Los Angeles: Rock 'n' Roll King Elvis Presley has been nominated for a posthumous Grammy Award. Young Man With the Big Beat: The Complete '56 Elvis Presley Masters - a five-CD box set of the star's early recordings - has been tipped in the Best Historical Album category by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, reported MTV online. The release will go up against records by stars including...
01:56 PM, Dec 22, 2011
Raleigh: Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, both long dead, get new lives in an online game aimed at the 40-and-over crowd that seeks to tap into the Hollywood legends' eternal, and lucrative, popularity. Presley and Monroe are both "starring" characters in Entertainment Games' episodic, free-to-play adventures of Retro World, which will launch on Facebook on November 8 before expanding to Google+ and tablet devices. But in an unusual twist, Presley...
12:49 PM, Nov 05, 2011
Los Angeles: Elvis Presley avoided bad habits like smoking and drinking and loved cars and movies, a 1956 interview of the King of Rock and Roll has revealed. The audio recording shows a sweet and soft-spoken 21-year-old Presley at the threshold of fame, dreaming of conquering the world with his music and finding the girl who can take away his loneliness, reported People magazine. "I don't smoke and I don't...
12:55 PM, Sep 22, 2011
Los Angeles: Jerry Leiber, who with longtime partner Mike Stoller wrote "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "Yakety Yak" and other hit songs that came to define early rock 'n' roll, died on Monday. He was 78. He was surrounded by family when he died unexpectedly of cardiopulmonary failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said his longtime publicist, Bobbi Marcus. With Leiber as lyricist and Stoller as composer, the team channeled their blues...
03:31 PM, Aug 23, 2011
New York: A U.S. magazine has identified the mystery woman seen kissing singer Elvis Presley in a backstage theater stairwell in an iconic 1956 photograph. Barbara Gray, now 75 and living in Charleston, S.C., told Vanity Fair magazine that she didn't reveal her identity for the money or fame. "I just wanted to get my name on the damn picture," she said. Gray admitted that she become fed up with...
01:54 PM, Aug 09, 2011
Los Angeles: Singer Elvis Presley has been immortalised into a comic book character. The comic book will be called Graphic Elvis. It's a limited edition comic created by Liquid Comics and Elvis Presley Enterprises to commemorate the 35th death anniversary of the singer. "Comics influenced so much of his life," contactmusic.com quoted Sharad Devarajan, the co-founder of Los Angeles-based Liquid Comics, as saying. A number of Presley's handwritten notes, rarely...
09:01 AM, Jul 22, 2011
London: The superhit TV musical 'Glee' has broken Elvis Presley's UK chart record, becoming the fastest act to score 20 top 40 hits. The Golden Globe award winning show achieved 20 top 40 hits in 57 weeks, beating The King's record, reported Contactmusic. The stars of the TV show achieved the feat on Sunday when their rendition of Britney Spears' 'Toxic' entered the UK singles chart at number 40. They...
03:53 PM, Jan 25, 2011
Chicago-based Auctioneers last week said the tools would go on sale on August 12. ...
11:54 AM, Jul 26, 2010
Autopsy tools used to embalm and prepare Elvis Presley's body for his funeral in 1977 are set to go under the hammer at a Chicago auction house. ...
01:58 PM, Jul 21, 2010
The certificate with both the stars signature was issued on May 26, 1994. ...
03:38 PM, Nov 13, 2009
The hair was shorn from Elvis' head when he joined the US Army in 1958. ...
08:22 AM, Oct 19, 2009
Locks of what is claimed to be The King's hair are up for auction next week. ...
03:15 PM, Oct 13, 2009
Pop kings had lot in common; in life and death. ...
02:20 PM, Jun 26, 2009
The auction "Gotta Have It Collectibles" has Presley's most famous stage outfits. ...
03:48 PM, Mar 17, 2009
Find out the people who are rich beyond their graves. ...
07:47 PM, Oct 29, 2008
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