Archive for General Elvis News
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September 22, 2009
Rock n roll legend Elvis Presleys former bodyguard is all set to reveal how his life used to be during his time with the tragic entertainer in a new biopic.
Sonny West will talk about Presleys sensational rise to fame, his tragic demise, and struggle with drug addiction in feature-length film Fame and Fortune.
He will be [...]
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September 1, 2009
When Sam Phillips sold Elvis contract to RCA Records, it was no mistake as many people will tell you. I had the honor and privilege of working for The Father of Rock and Roll, at his radio station in his hometown of Florence, Alabama
I just got off the air after doing my Saturday afternoon airshift, [...]
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July 18, 2009
CHARLOTTE COUNTY - A Punta Gorda auto shop says they recently found an interesting item in an old beat up car they were working on. It may be evidence that the car belonged to Elvis Presley.
While working on a 1958 Cadillac at Nick’s Custom Trims, workers uncovered a gold plate on an ash tray [...]
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July 4, 2009
Elvis Presley fans are competing online in the second Elvis MySpace Karaoke Contest for a trip to Memphis to compete in the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist showdown in August.
Last year’s karaoke contest was won by a Texas Tech University voice major with a love of jazz and a Norah Jones quality to her version of [...]
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June 29, 2009
ELVIS is alive and well and living in Glasgow - sort of.
Springburn singer Malcolm King, 40, proved he really is “the king” last weekend after he was crowned Scotland’s best Elvis tribute at a competition in Edinburgh.
Malcolm left an audience of 300 Elvis fans all shook up as he performed three songs on his way [...]
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May 4, 2009
U2 singer’s six-minute Elvis Pressley tribute underlines his apparent ‘love-in’ with the UK’s state broadcaster
Just weeks after the BBC was labelled the Bono Broadasting Corporation because of its extensive coverage of U2s new album, it is about to give the singer yet more access to the airways by broadcasting a lengthy poem he has written [...]
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April 10, 2009
Rare Elvis memorabilia, bought with nearly US$900,000 a fan stole from her employer, has raised a tenth of the original amount at auction. Julie Wall an Elvis Super-Fanatic of Sleaford, Lincolnshire (right) was jailed for three years in 2005 for stealing from North Kesteven Council. Wall, 50, bought rare Elvis records, Christmas cards and magazines [...]
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March 14, 2009
A local church will welcome a former Elvis backup singer and close friend of the King this weekend.
Emmanuel Pentecostal Holiness Church in Dry Fork will host singer, songwriter and motivational speaker Donnie Sumner on Sunday night.
My first three years with Elvis was as a backup vocalist as part of J.D. Sumner and The Stamps Quartet, [...]
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March 14, 2009
The Belgian Eurovision Song Contest entry Copycat hasnt been received well by the Elvis Presley fan clubs in Belgium and the Netherlands who have complained to EBU about the lyrics which they believe are making fun of their idol. Funny enough then Elvis songwriter Michael Jarrett has offered to write a new entry should Copycat [...]
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March 4, 2009
Hello all you “Elvisnews” readers, I’m sorry for not posting on the blog over the past week or so, I have been having a few problems with moving my internet connection to our new property. Hopefully we will be up and running at full steam in a couple of days or so. Once again thank [...]