I'll be looking for some good Elvis pictures to post here. If you have good Elvis pics, can you post them? Thanks !
Elvis is still The King!
I'll be looking for some good Elvis pictures to post here. If you have good Elvis pics, can you post them? Thanks !
Elvis is still The King!
If you have good Elvis pics, can you post them (and bump this article)? Thanks !
The next day we headed back to Lisa's place in Georgia, stopping in Tupelo, Mississippi to visit Elvis's birthplace: a very small house that his dad built for $180.
If anyone gets a chance to visit Memphis and Tupelo, it's well worth it. I left finally understanding what it means to be a fan of "the King".
this is a link to a video/audio webcast of the 2002 vigil. I need help finding the link for the 2002 vigil. site says it can be accessed today.
once again, thankyou-thankyouverymuch. A fan I am! with a personalized autograph.
http://www.elvis.com/graceland/calendar/elvis_week.asp
I saw him a couple of time in Vegas in the 70's. It was amazing how he could hold an audience in his hands.
The King is gone - but not forgotten.
The King is dead, long Live, uhm, the President?
Elvis, Schmelvis!
Remix, new boxed set prove the King still rules
By Bill Ellis
ellis@gomemphis.com
July 26, 2002
Elvis has left the building, you say? No such thing. Not only is the Big E still in the house, he is house (as in dance music).
Though it's been almost 25 years since Elvis Presley died at the "return to sender" age of 42, he is experiencing the most curious of revivals. And for once, it has less to do with the myth than the music.
Thanks to a techno remix of a throwaway movie track, Elvis has topped the singles charts globally. He's even done it by upsetting the summer's ubiquitous hit from Eminem, Without Me, on which the rapper declares, "Little hellions, kids feeling rebellious/Embarrassed, their parents still listen to Elvis."
The kids are listening too on A Little Less Conversation (4 stars), where Elvis is worth raving about again, so to speak.
The song, remixed by Dutch deejay act JXL (Junkie XL) for a Nike ad campaign, was originally recorded in 1968 for the Elvis flick Live a Little, Love a Little. On the new three-track single, released in America through the King's label RCA, you get both versions.
The difference? Not much really. One can see why RCA and Elvis Presley Enterprises finally allowed someone to tinker with their royal gold mine. JXL gets it. Like Fatboy Slim's appropriation of classic soul music for the Ibiza crowd, JXL takes what's inherently cool about Elvis - that voice for starters - and boosts it with a club-intoxicating rhythm, one that finds a colossal groove in the tiny tune.
No one could have predicted the song would become an international phenomenon (it has hit No. 1 in more than a dozen countries). And that's the eternal beauty of Elvis. No one saw him coming the first time around either.
For all its hullabaloo, A Little Less Conversation is mere icing on a multilayered cake of Elvis products to hit stores this summer.
