Elvis Aaron Presley

NEW THREE-DISC ELVIS PRESLEY 'HITSTORY' SET FOR OCTOBER

A new three-disc, 80-track collection of Elvis Presley's biggest hits called Hitstory will be released on October 4th. The collection, which spans "The King's" entire career from 1954's "That's All Right" up through to 1976's "Way Down," features the two recent Elvis hits collections ELV1S 30 #1 Hits -- which so far has sold over 9 million copies -- and ELVIS 2nd To None, along with an additional third disc called The Story Continues. The CD's are housed in a hard-bound package featuring extensive liner notes and a limited edition collectible poster.

Among the many highlights found on Elvis Presley's Hitstory are: "Heartbreak Hotel," "Don't Be Cruel," "Hound Dog," "Love Me Tender," "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear," "Jailhouse Rock," "It's Now Or Never" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"

Vienna Is Celebrating Elvis Week
Fri Aug 12

VIENNA, Austria - Mozart would be mortified. Beethoven would probably spin like an LP in his grave. But for next week, at least, they ain't nothing but hound dogs to Austrians obsessed with The King.

Vienna's Hilton becomes the Heartbreak Hotel on Monday, when "Elvis Week" — seven days of live music, memorabilia and screenings of Elvis Presley films — kicks off for those who love him in Europe, where he never gave a concert.

The festival coincides with the 28th anniversary of Presley's death on Aug. 16, 1977. But it underscores the singer's huge popularity in Austria, Germany and other countries where he's still got fans all shook up.

"For me, he was the only unique entertainer in the world," said organizer Wolfgang Hahn, who runs Elvis4You, a new shop in downtown Vienna that sells Elvis music, memorabilia and trinkets. "My mission is to tell people in Central Europe how good he really was."

Presley's popularity in Europe has grown even though he never performed publicly on the continent.

The only time he spent in Europe was a 1958-60 stint in the U.S. Army in Germany, during which he visited Paris twice while on leave and stopped briefly in Scotland when the military plane carrying him home was refueling.

Harald Molan, a 23-year-old Vienna university student, calls himself "a medium to huge fan."

"It's no different than someone who's crazy about Mozart, who has been dead for even longer," he said. "At least there's footage of Elvis on video, which you don't have if you like Mozart."

Hahn, who's 42 — "the same age Presley was when he died" — takes his Elvis seriously.

He calls himself Wolf Memphis, drives a car that bears an "ELVIS9" license plate (one through eight were already taken by other fans), wears an Elvis guitar pick on a cord around his neck and is the lead singer of Little Memphis, a band that does Elvis covers in English and German.

No pompadours, mutton chop sideburns, lip curls or hip swivels for him. Hahn, a friend of Presley's widow, Priscilla, makes regular pilgrimages to Graceland and sees Elvis impersonators as sacrilegious.

"There was just one Elvis. I think it's strange to imitate him," he said Friday. "It's a gag for a birthday party, but we take Elvis very seriously. He started a musical revolution."

Vienna's Las Vegas-style festival, which is expected to draw hundreds of fans, isn't the only Elvis event on offer.

French fans plan to gather in Fontainebleu on Aug. 25, and Elvis enthusiasts in England will assemble in Bristol on Sept. 6 for United Elvis Meetup Day.

Elvis rocks on in Britain, where a rerelease of his 1959 hit "One Night" soared to No. 1 on the country's singles charts in January. Over the years, Presley tunes have topped the U.K. charts 20 times, beating out The Beatles, which only managed 17.

In Italy, where a fan club based at the Memphis Cafe in Milan boasts 430 members, about 70 people recently headed to Memphis, Tenn., on a trip they organized to mark the anniversary, spokesman Maurizio Falletti said.

Presley is also hot in Germany, where fans on Thursday kicked off the 4th European Elvis Festival in Bad Nauheim, where the singer was based as a soldier, with a weekend of karaoke performances and Elvis impersonations.

In Austria, the Elvis frenzy might have prompted the Von Trapp Family Singers of "The Sound of Music" fame to head for the hills. But Hahn says he can't understand anyone who isn't crazy about Elvis, an obsession that began when he was 13 and first heard "All Shook Up."

"I just froze. I said, 'This is my guy,'" he recalled. "I get goose bumps just thinking about it."

Hahn's most prized possessions include a Gibson guitar signed by the singer, an original Elvis tour jacket, a framed autograph and a photograph of him with Priscilla Presley.

"He was 10 times better than what you hear on a CD or see on a DVD. He could do everything — rock, but also gospel and ballads that are so untouchable," he said.

"Even at the end, he had presence and charisma."

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Wolfgang Hahn, he calls himself Wolf Memphis,poses Friday, Aug. 12, 2005, in front of his car that bears an Elvis9 license plate. Hahn, runs Elvis4You, a shop in downtown Vienna that sells Elvis music, memorabilia and trinkets.

P.S. Проходил я мимо этого шопа в Вене вечером, но он был уже закрыт.

ELVIS PRESLEY The Memphis Flash (2005 UK Limited Collector's Edition Region 0 PAL DVD taking a look behind the facts behind the legend of Elvis Aaron Presley and the transformation of music with contributions from lifelong friends, classmates, biographers and others plus BONUS MATERIAL featuring rare Elvis footage, previously unpublished photos, nusic from the Sun Sessions, his first ever recording and much more..., picture slipcase).

Songs features include:
* That's All Right Mama
* Blue Moon Of Kentucky
* I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine
* Good Rockin' Tonight
* Milkcow Blues Boogie
* You're A Heartbreaker
* Blue Moon
* Shake Rattle And Roll
* I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone
and many more...

ELVIS & JERRY LEE LEWIS
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"ELVIS AND ME were the best of friends that ever were. Swear to God." So says The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis, a fellow graduate from Sun Records in Memphis where, in December 1956, he and Elvis sang together on the legendary Million Dollar Quartet session.
In stressing the extent of their friendship, Lewis even makes the unsubstantiated claim that they once went to a party together and ended up riding motorcycles "buck naked" down the street. Yet if The Killer and The King really were the best of buddies, then why was Lewis arrested outside Graceland on November 23,1976, where he was threatening to shoot his way in with a .33 Derringer pistol?
Lewis' version of the story is that Elvis had rung him up and told him to come over because "he was depressed". The Killer, admittedly "knee-walkin' drunk" after a champagne bender, jumped in his limousine and drove to Graceland where he "misjudged" the length of the car bonnet and crashed into the front gates. Worse, he'd "forgotten" to put away the pistol he'd just been given "as a present" and "accidentally" left on the dashboard. When security guards saw the gun they asked if he'd come to shoot Elvis. He "jokingly" said yes so they called the police.
So says Jerry Lee, but the real story, according to eye-witnesses who were at Graceland that night, is somewhat different. Whatever possessed Lewis to stop by, it certainly wasn't a phone call since Elvis never rang him. As for the "accidental" crash, when Lewis was
refused entry first time round he rammed the gates on purpose, unaware that Elvis was actually watching the whole incident in disbelief on CCTV before giving the order to call the cops himself. And what does Lewis say in the face of such contrary evidence? "Bullcrap!"
SIMON GOODARD

ELVIS & LED ZEPPELIN
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By 1974 when Led Zeppelin got to meet Elvis, there was some confusion about who was now the king. Presley and Zeppelin shared the same American promoter, Jerry Weintraub, and so all concerned knew by this time that the group they called The Hammer Of The Gods was the hotter ticket.
When Zeppelin turned up to see his show one night at the Forum in Los Angeles, Elvis was intrigued to meet this bunch of long-haired English barbarians who were selling out venues faster than he was. After singing "Love Me Tender", he told the audience: "I want to let everyone know my favourite band Led Zeppelin is here tonight. I'd like to have the spotlight put on them and I hope you'll join me in welcoming them." According to the not-always-reliable account of the band's road manager, Richard Cole, when the lights came up, they revealed drummer John Bonham to be fast asleep.
Afterwards the band were shown up to Presley's penthouse suite at the Inglewood, over the street from the venue. Determined to show who was the real star, he kept them waiting until the room was full before making his entrance. Elvis asked if the wild stories about Zeppelin on the road were true. Robert Plant mumbled something about them having
families and how easily rumours were spread. Presley laughed - and the ice was broken.
"The four of us and him talked for a couple of hours," Plant recalls. "We all stood in a circle and discussed this whole phenomenon, this lunacy. You'd have to go a long way to find someone with a better idea of what it was all about." According to Cole, Plant and Presley even ended up trading lines from "Love Me" before - to Bonham's embarrassment - Elvis asked Led Zeppelin for their autographs,
NIGEL WILLIAMSON

ELVIS & BOB DYLAN
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You'd imagine that any meeting between the two most towering figures in American music of the last half-century would have been one of the most documented encounters of all time. Instead, the question of whether Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan ever met remains one of the enduring mysteries of popular music history. Dylan's reverence for Elvis is well documented from the time he first heard his voice as a teenager in Hibbing, Minnesota in the mid '50s. After Presley recorded his "Tomorrow Is A Long Time" in 1966, Dylan told Rolling Stone: That's the one recording I treasure the most." Dylan was equally delighted when Presley recorded "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" five years later. Dylan wrote another song that he thought was suitable for Elvis' voice and asked producer Bob Johnston, who had worked with both men, to arrange a meeting. However, Colonel Tom Parker was less convinced it was a good idea and it's unclear whether the idea was even put to Presley. The identity of the song is unknown, too, but many believe it to have been "Tell Me That It Isn't True" from Nashville Skyline.
But did they ever meet? The 'evidence' that says they did comes in Dylan's song "Went To See The Gypsy" on his 1970 album New Morning. Various lyrical clues suggest the "gypsy"is Elvis and the first verse describes a meeting in a "darkand crowded"'hotel room. Yet this is Dylan we're talking about and with no corroborating evidence, the meeting the lyric describes could easily be fictional.
What is indisputable is that Dylan was deeply affected by Presley's death. He later admitted it was one of the few times in his life that he has ever broken down. "I didn't talk to anyone for a whole week after Elvis died," he recalled. "If it wasn't for Elvis and Hank Williams, I couldn't be doing what I do." NIGEL WILLIAMSON

ELVIS AND THE BEATLES
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It could have been the greatest jam session in the entire history of rock'n'roll. Sadly, we'll never know, because on August 27,1965, the day The Beatles not only met Elvis but actually played and sang with him, nobody bothered to tape it.
That this momentous summit ever happened in the first place was miraculous given the Fab Four's catastrophic impact upon Elvis' mid '60s commercial decline. A week before the meeting took place, they were playing to 55,000 screaming Beatlemaniacs at Shea Stadium. Elvis, meanwhile, was just finishing Paradise, Hawaiian Style in which he played a helicopter pilot singing gossamer dross like "Queen Wahine's Papaya". Yet whatever humiliation Elvis must have felt was cast aside when circumstances conspired to instigate a private audience with John, Paul, George and Ringo at his Hollywood home. First impressions weren't good. Lennon was so paranoid about embarrassing himself in front of his idol that he, well, did just that: spending most of the evening impersonating Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau (his opening line: "Ah, so zis is ze King!") and making the seriously dangerous error of leering at Priscilla whenever she glided past. Even when he tried to be sincere, enthusing over Elvis' Sun records and asking him, "Why have you dropped the old stuff, the rock?", Presley took it as an insult. Elvis took a slightly more sympathetic view of Ringo (his favourite Beatle), Harrison and McCartney, the latter even complimenting Elvis on his bass playing during an informal run through, of all things, Cilia Black's "You're My World". The very next day, McCartney was asked to sum up his impression of Elvis. His one-word response: "Odd". Bizarrely, given his behaviour, it was Lennon who was the most ingratiating, telling friends it was "the greatest night of my life". A shame nobody relayed these words to Elvis. Otherwise, he may have possibly changed his mind about scheming with the FBI in a clandestine bid to have the "anti-American" ex-Beatle deported in the early 70s. SIMON GODDARD

ELVIS AND FRANK SINATRA
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I n 1957, Frank Sinatra dismissed Elvis and the new breed of rockWrollers as "cretinous goons"
- words which he'd come to choke on three years later when on March 26,1960, he hosted the Welcome Home Party For Elvis Presley TV special. The highlight was Elvis curling his lip at Frank's "Witchcraft" while Sinatra gurned his way through "Love Me Tender". If it was a musical heavyweight contest, the result was a resounding KO to Elvis.
Their rivalry was exacerbated by Elvis' next movie, Gl Blues. Given the singer's reputation with leading ladies,

Frank was less than chuffed that his current girlfriend, Juliet Prowse, was Presley's co-star. Sure enough, before long Elvis was boasting to his Memphis Mafia that Prowse "likes to grab her ankles and spread her legs real wide". Ironically,
the day Sinatra paid an impromptu visit to the set, he caught them playing cards. Though in private Frank would continue to refer to Presley as "Clyde" (Rat Pack slang for "loser"), over the years their mutual animosity eventually softened. Sinatra not only lent Elvis his private jet for his wedding, he also offered to "rub out" Red and Sonny West, the bodyguards who wrote a scandalous biography in 1976. "Did my Dad hate Elvis? Of course not," says Nancy Sinatra, who herself sparked rumours of off-camera shenanigans when co-starring with Elvis in 1968's Speedway. "They really hit it off," she insists. "I can still picture the two of them laughing and carrying on in Vegas. They were pals." SIMON GODDARD

10 BIZARRE ELVIS SIGHTINGS
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ELVIS THE STILL - WARM CORPSE
The first recorded sighting of Dead Elvis, two days after his death in August 1977, filling up his Cadillac at Waxman's filling station in Sanderson County, Georgia.
ELVIS THE BURGER KING
Spotted by Tammy Sue in a Florida McDonald's in July 1985, eating dinner with a mysterious woman and a bag full of cash.
ELVIS THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLER
Spotted by Steven Patrick in a Swiss late-night cafe at 2am in the summer of 1986. After claiming to be from "Las Vegas", the lean and bearded Elvis promptly slipped away

ELVIS THE HORSE WHISPERER
Spotted by Paul Doe in Berlin, Germany, in July 1991, talking to the driver of a horse-drawn carriage. Doe and his fellow backpackers did not approach him "out of respect for Elvis and our strong desire to eat lunch and get beer".

ELVIS THE JOKER
Spotted by Oscar Peterson in a restaurant toilet in Miami, Florida, in July 1996. Elvis claimed to be Ted Kennedy and left the building.

ELVIS THE CURRY FAN
Spotted by Isaaco de Banco in Taste of Raj curry house in Palmers Green, London, in December 1996. The tracksuit-clad Presley ordered a mushroom bhaji and a chicken biryani.
ELVIS THE STRIPPER
Spotted by Edna Hankins, Elvis was "in a tight thong wearing a smile and blue suede shoes" at Le Butt strip club in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in early 2001.

ELVIS THE WELSHMAN
Spotted by Tony O'Connor in a pub in Ebbw Vale, Gwent, March 2001. Elvis was drinking pints, claimed to be a US tourist, and disappeared during a trip to the toilet.

ELVIS THE FILM BUFF
Spotted by Nicholas Scott Kohler as he watched Monsters, Inc. at a Hollywood cinema in June 2001. Elvis spilled popcorn everywhere.

ELVIS THE CHICKEN THIEF
Spotted by Jason R in Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada in July 2001. Elvis sped past on roller blades and stole a bucket of KFC.

(TAKEN FROM UNCUT LEGENDS #5 VOL.1)

В Мюнхене увидел в витрине магазина, торгующим "зрением" (линзы, оправы и тэ пэ)
Готично....

Почему-то вспомнил сцену из Mystery Train Джима Джармуша.

Мемфис, ночь. В обшарпанном мотеле в одном из номеров две тетки спать укладываются. На ночь ведут нехитрые бабские разговоры на тему "мой-то козел..." и т.д. и о прочих вещах.

Одна из них засыпает, другая тоже было отходит ко сну, как тут ни с того ни с сего в номере возникает призрак Элвиса.
Та смотрит на него, разинув варежку и тянется рукой разбудить свою соседку. Призрак, явно забредший туда по ошибке, смущенно говорит: "Извините за беспокойство мэм, я кажется, ошибся номером" и тает в воздухе...

SCOTTY MOORE & FRIENDS A Tribute To The King (2005 DVD featuring 27 classic Elvis hits covered by Scott along with guest appearances from Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Dave Gilmour, Steve Gibbons & Mike Sanchez recorded & filmed live at Abbey Road Studios in December 2004 plus BONUS FEATURES including Interviews with Scotty Moore, Jerry Schilling & 'Friends' and Behind The Scenes Footage).
released 03 October 2005

1. Blue Moon of Kentucky
2. My Baby Left Me
3. That's All Right Mama
4. Heartbreak Hotel
5. Trying To Get To You
6. Baby Let's Play House
7. Shake, Rattle And Roll
8. Mess Of Blues
9. One Night With You
10. Don't Be Cruel
11. Money Honey
12. All Shook Up
13. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
14. Blue Moon
15. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
16. Reconsider Baby
17. Ready Teddy
18. Heartbreak Hotel
19. Don't
20. Jailhouse Rock
21. Good Rocking Tonight
22. I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine
23. Baby I Don't Care
24. Blue Suede Shoes
25. Tennessee Waltz
26. Mystery Train
27. Hound Dog

BONUS FEATURES:
1. Interview with Scotty Moore
2. Interview with Jerry Schilling
3. Interview with 'Friends'
4. Behind The Scenes Footage

TIMBERLAKE TO BUY ELVIS MUSIC HISTORY

Pop star JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE wants to return to his home town of Memphis, Tennessee to buy King Of Rock ELVIS PRESLEY's old recording studio and label.

Timberlake heads a consortium of investors in talks to snap up Elvis' Sun label and OTIS REDDING's former label Stax - as well as a huge recording complex.

The two firms would be added to the singer's own JayTee label - which he launched this summer (05).

RAY FLEMING of the Memphis Music Foundation says, "We love Justin. He's a native. It's very exciting to have someone of his significance participate in the music scene here."

04/10/2005

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Анонс!
В понедельник по РТР в 23:20 по Москве будет передача "Элвис Пресли. Во власти Рока".
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Небось очередная муть вроде ОРТ-ной "Элвис Пресли - король мира".

Вчера по кабельному на канале "Ностальгия" была передача о Элвисе. Я только конец успел посмотреть. Показывали студию Sun, фрагменты какого-то телешоу раннего и ранний концерт(совсем немного).

А по центральному телевидению вчера показали фильм о различных версиях причины его смерти: несчастный случай, самоубийство, убийство и злоупотребление лекарствами (наркосодержащими и антидепрессантами). Из всего увиденного вырисовывается образ слабого, зависимого и закомплексованного человека. На его музыкальном творчестве авторы фильма не остановились.

2yellow submarine: а такой цели и небыло, рассказывать про его музыкальное творчество. Нельзя объять необъятное да еще в рамках 50-минутной передачи.

Лучше бы сняли передачу об увлечении Элвиса карате. Говорят, на пике формы люстры в гостиницах ударом ноги сшибал.

В фильме нашла подтверждение ходившая в битломанских кругах информация о том, что Элвис Битлз не только не любил, но даже пытался строить им в Америке козни. А они к нему относились с искренним уважением, разве что после первой встречи он показался им "странноватым".

Chapters:

Baby, Let's Play House (Mark Knopfler)
Shake, Rattle & Roll (Paul Ansell)
A Mess Of Blues (Paul Ansell)
One Night (Paul Ansell)
Don't Be Cruel (Steeve Gibbons)
Money Honey (Eric Clapton)
All Shook Up (Mike Sanchez)
Lawdy Miss Cloudy (Mike Sanchez)
Blue Moon (Martin Taylor)
I Forgot To Remember (Paul Ansell)
Reconsider Baby (Paul Ansell)
Ready Teddy (Paul Ansell)
Heartbreak Hotel (Martin Taylor)
Don't (David Gilmour)
Jailhouse Rock (Steeve Gibbons)
Good Rocking Tonight (Paul Ansell)
I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine (Steeve Gibbons)
Baby I Don't Care (Albert Lee)
Blue Suede Shoes (Albert Lee)
Tenessee Waltz (Martin Taylor)
Mystery Train (Eric Clapton)
Hound Dog (Albert Lee)
Making Of "A Tribute To the King" (Bonus)
Interviews (Bonus)
Jukebox (Bonus)

2yellow submarine:

>В фильме нашла подтверждение ходившая в битломанских
>кругах информация о том, что Элвис Битлз не только
>не любил, но даже пытался строить им в Америке
>козни. А они к нему относились с искренним уважением,
>разве что после первой встречи он показался им "странноватым".

Достаточно было показать сомнительный фильм по РТР, чтобы убедить общественность в этом. Не так давно был на "Первом" фильм "Король мира", так там его гермафродитом объявили. Тоже верите?

Что касается уважения битлз к Элвису, хотелось бы напомнить Вам слова Леннона о том, что в армии его (Элвиса) лишили яиц. И ещё. Когда Элвис умер, Леннон был в Японии на каникулах со своей супругой. Узнав печальное известие, он изрёк: "Не хочу умереть на сцене в Лас-Вегасе, исполняя свои старые хиты". Его мечта осуществилась, он погиб как герой.

2Alexander Prolubnikov:

>Лучше бы сняли передачу об увлечении Элвиса карате.
>Говорят, на пике формы люстры в гостиницах ударом
>ноги сшибал.

Лучше бы сняли фильм об Элвисе-артисте и о его музыке, а не об Элвисе-наркомане и Элвисе-покойнике. А то посмотришь такие вот фильмы, которые снимают на нашем ТВ, и кроме фразы "король рок-н-ролла" о музыке в них ничего нет. Запихивать Элвиса в рамки рок-н-ролла - это оскорбление его как артиста, я считаю.

Совершенно согласен.

Но вместо фильма, где Элвис показан как слабый, зависимый от наркотиков и закомплексованный человек, могли снять фильм об Элвисе обладателе черного пояса по карате. Наверняка и видео-материала сохранилось предостаточно. Я думаю, вкупе с пластикой Элвиса - это были бы балетные номера не слабее Брюса Ли.

Просто по растиражированности образ "толстого Элвиса" вполне может заместить образ, ну, любимого, скажем, мной Элвиса)))

Я думаю, любой фильм об Элвисе имеет право на существование: и о его музыкальной деятельности, и об увлечении каратэ, и оккультизмом, и о его пагубных пристрастиях лекарствам, приведшим его к кончине. А что касается попыток Пресли через ФБР помешать Битлз выступлениям в США, было известно задолго до данного фильма и подтверждается рассекреченными документами тех лет.
Как я понимаю, на данном форуме положено только хвалить Элвиса, поэтому извините, что я не в тему.