After just one impromptu performance, the benchmark for Presley’s whole career was set - and the ears of a generation were ...

Elvis Presley first recorded a song in July 1953 at the historic Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, according to Ultimate ...

By the mid-1970s, his bodyguards said he hardly wanted to record music. He even avoided the home recording sessions for From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee. “Toward the end ...

Wise men say only fools don't listen to Elvis. The man could make reading the phone book entertaining (see: Memphis, Tennessee), and he took music out of the doldrums of doo-wop into the delights ...

When his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis’s exposure to Black musicians deepened even further. He would frequent Beale Street, the heart of the city’s music scene, where he forged ...

That storytelling power was something Elvis drew on heavily.” Lauterbach noted that Presley’s signature drawled out “Well…” was directly influenced by the music of Rev. Herbert Brewster, a regular on ...

Elvis Presley was a lot of things: rockstar, actor, soldier, style icon...magician? Miguel Conner makes a compelling case for the latter.

Thank you very much. The Nebraska Elvis Festival kicked off Friday in Lincoln with nine tribute artists performing at The ...

Q: Elvis aficionados know that Presley's breakout song, "That's All Right," was written and performed by Arthur Crudup and ...