Tag: Elvis Presley

Few industries can thrill you one second and humble you the next quite like the music business—a tough lesson Mac Davis learned the hard way while enjoying a movie night with the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley, at the Memphian Movie Theater in the early 1970s. During a 2013 appearance on The Music […]

It was June 1973, backstage at the Houston Astrodome—a place usually filled with noise, tension, and anticipation. Muhammad Ali had just completed a press conference, gloves removed, his legendary bravado softened by exhaustion as sweat dried on his brow. Then, almost like a scene from a dream, Elvis Presley appeared. Draped in a shimmering sequined […]

The Baz Luhrmann film is coming to cinemas in February. The first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert film has just dropped – check it out here. The film, which is set for release next year, features long-lost footage of the legendary singer’s Las Vegas residency alongside 16mm footage from the 1972 […]

The 20th century was when the idea of modern pop music was invented, and sure, Mozart may well have been a proverbial chart topper in the 18th century and a pop star to the royal elite of the gallery, but music delivered with lyricism and centred around what we now know as a hook only […]

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, has been the patron saint of the goths for nearly 45 years now, beginning with her debut hosting Elvira’s Movie Macabre, a weekly B-movie series, in 1981. The vampiric pinup, known for her jet-black gown and matching beehive hair-do, voluptuous figure and campy, satirical humour, has become an icon synonymous […]

Not only was Elvis Presley the ‘King’ of rock and roll, but he also presided over the pop charts with an equal level of regality and divine right; in many ways, he was the first proper pop star, and that fact is certainly reflected in the sheer number of hits the rock and roller entered […]