, will be performing as THE KING

Performance time 8pm-10.15pm

ON THE BACKLAWN OF HYLANDS HOUSE,
HYLANDS PARK CHELMSFORD ESSEX CM2 8WQ

TICKETS WILL BE: £16.00 (£12 CONSC. & £8.00 FOR STUDENTS AND UB40
CARD HOLDERS.

TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED FROM THE BOX OFFICE AT 01245 606505

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT HYLANDS HOUSE AT
01245 496800

2005/06/30  www.elvis-express.com  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

The Year The Music Changed.

Watching Elvis perform in Atlanta in 1956 inspired Diane Coulter Thomas to
write a novel called "The Year The Music Changed". It's a coming-of-age
story set in 1955 and told as a year-long correspondence between Elvis and a
14-year-old girl.

The book will be published September 1, 2005 by The Toby Press. Publisher's
Weekly calls it "a warm, lively and immensely readable novel that will
especially touch fans of "the King."

2005/06/29  www.elvis.com.au  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Paul Casey's American Trilogy Show.


Paul Casey's American Trilogy Show returns to the Cannery Hotel and Casino,
2121 E. Craig Road, Las Vegas, Nevada for TWO NIGHTS-August 12 & 13, 2005.
For further info please contact the Cannery Hotel and Casino at
702-507-5700.

Paul Casey is the Official ELVIS of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors
Authority. His show is a multimedia Broadway musical with special guests of
Elvis. Don't you dare miss it!

2005/06/29  www.elvisunlimited.com  /  Ep.Gold.Com

Across The Country Vol. 1


The quality label Audionics will soon release a remarkable new live CD
titled "Across The Country Vol. 1". This disc have a different concept
compared to the three previous ones which consisted of complete concerts.
"Across The Country Vol. 1" contain parts of four different soundboards.
This release contain a 12 page full color booklet with informative liner
notes and many rare photos taken during July, August and September 1976
tours as well as some previously unpublished Dayton 06.10.1974 shots.
Hartford, CT, July 28, 1976, Jackson, MS, September 5, 1976 and Pine Bluff,
AR, September 8, 1976 - all previously unreleased. First generation copies
of original soundboard tapes were used in all cases. Unfortunately, none of
these concerts were recorded in their entirety by the sound engineer, but
only parts. The tracks from the October 6th, 1974 evening show in Dayton, OH
are a "bonus" and are taken from a significantly better sounding source
compared to the previous release of this material 5 years ago.

Amongst the CD highlights are fine renditions of "If You Love Me (Let Me
Know)", "Love Letters", "Hurt" (with a powerful reprise ending), a very
funny "Happy Birthday" sung to Jackie Kahane's daughter, a dynamite "Mystery
Train / Tiger Man", an unusual "Blue Christmas" that's coupled with an
instrumental version of "Jingle Bells" (!), a truly stunning version of "How
Great Thou Art", a pounding version of "Big Boss Man" and a rare 1978
interview with Jackie Kahane. "Across The Country Vol. 1" is set for July
2005 release.
Tracklist:

Hartford, Connecticut, 28.07.1976 (8:30 P.M.)
(Approx. running time: 47:33)
01. Also Sprach Zarathustra / 02. C. C. Rider / 03. I Got A Woman / Amen
(medley) / 04. Love Me / 05. If You Love Me (Let Me Know) / 06. You Gave Me
A Mountain / 07. Band Introductions / 08. Early Mornin' Rain / 09.
Chickin'Pickin' / What'd I Say (medley) / 10. Johnny B. Goode / 11. Drums
Solo (by Ronnie Tutt) / 12. Bass Solo #1 (Blues - by Jerry Scheff) / 13.
Bass Solo #2 (Battle Of New Orleans - by Jerry Scheff) / 14. Piano Solo (by
Tony Brown) / 15. Electric Piano Solo (by David Briggs) / 16. Love Letters /
17. School Day (Hail Hail Rock'n'Roll) / 18. Happy Birthday (to "Kitten"
Kahane, daughter of comedian Jackie Kahane) / 19. Hurt (with last part
reprise) / 20. Hound Dog / 21. Can't Help Falling In Love / 22. Closing Vamp
/ Announcements. 23. Jackie Kahane speaks out in Jim Neighbors TV show, 1978
(03:00)

Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 08.09.1976 (8:30 P.M.)
(Approx. running time: 06:15)
24. My Heavenly Father Watches Over Me (sung by Kathy Westmoreland) / 25.
Mystery Train / Tiger Man (medley).

Jackson, Mississippi, 05.09.1976 (8:30 P.M.)
(Approx. running time: 07:17)
26. Blue Christmas (Elvis on acoustic guitar) / 27. Jingle Bells
(instrumental, by the band) 28. How Great Thou Art / 29. Monologue / 30.
Can't Help Falling In Love (incomplete).

Highlights from Dayton, Ohio, 06.10.1974 (8:30 P.M.)
(Approx. running time: 14:07)
31. Big Boss Man / 32. The Wonder Of You / 33. Lawdy Miss Clawdy / 34.
That's All Right, Mama (with false start, Elvis on acoustic guitar) / 35.
Hawaiian Wedding Song (with last part reprise) / 36. Johnny B. Goode
Total CD running time: 77:53

2005/06/28  E-Mail  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Special Programming - Elvis Radio 1st Anniversary.

All times listed are CENTRAL.

Friday, July 01, 2005

1:00 PM
Guest DJ: Charlie Hodge
Charlie was a close friend of Elvis who appeared with Elvis on stage and
screen. They served in the Army together.

2:00 PM
The George Klein Show
Memphis media and Sirius air personality George Klien was a close friend of
Elvis. They attended high school together. George appeared in 8 Elvis
movies.

6:00 PM
Guest DJ: James Burton
Lead guitarist in Elvis's TCB Band 1969-1977, James also has played with
Rick Nelson, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and many other
legends.

7:00 PM
Best of Elvis Radio Vaults
Elvis Radio dee-jays Doc Walker and Rick Tarrant will take listeners through
alternate takes of Elvis's Sun sessions.

9:00 PM
Best of Elvis Live in Concert, 1956-1961
Vegas, Tupelo, Little Rock, and the USS Arizona benefit in Hawaii.

10:00 PM
Best of Elvis Live In Concert, 1956-1961
Vegas, Tupelo, Little Rock, and the USS Arizona benefit in Hawaii.

Saturday, July 02, 2005

12:00 PM
Elvis Radio 1st Anniversary Proclamation Ceremony/Press Conference
At the Elvis Radio booth in Graceland Plaza across the street from Graceland
Mansion. Join Elvis Radio personalities and special guests for the
celebration.

1:00 PM
Guest DJ: Boots Randolph
Boots played sax on eight of Elvis's movie soundtracks, was the first to
play sax with Elvis on recording sessions. Also played with Buddy Holly,
Floyd Cramer, Alabama, Chet Atkins and many other greats.

5:00 PM
Guest DJ: DJ Fontana
D.J. was Elvis's original drummer of 14 years. Has played drums on more #1
songs than any drummer in history.

6:00 PM
Bill Rock Show

9:00 PM
Soundtrack Saturday Night
Bill Rock visits with Cynthia Pepper, one of Elvis's co-stars in the movie
Kissin' Cousins.

11:00 PM
Best of Elvis Live in Concert
Elvis Live at the International Hotel, Las Vegas - 1969.

12:00 AM
Best of Elvis Live in Concert
On Stage, February 1970 - International Hotel, Las Vegas.

Sunday, July 03, 2005

6:00 PM
Best of Elvis Radio Vaults
Elvis Radio dee-jays Doc Walker and Rick Tarrant will take listeners through
alternate takes of Elvis's Sun sessions.

8:00 PM
The George Klein Elvis Hour

9:00 PM
Best of Elvis Live in Concert
Dixieland Rocks - 1975 Concert "soundboard" recording.

10:00 PM
Best of Elvis Live in Concert
Spring Tour 1977

Monday, July 04, 2005

12:00 PM
Guest DJ: Dixie Locke Emmons
Dixie was Elvis's steady girlfriend 1954-1955 during Elvis's rise from
obscurity to stardom.

1:00 PM
Elvis Loves Dixie - Love Songs
Dixie shares her memories of meeting Elvis, dating Elvis, loving Elvis.

2:00 PM
Guest DJ: Charlie Hodge [encore]

3:00 PM
Guest DJ: James Burton [encore]

4:00 PM
Guest DJ: Boots Randolph [encore]

5:00 PM
Guest DJ: DJ Fontana [encore]

6:00 PM
Best of Elvis Album Spotlight
Guest is Ersnt Jorgensen, author of the book Elvis Presley: A Life in
Music--The Complete Recording Sessions, and RCA's principal Elvis researcher
and CD compilation producer.

7:00 PM
Guest is Ernst Jorgenson.

8:00 PM
Best of Elvis Live in Concert
Live in Vegas box set.

9:00 PM
Best of Elvis Live in Concert
Live in Vegas box set.

10:00 PM
Best of Elvis Live in Concert
Live in Vegas box set.

11:00 PM
Best of Elvis Live in Concert
Live in Vegas box set.

2005/066/28  EPE  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Elvis Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio Celebrates 1st Anniversary.

"ELVIS RADIO DAY" IS DECLARED IN MEMPHIS AS SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO
CELEBRATES THE
FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF ELVIS RADIO.

World's first all-Elvis radio channel is celebrated on-air and at
Graceland

Public festivities at noon on Saturday, July 2 include official "Elvis
Radio Day" proclamation, birthday cake and giveaways

NEW YORK and MEMPHIS - June 29, 2005 - The first anniversary of the world's
first all-Elvis music radio channel will be celebrated at its Graceland
studio in Memphis, Tennessee on Saturday, July 2.

Memphis Mayor Dr. Willie W. Herenton and Shelby County, TN Mayor A.C.
Wharton, Jr. have declared Saturday, July 2 as "Elvis Radio Day" in the City
of Memphis and Shelby County.

SIRIUS, the content leader in satellite radio, launched Elvis Radio, the
first officially sanctioned radio station devoted exclusively to the songs
of Elvis Presley, on July 2, 2004. Created in conjunction with Elvis Presley
Enterprises, Elvis Radio is broadcast live from its studio at Graceland in
Memphis. The commercial-free Elvis Radio channel is exclusive to SIRIUS, and
covers the entire spectrum of Elvis' amazing career - his extensive catalog
of hit singles, rare recordings, classic b-sides, legendary songs from the
Sun Records years, movie soundtracks and concerts.

The July 2 celebration will start at 12 pm CT outside the studio in
Graceland Plaza, with EPE CEO Jack Soden announcing the official
proclamation of "Elvis Radio Day," followed by a champagne toast, birthday
cake and free, limited-edition t-shirts for all celebrants (while supplies
last).

Special broadcasts and guests on Elvis Radio will also mark the anniversary,
including Soden; musicians who worked with Elvis such as James Burton, Boots
Randolph and DJ Fontana; Elvis co-stars Cynthia Pepper (Kissin' Cousins),
Suzanna Leigh (Paradise Hawaiian Style) and Charlie Hodge; Elvis music
archivist and biographer Ernst Jorgensen (Last Train to Memphis); producer/
songwriter/ musician "Cowboy" Jack Clement, Sun Records' Shelby Singleton
and others.

All "Elvis Radio Day in Memphis" activities will be broadcast live on SIRIUS
Satellite Radio channel 13, Elvis Radio. For more about Elvis Radio and
SIRIUS, visit www.sirius.com.

2005/06/28  EPE  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Unknown Elvis Recording Or Not?

Could it be the King? Owners, experts debate voice on studio tapes But untilhe can 
answer the  question of whether or not the reel-to-reel tapes he
inherited from his uncle contain some of Elvis Presley's earliest
recordings, the world will simply have to wait to know the truth.

"It's a mystery," the Frisco-based Rodman Excavation employee acknowledged.

Lawrence acquired the tapes not long after a family reunion. During the
reunion, he asked a cousin, Sue Wallace, what happened to some of the relics
from Fernwood Studio, the recording studio her father, his uncle Ronald
"Slim" Wallace, operated in the 1950s and 60s. She replied they still had
the studio's name, papers and some boxes.

"I said, 'What's in those boxes?' She said, 'Tapes.' I said, 'Studio tapes?'
She said, 'Studio tapes,' " Lawrence recalled.

Wallace's answers piqued Lawrence's curiosity. After all, Memphis circa 1955
was a hotbed for a myriad of musical sounds, from jazz, to blues, to country
and western, to gospel and some quirky hybrids stemming from any one of
those styles.

After more conversation, Lawrence learned the tapes in the remaining boxes
had not yet been played. That statement made his mind reel even further. So
much that the Plano resident sought permission from his cousin and her
brother to purchase the tapes, with plans to take the tapes home with him to
Texas to see if he could hear their contents. The two agreed to sell them.

Upon arrival home, Lawrence visited Rosewood Studio in Tyler, the very
studio in which country music prodigy LeAnne Rimes recorded her debut hit,
"Blue." Lawrence thought very little of the mellow male voice that dripped
from the tapes through the speakers. When he turned to look at the young
engineer manning the studio, he stared in surprise. The young man recognized
the dulcet tones and began shaking.

"He was so excited, his hair was standing up on the back of his arms,"
Lawrence recalled. "I started to listen. Then I thought, 'Oh, my God. This
could be the king.' "

Rock and roll history makes Lawrence's conclusion even more of a
possibility. Elvis historians say the star, who was born in Tupelo, Miss.,
graduated from Memphis' Hume High School in 1953 and immediately began to
search for a place in the growing music industry. His style reflected the
many sounds he heard around him, from the pop and country music filling
charts across the nation, the gospel tunes he heard in church and the black
jazz and rhythm and blues he soaked in while walking Memphis' famous Beale
Street. Historians say his first known recordings, "My Happiness" and
"That's When Your Heart Breaks," were compiled in Memphis' Sun Records in
1954.

Lawrence's family history supports his conclusion as well. Fernwood Studio,
once located on Fernwood St. in Memphis, was turning out recording after
recording from 1954 to 1966. But more than that, Wallace recalls sitting in
the studio while Presley crooned his soft melodies into the microphone and
onto blank tape.

As teen-agers, Wallace and a young Elvis Presley were good friends.

"We would meet at an ice cream parlor, Ace Sundry, after school and listen
to the juke box and just mess around for a while before we went home. It was
just a hangout for us kids. He was just a part of the crowd," Wallace, who
now resides in Duluth, Georgia, said.

In their conversation one day, Presley, then a shy, polite, insecure
teen-ager, confessed to Wallace that he'd been singing all his life yet
could find nobody to listen to him. He doubted out loud that he would ever
make a name for himself in music.

Wallace immediately thought about her father. Still, she hesitated. Her
father preferred to record only country and western. And recently, one of
his finds, Thomas Wayne, had hit the charts with his tune, "Tragedy."

Despite her father's musical taste, Wallace decided she wanted to help her
friend. One afternoon, she brought a reluctant yet eager Presley home with her.

"Daddy was used to me bringing musicians home. So we set up a session. Dad
listened to Elvis and said, 'I'll tell you what, I'll see what I can do.' He
went inside and picked up the phone and called his friend Sam Phillips."

Wallace's father suggested to Phillips that he listen to Elvis. Phillips
called back a few days later and said he had time that evening for the young
singer. Presley could hardly wait for the sun to set in the humid Memphis sky.

"He was just thrilled to death," Wallace, who established her own record
label and launched Isaac Hayes' career, recalled.

Phillips was intrigued by the talent the young, dark-haired, sleepy-eyed
youth before him displayed. So intrigued was he that he took Elvis under his
wing.

Wallace heard the good news that night when the future rock and roll legend
called her to relay the details.

As Presley's music career picked up, Wallace saw less and less of him. But
when Presley came into town after traveling the road, still trying to make a
name for himself, he made time to visit Wallace and Fernwood Studios. He
even recorded a few licks at Fernwood. At times, his stays went on into the
wee hours of the morning, and Wallace's younger brother, Ronnie, would wake
to find Elvis sleeping soundly on the family couch.

"He would practice this one or that one, so that when the guys would come in
to play, he could practice with them. He was just in there messing around,"
she said.

The tapes he made stayed at Fernwood, even when Wallace's father adamantly
declared he would never use them.

"I was sitting there on the stool when he was singing those songs. He told
Dad, 'Mr. Wallace, I wish you would keep them. It's my way of saying thank
you. It I make it, you could do something with them,' " Wallace recalled.

Those tapes remained in a box placed on the top shelf in a leaky shed for
decades, never even coming out when Elvis Presley achieved legendary status,
achieving a career that included 33 films, countless concerts, television
specials, over one hundred billion record sales and recognition as the
singer who earned the most consecutive No. 1 hits in history.

According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Presley has the more
multi-platinum and gold records than any other artist, earning 25
multi-platinum and 97 gold ones. He also spent more time on Billboard's hot
100 than any other artist. His fan-base and influence on the music world
continued, even after his death on Aug. 16, 1977.

Despite Wallace's memories, Herbert Joe, board-certified forensic audio
examiner and managing partner of Yonovitz and Joe, has reason to doubt the
tracts on Lawrence's tapes are indeed the King of Rock and Roll.

Upon request from Fox 4 News, which produced a story on Lawrence's find,
Yonovitz and Joe conducted a free forensic analysis of the tapes. To test
the tapes they used known Elvis Presley songs to create a database of vocal
characteristics.

"From that, we compared the vocal characteristics of the songs we were
presented," Joe said. "Then we compared the two and made a forensic
determination that each of the six songs were not sung by Elvis."

Joe noted the frequency of some of the same words in both the known and
unknown songs were different. Pitch also varied.

"There were other things, but we were kind of confined to what we could work
with," Joe said. "Obviously, it would have been better if we had had the
same songs to compare."

Even RCA Records denied the recordings represented some of Presley's
earliest works.

"They listened to it, and they said they 'do not believe these are some of
the earliest recordings of Elvis Presley,'" Lawrence said, quoting the
letter he received from RCA, adding the renowned record label theorized the
voice could indeed belong to Thomas Wayne.

But still, both Lawrence and Wallace are convinced that the tracts they hear
on the tapes were recorded by Presley. Wallace believes her memories are
proof enough. And Lawrence, a musician in his own right, hears bits and
pieces of the style for which Presley was known, a style Presley would not
yet have developed at such a young age. Here and there in the five cuts on
the tapes, certain words and phrases belie their potential origin.

One song, in which the singer ponders the sentimental value behind a pressed
orchid, which, the singer performing the tune said reminds him "of the love
we shared in our high school days," features the word "days" played out long
and lonesome, just like Elvis. Some of the notes in the tunes are sung in
the softer, vibrato-heavy tones that made "Are You Lonesome Tonight" famous.
And a take of "Don't Be Cruel" has the singer singing, "Baby, it's just you
I'm thinking of," with the first word sounding more like a hiccup-ed
"buh-aaybee," much in the way that Presley himself would have sung it in his
heyday.

The presence of old relics also suggest to Lawrence that the King of Rock
and Roll indeed sang the cuts on the Fernwood Studio tapes he now owns. With
Slim Wallace's belongings is a one-of-a-kind old black and white photo of a
teen-age Elvis Presley holding a guitar and posing with a local DJ. The DJ,
Dewey Phillips, was one of Slim Wallace's acquaintances. Lawrence also
possesses some photographs of Presley shot outside of Fernwood. He also has
an album cover in which Presley, then about 17 years old, stands with his
band members.

Joe acknowledged that despite his forensic analysis, it's possible that the
recordings may indeed have originated from Presley. Comparing a singing
voice with a speaking voice is hardly a foolproof test. And as there are
very few guidelines that could help forensic scientists analyze a singing
voice available, Yonovitz and Joe had to use the guidelines in place for
speaking voices.

Still, Herbert believes it highly unlikely that the voice on the tapes he
heard is indeed a young King of Rock and Roll. Even if forensics can't prove
that theory without a doubt, history can. Herbert pointed out that "Don't be
Cruel" was recorded in 1956, after Elvis had already signed on with Sun
Records. In addition, the recordings he heard included heavy bass, which
were often deleted from early 1950s recordings, as very few personal
record-playing systems could pick up a bass's low tone. Herbert noted that
even though those facts did not factor into his final analysis, they must be
considered.

But if the voice on the recordings isn't the legendary Elvis Presley, then
who is it?

"If it's not him, then who the heck is it," Lawrence wonders. "That's the
mystery."

That is the very mystery that Lawrence hopes to solve. The search for the
truth has inspired many creative ideas. For example, Lawrence is reliving
the experience in some songs he's penning. And in the name of finding the
truth, he hopes to one day set up an Internet-based reality show, in which
he interviews source after source, all experts in music, history and
relating topics.

Lawrence believes his search for the identity of the voice in the recordings
is his destiny. After all, too many bizarre occurrences have cropped up
since Lawrence acquired the tapes. For example, he's amazed the tapes
survived, even though they were stored in unsealed boxes in a leaky shed.
Other, better protected tapes have withered in the same time frame.

"These were in a leaking shed in a topless box, and they're perfectly
preserved," Lawrence said. "The leader tape between the songs would break,
but they (the songs) play."

Lawrence believes the truth is out there somewhere. And he's going to find
it. Until then, those tapes, their origin and the identity of the man singing
them, will remain a mystery.

"We've got something, and it's huge," Lawrence said. "Bigger than huge. But
I don't know what the word would be."

2005/06/28  By: Corina Miller -  Star Community Newspapers  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

HOT NEWS Priscilla her first album is out now and she is trying to get to
you all.

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2005/06/28  Andylon Lensen  /  Ep.Gold.Com

"Why Elvis?" DVD released today.


Because he was The King, that's why. The title of this documentary poses a
vague question, and, unsurprisingly, offers equally vague answers; the Elvis
industry has become so extensive that if you're a fan, you probably know just about
everything that's here, and if you're just being initiated into the ways of Elvis, this
may not be the best place to start. The appropriate jumping-off point would be with
Presley himself; but this isn't an officially approved and licensed look at Elvis
Presley, and hence completely absent are his words and his music. But it is sort of a
video scrapbook of the state of the Elvis business circa 1991.

The director, David Leonard, also serves as our host-welcome to Memphis, the
center of the Elvis universe. Leonard gives us a brief history of the city,
the birth of the blues, and the establishment of the town as a tourist destination for
Presley fans; some of the most interesting aspects of this documentary are about
Memphis's radio station, the first of its kind in the U.S., to play music
exclusively by
blacks, and the formative influence this was on the young Presley. Some of
the usual suspects are here, those familiar from the Elvis story-these include
Sam Phillips, Presley's producer at Sun Records, and Scotty Moore and D.J.
Fontana, Elvis' first guitarist and drummer, respectively. There are a few
well-chosen words from Peter Guralnick, author of the best Presley biography yet published;
but getting much more screen time are those who worked for the King (Elvis'
barber, Elvis' cook, Elvis' nurse), or those whose claims are even more tenuous: the
Elvis impersonator whose Mom dated Elvis, for instance, or Tatiana Uretzkayava,
proclaimed as the biggest Elvis fan in Russia.

Forget about the prescription medications, and call the probate lawyer; part
of the discussion is about Elvis' poor estate planning. The film's final part is
devoted to self-described "Elvis people," those who make the annual pilgrimage to
Memphis each August to commemorate Presley's death; there's a quasi-religious aspect
to their devotion to Elvis, and there's the suggestion that Presley may become,
if not a religious icon, at least a figure of legend, like Johnny Appleseed.
There's some obligatory pooh-poohing of the frequent Weekly World News headlines that
Elvis is still alive; it's all taken very seriously, so the welcome breath of fresh
air is provided by Mojo Nixon and his goofy song, Elvis is Everywhere.

2005/06/28  Digitally Obsessed    /  Ep.Gold.Com.

New line of Elvis clothing.

The second clothing line of Elvis Presley Enterprises will be unveiled in
August with an upscale line and a U.S. department store line. The first
Elvis clothing line flopped when it premiered in February, but after making
changes suggested by retailers such as different pant-leg styles, the
clothing line will reemerge, Forbes.com reported.

The founder of Sasson Jeans, Paul Guez, the designer behind the old and new
Elvis line, has invested millions in Elvis Presley Clothing. However, while
the Elvis name continues to make money more than 25 years after the singer
died, there is still a question which Elvis the clothing line will follow.
While fashion follows the playboy Elvis in the movie Viva Las Vegas, much of
the Elvis fan base is the age and size of the jumpsuited Elvis who performed
in Las Vegas.

Carol Butler, director of worldwide licensing for EPE, admitted the new
fashion line with its subdued fashions and fitted clothing doesn't sit well
with the traditional fan base. The older audience doesn't like that, she
said. They want something boxy.

2005/06/28  Forbes.com  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

JAILHOUSE ROCK IS ELVIS' BEST.

Elvis Presley was a bigger star in life than he could ever be in Hollywood.
He was so good at being Elvis -- on stage and off -- that no fictional role could
measure up.

The King persona was better suited for home movies than big motion pictures,
and that's why his lesser concerts hold up better than the better films. In the
later films, it seemed that even Elvis knew he was betraying his music.

So he quit Hollywood after starring in 31 movies, and when you look back at
some of them, it was the right choice.

Jailhouse Rock is one of the exceptions. The King's third film was the best
showcase of his musical talents and, just as importantly, the best
camouflage of his acting weaknesses.

As Vince Everett, the moody young man who finds music while in jail, Elvis
mirrors the handsome portrait that hangs on history's walls. The raw charisma,
perfect hair and slender physique are all there. It's the Elvis everyone wants to
remember.

And an audience is there to hear the voice that never left, too. Whenever
possible, the script smartly manufactures a way to put Vince in front of
screaming fans. He even performs on TV while in the stir, and after that he's
everywhere.

Perhaps The King's movies never matched his music because he preferred the
instant feedback of a live audience instead of a director's counsel. As the
brief narrative interludes between numbers remind us, he wasn't much of a
technical actor.

But his brilliant musical performance in Jailhouse Rock, particularly on the
title number, is worthy of any Elvis concert compilation. Even when the audience
is composed of paid extras, he knows when to stop to acknowledge the response.

Watching the film today, the campy contrivances to get Elvis out of his
shirt or onto a stage are obvious. But while the story might be forgettable, Jailhouse
Rock is an important part of the interesting and unforgettable story that was Elvis
Presley's life.

2005/06/28   Lexington Herald-Leader  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Elvis on cover of Oprah magazine.

The June issue of Oprah magazine has a feature article about men and The
King is the cover photo.

2005/06/28   Amber Smith - www.elvisinfonet.com  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Definitive Cover Art The Complete Music Catalogue.

Definitive cover art of the upcoming book "The Complete Music Catalogue"
from Johnson Gorman Publishers.

2005/06/237  Various  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Lifeblood Donation Unit At Graceland In July.


Several times a year, Graceland is among the locations at which Lifeblood of
Memphis sets up its mobile blood donation unit. This happens in the visitor
center complex across the street from Graceland Mansion. Lifeblood's next
Graceland visits are:

Saturday, July 2 / Saturday, July 9 / Saturday, July 16
Saturday, July 23 / Saturday, July 30

Hours each day are 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Lifeblood will return to Graceland during Elvis Week in August.

Blood donation is a vital component of health care. We encourage you to drop
by the Lifeblood unit if you are visiting Graceland on these dates and/or to
donate blood via the services in your own community whenever you can.

2005/06/27  EPE - www.lifeblood.org  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

CELEBRATING THE KING


Fans dusting off their blue suede shoes for Elvis Week.

Hard to believe, isn't it, that an entire generation has grown up, graduated
college and started careers since Elvis Presley last sang live on planet Earth? And
I'm referring to the real Elvis, not the ersatz Elvises inhabiting Vegas and car
shows in Indy.

Yet in the 28 years since Aug. 16, 1977, there has been no let-up in the
number of fanatics, followers and curious who come to Graceland, Presley's Southern
Colonial mansion home set back from the highway in the midst of a fast
food/gas station strip like a tulip in a bed of weeds.

Graceland has become the biggest tourist attraction in Memphis and one of
the most popular in the United States since opening to the public in 1982. More
than 600,000 people walk through Graceland's halls annually, making this one of
the nation's most visited homes.

It is never busier than in mid-August, around the anniversary of Presley's
death. That time has become an unofficial holiday in the entertainer's honor and a
full week -- this year, from Aug. 8 to 16 -- is proclaimed Elvis Week. This, says
Todd Morgan, Graceland's director of media and creative development, is the time
when the diehards come in droves.

The week's highlight occurs Aug. 15, the eve of the anniversary of Presley's
death, when thousands walk from Graceland's circular driveway to the Presley
grave site in the Meditation Gardens behind the house, then back to the
front gate as part of a candlelight ceremony.

The tribute started spontaneously on Aug. 16, 1977, when Elvis died
suddenly. As soon as his fans heard the news, they dropped their day-to-day obligations
to come to Memphis and comfort one another as they stared in disbelief at the
grand pillared mansion. More fans came the next year. Before long, a tradition was
born.

Regardless of dates, few are bored with this paean to the King, a 14-room
mansion that rock's first superstar bought for $100,000 in 1957. Visitors
might be awed, grossed out, thrilled or shocked. But boredom is rare.

The general tour starts sedately enough as you enter the front hallway from
which you view the dining, living and music rooms. They seem as if they could fit
in any wealthy person's home. There's a 15-foot-long lush, white sofa and a black
Story
& Clark baby grand piano. The family portraits give away the identity of the
owner of this particular house; one of young Elvis and another of wife Priscilla
and 2-year-old daughter Lisa Marie are sentimental favorites.

Nothing seems particularly outrageous. Then the tour descends the
mirror-covered staircase. And that's when you encounter the offbeat.

Tiffany lamps and more than 350 yards of hot paisley fabric on the walls and
ceilings set the tone in the billiards room; Elvis wanted it to have a
turn-of-the-century feel. The blue and yellow television room boasts three
TV sets -- there are 11 more elsewhere in the house -- lined up side by side so
Elvis could watch three football games simultaneously.

The jungle room

Finally, you climb back upstairs and enter the den. Graceland guides say
Elvis furnished it on a whim. While driving past a Memphis furniture store, Elvis
stopped his car and within a half hour purchased every piece of furniture that
reminded him of Hawaii.

That included a sofa and chairs covered in faux fur, solid green carpeting
for the floor, walls and ceiling, an easy chair with carved wooden snakes as arms
and an artificial waterfall that often went berserk, flooding nearby rooms. The
room has become known as the jungle room, but Elvis never called it that. The media
did, and the name has stuck.

Tourists have called it everything from tacky to grotesque to simply,
unique. Some see it as a product of a poor boy from the Mississippi backwoods who loved
his parents and invited them to live in his plush new home, then filled it with
the evidence of the wealth he never dreamed he'd have. This included the
essential and the excessive.

Todd Morgan says all he sees in the den is a man with a sense of humor. It
doesn't bother him that a year after their visits, many tourists unable to
recall the living and dining rooms will vividly remember the jungle room. But Morgan
does get annoyed that some visitors come with prejudices and use the home to fit
their preconceived ideas.

"Some people want him to weigh 300 pounds and have two handfuls of pills,"
concedes Morgan.

It's this attitude that frustrates and angers him -- for the Elvis you meet
here is neither a saint nor a reckless Sybarite. He is a sensitive man with deep
interests in religion and philosophy and a keen sense of humor. His problems and the fact
that he had them is neither denied nor downplayed. They are put into perspective.

Outside Graceland

Graceland's outbuildings today have names such as the Hall of Gold and the
Trophy Room, and they have been turned into showcases for Elvis' kudos and
collectibles. Among them: Grammys, gold records, movie posters and stage
costumes including one with sequins that was the last he would ever wear.
Morgan says some visitors who pass it shake their heads and say Elvis was too fat
to have been able to fit inside it, supporting Morgan's premise that some don't want
to let go of their perceptions.

But you will also see evidence of the Presley wit of which Morgan speaks.
Resting in a case by his costumes is the singer's jewelry. Included are a Hebrew
chai and a Christian cross. Elvis wore both.

"Why miss Heaven on a technicality?" Elvis was known to ask with a smile.
But he seriously studied all faiths in looking for an answer to the purpose of
existence and a solution to his question, "Why me?"

For lighter diversions, Elvis had cars. From a dune buggy to a 1955 pink
Cadillac to a 1973 Stutz Blackhawk, Elvis drove them all.

All his vehicles are lovingly ensconced in the Elvis Presley Automobile
Museum, one of several supplemental attractions in a large plaza across the street
from the home.

The exit is through Meditation Gardens by the graves of Elvis, his parents,
his grandmother and his twin brother who died at birth. But the grave site is
just a minimal part of the Graceland trip and Morgan de-emphasizes it. Of the
entire experience Morgan says, "There's nothing cold or morbid or sad here.
Graceland is a celebration. Elvis inspired us to dream and live our dreams."

2005/06/27   By Michael Schuman - South Bend Tribune  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

FAME IN THE FRAME.

A new exhibition featuring portraits of stars - some in very unlikely poses
 illustrates a trust between celebrities and photographers that has long
since been destroyed by the rise of the paparazzi, says Sean O'Hagan

Veteran, Memphis-based musician Jim Dickinson likes to tell the story of the
time Johnny Cash showed him a short film of the young Elvis Presley relaxing in
Las Vegas: 'Elvis is wearing a gold suit and he has a Vegas showgirl under each
arm, a bottle of champagne in each hand, and a big cigar sticking out of his
mouth, drunk as a coot. Johnny said that Elvis offered him a small fortune for it,
he was so scared his mom would hear about it.'
According to Dickinson, Elvis the original rock'n'roll bad boy was also
Elvis the fearful mummy's boy. 'In the Sixties, it was a known fact in Memphis that if
you had a photograph of Elvis smoking a cigar, which he liked to do, he'd give you
$150 for it. Bam! Just to keep his mother from seeing it.'

Forty years later, I am looking at a series of images of Elvis at play
backstage at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Munich that would surely cause his mom,
Gladys, to turn in her grave. There are no cigars or champagne in evidence, but Elvis
looks bad to the bone canoodling with two jaded-looking strippers who are all over
him like a cheap suit.

His unforgiving biographer, Albert Goldman, would later describe the same
photographs thus: 'He allows himself to be taken with every ugly hussy in
torn net-stockings and sleazy sateen leotard. As the dancers and hookers of this
upholstered sewer entwine themselves about him, flashing manic grins, Elvis
offers himself up like a lifesize dummy.'

The photographs of Elvis and the strippers were taken in 1959 by Rudolph
Paulini, the Moulin Rouge's in-house snapper, who promised they would never be seen
outside the club. Unbelievably, that promise held for 20 years and, while
the original snapshots faded and curled beneath the glass of the Moulin Rouge
noticeboard, Elvis grew up and grew prematurely old, shedding his younger,
wilder image to become the first totally stage-managed pop star. Paulini's graphic
images, harsh and unforgiving in their delineation of excess and
dissoluteness, are perhaps the last, and certainly the rawest, purveyors of Elvis the
unreconstituted Southern wild boy, untrammelled and untamed.

But they are purveyors, too, of Elvis's innocence and trusting nature, and
of a long-gone time when the contract between snapper and star was often based on
trust as much as mutual benefit, a time when the now all-pervasive power of
the PR machine was still in its uncertain infancy. In this instance, Elvis
trusted Paulini to be true to his word and, in doing so, defied for a brief moment his
all-controlling manager, 'Colonel' Tom Parker, who, three years before, had instigated a
draconian policy of image-control, denying all but the most servile
photographers access to his suddenly world-famous charge.

'These snapshots of Presley in a sleazy club in southern Germany were a
million miles away from the colonel's artfully constructed image,' writes curator
Robin Muir in The World's Most Photographed, the catalogue of the National Portrait
Gallery's imminent show of the same name. 'It was perhaps a glimpse of an all-American
hero that Middle America was not yet ready for.'

Fifty years later, we live in a time when the snapshot rather than the posed
portrait is the defining image of celebrity. The process of absolute control
instigated by Parker in the Fifties, and insisted upon today by the phalanx of agents, PR
consultants and managers that surround every celebrity, has, paradoxically,
created a guerrilla industry specialising in the taking and disseminating of
snatched images, often captured on the run or from several hundred yards
away.

The hounding of celebrities is now an international pastime that sells
celebrity-based magazines in their millions, the issue of their privacy an
increasingly vexed one. These days, the earnings of the world's top
paparazzi easily exceed the fees paid to the world's most famous portrait
photographers. Indeed, with the recent deaths of both Richard Avedon and Herb Ritts,
portrait photography as we know it may be in decline.

'A photograph taken in a professional studio where the actor is posing
doesn't mean a thing to the public, because it's not real,' says celebrity
photographer Adriano Bartoloni, quoted in Peter Howe's suitably scurrilous new book,
Paparazzi

For Bartoloni, the constant flood of celebrity photographs into all areas of
the print media is like a kind of visual gossip. 'By showing photographs of these
people day by day, readers become familiar with them, almost as if they know them very
well, and they like to talk about them and share information about them.'

And, while the likes of Vanity Fair still collude in the illusion that
contemporary Hollywood stardom is an elect calling akin to old-style royalty, a rash of
newer, less reverential magazines such as Heat revels in presenting evidence to the
contrary, that celebrities are just as scrawny/overweight/badly dressed as you or me,
and just as prone to tantrums, tears and hangovers.

For all these reasons, many of the images included in the exhibition, The
World's Most Photographed, which will run in tandem with a 10-part BBC2 documentary
series, seem positively quaint. Here, for instance, is Gandhi at prayer
beside his symbolic spinning wheel, every inch the secular saint. Here is Garbo,
translucent and almost opaque in her shimmering beauty, and Monroe at her most
impossibly voluptuous and yet touched by what would turn out to be a terminal
fragility.

All seem redolent of an already distant era, not actually that long ago,
when photography not only reflected, but informed history, when a single image
could confer power and status and enshrine a public figure's reputation for
posterity.

Yet for every iconic image we now take for granted, there are numerous less
well-known ones that show the same subject in a more relaxed or uninhibited
moment, which, though less dramatic, is just as revealing. According to
Sandy Nairne, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, the purpose of the
show and the TV series is 'to bring overlooked photographic portraits to public
attention, and to demonstrate one way in which photography and modern history are now
inseparable'.

One of the most striking images in the book is the still provocative
portrait of Muhammad Ali, newly stripped of his world heavyweight crown because of his
refusal to be drafted to Vietnam, posing as Saint Sebastian. It was taken by
Carl Fischer for the cover of the September 1968 issue of American Esquire.
Fischer had recently seen and been struck by Castagno's Renaissance painting, The
Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, in which the saint's blood-stained torso is
pierced by arrows. When Ali arrived in the studio, technicians had already created
arrows tipped with fake blood and worked out how each one could be held in place by
invisible micro-filament wires.

'Back then, we tried to keep our ideas to ourselves right up until the
moment of the shoot,' says Fischer, who sensed that the boxer had become the ultimate
symbol of protest against the war, a martyr for a just cause. 'That way, the
subject had less time to think about the possible ramifications. Ali was different,
though. He had a mind of his own. He immediately said, "That's a Christian idea and I'm
a Muslim." Ali insisted on ringing the headquarters of the Black Muslims
before he agreed. I think they saw immediately that it would bring them more
publicity, so they gave it their blessing.'

Like many veteran photographers, Fischer talks passionately about the brief
golden age when access to your subject was a given, when, as he puts it:
'You didn't have an army of go-betweens trying to protect the star from a great
idea.' He insists that something has been lost in the interim and that, these days,
it is difficult, if not impossible, to imbue a portrait with real symbolic power
without recourse to post-production tools like Photoshop.

'I once got Lieutenant Calley, who was responsible for the Mai Lai massacre
in Vietnam, to pose in a room full of Oriental children. Talk about symbolism!
Could you imagine trying to make that kind of provocative statement now about the
war in Iraq? Politicians and entertainers and even sportsmen are so protected
now by minders, managers and by the mountain of contractual paperwork a magazine
has to sign before a shoot, it actually works against spontaneity and ideas.
Plus, today's magazine covers carry so much information that the image is swamped.
The age of the clean, hard-hitting photograph that stood alone is long gone'.

To prove his point, Fischer has redesigned the Ali cover on his website as
it might look in today's Esquire, which is overcrowded, fussy, diminished by the
sheer weight of words around it. 'Today,' he says, sounding genuinely bemused, 'we
are living in a time when celebrity has become such a powerful influence in our
lives, whether we want it or not. You tell me, what is the fascination with
photographs of celebrities looking ordinary, out walking the dog, eating, or running in the
park in a sloppy T-shirt? It's inane, but that's where we live right now.'

As you leaf though the pages of The World's Most Photographed, you sense how
different things once were, how complicit both subject and photographer were
in the shaping of certain careers, the establishing of certain myths. The young
and thrusting photojournalist, Dennis Stock, a member of the elite Magnum
agency, trailed the fledgling Hollywood star, James Dean, for two months in 1955 on
an assig nment for Life magazine. As Muir notes: 'Dean was acutely aware that
close friendships with photographers would be vital to his career... as important
as the directors of his three key movies.'

Stock caught Dean at his most intense and brooding, but also at his most
offbeat. At one point, the young star climbed into an empty, silk-lined casket in a
funeral parlour in his hometown of Fairmount , Indiana, but Stock considered the
images
too tasteless to submit to Life. Three months later, Dean was killed at the
wheel of his Porsche Spyder, the immediate aftermath captured in grimy detail by
Sanford Roth, a friend of Dean and former photographer, whose professional instincts
outweighed his ethical ones. Stock's surreal funeral-parlour portraits,
though, remained unseen for more than 30 years.

Trust and betrayal have been the intertwined subtexts of every celebrity
photoshoot since the pioneering war photographer Roger Fenton unsuccessfully
posed Queen Victoria and her family for the first royal photoshoot in the
gardens of Buckingham Palace on 22 May 1854. (She blinked, then turned away, but
later became the most photographed woman of her age.)

A century and a half later, Diana, Princess of Wales would die from injuries
sustained when the Mercedes she was travelling in crashed in a Paris
underpass, having been pursued by a trail of paparazzi. Revealingly, Diana, the most
photographed icon of recent times, does not feature in The World's Most
Photographed

'We have tried to find images that defined the person,' elaborates Muir,
'but also the images that, for one reason or another, slipped from view. Diana, like
the Beckhams or Madonna, rose to fame at a time when everything was seen, every
movement documented. You simply couldn't find enough previously unseen
images of Diana to justify her inclusion. For better or worse, she lived her
life in the camera's lens, and the camera loved her. In that way, she was like
Monroe.'

Perhaps the two most contrasting figures on display in The World's Most
Photographed are Monroe and Greta Garbo, one painfully ill at ease with the
revealing power of the lens, the other consummately at ease under the
camera's gaze. According to her biographer, Donald Spoto, Monroe sought refuge in the
faux intimacy of the photoshoot, and felt reassured by the presence of
photographers at the very moments when her personal life was unravelling.

Perhaps because of her collusion in the celebrity-making process, Monroe
remains enshrined in our imaginations as both a sensual and a sacrificial
icon, exuding what is still the most powerful aura of sexuality and star presence
ever bestowed by the camera.

Garbo, though, remains elusive and almost opaque. Her actual beauty, which
caused the first and most aristocratic celebrity photographer, Cecil Beaton,
to clutch the back of a chair to steady himself in her presence, seems even
more unreal and somehow out of reach with every shot. She sensed early on that
fame was a prison house, but failed to realise that, by refusing it, her aura grew.

Any contemporary celebrity driven to distraction by the unwanted attentions
of the paparazzi should familiarise themselves with the shocking image of the old
and bewigged Garbo, her beauty gone, her gaze that of a cornered animal, as she
defiantly confronts the intrusive lens of freelance photographer Ted Leyson,
her relentless tormentor throughout her old age. This is photography as a form
of stalking: obsessive, relentless and cruel to the point of pathological. A
week later, Garbo was dead, aged 84, her simple wish to be left alone not so much
ignored as defiled by this last, awful image of her.

'Muslims believe that a photograph takes away some part of their spirit,'
says Carl Fischer, 'and I have come to believe that they are right. I feel
uncomfortable looking at any photograph that has been snatched, where permission has not
been granted. It's intrusive and, ultimately, it diminishes the viewer as
well as the subject.'

It is difficult to look at Leyson's snatched last photograph of Garbo
without agreeing with Fischer's view that it diminishes not just her, but us. And
yet we gaze in appalled fascination, and seem unable, for the moment, to turn away. 'A
photograph is a secret about a secret,' said Diane Arbus, whose subjects
were freaks and outsiders, 'The more it tells you, the less you know.'

Perhaps that is why we keep looking, but, in our insatiable need to see
everything, we seem to have lost the power of discernment and good taste; simple things,
once taken for granted, and now surrendered without a second thought.

The World's Most Photographed exhibition is at the National Portrait
Gallery, London WC2 from 6 July-23 October. The BBC2 series starts on 6 July.
Paparazzi by Peter Howe is published by Artisan, £17.99

2005/06/26 The Observer  /  Guardian  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Lisa Presley gigs cancelled.

A number of Lisa's upcoming concerts have been cancelled.

June 28 (Concert) Lakewood Theatre, Dallas, TX
June 29 (Concert) House Of Blues, New Orleans, LA
July 2 (Concert, TV) Pepsi 400, Daytona, FL
July 6 (TV) 'Inside Out' VH1 Special
July 7 Canceled Roseland Theatre, Portland, OR
July 8 Canceled Emerald Queen Casino, Tacoma, WA
July 10 Canceled Commodore Ball Room, Vancouver, BC
July 12 Canceled The Whiskey, Calgary, AB
July 13 Canceled Reds Entertainment Complex, Edmonton, AB
July 15 Canceled Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis, MN
July 16 Canceled House Of Blues, Chicago, IL
July 19 Canceled Leach Amphitheatre, Oshkosh, WI
July 20 Canceled Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI
July 22 Canceled Madison Theatre, Covington, KY
July 23 Canceled Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI

2005/06/26  Lisa Presley's World  /  Ep.gold.Com.

Is another "independent" shop at Graceland Crossings to close?.

According to Sid Shaw from Elvisly Yours in England, another independent
store, "Loose Ends", may have lost its lease at Graceland Crossing with EPE
officials (or the "Blue Meanies" as Sid likes to call them) not renewing it.
Recently "Memories of Elvis" announced that EPE had elected not to renew its
lease at Graceland Crossings - see our Sale of EPE archives for more
information.

2005/06/26   Sid Shaw  /  www.elvisinfonet.com  /  Ep.Gol;d.Com.

McFarlane release Elvis #4 figure.

McFarlane Toys' fourth Elvis action figure features the King of Rock 'n Roll
in another timeless pose. Dressed in his famous gold lame outfit he wore
during a New York City appearance in 1956, Elvis is captured in amazing
true-to-life detail. Impeccably detailed, this collector's figure includes a
custom marquee base and microphone stand. Measures 6" tall.

2005/06/26  Sanja Meegin -  www.elvisinfonet.com  /  Ep.Gol;d.Com.

The Princes of Malibu.


heck out Linda Thompson's latest entertainment project. Sounds like a hoot
and it premieres July 10 in the US.

Synopsis: Reality TV show where 14 time Grammy Winner David Foster struggles
to kick out his two adult stepsons, Brandon Jenner (23) and Brody
Jenner(21), from his 22-acre mega mansion in the heart of Malibu.

But the two boys, with the support of their mother Linda Thompson, are hell
bent on staying in the palatial paradise.

2005/06/26   www.biwa.ne.jp  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Cover art new 2CD set from Black Box records.

"That's Alright Mama " Elvis Presley & Friends is a collection of 28
recordings which includes artists such as Bill Haley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Carl
Perkins, Roy Orbison, Chubby Checker, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Bobby Rydell,
Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley.

The Elvis recordings included are:
Disc One: That's Alright Mama (live) / Blue Suede Shoes (live) / Maybellene (live)
Baby Let's Play House (live) / Blue Moon of Kentucky (live) / Hound Dog (live)

Disc Two: Good Rockin' Tonight (live) / Heartbreak Hotel (live) / Long Tall Sally (live)
Hearts Of Stone (live) / Love Me Tender (live)

This collection is available from the ASDA superstores and is priced around
£4.00

21005/05/25  www.elvis-express.com  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERE WITH CIRCLE G.

Two billion dollars and Horn Lake. $2 billion dollars and Horn Lake.
$2,000,000,000 and Horn Lake.

No matter how I write it it's still hard to imagine those two things
together. It seems almost incongruous.

Just as a point of reference, $2 billion is more than the gross domestic
product of the Cayman Islands ($1.391 billion, 2004 estimated) and Samoa ($1 billion,
2002 estimated) and only slightly less than the Republic of Congo ($2.324
billion, 2004 estimated) and the Virgin Islands, $2.5 billion (2002 estimated).

Not that I don't hope for all the best to come to Horn Lake economically,
but is there really any right-thinking person who believes enough tourists are
going to flood Horn Lake, Miss., to justify spending as much on a resort as some
countries produce in goods and services?

And I don't think having Elvis Presley's name attached to it - now some 28
years since his death - is going to draw people to a still remote place in DeSoto
County where Elvis and Priscilla were married nearly 40 years ago. Heck, have you
seen the numbers at Graceland? They aren't exactly knocking the doors down to get
in there and that's suppose to be the Mecca.

But even if we put that aside, I can't believe Horn Lake aldermen this week
approved a resolution that would set aside certain sales taxes on the
property for up to 10 years so that the resort's developers, represented by J.D. Stacy,
could recoup up to 35 percent of their capital improvements.

At least one alderman, Ken Shackleford, raised some good points.
"I have a problem with giving up sales tax for a period of 10 years. I feel
it places undue stress on the city and incoming board," Shackleford said.

Ultimately, though, Shackleford, who has announced his intentions to resign
from the board at the end of his term, sided with two other aldermen and the
resolution passed 3-2. Counting Shackleford, four of the five current board members
leave office July 4. So why the hurry? The resolution was needed, Stacy said, so
that CGR could make an application to the Mississippi Development Authority to
seek the incentive and do so by the July 1 deadline.

City attorney Billy Campbell says the resolution can be rescinded once the
new board takes office July 5 if MDA hasn't approved the application.

Given the speediness with which the decision was made and the overwhelming
number of unanswered questions - including exactly how the economically-
strapped city could possible afford to support such a development -
rescinding Tuesday's resolution should be high on the new board's agenda.

The developers of resort, CGR International, don't even own the land they
propose to develop. I would think that actually owning land you propose to
develop would be key to getting a tax break.

Elected leaders are nothing if not charged with being good stewards of their
city's money and resources. Giving tax breaks to people and/or companies you don't
know, who have no solid plans and don't even own property they propose to
develop is a little foolish.

No wonder Horn Lake's current slate of elected leaders were shown the door.

2005/06/25   The DeSoto Times /  Ep.Gold.Com.

A DEAL UNFIT FOR THE KING.

Through the deal-crazed 1990s, entertainment mogul Robert F.X. Sillerman and
his investment bankers, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, made beautiful
music together--for themselves and their investors. Those days may now be gone.

Sillerman bought and sold five public companies, raising $5 billion of
capital and earning hundreds of millions of dollars for himself as well as hefty fees
for his bankers. His flurry of deal making climaxed in March 2000, when he sold SFX
Entertainment--an amalgamation of music and sports properties--to Clear
Channel Communications (nyse: CCU - news - people ) for $4.4 billion.

Sillerman brought the band back together this week but with far less
impressive results.

Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) and Lehman (nyse: LEH - news -
people ) underwrote a stock offering of Sillerman's latest venture, CKX
Entertainment (nyse: CKXE - news - people ). On Wednesday, CKX raised $200
million, selling 20 million shares at $11 a share--a steep 55% discount from
the company's original plan first announced in April to sell 13 million shares
at $24 to raise $300 million. CKX found some support after the offering, closing
yesterday at $13.78. On Friday, it shed another 88 cents to $12.90 in mid-day trading.

CKX, with the "CK" standing for "content is king," the "X" being Sillerman's
trademark, was formed in February after he acquired control of a public
shell company and spent $270 million buying two high-profile media properties: a
majority interest in the rights to the name, image and likeness of Elvis
Presley (see also: "Special report: Top-Earning Dead Celebrities" and "Elvis Presley");
and global ownership rights to the smash-hit TV show American Idol--both
trumpeted in the glossy offering prospectus to investors.

What is particularly striking about the offering is where the proceeds are
going. Bear Stearns had an incentive to get the deal done beyond satisfying its
important client Sillerman. Of the $200 million net proceeds raised, $150 million is
being used to repay Bear Stearns for loans it made to CKX. With $35 million being
used to satisfy a portion of the purchase price for the American Idol properties,
this leaves a paltry $15 million for CKX to do more entertainment acquisitions,
as Sillerman reportedly plans.

Indeed, in March, CKX authorized the issuance of up to 275 million shares
(it currently has 88.5 million shares outstanding). This gives them the ability
to go back to investors and raise more equity to buy more properties. And since
the current offering has wiped out the company's debt, it may also tap the fixed
income markets again.

Recognizing the conflicts inherent in an investment bank underwriting an
offering and receiving a substantial portion of the deal's proceeds, the National
Association of Securities Dealers requires that if an underwriter receives
more than 10% of a deal (in this case it's 75%), there must be a "qualified
independent" bank acting as co-underwriter. That role was awarded to Lehman, a firm with
a longtime relationship with Sillerman and his companies. Among other deals,
Lehman advised SFX in its sale to Clear Channel. Joining the syndicate was a
low-risk proposition for Lehman: Bear Stearns has indemnified them against
liabilities in connection with its underwriting role.

A spokesman for CKX declined to comment. Bear Stearns failed to return
several calls seeking comment.

"This offering appears to be nothing more than a sweetheart deal for Bear
Stearns," says Jacob Zamansky, a lawyer who represents individual investors.
"One hopes their brokers disclosed the various conflicts and financial data
rather than just hype the Elvis and American Idol assets."

Sillerman's advisers had further incentives in place. A Bear Stearns senior
managing director--unnamed in the prospectus--owns 500,000 shares of CKX. An
unnamed senior partner of Greenberg Traurig, the law firm advising on the
offering, also owns 375,000 shares.

On top of the unseemly conflicts, CKX's financials aren't pretty either.
Even at the $11 deal price the company's market capitalization is $920 million, over
three times what CKX paid just three months ago for the Elvis and American Idol
assets. Buyers of the deal put up 67% of the price paid by all purchasers of the
company, yet only own 23% of CKX stock post-offering. (Sillerman still owns 37% of
the company.) The company has a negative tangible book value and its pro forma
financials show it earned only $1 million in 2004.

Even the long-term viability of the assets is questionable: the ability to
monetize Elvis could dissipate over time and it's debatable whether American Idol has
really entered "the permanent fabric of our culture," as Sillerman reportedly said,
or is just another video fad. After all, whatever happened to Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire?

While Sillerman struggles to build his next media empire, Clear Channel has
coincidentally announced a spin-off of Sillerman's last rollup--SFX
Entertainment. In jettisoning Clear Channel Entertainment (formerly SFX), the radio
broadcaster is tacitly acknowledging that acquisition's failure. While the valuation to be
placed on the old SFX assets when they're spun off is unknown, Clear Channel has
already written down 75% of the acquisition's value.

With Wall Street valuations having come back to earth, impresarios like
Sillerman are finding it more difficult to raise money in the public markets. Witness
billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr., whose Warner Music Group (nyse: WMG - news - people )
public offering flopped last month. Or dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein, whose
IPO of investment bank Lazard Freres hit the market like a lead balloon in May.
Lazard and its underwriter Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) are now facing
a flurry of shareholder suits over the failed offering.

Investors, today, are far more discerning than they were five years ago,
says Seth Lipner, a securities lawyer at Deutsch & Lipner. "Back in the '90s no one
noticed or cared about the fine print in these offerings," he says. "Today, many
investors are taking a harder look at these lousy deals and deciding to stay away."

2005/05/25  www.forbes.com  / Ep.Gold.Cpm.

What happens when the celebrity has been dead for 25 years?


When Russell Simmons or Sean Combs makes public appearances, it's almost a
given that they'll be wearing their own fashion apparel lines, generating
free publicity for the brand and boosting sales as fans rush to wear what
they see their idols wearing. But what happens when the celebrity has been
dead for 25 years?

Ask Elvis Presley Enterprises. The for-profit business came out with its
first fashion line in February, the same month that the King's daughter Lisa
Marie Presley sold a majority interest in the company to CKX. The clothing
line flopped.

"Consumers and buyers have preconceived notions of what Elvis was," says
Carol Butler, director of worldwide licensing for EPE, "The vision we have
of him is he was hip, a leader. He changed style, music and dance. When we
shop that, it's a hard sell."

But EPE isn't giving up. It's incorporating the changes that retail buyers
suggested--such as different pant-leg styles and logo sizes--and plans to
relaunch the brand in August with an upscale line and a department store
line. Consumers won't find it in Wal-Mart.

The designer behind the original and new line is Paul Guez, the founder of
Sasson Jeans. When Guez came on board, he became a master licensee for EPE
and has invested millions in what he's named Elvis Presley Clothing, Butler
says.

There are currently 150 Elvis licensees, but EPE is moving away from the
smaller licensees to build consistency into the brand.

The licensing is where the big money lies. Last year, EPE pulled in $40
million in sales. In a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
filing, CKX said that for the quarter ended March 31, revenue for the
Presley business totaled $5.8 million, with $2.5 million coming from
royalties and licensing and the rest from the Graceland operations. Its
operating profit totaled $962,000, which included a $323,000 loss on the
Graceland operations. However, winter isn't the peak tourist season for
Elvis' former home.

Fashion is only one of a number of ventures to keep Elvis' name in the
spotlight. There's also a radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio, a film
festival, a Broadway musical, a television special that ran on Viacom's CBS
network last year and a new advertising campaign, "Elvis Lives."

The apparel line still has a long road ahead of it. It all depends on what
image of Elvis prevails. Will it be the overweight Vegas Elvis; the
hip-gyrating 1950s young Elvis; or the playboy in such movies as Spinout,
Blue Hawaii and Viva Las Vegas?

Butler admits that the new line with its subdued fashions and fitted
clothing doesn't sit well with the traditional fan base. "The older audience
doesn't like that. They want something boxy, something with his image on it,
so they can sleep with Elvis."

To help with that, EPE has brought in some interesting bedfellows: Jay Z,
and Russell and Kimora Lee Simmons. EPE recently signed e-Fashion Solutions
to run its e-tail operations. The company founded by former Calvin Klein
executives Edward Foy, Jr. and Jennifer Silano-Foy, also operates the Web
stores for the above-mentioned celebrities.

From shipping to design to customer service, they run all the brands' Web
stores out of their New Jersey warehouse, making it more cost-efficient for
brands to outsource instead of hiring in-house staff to run their online
operations.

But the bonus for EPE could be if they can cross promote with the hip-hop
brands and get some street cred for the King. Could Phat King Clothes be
next?

2005/05/24  www.forbes.com  / Ep.Gold.Com.

U.S. Billboard Elvis Chart listings for the week of July 2, 2005.

(sg - sales gainer, gg - greatest sales gainer, ne - new entry, re -
re-entry)

Top  Billboard 200 Albums     - Elvis By the Presleys - down 10 to #136
Top Comprehensive Albums - Elvis By the Presleys - down 18 to #150
Top Soundtrack Albums        - Elvis By the Presleys - remains at #7
Top Christian Albums            - Ultimate Gospel  - up 7 to #24  (sg)
Top Country Albums              - Ultimate Gospel  - remains at #59

Top Comprehensive Albums - Elvis By the Presleys -  reenters at #181 (sg)
Top Pop Catalog Albums       - Elvis 30 #1's        - up 8 to  #22 (sg)
Top Country Catalog Albums - Elvis 30 #1's         - up 1 to #3 (sg)
Top Music Video Sales    - Elvis by the Presleys   - down 7 to #12
Top Music Video Sales     - Aloha Deluxe Edition - up 2 to #38

Comprehensive Music Video Sales  - Elvis by the Presleys - down 7 to #12
Comprehensive Music Video Sales  - Aloha Deluxe Edition - up 2 to #38

New entries and Re-entries on the charts include:
Elvis 30 #1's drops off the Top Comprehensive Albums Chart

Dropping off the charts include:
none this week.

Notes of Interest include:
Looks like the Discover Channel's Greatest American and perhaps Father's
day pushed Elvis sales up this week as E1 and Ultimate Gospel were both sales
gainers.

2005/05/24  www.elvischarts.com  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

PHOTOS FROM THE HEART.

Sandi Pichon has informed  that her new book "Photos From The Heart" has
been postponed due to "creative differences" with her publisher Apex.

Sandi has indicated that she will either self-publish the book or try to
find another publisher.

But she does say that all who have already pre-ordered the book - "I will
have something by the end of the year. I actually think this is a good thing as
the price will be more reasonable and I will have more control".

2005/05/24  Ep.Gold.Com.

October FTD Release Summer Festival.

The regular quarterly FTD release for October 2005 is a Vegas concert
"soundboard" recording from August 1972, with bonus songs. It is tentatively
titled Summer Festival.

Also coming in October are two more releases in FTD's Classic Albums
program, which reissues Elvis albums that are no longer part of RCA Records'
mainstream Elvis catalog.

FTD is considering several different options, but it looks like these
reissues will be one movie soundtrack album and one studio album.
These reissues feature original album cover art and great bonus material not
part of the original release.

205/06/23  EPE  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Latest Celebrity Graceland Visitor Is Singer Steve Holy.


Country singer Steve Holy toured Graceland today.

2005/06/23  EPE  /  Ep.Gold.om.

20th Century Fox.Screen Classics.

Elvis' movies "Flaming Star" and "Love Me Tender" have been chosen as two of
the seventy films to be released - re-released on DVD to celebrate the
seventieth anniversary of 20th Century Fox.

The films are strictly from the '30s, '40s, '50s and '60s.
Release date August 2005.

2005/06/23  2nd to none  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Lisa Marie Presley's summer tour and two new singles "Thanx"  & "Idiot " .

Lisa Marie Presley plans to do a summer tour for her album, Now What, which
came out in April. The tour begins on June 28 in Dallas and includes a stop
at the Pepsi 400 in Daytona Beach, FL on July 2, where Presley will perform
the song "Thanx" for 150,000 NASCAR fans before the race.

NASCAR will be using "Thanx" in a national television advertising campaign
that kicks off in mid-July.

Meanwhile, Capitol Records will take two new Presley singles to radio in
July. "Thanx" will go for adds at the Hot AC format, and "Idiot," which
features Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, will impact Top 40.

2005/06/23  www.daytonainternational.com  /  Ep.Gold.Com.

Elvis invited Suzi Quatr