“…F*CK, F*CK YOU VERY MUCH” “…they convinced me that no teenager was safe around Elvis Presley,” Judge Gooding recorded years later. “…they wanted me to watch him in the theater and they wanted me to watch his hotel room.…
ELVIS AND HIS TIME Billboard in 1954 In this year, 1954, the music of the adolescent rebellion was not yet on the rise: Rock And Roll, which was beginning to rear its head in a rather timid way. Thus,…
ELVIS AND HIS SOCIO-CULTURAL IMPACT. OTTAWA, CANADA , APRIL 3, 1957 Elvis performed on stage at the Ottawa Auditorium on April 3, 1957. He arrived at Ottawa’s Union Station the same morning. At the previous night’s performance in Toronto…
1954 On July 5 and 6, Elvis’s first recording session takes place at the Sun. It’s like the “Big Bang” of the music world, the beginning of a new era. From that moment there is a before and after.…
ELVIS “HIS FIRST SCREEN AUDIO” A sweet story… March 1956 Maureen Stapleton wrote in her memoir “A Hell of a Life” that at that moment she too was in Hollywood for an audition. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); All…
THE KING AND THE PRINCESS Elvis and Jocelyn Lane, during the filming of the movie “Tickle Me“. The film was shot between the months of October and December 1964 and was directed by Norman Taurog. (adsbygoogle =…
ELVIS IN HIS SUITE AT THE WARWICK HOTEL. MARCH 17, 1956 NEW YORK Elvis takes advantage of a break between rehearsal and the evening’s performance to be held at the Dorsey Brothers’ “Stage Show” to return to his hotel.…
Elvis and Alfred Wertheimer It happened in the Chattanooga Train Station Cafeteria. At a stop to change trains, during the trip from New York to Memphis. July 4, 1956. “One time, at the Chattanooga Tennessee railway station, we are waiting…
ELVIS PICTURES Chattanooga, Tennessee, July 4, 1956. The train from New York to Memphis, where Elvis was traveling back home -at 1034 Audubon Drive- makes a stop to rest and have breakfast. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Elvis is…
IF YOU TALK IN YOUR SLEEP A funky song in the vein of “If You Don’t Come Back“, but with very suggestive lyrics. It’s a song about adultery. Recorded in December 1973 and released as a single, the song…
ELVIS PICTURES After his long train ride from New York, Elvis arrives home. After having been in the pool and having taken a shower, still barefoot and bare-chested, Elvis listens together with his girlfriend, Barbara Hearn, on the phonograph,…
ELVIS CHRISTMAS THE SINGLES COLLECTION In the “Gold Standard” series comes a box of eight singles on red or green vinyl, plus 1 CD: “Elvis Christmas – The Singles Collection”. Record 1: Blue Christmas – White Christmas (With Count…
