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  • New Elvis Record

    The latest Elvis record is not the kind you download. If you were in Memphis, you knew you weren’t on Lonely Street at all those sold-out events. But Graceland spokesman Kevin Kern says the official attendance figure for the week was 75,000. Even in the sweltering heat, 55,000 took part in the candlelight vigil. “The […]

  • Vigil Night Revisited

    If the fans remember one thing about Vigil night on the 30th Anniversary of Elvis’ death, they’ll remember the heat. It was the kind of legendary heat we like to brag about in the South, but don’t ever want to be in. Plantation hot. Lemonade commercial hot.
    We knew last Sunday it would be an […]

  • Whitehaven’s All Shook Up, Part II

    So, Jennifer — our friendly neighborhood Walgreens “photo assistant” — did you ever locate that hand-held, Elvis-embossed fan the lady abandoned her purchase at the counter to try to find?
    I didn’t think so.
    What about the Elvis beer can opener? Or the house slippers made in his image?
    It’s always amazing what lengths “fans” (I shy quickly […]

  • Elvis really is everywhere, even if the last name isn’t Presley

    January 5th, 2008

    When Elvis Presley catapulted into stardom in 1956, his name sounded too good to be true, as if it had been snatched straight out of the humid Memphis air.
    It proved to be the perfect foil for conservative pundits, who nicknamed Elvis “the Pelvis” and rolled their eyes at the singing hip-swiveler christened with the cornpone […]

  • Last Elvis bike roars onto eBay

    January 4th, 2008

    The last motorcycle in a 30-edition “Elvis Presley 30th Anniversary Signature Motorcycle Collection” is being auctioned on eBay to benefit Presley Place, the transitional housing complex for homeless families.
    The auction will end on Tuesday, Elvis’ birthday, with a reserve price of $58,815 for the motorcycle, which is designed to look like Elvis’ 1957 black Harley-Davidson […]

  • On-screen smooch with Elvis still pays

    January 4th, 2008

    Elvis Presley had seen her in a TV sitcom and suggested her for a role in a 1964 movie in which he would tell her she was “as purty as a little ol’ speckled pup.”
    The movie was “Kissin’ Cousins,” in which Elvis played a dual role as an Army officer and as the officer’s hillbilly […]

  • Memphian Theatre

    Elvis often rented the old Memphian Theatre, now the site of Playhouse on the Square, for private screenings of movies.

  • Overton Park Shell

    Elvis, with Scotty Moore on guitar and Bill Black on bass, performed one of his first live performances at Slim Whitman’s show July 30, 1954. “We were all scared to death,” Scotty recalled. “Elvis, instead of just standing flat-footed and tapping his foot, he was kind of jiggling. … With those old loose britches that we wore, you shook your leg and it made it look like all hell was going on under there.”

  • Ranch House

    Elvis and his parents, Gladys and Vernon Presley, lived in this ranch-style house Elvis bought in 1956 for 13 months. Natalie Wood was a houseguest there four days.