Forty-five years ago, on Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Presley was found dead in the bathroom of his palatial Graceland estate in Memphis — officially of cardiac arrest, but the medicine cabinet of prescription drugs in his system surely didn’t help. In the decades since, reviving Presley and his legacy has …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Kate Bush isn’t the only legacy musician experiencing a resurgence this summer — the general public just can’t contain their burning love for Elvis Presley after the release …
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Baz Luhrmann‘s box-office-topping new movie Elvis does manage to show the powerhouse singer Big Mama Thornton (played byShonka Dukureh)performing “Hound Dog,” a song she recorded in 1952, four years before Elvis Presley. But it leaves out two very significant players: songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who wrote “Hound Dog” …
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It’s been a while since I felt beaten up by a movie. Leave it to Baz Luhrmann to end that lucky streak. And with a movie about Elvis Presley, no less — hardly a subject to approach casually. Elvis, in the epic tradition of all of Luhrmann’s work, is a …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Fans of Elvis Presley have a new way to celebrate The King this year, with a new biopic hitting theaters and a new spirits release, appropriately dubbed “Elvis …
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A stacked career, a rise and fall, and rockstar love story. Austin Butler’s portrayal of the the King of Rock & Roll in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is coming to theaters in just a month, and Warner Brothers just released its second official trailer. The trailer opens with a contextualization from …
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Doja Cat is taking Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” back to its original blues roots: Big Mama Thornton. On Thursday, the singer released “Vegas,” her track from the upcomingElvisbiopic set to arrive June 24. The rap-filled track samples Thornton’s vocals and adds a Doja flair to a classic. In the lyrics, …
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E lvis Presley had been dead for six months when the plastic-surgeon’s knife plunged into Dennis Wise. There Wise lay, on a table in an Orlando hospital, surrounded by photos of the King. He knew what was coming, but the reality of it didn’t really hit him until the doctor, …
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In June 1970, Elvis Presley made the trip east from his Graceland home in Memphis to Nashville, where he holed up in RCA Studio B on Music Row for five days of recording. Presley, who was in the midst of his Las Vegas comeback at the International Hotel, was joined …
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