Before her sudden death at just 54 last year, Lisa Marie Presley had been working on her memoir with her eldest 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
They’re two American icons and did you know Clint Eastwood, who turns 94 today, and Elvis Presley used to hang out as friends? It turns out around the time the Western star was filming the TV show Rawhide he’d often bump into The King who was filming his 1960s rom-coms. The gun-loving singer especially liked … Read more
Elvis Presley’s Graceland opened to the public in 1982, five years after the star’s death. Today the Memphis mansion is the second most visited home in the US after The White House, but The King’s mysterious upstairs remains off-limits to the public. Graceland’s upstairs was Elvis’ private space in life and remains so after his … Read more
Looking at the lovely picture below you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a lovely shot of Elvis Presley and his future wife Priscilla Presley. It’s actually The King with brunette beauty Joan Blackman. They starred together in two films, Blue Hawaii and Kid Galahad, and engaged in a passionate affair. Indeed, Elvis hoped to … Read more
Things could have been so different for Elvis Presley. He entered a (tragically rather brief) renaissance at the end of the 1960s that might have taken his career in a fulfilling new direction, restored his spirits and prevented the impending reliance on prescription drugs. However, one man stood in his way and although The King … Read more
On this day in 1960, the biggest stars of their respective eras smiled, palled around and ‘danced’ together on television. But behind the scenes was a history of veiled insults, plus a surprising current love triangle and a tangled future. Just two years before, Frank Sinatra had publicly blasted rock and roll: “It is the … Read more
During Elvis Presley’s 20 years living at Graceland, the star was not short of eccentric habits inside his Memphis playground. This was especially so in moments of enthusiasm and emotion, often involving a gun. Yet aside from firing bullets at TVs and toilets, The King also caused some damage with his karate moves, alongside a … Read more
When fans visit the Graceland mansion today you may not be able to go upstairs, but you can see up the main staircase. If you look closely from the bottom of the stairs, you can see there’s a security wall on the first-floor landing with one-way mirrors so the King could see who was around. … Read more
Priscilla and Elvis cut the cake at their wedding 1967 (Image: GETTY) Elvis Presley said the two magical and binding traditional words to Priscilla at a wedding that seemed like a fairytale from the pictures beamed around the world. The reality was a rapid eight-minute ceremony attended by only 14 guests (leaving many close friends … Read more
As Elvis Presley’s fame increased during the late fifties, his security needed to grow with it. The King moved himself and his extended family into Graceland in 1957, where his Uncle Travis Smith was hired as a guard at the front gates. Aside from having family members as security guards, Elvis also installed surveillance systems … Read more
