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From left to right: Gregor Retkowski (Praytome Publishing), author Sandi
Pichon (Elvis On Tour '75)author Sue McCasland (Elvis live at Del Webb's
Sahara Tahoe), André Mester (Praytome Publishing),Charles Stone (former
tourmanager of Elvis Presley), Eva-Katharina Retkowski (Praytome Publishing)
During Elvis Week 2008 the latest Praytome Publishing release "Elvis live at
Del Webb's Sahara Tahoe - World's Best Kept Secret" by Sue McCasland &
Joseph A. Krein has been presented at the Elvis Expo.
Since August 13, 2008 the book is available worldwide.
Orders are accepted and you can get a copy of the book at your local Elvis
dealer or at your favourite book store (ISBN 978-3-00-024816-0).
If you are a Non-U.S. resident please
click here to order the book online
If you are a U.S. citizen or want to order a signed copy from author Sue
McCasland write a mail to
rosmc@aol.com
(The book will be shipped from the U.S.)
Lamar gives a brief summary of An Uncommon Journey, the forthcoming book by
him and Mark Bego about his life with Elvis Presley.
Lamar Fike
Lamar Fike is considered one of the foremost authorities on the life and
times of his late friend Elvis Presley. He is the co-author of critically
acclaim Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations From The Memphis Mafia (1995) with
Marty Lacker, Billy Smith and Alanna Nash.
Lamar is a highly experienced national and international media personally.
He has appeared on such shows as Larry King Live, Dateline NBC, and The
Today Show. Lamar Fike lives in Dallas, TX.
Inside Love Me Tender completely SOLD OUT within the first few days in
Memphis! And we only have you loyal fans to thank. Those of you who then
placed orders with us during Elvis Week in Memphis, Your orders have been
shipped.
The Overwhelming response to this publication was unreal! We wish we had more on hand to satisfy you loyal members.
But the respsonse was so overwhelming.
And the response to the very well written book, and unreleased footage on
the DVD has been outstanding.
Thank YOU all for making Inside Love Me Tender yet another success!
Order Now: Inside Love Me Tender
The fourth edition of the ‘James Burton International Guitar Festival’ just
ended. The successful edition gathered more than 15 artists to demonstrate
their best guitar solo. The concert was opened by Dale Hawkins.
J A 15-year old James played the guitar on the hit record ‘Suzie Q’.
Headliner was Emmylou Harris. The host, actor John Goodman, said that 'this
concert is so hot, it could make the swamp boil.’ James, who celebrated his
69th birthday last week during the festival, is busier than ever.
During Elvis week, he performed in Memphis, from there he came over to our
TCB House Party in the castle of Alden Biesen. Last week was filled with the
last preparations for his festival and next weekend, the Elvis cruise will
sail out.
A few weeks later he will be back in Belgium for the rehearsals of the
European tour that will keep him busy during the major part of October. Few
people of his age who can follow him…
The next Madison label release will be "Red-Hot In Richmond - Standing Room
Only Tapes, Vol. 2."
This fiery performance, captured in Richmond, Virginia by a battery of MGM
documentary cameras on Monday, April 10, 1972, has been issued once before
-- but this time it's far more complete, and in great sound quality. For the
very first time, hear the show mixed down from MGM's multi-track tapes into
superb stereo according to the press-release:
From the press-release:
Snippets of this evening made the final cut of MGM's "Elvis On Tour,"
although with hindsight, it seems this was a major mistake. Ripping tracks
like "Proud Mary," "It's Over," "Hound Dog," "For The Good Times" "Polk
Salad Annie" and "An American Trilogy" were top shelf. And Elvis was in very,
very good humour the entire night -- oh, yes, you're in for a real treat.
Tracklisting :
01. Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra 1:17
02. C.C. Rider 2:59
03. Proud Mary 2:43
04. Never Been To Spain 3:36
05. You Gave Me A Mountain 3:13
06. Until It's Time For You To Go 2:31
07. Polk Salad Annie 3:14
08. Love Me 1:37
09. All Shook Up 0:58
10. Teddy Bear / Don't Be Cruel 1:49
11. Heartbreak Hotel 2:04
12. Hound Dog 1:21
13. Bridge Over Troubled Water 4:11
14. Love Me Tender 1:43
15. It's Over 2:15
16. Suspicious Minds 4:52
17. Introduction of Vocalists, Musicians, Orchestra 1:50
18. For The Good Times 3:07
19. I Can't Stop Loving You 2:21
20. An American Trilogy 4:15
21. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (incomplete, the kick-off is missing)* 2:40
22. Funny How Time Slips Away 2:49
23. Can't Help Falling In Love / Closing Vamp 2:02
Total playing time is 59:03
Unfortunately, the kickoff to "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" is missing.
Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. has bought a property that sits next to
Graceland and houses a souvenir shop whose owners sued EPE last year for
conspiracy to eliminate competitors.
EPE paid $465,000 for 3706 Elvis Presley Blvd. from the Jefan Trust of Boca
Raton, Fla., with Susan Sandelman as trustee.
Formerly an auto service garage, the 4,000-square foot store was built in
1975 and sits on approximately one-third of an acre due north of Graceland.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property’s 2008 appraisal is $168,200.The
space is now leased by Boulevard Souvenirs, which is owned by Rick and Renae
Roberts. Boulevard Souvenirs had leased the property from Global Real Estate
LLC until EPE bought the assignment of rents and leases from Global Real
Estate earlier this year. Those assignments state that the tenant’s lease is
$1,178.33 per month.
Calls to EPE were not returned by press time.
Not a big shock
When reached by phone Friday morning, Renae Roberts wasn’t surprised to hear
EPE finally succeeded in acquiring the real estate. “That doesn’t surprise
me because of all the appraisers that were coming through (in recent months),”
Roberts said. “I mean, come on, they’re bigger than us. We’re not exactly
dumb.”
“I mean, come on, they’re bigger than us. We’re not exactly dumb.”
– Renae Roberts
Proprietor, Boulevard Souvenirs
EPE has been acquiring properties surrounding Graceland and beyond as part
of its plans for a $250 million Tourist Development Zone. The company in
2006 offered to buy the Roberts’ business and assume the roughly 13 years
remaining on the lease. The Roberts declined. The couple even reached out to
the previous owner about acquiring the site themselves, efforts that were
repeatedly rebuffed.
“We’ve been trying to buy this property ever since we moved in it,” Renae
Roberts said. “They just kept telling us it’s not for sale.”
Tension builders
EPE’s attempt to buy the Boulevard Souvenirs business and Rick and Renae
Roberts’ refusal to move created tension among the parties. The situation
heated up last fall when EPE revised its distribution contracts so
distributors were no longer allowed to sell licensed merchandise to vendors
not approved by EPE within a five-mile radius of Graceland. That included
Boulevard Souvenirs.
A claim was filed in federal court last year on behalf of Boulevard
Souvenirs – a non-EPE-approved vendor – that EPE and vice president of
international licensing Carol Butler were conspiring to eliminate all
independently owned retail competitors near Graceland, but that lawsuit was
eventually dismissed.
Since the brouhaha, Boulevard Souvenirs has had a sign hanging in its window
affirming the 12 years remaining on its lease at the store – something
Roberts said they plan to honor.
“We have no intention of vacating, we have no intention of leaving,” she
said. “We have intentions of being there, not only for the 12 years, because
we also have a stipulation in our lease that we can request a five-year
extension.
“Right now we’re sitting tight.”
Elvis Radio wants you to experience a private VIP tour of Graceland with
country music's "Redneck Woman" - Gretchen Wilson! Here's your chance to win
a trip that includes round trip airfare for two, hotel accommodations at the
Heartbreak Hotel, dinner at EP's Delta Kitchen and Hard Rock Café, $150 in
car rental vouchers AND you can hang with Gretchen as she guest DJ's on
Elvis Radio LIVE from Graceland.
Trip/tour dates mutually agreed to by the winner and Gretchen Wilson
management, subject to Gretchen Wilson's touring and travel schedule. You
will also receive a Sirius Stiletto Radio with a one year subscription, plus
a Graceland Gift Bag for you and your guest, and certificates for meals at
Graceland's Chrome Grill and Rock-A-Billy's Diner.
We'll even give you passes to visit Sun Studio, the Rock & Soul Museum, and
STAX, Plus a Sportster 5 Satellite Radio with 6-month subscription to SIRIUS.
Enter today for your chance to win a VIP tour of Graceland that's fit for a
King - a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an Elvis fan. You can register
on-line at sirius.com/elvisradio.
Source: EPE
Gretchen Wilson has performed with Hank WIlliams Jr., Big and Rich, Kid Rock
and will be featured on the upcoming Elvis Christmas Duets album. Her Grammy
award winning song, Red Neck Woman went to number one on the Billboard
charts in 2004. Her follow up album, All Jacked Up became the
highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon it's release in
2005.
Sonny West with Elvis
RLF Victor Productions Ltd a movie behind the fame of the legendary Elvis.
Sonny West with Elvis.
Fame & Fortune, an exhilarating and haunting portrait of Elvis, as seen
through the eyes of his dear close friend and bodyguard of seventeen years,
Sonny West. From his rocket ride to fame as the premier innovator of rock
and roll, to the abundance of life in Hollywood as the highest paid actor of
his generation, Elvis enjoyed a phenomenal lifestyle that he shared freely
with his closest friends and protectors, The Memphis Mafia.
As a personal bodyguard and close friend of Elvis for seventeen years Sonny
West lived the roller coaster ride of celebrity excess. But as the pressures
of touring and maintaining his public image mounted, Elvis turned to the
escapism of overprescribed medicines that ultimately became a life ending
dependency.
Sonny West experienced it all and this movie depicts not only the truth
behind the fame of the legendary Elvis, but also Sonny’s desperate measures
to try to stop the inevitable and save the man he called his best friend,
mentor and boss.
Based on the book, Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business, by Sonny West with
Marshall Terrill
The following is posted in Fred Bronson's latest 'Chart Beat' column of
'Billboard' Magazine:
ANNUAL EVENT: "Playlist: The Very Best of Elvis Presley" (RCA/Legacy) enters
The Billboard 200 at No. 188, the second Presley album to bow on this chart
in 2008. This is the 15th Elvis album to debut this millennium, and this is
the fifth year of this century that more than one of the King's albums have
entered the chart in the same year. Presley had multiple debuts in 2002 (three),
2003 (two), 2005 (two) and 2007 (three).
The A-Team: Bob Moore, Grady Martin and Buddy Harman. The lady besides Buddy Harman is Ann Margret.
Buddy Harman passed away at 8:30 PM last night in Nashville. Elvis Unlimited
reported he was hospitalized a few months ago. We received this news from
our good friend Bob Moore.
"Sorry to send you this bad news but, Buddy Harman has passed away tonight
at 8:30.
I'm glad you got to meet him. He was one in a million."
~ Bob Moore
Buddy played drums on many of Elvis' hit records for example:
"His Latest Flame" and "Little Sister". Harman has played on several
legendary sessions, Roger Miller's "King of the Road," Johnny Cash's "Ring
of Fire," Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" and Roy Orbison's "Pretty
Woman"
In June of 1958, while Elvis was on two weeks leave from the Army, RCA
scheduled what would be Elvis' final recording session of the 1950s. It was
at their new facility on Music Row in Nashville. It was his final session
until he came back from the Army and the first (aside from "Love Me Tender")
to use "mainly" studio musicians. It was becoming the norm in Nashville and
elsewhere that, in the studio, recording was done with the "house band", not
the "touring band". The last sessions with the original band, aside from DJ
Fontana, had been at Radio Recorders in February. The band put together by
Chet Atkins consisted of Nashville A-Teamers Hank Garland on guitar, Bob
Moore on bass, Floyd Cramer on piano and Buddy Harman along with DJ on
drums. The Jordanaires were brought in on vocals with newcomer Ray Walker
replacing Hugh Jarrett as the new bass singer with the group from then on.
Scotty and Bill Black were not participants.
Buddy Harman, one of Nashville's outstanding session drummers, has played
his solid, driving beat on over 18,000 recording sessions in the last 40
years.
Harman, along with only a handful of top musicians, is recognized by the
Hall of Fame for creating the "Nashville Sound." This unique musical sound
helped Nashville to become known as one of the top music meccas in the world.
Besides being acknowledged by the country music community, Buddy Harman is
recognized for contributing to the rock-and-roll era with his performance on
many recordings including the Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown" and being a
mainstay on Elvis Presley's soundtrack recordings both in Nashville and Los
Angeles. He also played on many recordings by Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee
Lewis.
Harman has played drums on countless records with a variety of recording
artists that reads like a page out of "Who's Who." These artists include:
Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee, Tammy Wynette, Loretta
Lynn, Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Chet Atkins, Marty Robbins, Willie Nelson,
Waylon Jennings, Lynn Anderson, George Jones, Kenny Rogers, Perry Como,
Merle Haggard, Charlie Rich, Roger Miller, Jimmy Dean, Simon & Garfunkel,
Ann Margret, Nancy Sinatra, O.C. Smith, George Burns, Reba McEntire and many
others.
Besides being the first staff drummer on the Grand Old Opry, some of
Harman's accolades include: "Drummer of the Year" in 1981 from the Academy
of Country Music, "Super Picker" award for drums on the most #1 recordings
from the Nashville NARAS chapter in 1975 and 1976, and the Nashville Super
Picker nomination for "Best Country Instrumental Performance" in 1979 for
the Live From Austin City Limits album.
"One of the highlights of my career was having the privilege of performing
for four of our nation's presidents," Harman says. These presidents were
John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
Buddy Harman, an accomplished musician, exemplifies the qualities of a true
professional in the recording business.
Harman has played on some of the biggest hits of Opry stars: Charlie Walker,
Billy Walker, Jeannie Seeley, Hank Snow, Jim & Jesse, Roy Acuff, Roy Clark,
Justin Tubb, Roy Drusky, The Carlisles, Mac Wiseman, Skeeter Davis, Vic
Willis Trio, Wilburn Brothers, Jimmy Dickens, Osborne Brothers, Louvin
Brothers, Jim Ed Brown, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Ray Pillow, Jimmy C.
Newman, Jack Greene, Del Reeves, Johnny Russell, Stonewall Jackson, Porter
Wagoner and Bill Anderson. He has played on numerous jingles, TV and radio
shows and movie soundtracks.
Harman has played on several European Tours with various artists including
The Nashville Superpicker Band and Jerry Lee Lewis.
As of May 1991, Harman is again the staff drummer at the Grand Ole Opry, in
Nashville, Tennessee.
Bob Moore, Grady Martin and Buddy Harman.
Elvis: Viva Las Vegas is number one on Billboard's Music DVD chart this
week. Additionally, Elv1s: #1 Hit Performances & More Vol 2 is number five
and Elv1s: #1 Hit Performances is number six.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Officials of Memphis International Airport say they
probably won't change the airport's name to honor the late singer Isaac
Hayes.
During a memorial service for Hayes on Monday, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen
publicly suggested changing the name of the airport.
Airport board chairman Arnold Perl told The Commercial Appeal newspaper that
Memphis is one of the most respected and recognized brands in the world.
Perl said Hayes was a great ambassador for Memphis, but the current airport
name best serves the city's needs.
Hayes died Aug. 10 of an apparent stroke at age 65.
Cohen said Tuesday he was drafting a letter to the Airport Authority
formally making the suggestion to change the airport name.
For the first time on dvd,introduced by The Elvis For Everyone fanclub (Netherlands)are
the 2 dvd's "My Home movies of Elvis" from Joe Esposito en "The Elvis I knew"
from Charlie Hodge.
They both contain private home movies from their own private collection .
It will be a limited edition, and will be released 1st of Sept.
A new trend on the financial market is the investment in all kinds of
memorabilia. Some companies are specialized in gathering a large portfolio
of unique items and are offering those who are interested a change to invest
in their catalogue.
The company Marque Capital owns two items that belonged to Elvis, stored in
a vault in London. It’s not possible to buy the items – or ask specific to
invest in those items. You’ll buy a share in the company and therefore in
their complete catalogue.
They assume that investing in ‘art’ is a safe way: the value of important
items is increasing at each auction. There are some minimum requirements if
you want to be part of this deal: you must have a minimum year income of €
123.000 or a cash capital of € 315.000
The Sun Sessions (1954)
The story of Elvis' fabled audition for Sun Records producer/label owner Sam
Phillips in July 1954 is now part of American folklore — how Phillips had
been looking for a white singer who could sound black; the serendipitous
arrival in his Memphis storefront studio of a 19-year-old truck driver; the
bland set of pop demo tracks he laid down with guitarist Scotty Moore and
bassist Bill Black; and the sudden alchemy when Elvis Presley switched to
Arthur Crudup's blues tune ''That's All Right (Mama).''
EW called this evening one of the
top 3 events
in rock history. Over the next few weeks and months, there would be similar
fusions of country and R&B, including ''Blue Moon of Kentucky'' and ''Mystery
Train''; together, these singles would launch Elvis — and rock & roll — into
the stratosphere.
Elvis' Sun recordings were finally compiled into a single, must-own album in
1976.
Dr John Walker from Elvis Book Research (EBR) advises EIN that the six
latest books being considered for inclusion in the EBR Top 50 Elvis Books of
All-Time list are:
Elvis '68 at 40 (Joseph A. Tunzi)
Elvis Cinema and Popular Culture (Douglas Brode)
Elvis Decoded (Patrick Lacy)
Elvis Presley: Rockin' Across Texas (Stanley Oberst/FTD)
Elvis Religion (Gregory Reece)
The Name Code II: The God of Elvis Vol. 1 (Christopher Byrnes Matthews)
About EBR: EBR is an independent group whose focus is on Elvis in print.
Titles already announced in its Top 50 Elvis Books of
All-Time list include:
A Date With Elvis - Army Days Revisited (Andreas Schroer, Michael Knorr &
Oskar Hentschel)
Early Elvis: The Humes Years (Bill E. Burk)
Elvis Fashion: From Memphis to Vegas (Julie Mundy)
Elvis The Concert Years 1969-1977 (Stein Erik Skar)
Fire In The Sun (Ger J. Rijff/Jan van Gestel)
Understanding Elvis: Southern Roots vs. Star Image (Susan Doll)
EBR intends releasing its full Top 50 list in early 2009.
This is the cover art of the UK edition of the Spankox "Re: Version" of
Elvis' classic "Baby Let's Play House" as shown on the His Masters Voice
shop site in the UK.
It is coupled with a remix of "Don't Be Cruel" and released on the SONY /
BMG label on September 8, 2008.
Tracklisting:
1. Baby Let's Play House [Spankox re:version/Highpass radio edit]
2. Baby Let's Play House [Spankox re:version/Highpass extended mix]
3. Don't Be Cruel [Spankox re:version/Highpass extended mix]
4. Don't Be Cruel [Spankox re:version/Highpass radio edit]
Some of these shots are included on various DVDs (Elvis during horseback riding, talking with the fans at the gates …), but now collected in it's total.
The footage was shot by one fan and donated to Graceland. Filmed between
1968 and 1970.
Click Here:
http://video.elvicities.com/play.php?vid=272
The Dutch newspaper 'Algemeen Dagblad' reports a rather remarkable death on
page 5 of today's issue. One of the (many) impersonators in Holland passed
away... on August 16th.
According to the article, impersonator Max Kant was a very well known face
in the city of Zoetermeer, where he regularly performed as 'Elvis'. The
local pubs have agreed to a charity campaign to raise money for the funeral
and a tomb stone.
Demolition on a Whitehaven apartment complex owned by Elvis Presley
Enterprises could begin by the end of this year, said Memphis City Council
member Harold Collins.
And the pastor of the Whitehaven church where Collins held a
standing-room-only town hall meeting this week indicated land speculators
are preparing for the pending $250 million makeover of Graceland into a
tourism development zone.
Collins, whose district includes Graceland and the surrounding Whitehaven
area, told a crowd of more than 120 people at the town hall meeting at
Middle Baptist Church Whitehaven he is trying to battle an “I don’t know
syndrome” surrounding the project by offering what he knows.
He detailed Graceland’s purchase of two apartment complexes off Craft Road
in the last year that adjoin the Graceland Plaza across the street from
Elvis Presley’s mansion. Collins also repeated what he said in a story in
the Aug. 13-19 edition of The Memphis News, www.thememphisnews.com.
Graceland plans to move its operation in the plaza for selling tickets and
boarding tour buses to the same side of Elvis Presley Boulevard as the
mansion. He also said there are plans to build a luxury hotel on the east
side of the state highway as well.
“This will be what I consider the first step the city has taken away from
Downtown to redevelop another area,” Collins said as Whitehaven residents
questioned the impact the Graceland expansion would have on their homes.
“The neighbors have to buy into the process. … ‘Elvis Presley has been a
good neighbor to us. You also have to be a good business neighbor to us.’”
Neighborly ways
Tax incentives will include a tourism development zone stretching from Elvis
Presley and Brooks Road to Elvis Presley and Shelby Drive.
State Rep. Karen Camper, a Democrat whose district includes Whitehaven, told
this week’s townhall meeting that state or local government likely will be
asked to put up $40 million in taxpayer funding of some kind to improve
infrastructure such as sidewalks, sewers, streets and utilities as part of
the agreement with CKX Inc., the parent company of Elvis Presley Enterprises.
She said the cost estimate came from “investors” in the project.
“They’re saying, if they come with all the motels and all the restaurants
and all the things that they want to do, it’s going to strain the
infrastructure,” said Camper, who was elected to a full two-year term in the
state House earlier this month after winning appointment to the seat. “It’s
going to be hard to find $40 million at any level. And that’s today’s cost.
That’s not to say in two years what that cost could be. That is something
that could stop the project if we don’t negotiate and try to find the money.”
Middle Baptist Pastor Lester Baskin said the church owns 14 acres in the
area and was approached recently with an offer to buy the land. Baskin
turned down the offer but told Collins it was obvious to him the offer was
because the prospective buyer knew something.
“The planners won’t tell me,” Baskin said of city officials he contacted to
find out what is planned nearby.
“Planning and development doesn’t know,” Collins replied.
“Undoubtedly, they know something we don’t know,” Baskin countered.
Robert F.X. Sillerman, the president and CEO of CKX, said last week he hopes
to unveil some plans for the expanded Graceland in the next six months. He
also downplayed earlier descriptions in which his company described the
expansion of Graceland as being like a theme park. Sillerman and Collins
have each specifically said the plans for Graceland do not include “roller
coasters and Ferris wheels” towering over the surrounding neighborhoods.
Sillerman and officials at EPE have had little to say about the plans beyond
statements made in CKX’s 2007 annual report. No one from EPE was at Monday’s
two-hour meeting.
Sillerman told a convention of Elvis fans in a recorded interview last week
that the timetable depends on the actions of local government and state
leaders.
(ISBN: 0762433213)
Marble Elvis: The King Lives! Book written by Ingrid Emerick & Leslie
Miller. 64 pages - hard cover, release date October 10, 2008 by
Running Press.
"Think your love for Elvis is BIG? Here’s the tiny hunka hunk of sculpture
to prove it. Yes, now you can take a piece of Presley wherever you go with
this handsome little bust.
Also included is an Elvis Almanac loaded with quotes, trivia, photos, and
more—plus, a perforated accessories card that lets you adorn your Elvis with
his signature aviators or Hawaiian lei, or just prop him up with his guitar
and watch the magic happen.
He may not have hips to shake, but his curled lip says it all: the King of
Rock ‘n Roll still reigns, and he’s never looked better!
Officially licensed by Elvis Presley Enterprises, Marble Elvis bears the
Graceland seal of approval and along with the King’s irresistible charm this
distinctive package is sure to be a hit with the millions of Elvis fans."
Return to Tupelo Premiers on bio Channel 9/11:.......also released on DVD
with 60 Minutes of Bonus Features Available for Worldwide Distribution.
A 90-Minute HD Special Tracking The Life of Elvis Presley from Birth to His
Triumphant Return To Tupelo, MS in 1956 as His Star Begins to Soar.
Los Angeles, Calif. – A new documentary, “Elvis: Return to Tupelo,” produced
by Michael Rose and narrated by Kris Kristofferson, traces the Elvis saga
from his birth during the depths of the Depression, to his move to Memphis,
to his formative high school years, through his early struggles to launch a
music career and wraps up with his triumphant homecoming concert in 1956, on
the same stage where he’d lost a talent contest eleven years earlier.
This 90-minute special will premiere on the bio Channel (A&E’s spinoff of
its long running Biography series) Thursday, September 11 at 9 PM EST and
repeats again at 1 AM EST. The show will also air Sunday, September 21 at 1
PM EST.
To find out more information about the program, including additional air
dates, and/or to order a DVD, log on to:
www.elvisreturntotupelo.com
Or call Michael Rose Productions (310) 821-0800 or toll free (800) 335-7758
Order Now: Elvis: Return to Tupelo
Amber Smith forward the following information from Kathy's official
YahooGroup site. It was posted by Kathy's personal assistant, June.
"Kathy has been ill for quite some time now. Bare with me, as this is long
and complicated, but it will explain why you haven't heard from her or about
her in quite some time and why I haven't said anything before now.
Kathy has what is classified as an epilepsy seizure disorder, usually caused
by an injury (which hers was).
No, it is nothing like epilepsy and she does not have epileptic seizers, it
is nothing like that, but it does leave her very ill when left untreated,
which has been the case lately. Just one of her symptoms is that her eyes
look like they're bleeding.
This is not a new problem for Kathy, as she has had it, but managed to keep
it under control for over 30 years now.
The problem now is, she's recently had to change insurance policies, so she
is going thru what we all know as re-existing problems. Her new insurance
has her not only going thru all types of tests, and seeing different
specialists but also having to go without her meds off and on.
This has been going on since way before Christmas and so far things aren't
getting any better, so something we thought would only take a short time has
turned into a long drawn out problem, with no immediate solution in site.
They have her down for her next round of tests ------- as unbelievable as it
sounds, October 1.
In summary, I talked to Kathy last night, and she hanging in there, as the
trooper she's always been, and as the type of person she's always been, she
was more worried that she hasn't been able to talk to her fans, and wanted
me to stress how much she loves and misses you all. Hopefully the drs will
get her straightened back out soon. Kathy is without a doubt one of the most
wonderful people I've ever met "and" the kookiest. If you've ever met her,
you know why Elvis loved her so.
She is one in a million. June"
E.E.R listener Colin Paul tells us from Memphis.....If you now go on the
platinum tour of Graceland don't expect to see the 'Annex' building which
once housed Elvis' trophy's.
The Annex which fans could see exhibits like Lisa' burger bed, Elvis' guns,
jewellery and other personal items has been removed by EPE from the tour and
NOW can only be seen if you pay for the "V.I.P" tour, which is now $68 per
adult.
As Colin rightfully said; "EPE never fail do they!"
This is a new back cover for the Surprise Records Cd import label release
"The Joan Deary Tapes". Release date late August or early September 2008.
Tracklisting:
01. Hey Jude 02. Help Me Make It Through The Night 03. Fools Rush In (Where
Angels Fear To Trade) 04. I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen 05. When I’m
Over You 06. Always On My Mind 07. It Ain’t No Big Thing (But It’s Growing)
08. I’m Leavin’ 09. Where Do I Go From Here 10. Until It’s Time For You To
Go 11. If I Were You 12. Got My Mojo Working / Keep Your Hands Off Of It 13.
Fool 14. This Is Our Dance 15. Cindy, Cindy 16. Separate Ways 17. (That’s
What You Get) For Lovin’ Me 18. Life 19. Love Letters 20. I’ll Never Know
21. We Can Make The Morning 22. Early Morning Rain 23. Sylvia 24. The Sound
Of Your Cry.
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photos: interview with the owner (in the middle of the picture) - Hotel
Grunewald outside
On a short interview on Friday, August 15th, the owner of the magnificant
villa-hotel Grunewald deeclared that the hotel is not for sale.
Prior to that talk, it was announced that the hotel could be sold for
approximately one million Euro. It was also said that at least 500.000 Euro
would be needed for necessary renovations.
Elvis stayed shortly in this hotel from october 1958 till januari 1959.
Lamar gives a brief summary of An Uncommon Journey, the forthcoming book by
him and Mark Bego about his life with Elvis Presley.
Lamar Fike
Lamar Fike is considered one of the foremost authorities on the life and
times of his late friend Elvis Presley. He is the co-author of critically
acclaim Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations From The Memphis Mafia (1995) with
Marty Lacker, Billy Smith and Alanna Nash.
Lamar is a highly experienced national and international media personally.
He has appeared on such shows as Larry King Live, Dateline NBC, and The
Today Show. Lamar Fike lives in Dallas, TX.
One of te highlights of the trip of the Belgian fans to Bad Nauheim during a
very sunny weekend sure was the opening of the Capri Club at the Ray
Barracks in Friedberg.
Elvis must have spent lots of hours in this soldiersmess. At least 1500
Elvisfans from all over Europe visited the two magnificent cities in Germany
on August 15,16 and 17th.
Gerald "Jerry" Wexler died of congestive heart failure in his Florida
home today at age 91. Long hailed as one of the pioneering figures of R&B (having
invented the term, no less), Wexler launched the genre into mainstream
popularity, and influenced the careers of artists like Aretha Franklin and
Ray Charles.
Wexler worked as a reporter for Billboard magazine in the 1940s before
joining Atlantic Records as a partner in 1953. He signed and produced a host
of famous acts during his tenure at the label, including Led Zeppelin, Bob
Dylan and Dusty Springfield. He was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 1987 for his longstanding contributions to the music industry.
Among modern record men, only Sam Phillips casts a longer shadow than
Wexler. While Phillips pioneered an explosive combination of country and R&B
by recording white Southern artists such as Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee
Lewis, Wexler remained focused on his first love -- jazz, the blues and
their antecedents. Nevertheless, he helped develop a music that was no less
audacious and racially iconoclastic.
Borrowing from gospel, jazz, pop and even classical music, soul was an
amalgam of the tutored and the instinctive, its history a collaboration of
white and black musicians creating what Wexler calls "immaculate funk," a
music that, in the words of Atlantic arranger and producer Arif Mardin, "churned,
but with precision."
Tom Thurman, who produced and directed a documentary in 2000 based on
Wexler's life once asked him, "What do you want written on your tombstone,
Jerry?" His reply? "Two words: More bass."
Related links:
Although earlier this year an announcement was made regarding new Gold and
Platinum Awards, no upgrades were presented during ElvisWeek 2008.
A search in the RIAA database resulted in a Gold and Platinum certification
for one Elvis title "Elvis Lives" (listed as "various artists").
This DVD was awarded Gold and Platinum on August 7th, 2008.
We could not have asked for better circumstances for our first TCB Castle
Party (or 2nd TCB Houseparty). Three sunny days in a row, fans gathered at
the Alden Biesen Castle in Belgium for a unique experience: 2 TCB concerts
with Dennis Jale & guest star Waylon, a picture expo by Ed Bonja, great food,
great company and so much friendship.
The next ElvisMatters Magazine features a picture report about this
unforgettable weekend.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Mary Lou Martell put it off as long as she could. But
she finally had to head to Memphis for an anniversary vigil at Elvis
Presley's grave.
"It's my first Elvis Week. I'm a little ashamed to say that, but it is,"
Martell, 60, said as she took part in a candlelight procession to Presley's
grave at Graceland, his former Memphis residence. "We watched it on the
computer last year and I finally said, `I have to be part of that.'"
The procession, called the "Candlelight Vigil," drew several thousand Elvis
fans who lined up in the street in front of Graceland for a single-file
procession up a long, winding driveway to his grave in a small garden.
Fans weren't scared away by an intermittent drizzle during the vigil, which
began at 9:30 p.m. EDT.
"We're doing fine," Martell said, peeping out from the hood of a plastic
parka. "It's just for Elvis we stay out doing this."
The vigil, which runs into the early morning, is the highlight of a weeklong
series of fan-club meetings, dances and Elvis-impersonator contests to
commemorate the anniversary of his death. He died of heart disease and drug
abuse at Graceland on Aug. 16, 1977. He was 42.
Martell of Dunkirk, N.Y., said she visits Graceland often but avoided Elvis
Week in the past because of the crowds. She came early for her first
graveside vigil, though, setting up a lawn chair at 9 a.m. at Graceland's
front gates.
Many Elvis pilgrims return each year, and the graveside vigil draws visitors
from around the world. But it's largely ignored by Memphis residents.
Jennifer Hobson, 29, of Memphis and a group of hometown friends formed a
"Blue Hawaii" club to try to change that and sent out vigil invitations to
their friends.
The group set up a small canvas canopy in the street in front of Graceland
and decorated it with inflatable palm trees, blue lights and an Elvis bust
sporting a blue lei.
"This is part of our city," Hobson said, "but when we come down here, we
rarely see people we know. Y'all need to come out."
Hobson said the group had to leave some decorations at home because of the
rain.
"I have a velvet Elvis, but because of the rain we couldn't bring out all of
our good stuff," Hobson said.
Graceland supports a sprawling complex of souvenir shops, and fans waiting
for the procession packed the stores pouring over Viva Las Vegas bobble head
dolls for $19.99, Burning Love scented candles for $14.99, Jailhouse Rock
T-shirts for $24.99 and hundreds of other Elvis-flavored gifts and do-dads.
Nancy Rooks, a former Graceland cook, was set up at a souvenir shop table to
sell her book, "Elvis' Maid Remembers," and talk with fans.
Generally, the 71-year-old Rooks said, the fans ask about Elvis' personal
habits, when he went to bed, when he got up, what he liked to eat.
"I tell them he ate breakfast at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, but then he'd
eat dinner at 1 o'clock at night," she said. "We always had a meat loaf
cooked, just in case he wanted it. If he didn't want meat loaf, then we knew
to give him roast beef. He liked soul food."
By Woody Baird - AP.
By Dennis Copeland
August 12, 2008
22 Elvis tribute artists gathered at EP Delta Kitchen on Beale Street to
meet their fans. Then, they all took a trolley to the Cannon Center.
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Elvis slideshow to the theme from "Silkwood". Played by John Williams.
Washington Post today's news published an original news report on passing of
Elvis Presley by Washington Post staff writers Larry Rohter and Tom Zito
from August 17, 1977.
Rock Idol Elvis Presley Dies at 42
By Larry Rohter and Tom Zito
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, August 17, 1977
Elvis Presley, who revolutionized American popular music with his earthy
singing style and became a hero to two generations of rock 'n' roll fans,
died yesterday in Memphis, Tenn. He was 42.
Shelby County Medical Examiner Dr. Jerry Francisco said last night an
autopsy indicated Presley died of "cardiac arrhythmia," which he described
as a "severely irregular heartbeat" and "just another name for a form of
heart attack." He said the three-hour autopsy uncovered no sign of any other
diseases -- though Presley had in recent years been treated at Baptist
Memorial Hospital for hypertension, pneumonia and an enlarged colon -- and
there was no sign of any drug abuse.
Presley’s body was discovered at 2:30 p.m. Memphis time by his road manager,
Jerry Esposito, in a bathroom in the singer’s multimillion-dollar Graceland
Mansion. He was rushed to the Baptist Memorial, where he was met by his
personal physician, Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, and pronounced dead.
Dr. Willis Madrey, a specialist in liver disease at Johns Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore, said yesterday that two years ago Presley’s doctors sent him a
sample of Presley’s liver for analysis. "It showed no significant
abnormalities." Madrey said, "nothing of any help at all in evaluation."
"I had understood he was having some gastrointestinal problems his doctors
were trying to evaluate," Madrey said. But "well over a year ago," Madrey
added, he saw one of Presley’s doctors and was told "he seemed fine" and
"the only problem he had medically was obesity."
Ginger Alden reportedly Presley’s fiancee and members of his staff were all
at the mansion yesterday at the time the singer was found unconscious,
Nichopoulos said.
In 1956, when Presley came crackling out of every radio and speaker in the
land, young Americans notions about independence -- from parents, from
religion, from the values of the time -- were forming. Elvis became "The
King" of rock 'n' roll, but also of the emerging youth culture. He was a
young, hip-thrusting, white singing music that was essentially black. Part
of his attraction was that the '50s teenagers viewed him as epitomizing
everything they thought their parents feared they would become -- cocky,
slick, brash, tough, black-leatherclad, motorcycle straddling,
stiletto-shoed.
Their hunches of their parents' fears were well confirmed after Presley’s
appearance on a 1956 Ed Sullivan show. While millions of teenagers screamed
in unison across the land, a Catholic priest in New York scorned Sullivan
for this "moral injury" and condemned Presley for his "voodoo of defiance
and frustration."
Overall, he sold more than 500 million records worldwide and made 33 films.
He was a millionaire many times over and lived in a style that reflected it:
ensconced in his Graceland Mansion behind locked gates, like the reclusive
characters in "Citizen Kane," handing out jewels and Cadillacs to friends
and even casual acquaintances.
No American performer had so broad an impact on culture around the world. In
1958, Communists blamed the influence of Presley for a riot in East Berlin
as youths threatened to kill a border guard. In 1964, Presley received a
write-in vote for President. A Memphis businessman who got in a fistfight
with the singer had to close his shop because fans picketed the place.
His career began its ascent at virtually the same time of James Dean,
another young star with a tough image, and Presley felt a sense of kinship
with Dean.
Presley "knew I was a friend of Jimmy’s," said Nicholas Ray, director of
Dean’s second film, "Rebel Without a Cause," so he got down on his knees
before me and began to recite whole pages from the script. Elvis must have
seen "Rebel" a dozen times by then and remembered every one of Jimmy’s lines.
Presley’s songs, particularly the early ones, expressed succinctly the
rising rebellion of young people beginning to break from the Cold War
doldrums of the Eisenhower era: "Have you heard the news/There’s good rockin’
tonight:" "You can do what you want/but lay off my blue suede shoes:" "Everybody
in the whole cell block/Dancin’ to the jail house rock:" "Don’t be cruel/To
a heart that’s true:" "Baby, let’s play house."
Born in Tupelo, Miss., on Jan. 8, 1935 -- his twin brother, Jesse Garon,
died at birth -- Elvis Presley was 18 when he walked into a Memphis studio
and paid $4 to record "My Happiness" and "That’s When Your Heartaches Begin"
as a present for his mother.
Raised in a religious atmosphere, Presley had begun his singing career by
performing hymns and gospel tunes with his parents, Vernon and Gladys, at
concerts and state fairs. His parents bought him his first guitar at age 11,
and he remained close to them even after acquiring a rebellious image -- his
feelings for his mother, who died at age 46 of a heart attack were known to
be especially strong.
Sam Phillips, owner of the studio, intrigued by the rough, soulful quality
of the young truck driver’s voice, invited him back to practice with some
local musicians. A few months later Phillips’ Sam Records released Presley’s
version of the blues tune "That’s All Right," backed by the country song
"Blue Moon of Kentucky," and the singer’s career was launched.
The synthesis of black blues and white country music made Presley a unique
artist from the start and Memphis was quick to appreciate that. Presley’s
recording went to the top of the local charts almost immediately, eventually
selling 20,000 copies, and Presley was invited to appear on the Louisiana
Hayride country show and at the Grand Ole Opry.
At the Opry, however, the first of the many controversies that were to
engulf Presley almost caused him to give up his career. Told by the talent
booker there that he was no good, Presley broke into tears and left his
performing costume in a filling station.
He recovered quickly, though, and went on to record a whole string of hits
for Sun Records, which sold his contract for $40,000 -- then a record -- to
RCA in 1955. His first record for RCA was "Heartbreak Hotel," which early in
1956 made him a nationwide sensation.
Months earlier, in November 1955, Col. Tom Parker, an established country
music agent, had concluded a management agreement with Presley. Parker was
instrumental in arranging Presley’s switch from Sun to RCA and was to remain
Presley’s manager to the end, shrewdly guiding his client’s career, limiting
or encouraging public exposure in such a way that Presley was almost always
able to command top dollar on the competitive concert and recording circuit.
Once, after Presley had been made an honorary narcotics agent by President
Nixon, a White House staffer contacted Parker to request a musical
performance. Parker told the staffer that Presley would be honored, and that
his fee for the occasion would be $25,000. That ended that.
Six months after the record "Heartbreak Hotel" had rippled heartthrobs
through teenage America, Ed Sullivan promised to bring "The King" into the
nation’s living rooms: for $50,000 Sullivan signed Presley to three
performances.
When the first show hit the airwaves on Sept. 9, 1956, the response was
predictable. Sullivan showed him only from the waist up, rocking around on
the tube. Record sales soared, and the critics had new ammunition.
"It isn’t enough to say that Elvis is king to his parents," wrote jazz
musician Eddie Condon. "That still isn’t a free ticket to behave like a sex
maniac in public before millions of impressionable kids. According to a
scholarly friend of mine, Jackie Gleason, we’ll survive Elvis. "He can’t
last,’ said Gleason, 'I tell you flatly, he can’t last.' "
New York Times critic Jack Gould observed: "Mr. Presley has no discernible
singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an
undistinguished whine: his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of
stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathtub. For the
ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back
in the latter’s rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.
"From watching Mr. Presley it is wholly evident that his skill lies in
another direction. He is a rock-and-roll version of one of the most standard
acts in show business: the virtuoso of the hootchy-kootchy. His one
specialty is an accentuated movement of the body that heretofore has been
previously identified with the repertoire of the blonde bombshells of the
burlesque runway."
And at the Washington Post, Richard Coe, reviewing an early Presley movie,
spoke of the singer’s popularity as a manifestation of an "adulation of
youth, youth that is raw, untrained, and undisciplined, youth which worships
the most primitive urges and physical appeal, youth which has no truck with
its elders.
"...This youth lives in a crowd and insists that it is lonely and
misunderstood, appears to have no education, respect for customs or elders
and no manners whatsoever."
Other performers, on shows with Presley, were puzzled by the strong reaction
the young singer got from audiences. Jerry Lee Lewis took to closing his
shows by standing on the piano in an attempt to upstage Elvis. But it did no
good. Presley was even able to take others’ material -- like Carl Perkins’
"Blue Suede Shoes" -- and make it a hit of even greater magnitude.
"Elvis had the looks on me," Perkins once told an interviewer. "The girls
were going for him for more reasons than music. Elvis was hittin' 'em with
sideburns, flashy clothes and no ring on that finger. I had three kids.
There was no way of keeping Elvis from being the man in that music."
A month after the first Sullivan appearance, 20th Century Fox was readying
Elvis' first film for Thanksgiving release. Originally titled "The Reno
Brothers," it was changed to "Love Me Tender" to capitalize on the song
Presley had introduced on the Sullivan show. The studio made 575 prints of
the film for its first run -- the largest in Fox’s history.
A year later Presley was drafted into the U.S. Army. Boarding a troop ship
for an 18-month tour of duty in Europe as a Jeep driver, he told a reporter:
"The first place I want go is Paris and look up Brigitte Bardot."
Presley was just another cog in the military machine, stationed in Frieburg,
West Germany. But Col. Parker had ensured that Presley would not be
forgotten during the two years he was away by having him record a stack of
songs before leaving for Europe.
During his period of military service, Presley made no public appearances
and completed only one recording session. Of the five singles released
during Presley’s absence from the U.S. rock 'n' roll scene, all eventually
became million sellers.
When Presley was discharged a sergeant early in 1960, he was still "The King,"
though stars such as Ricky Nelson had come along in the interim.
Presley returned from the Army to find that rock 'n' roll tastes had changed
dramatically in his absence. Presley himself underwent a drastic change of
style, eschewing his trademark sideburns and hip-shaking music in favor of
romantic, dramatic ballads, such as "It’s Now or Never" and "Are You
Lonesome Tonight?"
These records proved to be as popular as his hard-rocking numbers, but
Presley by this time was more interested in making movies than anything else.
After an appearance on a Frank Sinatra TV special, in which he alarmed old
fans by performing in tails, Presley retired from concerts and television
for nearly a decade.
His movies during this period included such potboilers as "Fun in Acapulco"
and "Girls! Girls! Girls!" disillusioning some fans even further. But in
1968, Col. Parker engineered a change of direction, and Elvis who had seemed
to many to be old fashioned after the emergence of the Beatles in 1964, once
again became the hottest thing in pop music.
"It was a staggering moment," writes Greil Marcus in his book "Mystery
Train." "In the months preceding, Elvis had begun to turn away from the
seamless boredom of the movies and the hackneyed music of the soundtrack
albums, staking out a style on a few half-successful singles, presenting the
new persona of a man whose natural roughness was tempered by experience. The
records had been careful, respectable efforts, but now he was putting
everything on the line, risking his comforts and his case for his chance to
start over."
The vehicle of Presley’s comeback was a Christmastime TV special, broadcast
by NBC. The response to that show encouraged Presley to get together with
guitarist James Burton and pianist Glen D. Hardin; two of rock’s top
recording session musicians and go out on the road again.
His audience on that concert tour -- and on his subsequent tours, which
brought him to the Washington area three times in recent years -- was more
mature than that of a decade earlier, reflecting perhaps the fact that
Presley himself was settling down.
On May 1, 1967, Presley had married Priscilla Beaulieu, the daughter of a
U.S. Army colonel. On Feb. 1, 1968, a daughter, Lisa Marie, was born to the
couple. The marriage ended, after lengthy and expensive divorce proceedings,
in October 1973.
After the divorce, Priscilla Presley, who the singer had begun dating while
in the Army, was given custody of the child. Presley never married again,
but it was recently reported that he was about to marry 20-year-old Ginger
Alden. She was reportedly spotted wearing a $50,000 diamond engagement ring
from Presley.
Reports of Presley’s declining health and increasing weight first date from
the time of his divorce. By 1976, in the authoritative "Rolling Stone
Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll," critic Peter Graining was moved to
say, "It seems to be a continuing battle ... and Elvis is not winning. His
hair is dyed, his teeth are capped, his middle is girdled, his voice is a
husk, and his eyes film over with glassy impersonality. He is no longer, it
seems, used to the air and, because he cannot endure the scorn of strangers,
will not go out if his hair isn’t right, if his weight -- which fluctuates
wildly -- is not down. He has tantrums onstage and, like some aging
politician, is reduced to the ranks of grotesque."
Earlier this year, Presley canceled several performances in Louisiana and
returned to Memphis for what his physicians said was exhaustion. And in
Baltimore, he cut short a show and disappeared form the stage for several
minutes, only to return claiming he had merely been answering "the call of
nature." But after hearing of Presley’s death, Baltimore fan Beverly
Hochstedt, who sat patiently outside the Baltimore Civic Center for 40 hours
when tickets for his show there last March first went on sale, recalled not
the erratic show, but the man.
"Oh, God, what can I say," sobbed the 31-year-old fan. "I just feel so lost,
I feel shattered. I feel like I lost a very, very, close, very, dear friend,
part of my own family."
Reaction among fans, performers and music industry executives elsewhere was
also emotional. In Santiago, Chile, newspapers stopped the presses and radio
stations changed their evening programming to recount the life of "El Rey de
Rock 'n' Roll." In Memphis, the telephone system was reported unable to
handle the volume of calls coming into the city from around the country.
Hundreds of weeping fans gathered outside Baptist Memorial and Graceland
Mansion last night.
Two European radio stations also suspended regular programming as soon as
Presley’s death was announced. Radio Luxembourg, the continent’s most widely
listened-to pop station, canceled all its commercials to play Presley’s
music nonstop.
"This is the end of rock 'n' roll," said Bob Moore Merlis, an executive with
Warner Bros. Records, who compiled an anthology of Presley’s early material
several years ago for RCA. "The void he will leave is impossible to gauge,"
said Pat Boone, an early rival of Presley’s.
"The King is dead," said former Beatle John Lennon last night. "But rock 'n'
roll will never die. Long live the King."
"His music was the only thing exclusively ours," said Carl Wilson of The
Beach Boys. "His wasn’t my and mom and dad’s music. His voice was a total
miracle in the music business."
The White House said last night that President Carter will "probably issue a
statement on Presley today."
No arrangements have been announced yet for Presley’s funeral.
© 1977 The Washington Post Co.
It’s Elvis Week in Memphis, and retailers are taking care of business.
Saturday marks the 31st anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, forming
the nucleus for a week of events, drawing an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 fans
of The King and generating $40 million in revenue, said the Memphis
Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The entertainment icon is a powerful economic presence, pumping about $400
million a year into the local economy.
The throngs who began arriving for Elvis Week last Saturday to tour
Presley’s mansion, Graceland, and his grave, as well as the city where he
started his career at Sun Records, are never more fervent than during the
buildup...
Live Webcast Exclusively On AOL High Speed Broadband
August 15 at 9:30 p.m. EDT
The spirit of Elvis Presley remains very much alive on America Online, the
world's leading interactive services company, which will exclusively webcast
the live "VigilCast" from Graceland on Thursday, August 15, starting at 9:30
p.m. EST, the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. The live webcast
will be available exclusively to members accessing the service via
high-speed Internet connections, including the AOL High Speed Broadband
service available in more than 40 markets with Time Warner Cable and
nationwide via DSL. The VigilCast will be available on demand from elvis.com
for fans beginning immediately after the live event and also from AOL
Keyword: Elvis and www.music.netscape.com starting Friday, August 16.
The legendary candlelight vigil at Graceland is a highlight of Elvis Week,
an annual event commemorating the life and career of Elvis Presley. The
evening begins with the traditional candle lighting ceremony, in which a
torch lit from the eternal flame at Elvis' gravesite in Meditation Garden,
is passed throughout the thousands of fans gathered at the site, lighting
their individual candles, before they walk through the gates of Graceland to
Elvis' gravesite, and back.
In addition to the candle lighting ceremony, the three-hour broadcast hosted
by Rod Starns and Joey Sulipeck will feature behind-the-scenes footage,
celebrity appearances and interviews with Elvis' closest friends and
associates, as well as the winners of a sweepstakes in which AOL members
from five different countries and their guests were awarded a trip to
Memphis to join in the ceremony.
AOL's live webcast of the VigilCast is part of a variety of offerings at AOL
Keyword: Elvis that AOL has offered its members in anticipation of the 25th
anniversary event and the September 24th release of RCA Records' ELV1S 30 #1
Hits, which will for the first time assemble Elvis Presley's 30 No. 1 hits
on one disc. In addition to the sweepstakes to win a trip to the event in
Memphis, AOL Music offered the exclusive world premiere First View of the "A
Little Less Conversation" remix video, which was streamed approximately
700,000 times in just 11 days by AOL members and fans on the Web from around
the world. Additional features include a Radio@AOL station devoted to the
music of Elvis, behind-the-scenes footage of Elvis chatting with fans from
Elvis - That's The Way It Is (courtesy of Turner Classic Movies), audio
streams of Elvis hits, an exclusive photo gallery, and much more.
AOL Music will also debut music from the upcoming RCA Records release.
Elvis Presley has received 88 Gold Records, 45 of which have been certified
Platinum, and 22 have gone on to multi-Platinum status. He has also received
more Gold and Platinum singles than any artist in history with 51 Gold
singles, 27 of which have been certified Platinum with seven being certified
multi-Platinum.
"Elvis Presley is undeniably one of the most beloved performers of all time
and his legacy is alive and well among millions of fans around the world on
AOL Music," said Bill Wilson, Vice President and General Manager, AOL Music.
"Our Elvis promotions have been extremely popular with AOL members - in the
U.S. and abroad - as well as on our leading Web properties. We're honored to
play such a big role in this year's 25th anniversary event by uniting Elvis
fans across the globe for live, high-speed access to take part in this
special ceremony."
The latest escape from the Madison import label, "A Greensboro Revolution! -
Standing Room Only Tapes Volume One", is out now!
This performance, recorded in Greensboro, NC on Friday, April 14, 1972, in
the presence of MGM's documentary cameras, has been issued many times in the
past, but never in such great sound quality.
For the very first time, hear the show mixed down from MGM multi-track tapes
into superb stereo.
Tracklisting :
01. Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra 1:04 ; 02. C.C. Rider 3:09 ; 03.
Proud Mary 2:43 ; 04. Never Been To Spain 3:36 ; 05. You Gave Me A Mountain
3:13 ; 06. Until It's Time For You To Go 2:36 ; 07. Polk Salad Annie 3:14 ;
08. Love Me 1:35 ; 09. All Shook Up 1:00 ; 10. Teddy Bear / Don't Be Cruel
2:26 ; 11. Hound Dog 1:30 ; 12. Heartbreak Hotel 1:49 ; 13. A Big Hunk O'
Love 2:00 ; 14. Bridge Over Troubled Water 4:13 ; 15. Suspicious Minds 4:48
; 16. Love Me Tender 1:34 ; 17. Introduction of Vocalists, Musicians,
Orchestra 1:21 ; 18. For The Good Times 3:08 ; 19. An American Trilogy 4:42
; 20. Burning Love 2:44 ; 21. Release Me 3:03 ; 22. Funny How Time Slips
Away 2:49 ; 23. Can't Help Falling In Love / Closing Vamp 2:15
Bonus Tracks: 24. Backstage, Saturday, April 15, 1972, Macon, GA 0:59 ; 25.
Bridge Over Troubled Water (unrepaired) 3:43
Total Time = 65:39
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Aug. 13, 2008 — It’s Elvis Presley Week in Memphis, where fans line up
every year to pay their respects to the King. This year’s event, however,
serves as a double anniversary: Monday marked 50 years since he received his
first gold record from the Recording Industry Association of America, for
"Hard Headed Woman."
It was not the RIAA’s first gold award; that went in March to Perry Como for
"Catch A Falling Star." It was not the first gold for Elvis, either, since
some of his best-selling hits — including "Heartbreak Hotel," "All Shook Up"
and "Don’t Be Cruel" — predated it. But the RIAA’s program was the first to
provide an industry-wide standard for gold records, and Elvis made more use
of the system than anyone else.
All told, Elvis has amassed 81 gold albums and 150 total gold, platinum and
multi-platinum certifications, more than any other artist. And he collected
53 gold singles, 11 of which were released prior to 1958 but still managed
to qualify for certification in later years.
Surprisingly, Elvis remains the King of gold records even during the 21st
century. Beginning with the year 2000, he has received a dozen
multi-platinum awards and 12 more platinum honors, making him No. 1 in both
categories this decade. In addition, he’s the top gold-album recipient of
the current decade, having picked up 17. He’s also far ahead of the decade’s
gold-album runner-up: George Strait has 11.
Other gold-record achievements of note:
• The first album ever certified platinum, signifying 1 million copies sold,
was The Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975. The disc remains the
best-seller in U.S. history, having moved 29 million units.
• Multi-platinum albums were introduced in 1984. The Oak Ridge Boys became
the first country act to receive that designation, picking up a
double-platinum plaque for selling 2 million copies of Fancy Free.
• The soundtrack to the Whitney Houston movie The Bodyguard is the
best-selling album of film music in history, having shipped 17 million
units. Much of its popularity is attributed to the title track, Whitney’s
cover of the Dolly Parton song "I Will Always Love You."
• The best-selling album by a female artist belongs to Shania Twain: Come On
Over has sold 20 million copies.
• The best-selling male artist in American history is Garth Brooks (Note
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honored last November for reaching 123 million total album sales. Garth
actually hit the mark a year prior, but at his request, the RIAA waited 12
months to hold a ceremony, timed to occur the day before he launched The
Ultimate Hits, which has since gone quintuple-platinum.
ELVIS Presley will help launch the first dedicated Gaelic television
channel next month, it was announced yesterday.
BBC Alba will start at 9pm on 19 September with a new drama starring Greg
Hemphill, the Chewin' the Fat star, as Elvis and a live concert from Skye.
Over the coming months, the channel aims to broadcast a wide range of sport,
news, children's showADVERTISEMENTs, documentaries and entertainment.
It will show one Scottish Premier League match a week on an as-live basis,
some three hours after the final whistle.
BBC Alba will be on satellite and cable all over the UK, with content also
available online. After the digital switchover, it will be available on
Freeview in Scotland only, subject to a review by the BBC Trust.
The service is being delivered through a partnership between the BBC and MG
Alba, formerly the Gaelic Media Service, who together will provide digital
television, radio and online services in Gaelic.
Ken MacQuarrie, the controller of BBC Scotland, said: "The launch next month
of BBC Alba is the realisation of a long-held ambition of the Gaelic
community and an achievement for those who worked so hard to bring it about.
"BBC Alba will offer a new and enhanced service to the Gaelic audience."
CONNIE FISHER is to make her debut TV acting performance as a low-paid
parking attendant obsessed with Elvis Presley. The singer, who shot to fame
after starring in reality contest, How do you Solve a Problem like Maria?,
will appear in ITV1 series Caught in a Trap, out later this year.
Fisher, 25, from Pembrokeshire, will star as Gemma Parker – a young woman
who is so obsessed with the American rock legend she begins to dip into the
parking meter takings in order to boost her collection of Elvis memorabilia.
The Sound of Music star has said she is “thrilled” to have been cast in her
first television drama, and has just begun working on set in London. Since
winning the lead role of Maria Von Trapp in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical in
2006, Fisher has enjoyed success as a West End theatre star and has released
three albums. In one, The Sound Of Music – London Palladium Cast Album,
Fisher sings alongside opera star Lesley Garrett.
She also performed alongside artists such as best-selling soprano Sarah
Brightman and US entertainer Donny Osmond at the Diana memorial concert in
2007. The day-long spectacular at London’s Wembley Stadium was watched by a
crowd of 63,000.
Tom Brown hinted at EOT might coming out at some anniversary in the near
future.
Interview with Robert Sillerman
Opening the conference today was the video-taped interview with Robert
Sillerman. Scott Williams flew to NY to meet with him.
What are your plans for Las Vegas? -
It will be a big, interactive (you will be able to “talk” to Elvis), maybe
they can get the street names “Elvis Presley Blvd West”. Elvis deserves a
bigger presence in Vegas for what he did there.
What are your plans for Graceland –
The impact of economy may affect how fast what we do. Won’t be spending all
of the money up front. But major pieces will be completed soon (“soon” being
a relative term). Our current economic situation is pretty dire.
Sneak peak of plans?
Tied up with what happens with Memphis and TN We need approval. Once we know
what we can do, plans will come out. Perhaps in 6 months.
Sillerman: I’m an Elvis fan – put your earplugs in and I’ll do my rendition
of an Elvis song. I’m a big Elvis fans. Elvis and I have a long history.
Why did you want to buy EPE? Society has changed so much over the last 10
years, principally driven by the devices we have – ipods, dvds, internet,
etc. we can now deal with iconistic people. Since it’s impossible for anyone
else to ever attain the heights that Elvis did, it was our desire to be
associated with this kind of talent, a talent that needs no definition,
explanation. I can’t say when the idea precisely came to me, but after we
sold our last entertainment company, we were looking for something.
What’s your earliest memory of Elvis -
I was studying classical piano (quite good, if I must say so myself), I had
no awareness of rock and roll or of Elvis. I had my little portable radio
and there was no Yankee game on. So I heard an Elvis Presley song and was
taken aback. I got out of bed to have my brother listen to it. He didn’t
like it but I told him he was crazy. I was captivated then – by “Hound Dog”.
I know it sounds funny, but it was almost a life-changing moment.
What did you think of the Celine Dion/American Idol duet with Elvis?
Every time I see that I get goosebumps. It’s the technology I was talking
about. The idea emanated from CKX. Everyone I show it to says Elvis more
than holds his own with Celine’s powerful voice.
Did you see Elvis in person?
Do you own the DVDs? I saw Elvis live 5 times – in college and after
college. Once in Boston, 4 times in Vegas. When I watch the concert footage
I am evoking the live experiences.
Elvis Radio – what’s your favorite era and song?
No one single favorite song. It changes all the time. I listen to 13 all the
time. 50s era is my favorite. In the Ghetto, Lieber and Stoller songs.
Is there going to be an EP Theme Park?
No roller coasters and ferris wheels and things like that. There will be
Elvis-themed features where you can come in with themes of Elvis’ life.
Interactive. We can move things out of Graceland to display them elsewhere
and restore the house to its original look.
Are you a member of EI.
Yes. (He pulled out his card)
The 220 pages soft-cover book by Darrin Lee is out now!
The book has been written in honor of The OEPFC of Great Britain’s Anne E.
Nixon and is dedicated to Lisa Marie Presley.
Keith Alverson, whose images grace the front cover, will have a limited
number of signed copies at Elvis Expo 2008 along with a wide array of his
photos.
For more details:
www.elvisconcertmyths.com
ELVIS PRESLEY, QUINCY JONES and the BLACK EYED PEAS' song catalogues will
reportedly be part of a multi-million dollar sale of a New York-based music
company.
Bosses at Cherry Lane Music Publishing are reportedly seeking a buyer for
their entire catalogue of songs, after executives at Universal Music Group,
Warner Music Group and Sony expressed interest in the sale.
According to the New York Post, the company is estimated to take between
$100 million (GBP50 million) and $150 million (GBP75 million) for the turn
of acquisitions.
Cherry Lane - founded in 1960 by music producer/arranger Milt Okun - also
boasts joint venture deals with Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am and
hip-hop entrepreneur Damon Dash.
Veronica (a popular radio and tv station in The Netherlands) will have a
nice line up for Elvisfans in the making.
16th of august will be Elvis Night at Veronica.
18.00 o'clock The 68 comeback special
19.00 o'clock The 08 Comeback special (with clips of Elvis's greatest hits
mixed with quotes from dutch Elvis fans)
20.00 o'clock That's the way it is.
22.00 o'clock This is Elvis.
Dutch language link
http://www.veronicatv.nl/web/show/id=175470/langid=43/dbid=185/typeofpage=78964
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in an item that will be on view at the Hall of Fame annex: Bruce Springsteen’s 1957 Chevy. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is coming to New York City.
On a blocked-off street in SoHo on Wednesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
stood with Billy Joel, the veteran music executive Clive Davis and officials
from the hall, to announce that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum,
which opened its flagship building in Cleveland in 1995, would open a New
York annex in November.
“This is where Ed Sullivan met the Beatles, where Lou Reed took a walk on
the wild side,” the mayor said.
Artifacts that will be on view at the annex flanked the mayor’s podium. On
either side were guitars owned by Johnny Ramone and Eric Clapton, behind
them was a phone booth from CBGB, and a few feet away stood Bruce
Springsteen’s first car, a banana-yellow 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible.
The 25,000-square-foot annex, at 76 Mercer Street, will be the museum’s
first expansion outside Cleveland and will include exhibitions on Hall of
Fame inductees and on the history of rock in New York. It will also house
temporary and traveling exhibitions from the Cleveland headquarters, museum
officials said.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was founded in 1983 by a group of
music industry executives, and since 1986 most annual induction ceremonies
have been at the Waldorf-Astoria, but the museum has never had a physical
presence in New York.
About half a million people visit the Cleveland building each year, the
museum said. Its president, Terry Stewart, said the annex was part of a
strategy to increase its visibility over all and drive tourist traffic to
Cleveland.
“The ability to establish these outposts in other cities,” Mr. Stewart said,
“allows us to join the ranks of other famous not-for-profit institutions and
museums like New York’s Guggenheim, the U.K.’s Tate and the Louvre out of
Paris.”
The speakers celebrated New York’s contributions to rock history,
reminiscing about concerts in historic clubs and theaters, many of them —
like CBGB, the Bottom Line and Max’s Kansas City — no longer in existence.
Mr. Joel, who last month played the final two concerts at Shea Stadium, said
that he had planned to donate the Mets jersey he had been given at those
concerts but “that jersey is in a road case on its way to Hong Kong.”
Instead, he brought a baseball bat given to him by David Wright of the Mets
and a plaque celebrating Mr. Joel’s 12 sold-out nights at Madison Square
Garden in 2006.
“New York gave me my words and my music,” Mr. Joel said, “and rock ’n’ roll
gave me a place for that music to live.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It was October 26, 1956, seven weeks
after Elvis Presley's first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
The host didn't really want the hip-shaking rock 'n' roll star back on the
family-friendly show, but big ratings beckoned. Sullivan corralled the King
during rehearsal and made it clear that he couldn't do that thing with his
hips.
The 21-year-old's reaction to Sullivan is priceless. Photos of that chat and
other behind-the-scenes shots from that memorable night recently resurfaced
after a half-century and are being made available to the public.
Young photographer Richard Weede was allowed on set for the rehearsal
because his father, Robert Weede, who was starring in "The Most Happy Fella"
on Broadway, also was appearing on the show that night. The negatives Weede
snapped were relegated to a garage until his son found them in February
2007.
Limited-edition sets of three and six of the images are being made available
at VintageKingPictures.com.
The site is expected to go live by the week of August 18.
Memphis, TN -- Elvis Week is well underway and the King's fans packed into
the Cook Convention Center in Downtown Memphis, Wednesday, August 13, 2008,
for the "Elvis Expo".
People had the chance to browse through 35,000 square feet of Elvis
memorabilia, while Eyewitness News Everywhere found one of Elvis' movie
co-stars.
Celeste Yarnall shared with us what it was like working with Elvis in 1968
on the set of the movie "Live a Little, Love a Little".
Before Yarnall had ever met Elvis, a producer on the set told her that Elvis
was dying to meet her. Remembering that experience she told us, “I turned
around and there was Elvis. I thought I was going to have a heart attack."
She told us she’ll never forget his sapphire blue eyes and how nice he
treated her and others.
Yarnall has many pictures of Elvis and her together. She says the connection
they had was something special.
“The chemistry between us was…if we both hadn't of been married, I tell you
the chemistry was unbelievable,” said Yarnall.
Not only did Yarnall say there was chemistry between the two of them, but
she also told us about some romantic movie scenes. She says they kissed many
times for the movie. She says those kisses were the best she’s ever received.
Yarnall also says face to face was the best way to take in the beauty of
Elvis Presley.
“You had to see this man in person. The skin, the nose, the profile, the
eyes, he was just beautiful,” said Yarnall.
She says Elvis' good looks and charm weren't the only qualities he had.
“He was very down to earth. The fabulous thing about Elvis was that he was
more interested in you than trying to be interesting himself,” said Yarnall.
The Elvis Expo also showed off Elvis Presley's 1969 Mercedes Benz limousine.
It is loaded with all kinds of extra amenities like a sunroof, telephone and
television.
In remembrance of Elvis, the usual candlelight vigil will be held Friday,
August 15, 2008, at 8:00 p.m. This is where fans can walk up his driveway at
Graceland to Elvis’ gravesite with a candle in remembrance of him.
Devotion of Elvis collectors and fans alike only grows, even 31 years after the death of The King.
Is Elvis still alive? Enough people think that they have sighted Elvis to
make others stop to think that The King really still might be alive. After
all, Jerry Glanville, the former National Football League head coach of the
Atlanta Falcons and the Houston Oilers, leaves tickets for Elvis to games he
coaches. In addition, couples will trek to Las Vegas' The Elvis Wedding
Chapel, among others, to get married by none other than – Elvis himself!
Whether you believe that Elvis is still among the living – or died that
fateful day of August 16, 1977 – is a personal decision. However, the
undeniable fact remains that Elvis' memories are very much alive among
billions of people across the world, and very definitely alive among
collectors of Elvis memorabilia. You don't need to have gone to an Elvis
concert, or even have been alive for that matter when he was a performer, to
realize the impact of his music. There is a reason why Elvis was selected by
the Atlantic Magazine as one of the top hundred most influential Americans
of the 20th century. As we know, Elvis was instrumental in bridging the
generation gap, although that was not the feeling in the beginning. The "Elvis
the Pelvis" nickname, usually used derogatorily, and the banning of his
appearing on the small screen from the waist down, did eventually give way
to the general acceptance of Elvis as a musical innovator, a respected movie
actor, and a very generous and giving person.
As an example of Elvis' generosity, in 1961 he gave a benefit concert in
Hawaii that raised $65,000 toward the building of the U.S.S. Arizona
Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Adjusted for inflation, in today's dollars the
figure is about $4 million. With his help, the memorial opened a year later.
In 1970, the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, or Jaycees, named him
as one of the ten outstanding young men in the United States.
Elvis Presley's popularity has been evident to the United States government
as well. Besides Elvis' well-documented meeting with President Nixon on
December 21, 1970, the U.S. Postal Service announced in 1992 that Elvis'
image would be used for a commemorative postage stamp. In an unprecedented
move, the Postal Service let the American public decide whether to use the
image of Elvis as a young rocker or one of him starring in a special
Hawaiian performance. The image of the young rocker won out, and the Elvis
stamp is the most widely publicized stamp issue in history, and the top
selling commemorative postage of all time. More than 500 million Elvis
stamps have been printed, more than three times the print run for any other
commemorative stamp.
Collectors are often quick to point out that because such a huge number of
Elvis stamps that were issued, that the value of an individual stamp is
minimal. However, the stamp issued in 1993 does serve as a good memory of
Elvis.
Some Elvis collectibles are extremely valuable, and are in demand by
collectors. In fact, any Elvis collectible would be a treasure in any pop
culture collection. The most expensive piece of Elvis memorabilia, Elvis'
peacock jumpsuit performance costume, recently sold for $300,000. Previous
to the selling of this jumpsuit, the record for an Elvis collectible was
$295,000 for one of his classic cars. An Elvis jeweled cape was auctioned
for $105,250 a few years ago. One of his leather jackets went for $37,000,
and his personal script for the film "Love Me Tender" sold for $5,400.
The value of his items keeps on increasing. Elvis' memorabilia, if you can
even find them, trade for record prices. Keep in mind that you don't have to
go for the most expensive pieces. Collectors should stay within their
financial limits. Yes, it is nice to own an Elvis cape, or his personal
movie script, but even owning a movie poster or record album of the King is
a collectible that the average collector can afford, and be very comfortable
with. Of course, if the movie poster or album is signed, its value is
increased.
Some names add cachet to a house years after they have moved on.
Elvis Presley definitely falls into that category. Now his Palm Springs
home, basically his "Graceland West" is up for sale in a pocket listing
(meaning I can't direct you to a listing page). The home is located in
the foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains in Palm Springs. Elvis lived
in the home for almost eight years (he purchased it in 1970) and spent
his last birthday there.
The approximately 5,000 square foot home has four bedrooms. Architect
Albert Frey designed the Spanish-style stucco home which includes
Presley's bedroom suite with two complete bathrooms, a sunken black and
red tile tub, and dressing area. The living room has a cathedral beamed
ceiling and overlooks the pool. The home is being sold with Presley's
original kitchen appliances, a separate indoor sauna and steam room,
plus his private covered Jacuzzi.
Just last year Reno Fontana and his wife, Laura bought the home and
announced plans to restore it and offer it as a West Coast destination
for Elvis fans. They also created a website dedicated to the home which
does show a few interior pictures of the vintage decor and Elvis movie
posters and gold records on the walls.
The property is approximately two acres and is listed at $17 million.
For more information about the property, or to request a showing,
contact Honey Brooks at 415.435.2585 or honeybrooksrealtor (at)
comcast.net.
A Japanese commercial for a Japanese Elvis themed Pachinko, Japanese pinball
Machine
Click Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c1OUwwtxeA
** Please double-check your local listings; the TCM
schedules I looked at had some discrepancies.
Ernst Jorgensen On Elvis
Ernst Jorgensen, one of the key experts on Elvis' recording career, talks
about the music of 'The King'.
Mon Aug 11 2:30 PM TCM
Sun Aug 17 12:45 AM TCM
Kissin' Cousins (1964)
Directed by Gene Nelson.
There's double trouble for Elvis Presley as a US Airforce officer who must
persuade his look-a-like cousin to allow a missile base to be built on his
farm.
Mon Aug 11 3:00 PM TCM
Jerry Schilling on Elvis 07
Elvis' great friend, movie stand-in and author, Jerry Schilling, shares his
personal memories of the 'The King'.
Tue Aug 12 2:25 PM TCM
Sat Aug 16 8:30 PM TCM
Mon Aug 25 2:25 PM TCM
Live A Little, Love A Little (1968)
Directed by Norman Taurog. Starring: Elvis Presley, Michelle Carey, Rudy
Vallee, Don Porter, Dick Sargent
Elvis stars as a playboy photographer who finds himself amorously ensnared
by a vivid young woman who has designs on his bachelorhood. 86 mins. Colour.
Tue Aug 12 3:00 PM TCM
Fri Aug 29 12:35 AM TCM
101 Best Kept Hollywood Secrets
The final 20 skeletons in the Tinseltown closet, featuring the film critic
who was an invention of a movie studio to provide guaranteed good press, the
cast of Star Wars making an ill-advised foray into television and Janet
Jackson causing uproar among the Superbowl audience. Russell Crowe, Elvis
Presley and Sylvester Stallone also make the list, as well as the story of
how Ozzy Osbourne managed to offend the entire population of Texas
Thu Aug 14 7:00 AM E!
The E! True Hollywood Story: The Last Days of Elvis
An insight into the final days of rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley.
Sat Aug 16 2:00 PM E!
Mon Aug 18 10:00 AM E!
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Directed by Richard Thorpe. Starring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey
Shaugnessey
The ultimate big-screen Presley offering, with ʽThe Kingʼ rockinʼ both the
prison and the music world in the movie that many consider to be his best.
93 mins. B/W
Sat Aug 16 3:00 PM TCM
Sat Aug 16 9:00 PM TCM
Sun Aug 17 9:00 AM TCM
Adrian Wootton On Elvis 2007
A tribute to the 'King'. Adrian Wootten, CEO of Film London and the UK Elvis
fan club introduces his favourite moments from Elvis' film career.
Sat Aug 16 4:35 PM TCM
Tue Aug 26 2:30 PM TCM
Double Trouble (1967)
Directed by Norman Taurog.
Elvis Presley attracts the amorous attentions of a young heiress while he's
touring Br
