IT IS THE MOST FAMOUS HOME IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE. AS THE ANNIVERSARY OF WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ELVIS PRESLEY’S BOTH BIRTHDAY APPROACHES, FANS WILL FLOCK TO ROCK’N’ROLL’S MOST CELEBRATED LANDMARK. JULIE BURNS HAS RECENTLY RETURNED FROM GRACELAND . . ....
THIS EXTRACT FROM ELVIS: THE BEST OF BRITISH—1959-1960, TREVOR SIMPSON LOOKS AT HOW THE STAR’S FAME SURVIVED HIS ARMY YEARS . . ....
ON STAGE AND IN PRIVATE WITH FRIENDS, ELVIS LOVED NOTHING MORE THAN SINGING THE SPIRITUAL SONGS HE’D KNOWN SINCE CHILDHOOD. DAVID BURKE EXPLORES HOW THE MUSIC OF THE CHURCH INFLUENCED HIM RIGHT UP TO THE VERY END . . ....
ELVIS’ TORONTO SHOW IN THE SPRING OF ’57 WOULD PROVIDE A REVEALING ENCOUNTER WITH THE PRESS—AND ONE OF THE BEST EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE STAR. MICHAEL CONNOLLY LOOKS BACK....
Nick Adams stood under the sign marked “arrivals” and, fiddling nervously with the cigarette lighter he held in his hand, looked over at the large clock which stood by the gateway. Only one minute before the bus was due. He took a handkerchief from his pocket...
Tracy’s ponytail bobbed as she squatted down to pick a blue lupine. In the grass nearby, something moved sinuously, but neither Tracy nor her mother noticed it. Watching her fat and sassy two-year-old, Jean Simmons Granger enjoyed the warmth of the Arizona sun blazing in...
(Find your sign of the zodiac and peek into the future)...
ELVIS ADORED THE BLUES, GOSPEL AND R&B THAT SPRANG FROM THE C SOUTH, BUT DID HIS APPROPRIATION GO TOO FAR? THE JURY HAS T RETURNED, AND DAVID BURKE PRESENTS THE VERDICT . . ....
FOR A TRUE FAN, A TRIP TO TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI TO SEE THE TOWN AND ELVIS PRESLEY’S HUMBLE TWO-ROOM BIRTHPLACE IS AN EVENT THEY’LL REMEMBER FOR A LIFETIME. NARK HAGEN GOES BACK TO SEE WHERE IT ALL BEGAN . . ....
FROM THRILLING, CULTURE-SHIFING MOMENTS TO FORGETTABLE FLUFF AND THEN BACK AGAIN: BILL DAHL CHARTS THE HIGHS AND THE LOWS OF ELVIS PRESLEY’S FILM CAREER...