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...
IN AMERICA, THE TASK OF RELEASING ELVIS’ INCREDIBLE RUN OF ’56-’57 SINGLES FELL TO RCA VICTOR, WHILE IN THE UK HE WAS CHAMPIONED BY THAT MOST BRITISH OF LABELS, HMV. AND AS TREVOR SIMPSON REVEALS, THERE WAS THE MAHER OF THAT DOG . . ....
THE FIRST IS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC ALBUM COVERS OF ALL TIME, AND THE MUSIC IS AS RELEVANT TODAY AS EVER. MICHAEL HEATLEY TELLS THE TALE OF ELVIS’ DEBUT LP’S . . ....