LOVING YOU Let’s have a party – (part 1) ” Of course, the Elvis movies that were finally made were made purely for profit ,” explained producer Hal B. Wallis in The Private Life of Elvis. “ (Elvis, author’s…
ELVIS’ WOMEN Premiering this week, “Elvis’ Women” aims to “…uncover a man who was far more complex than the public perception of the American icon,” according to the show’s synopsis on Amazon Prime. “Elvis’ Women” reveals more about the King…
THE ELVIS TOUR “FIRST PART” The logistics for an Elvis tour were impressive for the time. In essence, what Elvis and Colonel Parker accomplished was to bring the entire two-hour Vegas show to the road. The show was put…
“LOVE ME TENDER” Elvis Presley’s First Film Role (Part 12, Last) The media attacks on Presley continued even after the film’s nationwide release on November 21, 1956. Fortunately, the biting opinions of critics did not in the slightest affect…
ELVIS’S TRIBUTE TO MARTIN LUTHER KING Fifty-five years ago, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was standing on the second-story balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was shot by a sniper. Just 39…
ELVIS. “THE TROUBLE WITH GIRLS (AND HOW TO GET INTO IT)” Elvis filmed the movie “The Trouble With Girls” in October 1968. The movie opened in June 1969 in Dayton, Ohio, and on September 10, 1969 in Los Angeles.…
ELVIS PRESLEY AND LED ZEPPELIN The most popular and successful tours of the 1970s were Elvis Presley and Led Zeppelin, who played to crowds night after night. Coincidentally, both were with Concerts West, one of the largest tour promoters…
ELVIS AND EASTER Elvis’s parents, Vernon and Gladys, were always very devout people and gave their son a very traditional upbringing. We all know that Elvis was a very believer and highly spiritual man. He liked to celebrate all…
ELVIS “CLAMBAKE” 1967 Clambake is a 1967 film directed by Arthur H. Nadel and starring Elvis alongside Shelley Fabares and Bill Bixby. Clambake was the last of four Elvis films for United Artists. Filming for the film began on…
Another chapter, and I don’t know how many are coming, of the adventures and misadventures of our beloved Elvis by this prestigious American magazine, which on this occasion takes us to the year 1967, in which events took place…
ELVIS AS RECORDED AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (3-CD) Having wrapped up an immensely successful tour in April, which was filmed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the 1972 documentary Elvis On Tour, confidence in the Elvis camp was high as the four…
On November 15, 1956, New York’s Times Square was flooded with Elvis fans again. Gigantic queues of over three thousand young people formed at the entrance to the Paramount Theater as early as eight in the morning. As he…
