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Well, it’s one for the money … Elvis Presley’s iconic blue suede shoes have sold at auction for $152,000, the top end of what auction house Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. had expected to fetch for the lot. The shoes were expected to command anywhere between $126,000 and $152,000 when bidding recently began. The auction ended on June 28 with the shoes going for the highest expected amount. READ MORE: 25 Elvis Presley Songs From the ’70s You Need to Hear Presley received the shoes not long after his version of Sun Records labelmate Carl Perkins’ “Blue Suede Shoes” appeared as the opening track on Pre...
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If you take a look around in 2024, you can still find a ton of things that will remind you of Elvis Presley. But there are only a few of us who will remember being there and hearing an Elvis song on the radio for the first time ever on July 2, 1954. The Moment the World Was Introduced to Elvis PresleyPrior to the moment that Dewey Phillips — a local radio DJ in Memphis, Tenn. — played Presley’s first ever song, “That’s All Right,” most people in America had never heard the name Elvis Presley. As the story goes, Phillips heard the tape that had been recorded just days before at Sun Records, and...
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When Elvis Presley took the stage in Indianapolis on June 26, 1977, nobody knew it would prove to be the final concert performance of his career. The King of Rock and Roll ran through a set of his biggest hits that night, ending with one of his best-known songs, “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” The 42-year-old entertainment icon’s career had been in decline for years, tanked by a combination of bad B-movies, bad soundtracks from those movies devaluing his music and declining sales, as well as his massive weight gain and tendency toward lazy, self-indulgent performances. But he enjoyed a career re...
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Mark James, a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee best known for writing hits for Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson and a long list of other top artists, has died. The BBC reports that James died at his home in Nashville on June 8 at the age of 83. Born Francis Rodney Zambon in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 29. 1940, James took up the violin in his youth before switching to guitar. He launched his music career in Houston, playing the club scene before beginning to record his own songs. He released a string of minor local singles before interrupting his musical career to serve in Vietnam, and after he retur...
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Elvis Presley‘s granddaughter sent an investment company intent on auctioning off Graceland running. Riley Keough didn’t just convince a judge to block the auction of Graceland on Thursday. The actor’s legal response scared off Naussany Investments and Private Lending LLC for good. Elvis Presley Enterprises (Graceland) labeled claims made by Naussany as fraudulent upon learning they planned to auction Graceland to get back money loaned to Lisa Marie Presley in 2018.Keough’s lawyer said the loan never happened and Naussany “appears to be a false entity created for the purpose of defrauding.”A T...
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Danielle Riley Keough, granddaughter of Elvis Presley, is fighting the court-approved auction of Presley’s famous Graceland mansion in Tennessee. Keough, an actress, gained control of the mansion, as well as much of her grandfather’s estate, after the 2023 passing of her mother, Lisa Marie Presley. Keough has filed a suit alleging that the creditor behind the mansion’s foreclosure claim used forged signatures. Back in 2018, Lisa Marie Presley entered a deed of trust and secured a $3.8 million loan with Graceland as collateral. It was taken out via Naussany Investments and Private Lending, but ...
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Believe it or not, Cher might have been Mrs. Elvis Presley, but she turned down a romantic date with the singer decades ago. The veteran singer stopped by The Jennifer Hudson Show on Wednesday (May 1) and admitted she was too nervous to date someone of his stature. Although she didn’t reveal when he asked her out, she did explain that her shyness kept her from dating the King of Rock & Roll. “It was because I was nervous, and I knew of the people around him, and it wasn’t that they were bad people, it’s just that I was kind of nervous of his reputation,” she explains. “I’m really shy when I’m ...
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