A clump of hair believed to have been trimmed from Elvis Presley's head when he joined the Army in 1958 has sold for $15,000 at a Chicago auction house. Also among the 200...
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A few months after the Beatles box sets made retailers scramble to fill orders, the King of Rock 'n' Roll is getting the royal treatment. Legacy Recordings is...
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Courtesy of NME.com -- Larry Knechtel worked with The Byrds and The Mamas and the Papas Keyboardist Larry Knechtel has passed away aged 69. The musician recorded and...
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Elvis Presley fans flocking to Memphis this weekend to remember the day he died are being encouraged to also celebrate the 40th anniversary of his final No. 1 hit single,...
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The poetry doesn't rise to a Shakespearean level, but the sentiments in Bono's tribute to Elvis Presley seem heartfelt. In an unusual performance, the U2 frontman — a...
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Elvis Presley always wanted a youth center in his birthplace of Tupelo. Fans hope a new specialty license plate will help pay for it, more than 50 years after the rock 'n'...
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Can you afford Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes? What about his jumpsuit? The auctioneer Gotta Have It Collectibles is selling more than 500 pieces of Elvis memorabilia...
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Elvis Presley memorabilia including a performance jumpsuit and a grand piano he played at Graceland went on auction on Monday in a demonstration of his commercial appeal 31...
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Fans gathered for a cake-cutting on Elvis Presley's 74th birthday and got word of two new residents at Graceland. Presley's ex-wife, Priscilla Presley, led several hundred...
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So you fancy yourself a singer, eh ... alone, in your car, with the windows up, when no one's looking. Well, now you can test your pipes against Martina McBride and Elvis...
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After not charting on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart for 10 years, Elvis Presley has logged his second new entry in two weeks. "Blue Christmas," a duet with...
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A guitar set alight onstage by Jimi Hendrix during a concert in London was sold at auction on Thursday for $497,500 to a U.S. collector. The scorched Fender Stratocaster...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Mary Lou Martell put it off as long as she could. But she finally had to head to Memphis for an anniversary vigil at Elvis Presley's grave. "It's...
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It was October 26, 1956, seven weeks after Elvis Presley's first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The host didn't really want the hip-shaking rock...
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When Elvis Presley made his TV special in 1968, he was coming off a string of forgettable films and a long dry spell on the charts, and the rock 'n' roll music he'd helped...
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The marriage didn't last all that long, but for the Elvis Presley faithful, the wedding day is special still. And now, Elvis fans have the official, Graceland-approved Elvis...
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Elvis Presley's favorite performance costume, the peacock jumpsuit, sold for $300,000 Thursday, making it the most expensive piece of Elvis memorabilia sold at auction. The...
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Celebrity psychic Uri Geller and two partners have lost a federal lawsuit claiming the former owners of Elvis Presley's pre-Graceland house breached an eBay contract to sell...
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A Mississippi Blues Trail marker will be placed at the birthplace of Elvis Presley on Tuesday.
The ceremony will honor Presley for his contribution to Mississippi and...
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Don't count Andy Key as one of those Elvis Presley fanatics who insist the King never died.
Key, 38, said he's "open to the possibility" Presley is alive, but he's counting...
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Meet the new king. Not the same as the old King.
Garth Brooks, who edged out Elvis Presley in 1999 for the title of best-selling solo artist of all time, only to lose it...
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If Elvis were here today, he might say, "Thank you, thank you very much" for the 17 years that an odd Missouri outpost has been making the case that the King never...
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Elvis Presley is still the King.
Presley, who earned an estimated $49 million in the past 12 months, has reclaimed the No. 1 spot on Forbes.com's list of Top-Earning Dead...
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter)- "Troy" screenwriter David
Benioff has signed on to write a movie about late rocker Kurt
Cobain.
Many of the details of the Universal...
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It's a familiar tune, a sad lament actually, about a product falling victim to counterfeiters. Lately, they've been picking on guitars.
Last month, a Long Island music...
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A handgun stolen from an exhibit during last week's commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death has been recovered.
Surveillance video showed a man...
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Under a scorching sun at Graceland, his beloved home, fans streamed by Elvis Presley's grave on Thursday, the 30th anniversary of the death of the king of rock `n' roll. It...
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — A dentist has purchased an unusual bit of Elvis memorabilia — a porcelain crown that covered a gap in the King's teeth and the plaster mold...
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Thousands of Elvis Presley
fans, many carrying pictures of the late singer, braved a
sweltering heat wave to stream through Presley's Memphis home
on Thursday to mark...
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Thousands of Elvis Presley fans braved 105-degree heat as they wound down Graceland's driveway in a graveside procession Wednesday in advance of the 30th anniversary of the...
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You'll find no Heartbreak Hotel in Bangkok, but the spirit of Elvis endures in this cosmopolitan Southeast Asian capital three decades after the passing of the king of rock...
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Call it the international
house of Presley. With tens of thousands of Elvis Presley fans
gathered in Memphis to mark the 30th anniversary of the
singer's death, a...
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A German man gazes reverently at a
silver can of deodorant and a white bottle of "high potency"
antacid. He knows that these two items, on display at a Berlin
exhibition,...
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A new video of Lisa Marie Presley singing "In the Ghetto," accompanied by her late father, Elvis Presley, will be posted Friday on the AOL Internet site Spinner.com, a...
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Thirty years after the King's death, hundreds of imitators continue to make a living off his music.
Matt Lewis is known as one of the best in the business. For six years,...
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Finally welcomed by Graceland after all these years, Elvis Presley impersonators need to keep one basic rule in mind — respect the King.
Managers of Presley's home in...
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D. Edward Stanley is royalty by marriage. His mother's.
On July 3, 1960, Stanley's mom, Dee, married Vernon Presley, widower father of Elvis Presley, the king of rock 'n'...
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Elvis Presley pretenders in bespangled jumpsuits and 1950s sportcoats gyrated across a Memphis stage for the opening round of the first "tribute-artist" contest with an...
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An Elvis Presley fan wants to give Graceland a run for the money by refurbishing the King's old desert home as a tourist attraction.
Reno Fontana and his wife, Laura,...
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The thousands of Elvis Presley fans descending on Memphis for the 30th anniversary of his death Aug. 16 won't see much sign of it, but plans are moving along for big-time...
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Elvis lives, and he hasn't aged a bit since his legendary 1973 "Aloha from Hawaii" concert.
A life-sized statue of Elvis Presley was unveiled Thursday at the site of the...
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His movies weren't exactly works of art, but for the fans there was something magical about Elvis Presley on the big screen, dancing and flirting with one starlet after...
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Rock 'n' roll pioneer Bo
Diddley, hospitalized by a stroke on Sunday, was up and walking
around on Thursday but still struggling to communicate, his
longtime manager...
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The Originator is on bed rest.
Pioneering rock-and-roller Bo Diddley suffered a stroke Sunday and is currently in intensive care at Creighton University Medical Center in...
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The Hardest Working Man in Show Business can finally rest in peace...at least for a while.
James Brown's body was placed in a crypt at the Beech Island, South...
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Guitarist Steve Cropper loves to tell
how he auditioned Otis Redding, but there is nothing but pain
when he recalls the day the soul-music giant died in a plane
crash 40...
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Singer and actress Barbara McNair,
who starred opposite Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier and
became one of the first black women to host her own television
variety show, has...
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Papa don't take no mess, especially when it comes to being laid to rest.
Eleven days after the last of several memorial services, James Brown has yet to be buried, as his...
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Girl Power is alive and well.
With the film doing record business at the box office and picking up plenty of awards mojo going into the Oscar season, the Dreamgirls...
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The improbable meeting between two of the biggest cultural icons of the 1970s lasted all of 30 minutes, but it has fascinated the nation for years.
A photo of a cloaked...
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More than 8,500 James Brown fans filled an arena bearing his name Saturday in a final, joyful farewell to the singer that seemed as fitting for a civil rights leader as for...
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Teenagers in the 1950s and '60s went wild over Elvis Presley, much to the consternation of their parents, but kids in the new millennium aren't so stirred by rock 'n' roll's...
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Pierre Delanoe, who wrote the lyrics for more than 5,000 songs for French artists from Edith Piaf to Johnny Hallyday, died Wednesday. He was 88.
Delanoe died of heart...
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This year's Wonders of America set climbed to second place in the most popular stamps, but Elvis is still the King, the Postal Service said Tuesday.
Some 124.1 million of...
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Munching fishbrain bread from Finland,
chewing bull's testicles in Buenos Aires -- touring with the
rock band Franz Ferdinand can be a real culinary adventure.
But no...
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A Texas bookstore owner bought a rare
page of working lyrics for Beatle Paul McCartney's song
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" for $192,000 at an auction of rock
and pop...
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When finance minister Gordon Brown
stands up to make his pre-budget speech next week, aging
rockers Cliff Richard, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones might
do well to tune...
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Maybe he should retire more often.
Lest anyone think his star power faded during his two-year recording hiatus, Jay-Z celebrated his rap comeback by topping one of the...
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Bono, the Irish rock star and outspoken
campaigner against poverty and AIDS, praised Japan's policies
on those issues on Wednesday, in a departure from his usual
criticism...
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The Elvis Presley impersonators who have hung around the fringes of Graceland for years are finally being invited up to the big house.
On the 30th anniversary of Presley's...
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British crooner Engelbert Humperdinck says he was inspired by Elvis, lucky to have a wife
who did not mind women throwing panties at him, and once fired
a manager who made...
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Grammy Award-winning singer Freddy Fender, whose country and Hispanic-flavored music reached
across ethnic boundaries to find a broad audience, died of
cancer on Saturday at...
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Elvis Presley will be reunited with Sun Records as part of a licensing agreement between the owner of the historic label and the singer's estate.
Sun Entertainment Corp....
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Fifty years after the "King of Rock 'n' Roll" played at a fair in his birthplace, the long-defunct Tupelo Elvis Presley Fan Club has been revived.
Presley was born Jan. 8,...
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Known for his paintings of cozy cottages, country gardens and churches, artist Thomas Kinkade has created a similar tranquil scene in his painting of Elvis Presley's famous...
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The Who kicked off the U.S. leg of
their first world tour for more than 20 years on Tuesday with a
two-hour set that included a full complement of classic hits, a
smattering...
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Brooks & Dunn and Brad Paisley were both nominated for six Country Music Association Awards, but Ronnie Dunn emerged as the leader with seven nominations, including one for...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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When he was 12, Jerry Schilling couldn't believe the voice he heard on the radio singing "That's All Right" belonged to a teenager from his own north Memphis...
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Attention Elvis impersonators: you
may soon have a new way to make a living. Cirque du Soleil said
on Thursday it plans to create a permanent Elvis Presley show
for the...
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Teddy bears, roses and love notes covered Elvis Presley's grave Wednesday, left by the thousands of fans who flocked to his former residence, Graceland, on the 29th...
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A guard dog has ripped apart a collection of rare teddy bears, including one once owned by Elvis Presley, during a rampage at a children's museum.
"He just went berserk,"...
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With rock 'n' roll music blaring and a sand sculpture of music legends as a backdrop, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford walked off the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour bus on...
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He wasn't wearing blue suede fins, but an Elvis impersonator was among the snorkelers and divers who swam in the Underwater Music Festival.
Neil Goldberg, of Key West,...
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It didn't take much coaxing from President Bush to get Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to croon some Elvis tunes Friday at the king of rock 'n' roll's Graceland...
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Various Artists, "Rockin' Bones" (Rhino)
Raw. That's a good word to describe the new 4-disc box set "Rockin' Bones" which celebrates 1950s rockabilly music and some tunes...
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The steel-rimmed derby used by the villainous Oddjob in the James Bond movie "Goldfinger" was auctioned for $33,600.
The hat was among several celebrity items, including...
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The most popular recording this year
may not be a song, but rather a five-note melody called
"Bamboo."
The simple chant of the word, composed by the relatively
unknown...
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Uri Geller's dream of turning the first
home Elvis Presley owned into a museum dedicated to the
paranormal has been dealt a setback nearly as bizarre as the
spoon-bending...
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Elvis has left the building...and joined the circus.
CKX Inc., the parent company of Elvis Presley Enterprises, has announced
a long-term partnership with Canadian-based...
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Elvis Presley is going on a worldwide circus tour. CKX Inc., the parent company of Elvis Presley Enterprises, announced a long-term joint venture Thursday with Cirque du...
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Psychic Uri Geller and two partners
have bought the Tennessee house Elvis Presley lived in before
moving to Graceland, with a winning bid of $905,100 on eBay, he
said on...
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Calling Elvis Presley America's "first idol," Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley welcomed the finalists of "American Idol" to Graceland amid cameras and screaming fans.
The...
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South Korean singer Yoon Gye-sang faced
what might be called his Elvis Presley moment.
Although not nearly the earth shaker Presley was when he
was drafted in the 1950s,...
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His was the voice of heartache and the lovelorn in the world of early rock'n'roll. Roy Orbison, who died in 1988 at age 52 of a heart attack, has been a member of the Rock...
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Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, New
Orleans-based music festival the Ponderosa Stomp will take
place May 8-10 at the Gibson Guitar factory in downtown
Memphis.
The...
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Singer Michael Jackson is close to a
deal that would help him to avert bankruptcy by refinancing
hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, the New York Times
said on...
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Elvis may have left it, but this building will be sticking around
for a long time.
The U.S. Department of Interior officially
designated Graceland, the beloved Memphis...
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The home of the King of Rock 'n' Roll joined the homes of presidents past and present in becoming a National Historic Landmark Monday.
Graceland, where Elvis Presley died...
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Elvis Presley had a reputation as a night owl and a new exhibit that opened Monday at Graceland gives a peek into his nocturnal activities.
There's the jukebox, wrapped in...
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Frank Sinatra was mocked for his
seemingly interminable comebacks. Now cutting-edge technology
and the backing of his daughter Nancy mean Ol'Blue Eyes is
ready for yet...
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A movie deal. Check. A new jewelry line. Check. Another bunch of
music awards. Check.
Not a bad week's work for Mariah Carey,
who capped a busy seven days--and an...
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The eighth Elvis Presley Festival will include a musical mix featuring gospel, hard rockers and tribute artists, organizers said.
On June 2, the Main Stage will feature...
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The billionaire media mogul who holds an 85 percent stake in Elvis Presley Enterprises wants Graceland to become an international tourist attraction on par with Disneyland...
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When Andrea Bocelli started the planning for his latest pop project, the classical crossover star imagined himself singing the great songs popularized by Frank...
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Crank up the band, it's party time at the Copacabana.
In a battle of retro pop and opera for chart supremacy (now there's a
phrase we don't write often enough), Barry...
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The studio where Elvis Presley recorded "Heartbreak Hotel" is being torn down.
And some say it's just heartbreaking.
"I'm disappointed that the studio is being torn...
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The recording studio where Elvis Presley recorded "Heartbreak Hotel" is being torn down to make room for a parking lot.
And some say it's just heartbreaking.
"I'm...
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An Australian woman will face court on
Tuesday charged with repeatedly stabbing her partner because he
played an Elvis Presley song over and over again, police said
on...
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Veteran U.S. R&B act the Pointer
Sisters have been enjoying unexpected chart action in Belgium
with a cover version of Eurythmics' 1985 hit "Sisters Are Doing
It for...
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A court ruled Friday that hundreds of rare Elvis Presley records and pieces of memorabilia collected by a woman who stole almost $1 billion from her employer must be...
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Nothing quite captures the holiday spirit like American Idol
stars fighting for stocking-stuffer supremacy.
And once again
Bo Bice's strong showing was no match for the...
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Garth Brooks is ropin' in a new missus.
The country
crooner got hitched Saturday to fellow Nashville star Trisha Yearwood,
his publicist announced to Access Hollywood.
...
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For Big & Rich, the CMAs in New York was more than unusual — it was out of this world.
John Rich brought three dates with him — each with purple hair, raccoon...
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Mike Curb has gotten a lot out of
the music business in the past 42 years. Now, he is in the
process of giving back.
As chairman of Curb Records, he runs the only label...
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Legendary singer/songwriter Sam
Cooke had a dream. So did biographer Peter Guralnick. Their
visions intertwine in Guralnick's new book, "Dream Boogie: The
Triumph of Sam...
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Sorry Johnny, Oprah and Madonna — you just missed the cut.
Variety ranks the top 10 entertainment icons of the century in a new commemorative issue marking the trade...
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Fats Domino proved you can go home again. You just might not like
what you see.
The rock 'n' roll pioneer returned to his New
Orleans home Saturday for the first time...
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The Beatles were singled out on
Friday as the most influential entertainers of the past 100
years, beating out the likes of Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin
and Mickey Mouse,...
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A blue silk shirt worn by Elvis Presley has been swiped from a State Fair of Texas exhibit.
Collector Bud Glass of Tallahassee, Fla., made a public appeal Thursday asking...
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The rendition of "Happy Birthday" at the Grand Ole Opry's 80th birthday bash this weekend is bound to be good.
The guest list includes Garth Brooks, Alison Krauss, Travis...
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Joel Hirschhorn, who shared two Academy Awards for theme songs in "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno," has died. He was 67.
Hirschhorn, of Agoura Hills,...
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Knowing very little about country
music, Johnny Cash or even how to sing probably helped actor
Joaquin Phoenix turn in an Oscar-worthy performance as the Man
in Black.
The...
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Knowing very little about country
music, Johnny Cash or even how to sing probably helped actor
Joaquin Phoenix turn in an Oscar-worthy performance as the Man
in Black.
The...
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Country band Alabama, singer Glen Campbell and pioneering harmonica player DeFord Bailey, the Grand Ole Opry's first black star, are being inducted into the County Music...
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Spin magazine has built a veritable rock star Frankenstein, composed of Michael Stipe's skull, Elvis Presley's pelvis and Madonna's bellybutton.
Spin charts the 25 "most...
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James Burton played with Elvis Presley. Now, a statue of him as a thirtysomething stands next to the King outside his hometown's Municipal Memorial Auditorium, where both...
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Mozart would be mortified. Beethoven would probably spin like an LP in his grave. But for next week, at least, they ain't nothing but hound dogs to Austrians obsessed with...
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Mozart would be mortified. Beethoven would probably spin like an LP in his grave. But for next week, at least, they ain't nothing but hound dogs to Austrians obsessed with...
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Mozart would be mortified. Beethoven would probably spin like an LP in his grave. But for next week, at least, they ain't nothing but hound dogs to Austrians obsessed with...
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The pilgrims will still weep at Elvis Presley's grave, and the souvenir shops will still swarm with credit-card waving fans, an occasional black pompadour hardly drawing a...
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Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone"
topped a poll on Friday to find the 100 songs, movies, TV shows
and books that "changed the world" in the opinion of...
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Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone"
topped a poll Friday to find the 100 songs, movies, TV shows
and books that "changed the world" in the opinion of musicians,
actors...
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LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A 66-year-old man has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia against a New York man who reneged on a bid he made on eBay to buy a...
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He sure wasn't thinkin' 'bout an invitation to the Grand Ole Opry. Country singer Dierks Bentley was in the middle of a show at the House of Blues in Los Angeles when he got...
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A successful partnership with
Alison Krauss + Union Station that resulted in the sale of more
than 125,000 albums in just two months has executives at
Cracker Barrel Old...
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During the dark days of his criminal trial, when conventional
wisdom said a financially strapped Michael Jackson should sell his 50
percent stake in the Beatles song...
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Elvis Presley Enterprises is taking over the last two independent souvenir shops at Graceland but says it has no immediate plans to expand.
However, Graceland spokesman...
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"I'm on a small label right
now making some noise," said the brash, dark-haired kid. "But
if I get a recording contract with a major company, I want you
to back me...
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This town hasn't been the most hospitable place for rock 'n' rollers.
The Byrds were razzed about their long hair when they played the Grand Ole Opry. Jimi Hendrix got his...
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The Grand Ole Opry show turns 80 this year, and while the anniversary doesn't have the bang of a 75th or a 100th, the Opry is planning a big to-do, including a rare...
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The movies have been
very good to T Bone Burnett, but he's scratching his
record-making itch again.
The lanky Texas-born musician-producer was barracked at the
Village...
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Nadia Turner picked the wrong song on Tuesday's "American Idol," and on Wednesday, she paid the price. Turner was voted off the Fox show after singing Crystal Gayle's "When...
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It was one of those days that's so cold, your face hurts only five minutes after going outside.
So I wrapped my scarf tightly around my neck, put on a heavy coat and got...
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The Boogie King is gone, and Music
Row is a vastly less interesting and fun place without him.
When moved, songwriters write songs, artists paint
pictures, politicians...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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The Rolling Stones recently
concluded recording sessions for a new album in Paris with
producer Don Was, who worked with them on their two previous
studio releases.
The...
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Gift cards are everywhere this time of the year, so why should Broadway be excluded from what could be the perfect stocking stuffer this Christmas?
Now, the League of...
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Chicago rapper Kanye West, who
survived a near-fatal car crash to score one of the biggest
hits of the year with his debut album, led an eclectic field of
commercially...
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The U.K. arm of RCA Records will
launch an ambitious singles release campaign next year to mark
the 70th anniversary of Elvis Presley 's birth on Jan. 8.
RCA will reissue...
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It's easy to remember the '60s
filtered through the music of the Beatles, Elvis Presley , the
Beach Boys or Frank Sinatra, but there was another act that
ruled the...
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In the vein of similar projects
celebrating the Beatles and Elvis Presley , Universal will on
Nov. 9 release "Bee Gees Number Ones," compiling chart-topping
hits from the...
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Norah Jones is no diva.
For that we should be grateful. Today's so-called "divas" are
overbearing, self-involved singers valuing personal style over
serving a song,...
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Who songwriter/guitarist Pete
Townshend 's official Web site (http://www.petetownshend.co.uk)
will soon play host to a streaming TV station dubbed "Who TV."
The system has...
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Some people swap stories around the
campfire; others, like Tony Joe White and Shelby Lynne, write
songs.
They wrote a handful together a few years ago, when Lynne,
who...
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Johnny Cash's guitars, his black
leather boots and a tin cup from Folsom Prison are among the
memorabilia from the late country music star displayed on
Tuesday ahead of an...
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The late Ray Charles and Bill Lowery will be honored by the Georgia Music Hall of Fame Sept. 18 during a ceremony when the hall also will induct four new members.
The...
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Comedian Chris Rock is preparing to
release his first album in five years, "Never Scared,"
featuring a parody of OutKast's Grammy-winning anthem "Hey Ya!"
Due Aug. 31 via...
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Randy Travis and Billy Ray Cyrus
are among the country artists who have added a new dimension to
their careers with successful gospel albums. Now several
veteran country...
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Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready
will preview tracks from the group's upcoming double-disc
concert set "Live at Benaroya Hall" via a live, one-hour radio
broadcast...
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The term might not be familiar, but the image definitely is — that look guitarists get when trying to nail a high note or power chord.
Now a new contest will...
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"It's the sound of the instrument
and the way the neck feels. It's unlike any other instrument."
So says Bryan Adams of the Fender Stratocaster. "My pride
and joy is a...
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"That's All Right," recorded by Elvis Presley on July 5, 1954 at Memphis' Sun Records Studios, has commonly been considered the birth of rock-n-roll. Yet to some musicians...
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As far as Elvis Presley songs go, "That's All Right," his very first record, wasn't among his biggest hits. In fact, the 1954 song wasn't even a hit at all.
Yet on July...
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Billboard magazine reports that the single, "That's All Right" by Elvis Presley, will be jumping from Number 11 to Number One on the Hot Singles Sales Charts for the week...
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Ch-check it out: The Beasties are number one.
As
expected, the Beastie Boys exerted their party rights with their sixth
studio album, To the 5 Boroughs, which got the...
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Hip-swiveling Elvis, womanizer Mick Jagger and "Material Girl" Madonna may be some of rock 'n'
roll's greatest musical icons but as positive role models,
they've yet to...
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At a time when Music Row is
routinely accused of playing it safe, Warner Bros. has gone out
on a limb with a completely different kind of country act in
duo Big & Rich.
As...
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Eminem has won the first round in a hip-hop face-off against The
Source.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Gerard Lynch
ordered the magazine to pay the rapper's legal...
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Ray Charles was one of American
music's great innovators, blending the gospel of the black
church with the sensuality of the blues to create an
emotionally raw genre called...
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Rap magazine The Source has been ordered to pay Eminem 's legal fees for violating a federal court order not to publish full versions of the rapper's racially charged...
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Julian Aberbach, founder of a music
publishing company that owned rights to Elvis Presley 's
compositions, died May 17 in New York. He was 95.
Aberbach was born in Vienna...
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Glen Campbell has signed a one-off
deal with Universal South Records for a two-CD set due June 8.
"Love Is the Answer: 24 Songs of Faith, Hope and Love" contains
one disc...
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Obsessives often make excellent
indie-label operators, so Mike Stax probably has a good shot at
success.
Stax has been editing and publishing his San Diego-based
magazine...
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The lone Jeff Buckley studio album
released in his lifetime will be reissued in a remastered,
expanded edition this summer.
Due Aug. 23 via Columbia, "Grace: Legacy...
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Addie Collins knew when her granddaughter was young that fame and success lay ahead. Sassy and energetic singer Fantasia Barrino has followed through on that promise,...
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Procol Harum's 1967 classic "A Whiter
Shade of Pale" has been named as the most-played record of the
past 70 years in the United Kingdom, according to British
performing...
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Gospel artist Andrae Crouch will
receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame June 4 in Los
Angeles.
The 61-year-old music patriarch is only the third gospel
artist to...
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John Lennon memorabilia, including a leather collar he wore during the 1960s, was auctioned by Christie's for a total of $400,500.
The auction house called it the...
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Last summer, the state Department of Management and Budget got an unusual request from the governor. Jennifer Granholm called to ask if something could be done about the...
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David
Bowie wants you to make some ch-ch-changes to his tunes.
The Thin White Duke is giving fans a chance to bootleg his
music by using computer software that allows...
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The proclivity of "American Idol"
for celebrity judges has not only given last year's runner-up
Clay Aiken the B-side to his current single "The Way," but has
given...
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Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot says that he hopes to be able to tour again by July.
Lightfoot had a blood vessel burst in his abdomen in September 2002 and...
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The sounds of ABBA, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones have bounced off its padded walls. Now, Sweden's most famous recording studio, Polar Studios, must shut its doors...
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R&B star Usher topped the U.S. pop
charts on Wednesday as his new CD, "Confessions," posted the
biggest album debut so far this year and became only the second
2004 release...
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A Scottish writer's assertion that Elvis Presley 's ancestors came from a quiet corner of northeast Scotland has fixated fans and brought batches of journalists and TV crews...
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They're all shook up in the Scottish village of Lonmay.
A Scottish writer's assertion that Elvis Presley 's ancestors came from this quiet corner of northeast Scotland has...
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BMG North America on Wednesday said
it reorganized its U.S. labels and operations and put Arista
Records under the RCA Music Group umbrella.
Arista had been without a head...
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The FBI is now involved in the case of the stolen Elvis jewelry. The FBI has joined the investigation into the robbery at the Elvis-A-Rama museum in Las Vegas on March 14....
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In less than five minutes, thieves swiped $325,000 worth of Elvis Presley 's jewelry and kitsch.
But the Sunday night heist at the Elvis-A-Rama museum left behind a...
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The one-second flash of Janet Jackson 's breast at the Super Bowl could end up putting the brakes on years of plunging standards in the down-and-dirty entertainment...
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Clive Davis is back on top again.
Just four years
after he was unceremoniously ousted
as president and CEO of Arista Records in favor of Antonio "L.A." Reid,
Arista...
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A New Jersey company is offering Elvis Presley fans a chance to buy what it says is a slice of history.
And it really means a slice — 2-inch snips of a tape reel...
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A contingent of independent
music labels vowed on Monday to fight the proposed merger
between music giants Sony Music and Bertelsmann's BMG as a
crucial deadline for...
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On January 23rd, 1958, Brunswick Records released "Maybe Baby" backed with "Tell Me How" by The Crickets.
In 1970, singer Judy Collins was denied permission to sing her...
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"Elvis Ultimate Gospel," an RCA
compilation of Elvis Presley 's gospel hits, will hit stores
March 23, featuring such tracks as "Amazing Grace," "Crying in
the Chapel" and...
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Filmmaker Ken Vrana was marking the 69th anniversary of Elvis Presley 's birth Thursday by working on his own "Tribute."
Vrana has traveled 250,000 miles over the past 3...
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The Rev. Al Green , Sandi Patty, the late Vestal Goodman and BMI President Frances Preston will be inducted next month into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall...
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He wasn't called Moon the Loon for nothing.
The late Who drummer Keith Moon , famed for trashing drum kits, cars and hotel rooms, topped a list of the "100 most insane...
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Al Green , James Brown , Britney
Spears , Elvis Presley and the Monkees are among the artists who
will be featured in the "American Pop" series presented by the
Museum of...
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Elvis Presley is the all-time singles king in Britain, nearly a half-century after he first crashed into the pop chart here, according to a new list published...
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This year's Hanukkah program at Beth Sholom Synagogue featured a uniquely Memphis touch — telling the story of the holiday of lights through retooled versions of Elvis...
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Watching newcomer Fefe Dobson jumping around onstage to the rhythm of thrashing guitars, she looks like the typical pop-rocker girl, with a tough attitude and sneering...
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Germany's Bertelsmann AG
(BERT.UL) and Sony (6758.T) of Japan on Friday finalized terms
of an agreement to merge their music businesses, as the
industry confronts...
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Beyonce and Christina Aguilera will be singing for the same label under a final merger agreement announced Friday by Bertelsmann AG and Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) .,...
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Natalie MacMaster has built an
unlikely career playing obscure, 250-year-old fiddle tunes that
are ignored by most U.S. radio stations and almost never heard
by the...
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Natalie MacMaster has built an
unlikely career playing obscure, 250-year-old fiddle tunes that
are ignored by most U.S. radio stations and almost never heard
by the...
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Scotty Moore, a Hall of Fame guitarist who played on Elvis Presley 's first single, was in serious but stable condition Thursday following brain surgery, hospital officials...
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Singer/songwriter Pete Yorn will on
Jan. 6 unveil a double-disc concert set, "Live From New
Jersey," which sports covers of the Elvis Presley -popularized
"Suspicious...
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So much for that sophomore slump.
Alicia
Keys' second album, The
Diary of Alicia Keys, opened at number one, scoring the best
single-week sales of any female artist in...
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Everything old is new again.
For nine weeks, beginning in the Billboard for the week of
Oct. 4, remixes of Elvis Presley 's "Rubberneckin"' and the
Rolling Stones'...
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Elvis
has left the building...and is headed for Broadway.
The
King of Rock 'n' Roll's estate has confirmed that a new Presley-inspired
musical, All Shook Up, will debut...
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The Rhinestone Cowboy wants to ride
off into the sunset.
Not long before his recent arrest on charges of drunk
driving and leaving the scene of a car accident,...
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Always eager to keep Elvis Presley working, managers of his estate have turned their sights on Broadway. "All Shook Up," a musical commissioned by the Elvis Presley estate...
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Candid photographs of 1950s rock
pioneers Elvis Presley , Buddy Holly and Bobby Darin , snapped by
a high-school photographer and kept in storage for 40 years,
went on...
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Making his first trip to China, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli on Monday called for more cultural exchanges as a way of boosting understanding among people.
Events such as...
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Michael Jackson , whose albums once generated tens of millions of dollars in sales, would like the world to believe he has a billion dollar fortune at his disposal.
Others...
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Prosecutors are ready to rock and roll Phil
Spector.
The legendary record producer was
formally charged Thursday in the shooting death of B-movie starlet Lana
Clarkson...
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Music pirates beware. Two music giants have just announced plans
to form a powerful alliance in the fight to save the recording
industry.
New York-based Sony Corp...
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The merger of Sony Music and BMG could
bring a whole new stable of recording artists to listeners
hooked on Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) .'s electronics, but analysts say...
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Bertelsmann AG and Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) . announced a preliminary plan to merge their music businesses Thursday, setting the stage for a music company that would vie...
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Pegging the day Elvis Presley
recorded a version of Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's "That's All
Right" -- July 5, 1954 -- at as the date "rock" and "roll" were
married, Memphis...
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For the third consecutive year, Elvis Presley has topped the Forbes list of top-earning dead celebrities. Presley checked in at $40 million for the year ending last month...
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We're guessing even Simon is speechless right about now.
Five months after finishing
runner up to Ruben
Studdard on American
Idol by just 1 percent, Clay
Aiken has shown...
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A King and a President chowing down junk food together--it's an image that's not too hard to conjure up if it's the King Of Rock and Roll and former president Bill Clinton...
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Tributes for Sam Phillips, the legendary producer and founder of Sun Records who died on Wednesday (July 30), continue to pour in. Phillips who was 80, was often called "the...
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Legendary record producer Sam Phillips died on Wednesday (July 30) at the age of 80. Phillips not only founded Sun Records in Memphis and discovered Elvis Presley, he also...
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The original art for the 1993 Elvis Presley stamp will go on display at the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., on July 30 as part of an exhibit titled, "Art Of The...
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An Elvis Presley tooth is being auctioned off on eBay.com, along with a lock of hair from his army haircut and a commemorative 24-karat-gold record of "Love Me Tender." The...
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The Elvis Presley four-CD box set called Elvis: Close Up is being released by BMG/RCA on Tuesday (July 1). The collection features 89 previously unreleased studio and live...
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Veteran bluesman B.B. King covers songs originally recorded by Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole and Sam Cooke on his new CD, titled Reflections, which will be...
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A new book, The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story Of Colonel Tom Parker And Elvis Presley, is scheduled for publication on July 15. Author Alanna Nash, who also wrote the...
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An Elvis Presley photo exhibit called Where Is Elvis? The Man and His Reflection will open on June 15 in Pittsburgh at the Andy Warhol Museum. The show will feature more...
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Lisa Marie Presley is featured on the cover of the April 20 issue of Rolling Stone. The accompanying article and interview delves into Presley's music, marriages, and her...
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The successful 2002 collection of Elvis Presley's hits, Elvis: 30 #1 Hits, could be followed up by another anthology in September.
While BMG--the music corporation that has...
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An Elvis Presley musical, called Can't Help Falling In Love, looks to be Broadway bound. The show is set up like the successful ABBA musical Mama Mia, with a story built...
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Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley sings about her late, legendary father on her debut single, "Lights Out."
The 35-year-old ex-wife of Michael Jackson was only 9...
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Recordings by Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin are among the inaugural collection of music named on Monday (January 27)...
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Lisa Marie Presley
's debut solo album, To Whom It May Concern, is due to be released April 8 on Capitol Records.
The singer got some help with the project from industry...
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One of Elvis Presley's earliest recorded songs has been voted the song that "most changed the world" by a panel of music journalists. Presley's cover version of the blues...
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To coincide with Elvis Presley's recent 68th birthday, RCA/BMG Heritage has released four essential Presley reissue compilations that chronicle various phases of his...
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Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley is following in her father's footsteps: Her debut solo album is due out April 8 via Capitol Records, according to her official...
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Elvis Presley, Elton John, and Madonna are among the top U.K. singles artists in the 50-year history of the British chart, according to the latest edition of the Guinness...
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The largest collection of Elvis Presley's hair, gathered over time by his personal hair stylist of 20 years, sold for more than $100,000 at auction on Saturday (November...
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"The Boss," Bruce Springsteen, will pay tribute to "The King," Elvis Presley, in an all-star, prime-time television tribute to Presley slated to air November 28 on NBC. Cher...
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Elvis Presley had it all--the looks, the voice, the moves, the sex appeal, and yes, the hair. Fans will get an opportunity to own some of Presley's silky black locks when...
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Bon Jovi debuted impressively on the Billboard 200 with its new, 9/11-inspired album Bounce, but not strong enough to unseat Elvis Presley, who's the king of the chart for...
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Bon Jovi's new album, Bounce, is expected to debut in the upper regions of the Billboard 200 on Wednesday (October 16). Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora told LAUNCH that he...
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U2 frontman Bono, Tom Petty, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, No Doubt, and Britney Spears are among the music superstars that will pay tribute to Elvis Presley during an NBC...
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In a week seemingly lost in time, Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones can be found at Numbers One and Two on the latest Billboard 200 album sales chart with their...
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This is certainly proving to be the year of "The King"--Elvis Presley, that is. Twenty-five years after his death, Elvis is managing to break records and accomplish feats he...
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In a week full of powerhouse debuts on the Billboard 200, none could best the King. Twenty-five years after his death, Elvis Presley has landed his first Number One debut on...
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The 25th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley has increased the icon's record sales to a total of 100 million units in the United States, according to the RIAA. Only...
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He may be "Bad To The Bone," but George Thorogood told LAUNCH he wouldn't have that growl and bite without the lasting impact of Elvis Presley, who died 25 years ago on...
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ZZ Top may have borrowed the boogie from the late blues great John Lee Hooker, but even 25 years after the death of Elvis Presley, his inspiration looms large for the Texas...
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Today (August 16), marks the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. As is apparent in the plethora of books, magazines, collectibles, television specials, videos and...
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Elvis Presley may be gone, but his memory and his record sales go on forever. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has announced that the sales of Presley's...
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Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson's ex, Lisa Marie Presley, were married over the weekend in Hawaii, according to a report in the Honolulu Advertiser.
An Elvis...
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A collection of Elvis Presley's "live" radio performances circa 1954-1956, taken from the famed Louisiana Hayride radio show, will be released August 13 on Tomato Records....
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Songwriter Joe Allison--whose songs were recorded by Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, and others--died of lung disease in Nashville on Friday (August 2) at the age of...
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Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins highlight a two-disc set chronicling the history of Sun Records. Sun Records 50th Anniversary, due August 6...
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Elvis Presley might be gone, but his music lives on: The remixed single of Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" tops British pop chart for the third consecutive week this...
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The much-talked-about remix version of Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" is slated for release in the U.S. on Tuesday (June 25). The single, retooled by...
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Nearly 25 years after his death, the re-release of a little-known Elvis Presley track is poised to climb to the top of the chart and possibly change chart history in the...
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Elvis Presley's first-ever agency contract, Jimi Hendrix's love beads, a program from Bob Dylan's first-ever concert, and a copy of the Beatles' first record are some of the...
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The recent release of Elvis Presley's three-song charity single "America The Beautiful" has placed the "King" back on the chart. Since its release five weeks ago, "America...
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Guitars owned by Jimi Hendrix and Elvis Presley are expected to go for up to $60,000 each at an auction Lloyd's International will hold in London later this month.
The...
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Neil Matthews Jr., a long time member of Elvis Presley's backup vocal group, the
Jordanaires, died on Friday (April 21) at his home outside of Nashville, Tennessee, at the...
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For the first time in its 15 years, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame paid tribute to some of the unsung heroes of popular music, session men. These musicians, most of whom...
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The touring Elvis Presley concert that unites a video version of "the King" on stage with a full live band (including many of his former bandmates) had its only scheduled...
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Tomorrow (Jan. 8) marks what would have been Elvis Presley's 65th birthday. It's hard to believe the King would now be eligible for social security since the media has kept...
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Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick--author of Last Train To Memphis: The Rise Of Elvis Presley and Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley--and RCA Records'...
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Thomas Durden, one of the writers of Elvis Presley's 1956 hit "Heartbreak Hotel," has died at the age of 79.
Durden penned "Heartbreak Hotel" along with Presley and Mae...
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Elvis Presley is slated to perform at his own birthday celebration in Memphis on Jan. 8, at least in the virtual sense. Elvis--The Concert, the tour that features Elvis,...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
Dateline - Lisa Marie Presley authorized the first official auction of her father's personal property, and Dateline gives...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
A&E:
Las Vegas: House Of Cards - Examines the colorful characters and wealthy men who gave Vegas its mystique, including Howard...
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Add the name of Elvis Presley to a growing list of music makers whose personal effects are going public in auctions this year.
About 2,000 items from the late legend's...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
SHOWTIME:
Elvis Meets Nixon - Absolutely hysterical film chronicles the meeting between Elvis Presley and President Richard Nixon...
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Today marks the 22nd anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. Elvis died on Aug. 16, 1977 at his home of Graceland in Memphis, Tenn., at the age of 42. More than 20 years...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
VH1:
Elvis: '68 Comeback Special - The 1968 concert marked Elvis Presley's first live TV performance in eight years.
Ed Sullivan -...
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Although it may seem like the rock 'n' roll equivalent of Weekend At Bernie's, "Elvis--The Concert" is really much more.
The tour, which will hit Europe Jan. 23 and run...
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The Country Music Association (CMA) announced its 1998 Hall Of Fame inductees this week, with Elvis Presley, Tammy Wynette, George Morgan and retired Gaylord Entertainment...
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Writer-producer Glen Ballard, the man whose work behind Alanis Morissette's multiplatinum Jagged Little Pill won him several Grammy honors, has signed Lisa Marie Presley to...
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Elvis may have left the building, but he's back in the news: A Houston judge has ruled that a restaurant that called itself The Velvet Elvis violated trademark infringement...
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21 years after Elvis left the building, Graceland is opening up another room to visitors.
Starting on Mother's Day, tourists will be able to visit Presley's mother's...
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Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley were married there. But the biggest show in the Aladdin Hotel's history will take place Monday night, when the 32-year old Las Vegas...
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First came the government files on John Lennon and Elvis Presley. Now, secret investigative reports on 20,000 Californians alive and dead may be made public soon.
About 80...
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Happy birthday to Lisa Marie Presley, the only surviving daughter of Elvis, the king of rock 'n' roll. She turns 30 tomorrow, Sunday, February 1st.
There's a big present...
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Michael Jackson had a hidden collection of videotapes and magazines featuring young boys, leading to his divorce from Lisa Marie Presley, says a respected Baptist...
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George Nichopoulos--a physician who was stripped of his medical license in 1995 after it was discovered that he had overprescribed potentially addictive drugs to 13...
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Last week, Elvis Presley's widow Priscilla and daughter Lisa-Marie opened their first Elvis-themed restaurant near the King's Memphis home (and major tourist attraction),...
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Elvis Presley's ex-wife Priscilla and daughter Lisa-Marie were the surprise guests at this weekend's Elvis In Concert '97 blowout at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis. The...
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Record crowds are turning up in Memphis to observe the 20th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, storming the gates of Elvis's Graceland shrine at the rate of 400 an hour....
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