I feel like when I am causally browsing music groups, I see lots of mentions of Micheal Jackson, The Beatles, etc. I don't seem to see much of Elvis, and when I do it's usually from someone quite a bit older (60 years old and up). Why is that? Has Elvis largely lost appeal among younger listeners?
I have been trying to find the highest note that Elvis has sang for both live and in studio. Does anyone know what the highest note he has sang and which song(s) is it?
I’m planning for the 50th already, I know prices are astronomical. We’re saving now. I want to be there for this sad milestone. What was the good, the bad, and the ugly? I was there in May/June so I know how awful the roads and our front of Graceland is sadly!
If you could share photos in the comments I’d love to see them!
I've been curious about this since I purchased the 67/68 sessions cd set.
I grew up in Memphis, close enough to the old Fairgrounds to hear the screams before you reached the gate. The Zippin Pippin is one of America's oldest wooden roller coasters, and it held the weight of millions who came before me, all clenching their jaws, pretending they had a choice in what came next.
Elvis knew something about needing a force stronger than himself.
By 1960 he belonged to the world. Every movement was seen, every exit blocked by screaming fans, always wanting what he could give, then wanting more. So he came in the night, when the world was sleeping, to feel the timber shake beneath him. From midnight until first light, the Memphis Fairgrounds became his escape from the trap of being Elvis.
The coaster's force demanded his whole body. He could not negotiate with the drops. He could not charm the timber. He sat in the front car and rode again and again, sometimes for hours, waiting for the release he trusted would come. For those few hours, there was no Elvis. He was only a body moving through air, accepting the track.
Eight days before he died, he returned to the rickety old coaster one last time. He was forty-two.
Here is a strange calendar coincidence: August 16, the day Elvis died, is also National Roller Coaster Day, because of an 1898 patent for a loop someone believed the body could survive. Maybe it wasn't a coincidence.
The Pippin stood alone in the weeds for years after the Fairgrounds closed, too beloved to tear down, too broken to ride. Then Green Bay, Wisconsin, of all places, took up its ancient bones and rebuilt them on the bay, where children who have never heard of Memphis, and maybe not Elvis either, raise their hands to the northern sky and let go.
I wrote the fuller reflection for my Sunday newsletter, if anyone wants it: https://substack.com/@thespiritualalmanac/p-210113456
Did he sense the end coming? Did he need the chain to haul him to the top one last time?
From a recent Vegas vist. RIP August 16th 1977
I'm watching the dvd and wondering how the crowd are so calm. You're watching Elvis!! Live.! Think I might have been thrown out. I wasn't born until a year after he died, but oh my, he was good!!
After our Vegas Westgate stay, we checked into Treasure Island and explored various shops and malls. I had a blast hunting for Elvis everywhere we went. ❤️
Here’s some cool artwork I found throughout our trip and the Elvis goodies I got! 😁
Stumbled upon this short today on YouTube and it was so cool to see. I’ve only seen pictures of Elvis in this “Mad Tiger” jumpsuit, but to see footage is just so cool. Wanted to share because it is so rare!
Marked the 49th year tonight watching the 2001 re-release of “That’s the Way It Is.” It’s quite like EPIC, but with fewer Beatles songs.
I got a photo album from an older person who probably took it from the trash 40 years ago and has been in the closet ever since. They seem to be real photos, which are pasted in a self-adhesive album. What can I do best with it? Greetings from Bad Nauheim
I’ve got this photo and im trying to figure out when exactly it was taken. My first thought was early on in Vegas (using the Live 1969 album photo as reference) but I feel like his scarf is too blue. Anyone have any ideas?
I couldn't let August 16 pass without drawing Elvis. ❤️
The whole drawing thing started with the Elvis movie by Baz Luhrmann in 2022.
I've been an Elvis fan for most of my life, but after watching that film, something happened. I suddenly had this overwhelming need to draw him.
My first attempt was… let's just say very far from where I wanted it to be. 😂
But instead of giving up, I thought: I want to get good at drawing Elvis.
And that's how it all began. A continuing and loving dedication to my favorite two music icons.
For almost two years, I drew almost every single day. Even if only for 15 or 30 minutes. Elvis was everywhere with me—in every possible medium, on every piece of paper I could find. I studied other artists, tried different techniques, used grids, traced, erased, started again… anything that helped me understand those incredible features a little better.
Somewhere along the way, Axl joined Elvis as my other great rock obsession. ❤️🎸
Then at some point as for every person I believe life got in the way. Work, home, family… and gradually, drawing became something I did less and less. Unwillingly. And I was missing it. So much each long break from drawing.
And after a long break, it's surprisingly difficult to pick up the pencil again. You wonder if you still have it. You worry that the first thing you draw will be terrible.
But yesterday I picked up my pencil anyway. I sketched on paper and will be continuing this little Elvis tribute in Procreate. It's still a work in progress, but maybe that's exactly the point.
After all, this is where it all started for me.
One Elvis drawing. One stubborn decision to try again. And then another. And another. ❤️
Today I sketched another one.
For Elvis. For the music. For the inspiration. And for the artist he somehow helped awaken in me.
I'll share the finished piece when it's done. 🩵
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Metro Detroit-bred rock writer and radio host Dave Marsh dies at 76 https://share.google/ZDdvGzfuJWsT1pKGc
A passionate advocate of Elvis' importance to music and culture, Mr. Marsh also wrote liner notes to the 1970s boxset Walk a Mile in My Shoes.
His biography came just a year after the vile Goldman book, and tried to set record right about just why Elvis was so important.
RIP Mr. Marsh.