FLAMING STAR– A Challenging Role for Presley –(Part 5) Black Star Up until now, the stories written for Presley’s films have been tailored to his individual style and personality. His singing voice and his youthful exuberance ,” wrote the March 1961…
FLAMING STAR– A Challenging Role for Presley –(Part 4) By Mariusz Ogieglo Summer Kisses… Before Elvis returned to the Hollywood camera, he spent several weeks with his closest family and friends in his native Memphis. The singer divided his free…
The Elvis Presley phenomenon ” I read comic books and I was a comic book hero ,” Elvis said at the 1970 Ten Most Outstanding Young Americans awards ceremony. The appearance of Elvis Presley on the music market in the mid-1950s not…
FLAMING STAR– A Challenging Role for Presley –(Part 3) By Mariusz Ogieglo The leading female role – Clint’s crush, Roslyn Pierce, was initially given to the “first lady of horror in Britain ” * British actress Barbara Steele. “There were close to two…
FLAMING STAR– A Challenging Role for Presley –(Part 2) By Mariusz Ogieglo The inclusion of Elvis in the cast of the new film did not arouse the same enthusiasm among everyone. Nunnally Johnson, upon learning that “his script would be…
…an extraordinary souvenir and a lesson about what it once meant to be a collector in Poland By Mariusz Ogieglo Elvis Presley left an indelible mark on the history of popular music. His songs, the way they were interpreted, and…
FLAMING STAR – a demanding role for Presley (Part 1) By Mariusz Ogieglo Billboards promoting the spring 1960 comedy “GIBlues” encouraged viewers to come to the theaters to see “a whole new Elvis.” Meanwhile, his ambitions to become a serious…
Special to ELVIS: Promised Land, a conversation with the author of “Operation Gratitude. Kill Colonel Parker” By Mariusz Ogieglo A few days ago, a book entitled “Operation Gratitude. Kill Colonel Parker” was released. It is a novel in which the…
THAT’S ALL RIGHT– The song that started a musical revolution – By Mariusz Ogieglo THAT’S ALL RIGHT – The song that started a musical revolution. Entering the recording studio on September 6, 1946, Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup (actually Arthur William…
Mark James is dead… By Mariusz Ogieglo The author of Elvis Presley’s unforgettable hits has died On June 8 this year, Mark James (actually Francis Rodney Zambon) died at the age of 83 – an American composer and lyricist whose…
One city. One artist and… some of the most important musical moments in his career By Mariusz Ogieglo “Hello Memphis! “, Elvis Presley shouted from the Mid South Coliseum stage in March 1974. Exactly fifty years later, the official publisher of…
GIBlues-Come see the new Elvis! –(Part 11, last) By Mariusz Ogieglo GI Blues Filmed in the spring of 1960, Presley’s fifth film was first shown in Dallas at the Majestic Theater there. The preview took place on Thursday, August 18,…
