One of Elvis Presley’s most famous movies has to be 1957’s Jailhouse Rock, which is on BBC Two today. The film saw The King play Vince Everett, who was sentenced to prison for manslaughter before rising to fame as a musician. His co-star was Judy Tyler, who played Peggy Van Alden, a music promoter who … Read more
Elvis Presley’s home has been open to the public as a museum for over 40 years, but nobody is allowed upstairs. That is unless you are Priscilla Presley, his granddaughter Riley Keough or someone with special permission like Graceland’s Vice President of Archives and Exhibits Angie Marchese. Even when Elvis first moved into Graceland back … Read more
Elvis Presley and Whitney Houston were two of America’s biggest singers ever. But did you know the incredible links between the two late stars? Back in 1963, Whitney’s mother Cissy Houston became part of a backing singer group called The Sweet Inspirations who performed around the USA with some huge headliners like Aretha Franklin and … Read more
Elvis Presley shot to fame as a singing sensation back in 1956, but his manager Colonel Tom Parker also had a vision for his client to become a Hollywood movie star. That same year The King acted in his first film, a Western called Love Me Tender. Among his musical romantic comedies, he starred in … Read more
It was 55 years ago this week when Elvis Presley performed his first show in Las Vegas marking an iconic return to live performing. The King has spent a decade exclusively making mostly poor Hollywood movies until his 1968 Comeback Special on TV reignited his hunger for the music once again. Gaining the confidence to … Read more
Before her sudden death last year, Lisa Marie Presley had been working on a “raw” and “vulnerable” autobiography with help from her daughter Riley Keough. The highly-anticipated work will delve into the late star’s childhood with her father Elvis Presley, who died when she was just nine, to her four failed marriages including to Michael Jackson … Read more
It has been a one-off opportunity for fans of the King of Rock’n’Roll. Many of the 400 or so items that have taken centre stage in the UK exhibition had never left Elvis’s Graceland mansion since his death more than four decades ago. They were deemed so personal and precious that they were kept at … Read more
Elvis Presley had quite the collection of vehicles, including a 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood, a De Tomaso Pantera and a Stutz Blackhawk. He also had an old private jet that sat rusting away for several decades before a YouTuber swept in and saved it from the scrapheap. Instead of returning it to the skies, they did … Read more
It was 61 years ago today when Bye Bye Birdie star Ann-Margret started shooting Viva Las Vegas with Elvis Presley himself. A couple of years ago she was inducted into the UNLV College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame at the university where a musical number from the movie was shot. Beforehand, the 83-year-old shared … Read more
Elvis made his ‘best’ film in 1957 but it broke his heart (Image: GETTY) Elvis loved movies. He had worked as an usher in his teenage years, idolising the likes of Tony Curtis and dreaming of being on the big screen himself one day. After he rocketed to fame in 1955, he was mobbed everywhere … Read more
