75 years and counting, looking back on elvis
Elvis Presley’s birthday may be the closest thing to a semi-religious pilgrimage for any American, ever. Jan. 8 is his day.
At 13, the dirt-poor teen moved from Tupelo, Miss., to Memphis with his family. Soon thereafter, the boy was performing gospel, country and a new genre of electrified hillbilly blues called rockabilly.
It was the birth [...]
