What constituted as scandalous in the 1950s might seem laughably tame today, but it was enough to seriously threaten the careers of mainstream stars like Elvis Presley. Just one year earlier, the ...

Sometimes, modern music has fascinating parallels with classic rock. Lana Del Rey’s “Young and Beautiful” helped catapult her into the mainstream. Elvis Presley released a song with the same name ...

Elvis Presley played shows in Las Vegas for years, and it didn’t take long for him to tire of playing the same songs each night. By the early 1970s, Elvis was restless and distracted during his ...

One risky session and a revolutionary sound turned Elvis Presley into the King of Rock ’n’ Roll and reshaped popular music ...

Elvis Presley hit the top 20 on the country music charts in the early 1970s with a heartbreaking Willie Nelson song written a decade earlier. Nelson penned "Funny How Time Slips Away" in 1961 during a ...

Determining which song was Elvis’ biggest hit is a tricky thing. Over the course of a career that began with 1954’s Sun single “That’s All Right,” (which sold around 20,000 copies regionally) to his ...

Karly B. is a music news journalist at Collider, specializing in the Western and Asian music industries. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Media and Web Technology, she has dedicated part ...

August in Memphis means Elvis Week. The 2025 event, marking the 48th anniversary of the passing of music icon Elvis Presley, will run from Aug. 8-16 in and around Graceland. The annual festivities are ...

Although his commanding stage presence would later solidify his legacy as the “King of Rock ’n’ Roll,” Elvis failed to win over the audience and Opry executives during his lone appearance on the show.

Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra famously hated each other, but the King still bedded the Rat Pack legend's girlfriend and later fiancee, Juliet Prowse ...

When Colonel Tom Parker died in 1997, the former carnival pitchman who guided Elvis Presley to stardom was reviled for reportedly exploiting the "poor country boy" who became King. But in his final ...