Elvis Presley In Concert

Elvis Presley In Concert 19th February. Thisis an astounding production that reunites former Elvis band mates live on stage with a state of the art video-projected Elvis.
Timings for Elvis Presley In Conert are as follows (these are intended as a guide only and may be subject to change):
7pm Doors Open
8pm Act I
9.20pm Act II
10.20pm Event [...]

Everybody wants to be Elvis

Over the past 25 years or so many musicians have wrote and sung about Elvis. Heres one of the latest efforts by Leki & the Sweet Mints, titles “Everybody wants to be Elvis”.
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Elvis’s career began 55 years ago today

Many people played an important rol in Elvis Presley’s career, and Dewey Phillips was certainly one of them. He was the one who, 55 years ago today, on July 8th 1954 gave Elvis’s very first single Thats All Right, a spin in his radio show Red, Hot & Blue, broadcast live from Hotel Chisca downtown [...]

James Burton talks about Michael Jackson.

Right after his return to the USA after the concert in Breda last weekend, James Burton was interviewed about the dead of Michael Jackson and the upcoming James Burton Guitar Festival.
The interview lasts for 15min. The reporter asks James where he was when he heard the news about Jacksons dead and James [...]

Now in stock: My Treasured Memories of Elvis

Judy Palmer, who was a fanclub president, was in the audience of several Elvis concerts. Judy has been known as one of the best fan photographers of Elvis for over 35 years. No one has ever seen all her photos in one book, in
context with her stories. “My Treasured Memories of Elvis” is a hard [...]

James Burton Interview

by Dr. Matthew Warnock.
To say that guitarist James Burton is busy would be a gross understatement. With his 70th birthday right around the corner, the Louisiana native shows no sign of slowing down. After a highly successful career as both a leader and a sideman spanning more than 50 years, most guitarists would be looking [...]

Official James Burton Record Website

James Burtons attempt to break a world record, has put his webmaster to work. Check out the recently launched Official James Burton Record Website by clicking the link below. Here’s a message from James and his webmaster Yvonne: “Please come join us in an attempt to break the Guinness Worlds Record for the Largest Guitar [...]

When the King of Rock and Roll met the King of Thailand

The King of Thailand was 7 years old when Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935. Today in a restaurant in Hang Dong, a district of Chiang Mai, there was a picture on the wall of the King and Queen of Thailand meeting Elvis Presley in the Buddhist year 2503 during the filming of [...]

On the road again

There are a handful of givens at a Willie Nelson concert. The first is that he is going to amble on stage clasping the world-weary, well-worn acoustic guitar that he affectionately calls Trigger. The second is that when Nelson and his cohorts ease their way into the evening, they are going to do so with [...]

The day the music died

If you were hoping to get a ticket to the 50th annual Winter Dance Party this weekend, you can forget it.
They’re all sold out.
It was Feb. 2, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. ‘Big Bopper” Richardson played their last concert at The Surf Ballroom at Clear Lake near Mason City. The next day [...]