Elvis Presley

Baz Luhrmann directs Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in the new musical drama from Warner Bros.

Luhrmann never does anything by half measures, but perhaps one of the most striking thinks about “Elvis” is how ultimately restrained it is in the end. Though the film is flimsy with biographical facts, it does make sure to put Elvis’s Mississippi and Beale Street influences front and center. The artifice of his performance fits in the context of Luhrmann’s theatrical storytelling. His entire Hollywood career is summed up in a quick montage that ends with Tom Hanks’ Colonel Tom Parker saying in voiceover that “we had a lot of fun.” It was, perhaps, always going to take a director as wild and visionary as Baz Luhrmann to do something that evokes the essence of the King’s 42 years. The brief life of Elvis Presley is not something that fits neatly into a conventional biopic formula, though many have tried.

In the new movie “Elvis,” Austin Butler blended raw talent with advice from singing and movement coaches to embody the king of rock and roll.

Butler listened to as much of the Elvis song catalog as he could. “That last day, I didn’t know who I was, and my body was dead at that point, too,” Butler says. “Every day, when I’d drive home from the set, I’d put on ‘Polk Salad Annie,’ ‘Never Been to Spain’ and ‘Milkcow Boogie Blues,’" he recalls. “What a revelation he is,” Luhrmann says of Butler. “From the moment he walked into our first meeting all the way to the end, he lived as Elvis. Not in the way a Method actor would. "It felt very claustrophobic, and I felt a great sadness because I’m sure Elvis felt the same way, that he could hardly breathe. Butler says he remembers as a youngster when his grandmother, who “was a teen in the ‘50s,” played Elvis songs. Helping him with that quest was the blessing of Priscilla Presley, whom the actor met early in the filmmaking process during a visit to her house on the Graceland property. I could only take shallow breaths and it was very hot," Butler observed in the film's production notes. I had to really experience him fully as he was then.” The actor wanted to tout Butler’s work ethic after the pair shared a Broadway stage in Eugene O'Neill's “The Iceman Cometh” in 2018. Each time the feeling struck, he knew the only cure was to get back to the alchemic task of turning into Elvis Presley. “I don’t think he had a day off, in years,” says Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner.

Presley never wrote a memoir. Nor did he keep a diary. His music could have been a window into his inner life, but he didn't even write his songs.

I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. Luhrmann’s movie promises to reveal a great deal about one of the most captivating and enigmatic figures of our time. That was the extent of his professional obligations. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. As Elvis crafted his identity and pursued his craft, he did the same. A few weeks before his demise, a Soviet publication described him as “wrecked” – a “pitilessly” dumped product victimized by the American consumerist system. Elvis alluded to this in 1971 when he provided a rare glimpse into his psyche upon receiving a Jaycees Award as one of the nation’s Ten Outstanding Young Men: Perhaps the most contentious aspect of his identity was the singer’s relationship to race. However, by 2021, in the midst of a changing racial climate, Jones was dismissing Presley as an unabashed racist. His music could have been a window into his inner life, but since he wasn’t a songwriter, his material depended on the words of others. Over the years, he had submitted to numerous interviews and press conferences, but the quality of these exchanges was erratic, frequently characterized by superficial answers to even shallower questions. Binder, an iconoclast unimpressed by Presley’s recent work, had pushed Elvis to reach back into his past to revitalize a career stalled by years of mediocre movies and soundtrack albums.

The actor opens up about the pressures of playing the late Rock 'n Roll icon and how grateful he is for the Presley family's blessing.

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ELVIS PRESLEY had a life-changing year in 1963 when he stepped onto the set of his latest movie, Viva Las Vegas. He met Ann-Margret, the woman who he would ...

And on the morning of every show, Elvis would send her a bouquet of flowers in the shape of a guitar to wish her luck. After untrue reports surfaced that Ann-Margret had discussed her relationship with Elvis to the press, Priscilla found out the truth. Ann-Margret explained that her loving relationship with Elvis ultimately ended because of forces out of her control. We knew the relationship had to end, that Elvis had to fulfill his commitment." But she later revealed in an interview that he desperately wanted to remain with her forever. But before he knew it, the relationship had come to an end, all because of Priscilla Presley - even though he wanted to marry his co-star.

Actors who played Elvis Presley — Austin Butler, Kurt Russell, and more actors who portrayed the iconic singer.

The film starts after Presley’s divorce from wife Priscilla, and follows his romance with young beauty pageant contestant Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist). Photo : Courtesy Everett Collection. 1988’s Heartbreak Hotel, directed by Chris Columbus (yes, the man who brought us the first two Harry Potter film adaptations), features a rather outlandish tale about the King of Rock and Roll. In the movie, David Keith plays the singer, who’s kidnapped by a group of kids. Photo : ©ABC/Courtesy Everett Collection. Although 2005’s Walk The Line tells the story of Johnny Cash, Elvis makes a small appearance. Photo : ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection. Rose McGowan, pictured here, also starred as Ann-Margret, who had a rumored romance with Presley. Photo : Courtesy Everett Collection. Let’s start with the latest actor to recreate some of those famous dance moves: Austin Butler plays the titular role in Elvis, which follows the iconic singer from his early beginnings, his meteoric rise, to his tragic final years. Elvis, directed by Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet), swivels into theaters on June 24, and already the film has earned its lead actor praise from Presley’s own family. Now, however, all eyes are on Austin Butler’s performance as Presley. Sure, you have lots of references from photos to videos, performances, and more — but when it really comes down to it, if an actor or actress can’t nail their impersonation, or anchor their interpretation in something familiar to the audience, the magic can be lost.

Austin Butler stars as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's mixed-up, muddled film portrait of the late singer.

It’s tempting to theorize that Luhrmann is temperamentally more attracted to Parker as a protagonist because he sees a fellow martinet, but the Colonel is really the lens through which the filmmaker is examining a broader theme: the freak show of fandom. He does his own singing during Presley’s formative years, and he does an admirable job of capturing the intoxication and terror of his nascent stardom. The narrative arc of “Elvis” often feels like it’s been lifted of a piece from Guillermo del Toro’s recent adaptation of “Nightmare Alley.” Parker, a carnival worker whose showmanship and talent for the short con earned him the nickname “The Snowman,” is portrayed as an Iago-like schemer who sees Presley as the ultimate geek, ripe for exploitation. Just as Parker took 50 percent of Presley’s earnings, he commandeers at least half the movie, butting into the story with glint-eyed asides and oppressive voice-overs. It’s a blunt, unsubtle but also thrilling scene whose momentum is oddly stopped cold by a cut to Presley — now portrayed by Austin Butler — performing at the Louisiana Hayride in 1954. During his formative years, young Elvis (Chaydon Jay) watches transfixed as African American patrons of a Tupelo juke joint writhe deliriously to Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, then runs to a nearby Pentecostal revival tent where he’s just as mesmerized by the preaching of the word.

Where are Elvis Presley's grandchildren now? The rock 'n' roll superstar's family has become a hot topic due to the new movie about his career.

I hope you feel god. I hope you feel my love. I hope you give me the strength to eat. I hope you give me strength to endure the giant hole you’ve left in my heart. Of course, you'll want to make sure to pick up your tickets in advance. I hope you’re cradled in love. A pain that’s new to me." Even though Elvis has long passed away, his legacy continues to live on through his music and his lineage. After all, talent runs deep in the Presley bloodline. The L.A. County Medical Examiner’s Coroner’s Office shared (per TMZ) that Benjamin passed away from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. So, it comes as no surprise that fans are ready to take a deep dive into rock 'n’ roll superstar Elvis’s family life. Naturally, fans are always wiling to keep his memory and influence alive.

Kacey Musgraves has shared the studio version of her cover of Elvis Presley's 1961 single 'Can't Help Falling In Love'.

Jack White was also confirmed to be part of the soundtrack. Prior to her, only Doja Cat had been announced: her contribution, ‘Vegas’, samples Presley’s ‘Hound Dog’. At the time of the original announcement, Musgraves was one of two artists that had been confirmed for the Elvis soundtrack.

The latest track from Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley biopic arrives with footage from the film.

A number of the singles from the soundtrack incorporate samples of original Presley recordings. Musgraves first performed “Can’t Help Falling in Love” at this year’s Met Gala, which she attended with Luhrmann, Butler, and Priscilla Presley. Elvis hits theaters Friday (June 24). The soundtrack for the film arrives the same day, and includes contributions from Doja Cat (“ Vegas”), Eminem and CeeLo Green (“ The King and I”), and more. Kacey Musgraves has shared a cover of Elvis Presley’s classic “ Can’t Help Falling in Love.” Her take on the ballad is the latest track from the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic about the King. Musgraves’ single arrives with a visual featuring footage from the film, specifically the scenes between Presley (played by Austin Butler) and his wife Priscilla (Olivia DeJonge). Check it out below.

On Wednesday, the country-pop songstress dropped the cover, which pares back the swooning original with a simple arrangement of piano and airy vocals. The music ...

What’s extraordinary about it is that life is culturally at the center of the Fifties, socially the Sixties, and actually the Seventies.” “In this modern era, the life of Elvis Presley could not be a better canvas on which to explore America in the Fifties, Sixties, Seventies,” he said. Last week, Musgraves retweeted a video of Musgraves as a child opening a present that had an Elvis Presley perfume inside of it with a huge smile on her face.

Musgraves' rendition of the Elvis Presley classic is the latest track to be revealed from the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's reportedly incoherent new biopic ...

Austin Butler has opened up about how he understood the pain Elvis Presley felt following the death of his mother, as he went through the same emotions.

"So that’s one of the beautiful things about what we get to do, you know? You know, the tropes? "And so that was the foundation. "You know, there are tribute artists – but the tropes. He continued: "So those scenes – I mean, you’re talking about the grief moment. "And she was my best friend.

Priscilla Presley was married to Elvis Presley from 1967-1973, first meeting when she was only a child. They had their daughter Lisa Marie Presley on Feb. 1, ...

The twins were out of protective custody and the divorce was finalized in 2021. Born in California, the oldest grandchild of Elvis is married to stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen, who runs a production company. Their parents were locked in an ugly custody battle and drawn-out divorce. Navarone Garibaldi is Priscilla Presley and Marco Garibaldi’s only son, born March 1, 1987. Lisa Marie Presley was born in Tennessee to Elvis and Priscilla Presley in 1968. She has sued former financial manager Barry Siegel and alleges that he mismanaged her funds. Her personal life was often troubled, and she struggled with substance abuse and opioid addiction off and on for years starting in 2008. They were together for 22 years, living together for 21 of those years and even welcomed a son named Navarone Garibaldi in 1987. Over her career as a singer-songwriter, she released three albums: To Whom It May Concern, Now What, and Storm & Grace. She is the mother of four children. She helped monetize Elvis’ Graceland estate and starred in the Naked Gun trilogy, as well as a recurring role on Dallas. If there was ever a man who needed no introduction, it’s Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll. But while you may be an Elvis expert, far less is known about the ex-wife and daughter he left behind, and the family they’ve raised since.

Musgraves originally confirmed that she would be covering the song at the 2022 Met Gala, where she arrived with Luhrmann and Priscilla Presley. The singer ...

Jack White was also confirmed to be part of the soundtrack. Prior to her, only Doja Cat had been announced: her contribution, ‘Vegas’, samples Presley’s ‘Hound Dog’. At the time of the original announcement, Musgraves was one of two artists that had been confirmed for the Elvis soundtrack.

With the release of the Baz Luhrmann biopic Elvis just around the corner, a renewed spotlight is being shone onto the legendary rock and roll pioneer.

Presley almost assuredly heard one of these on the radio, or perhaps heard covers from various live performers around Memphis as a teenager. When he stepped into the studio, Presley opted to record the pop ballad ‘My Happiness’ as his first-ever recording. Besides, the Presley family didn’t even have a record player at the time.

Memphis Tourism officials hope the new "Elvis" movie will be a "billboard" for people around the world to come to visit Graceland and the Bluff City.

The TSA national throughput is the number of passengers traveling through the U.S. in a given time period. “In short, more people are traveling, and the planes are full,” Thomas said. Memphis and Elvis are synonymous, and it resonates very strongly through all of our research around the world ... It's (the new movie) just really a promotion for Memphis and kind of puts Memphis in front and center in people's minds.” For Memphis to thrive from a tourism standpoint and for Graceland to thrive, we need those international guests.” The movie is expected to be a summer blockbuster. Wigginton later declared it "international day" at the museum. So it's not a question of us, you know, trying to get something started, we never stopped as far as promoting Memphis to our international audiences.” Memphis Tourism CEO Kevin Kane said the organization kept the international representatives onboard throughout the pandemic. The TSA national throughput is down by 10.1% compared to May 2019, which means Memphis is outpacing the national average, Thomas said. “When we look at our numbers, we’re creeping back very close to pre-COVID levels for American visitors,” Weinshanker said. That was the most recent data provided by Memphis Tourism, the last full pre-pandemic year. International visitors to Memphis were a rarity for much of the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Celebrate the debut of Baz Luhrmann's new movie 'Elvis' by taking a look back at the hottest photos of the King when he was young.

We love a man in uniform! Baz Luhrmann's musical biopic "Elvis" opens in theaters on June 24, 2022. We love a man in uniform! _ Baz Luhrmann's musical biopic "Elvis" opens in theaters on June 24, 2022. _

Kacey Musgraves has taken her alt-country sound backwards in time and shared a cover of Elvis Presley "Can't Help Falling in Love."

Her take on “Can’t Help Falling in Love” reads more as a mournful breakup song instead of a musical version of first-kiss butterflies. There’s lots of reverb on her voice, making it sound as though she’s singing alone in a large, empty house. From golden hour to blue suede shoes, Kacey Musgraves has taken her pop-country sound backwards in time and shared a cover of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” The song appears on the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.

Baz Luhrmann's sprawling pop biopic “Elvis,” starring Austin Butler as the iconic King of Rock 'n' Roll hits theaters this weekend, and it's likely that the ...

Baz Luhrmann’s sprawling pop biopic “Elvis,” starring Austin Butler as the iconic King of Rock ‘n’ Roll hits theaters this weekend, and it’s likely that the wild portrait of Elvis Presley might spark a desire to revisit, or discover, some of his best work. With interviews from Priscilla Presley, many of his musical collaborators, ethnomusicologists, as well as Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, it’s an exhaustive and carefully researched look into the music that made Elvis, and the music that Elvis made. Austin Butler transforms into Elvis and gives a star-making turn as the King, seemingly born for the role, but he’s not the first actor to take on the challenging role.

"Elvis" star Austin Butler detailed his physical injuries while transforming into Elvis Presley for the Baz Luhrmann film.

Lisa Marie said that Butler deserves an Academy Award for his moving take on the rock star, saying the former Disney star “embodied my father’s heart and soul beautifully.” Butler was even hospitalized after wrapping production on the film. We did a lot.”

Elvis features a phenomenal cast, including Chaydon Jay, who gives a powerful performance as young Elvis. Here's all you need to know about the young actor.

One of the takeaway performances is that of Chaydon Jay, who plays a Elvis as a child. The biopic chronicles the life and career of singer and actor, Elvis Presley. Austin Butler stars as the King himself, with a beautiful performance throughout. Fans of the King of Rock and Roll can’t wait to see the movie this weekend.

Indeed, so complete was his appeal, that the King was introduced to actual royalty in the 1960s, when a trio of Scandinavian princesses visited the USA.

While Elvis met these three young princesses, he never met with any other European royalty, despite his fame. The royal cousins met several movie stars during their trip - including Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Shirley MacLaine. And it was on the set of G.I. Blues at Paramount Studios, that they posed for photographs with Presley, while he was taking a break from filming. It was early June 1960 when Princess Margrethe of Denmark (the future Queen) Princess Astrid of Norway and Princess Margaretha of Sweden departed on the first ever Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen to Los Angeles.

Baz Luhrmann's new biopic "Elvis" explores the life of the King of Rock and Roll but it only includes one of his relationships.

He was ready to go back on stage, something he loved with all of his being. I would even go with him to get his teeth cleaned! We were lovers, kindred spirits, for sure." Elvis proposed to Alden two months after they started dating, and she has spoken of how he was looking forward to their wedding in the days before his passing. Elvis and Priscilla met at a party when he was stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army, he was 24 and she was 14 at the time. Baz Luhrmann's Elvis explores the life of the King of Rock and Roll, including his relationship with ex-wife Priscilla Presley, but it ignores the other woman who was in his life at the time of his death: Ginger Alden.

Ahead of the release of 'Elvis,' fans are curious to learn more about Elvis's marriage to Priscilla Presley. Here's a timeline of their relationship.

Again, Priscilla and Elvis didn't follow the agreement. Elvis is acting like we’ve all the time in the world." Though they were on different continents, Elvis and Priscilla managed to stay in touch for two years. Regarding the morning of their daughter's birth, Priscilla said it was incredibly stressful. Once Priscilla returned home late the night of the party, they weren't too fond of Elvis. Nevertheless, he eventually won over his future in-laws. Of course, most would assume there's no issue with two people meeting at a party and developing a connection.

Baz Luhrmann's latest spectacle tackles the life of Elvis Presley, as filtered through his shady longtime manager.

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Austin Butler plays the singer, with Tom Hanks as his devilish manager, in Baz Luhrmann's operatic, chaotic anti-biopic.

In the end, this isn’t a biopic or a horror movie or a cautionary parable: It’s a musical, and the music is great. But Luhrmann’s sense of history is too muddled and sentimental to give the gestures that kind of weight. An early montage — repeated so often that it becomes a motif — finds the boy Elvis (Chaydon Jay) simultaneously peeking into a juke joint where Arthur Crudup (Gary Clark Jr.) plays “That’s All Right Mama” and catching the spirit at a tent revival. Gladys is terrified, and the scene carries a heavy charge of sexualized danger. Luhrmann’s last feature was an exuberant, candy-colored — and, I thought, generally underrated — adaptation of “The Great Gatsby,” and the Colonel is in some ways a Gatsbyesque character. He’s a self-invented man, an arriviste on the American scene, a “mister nobody from nowhere” trading in the unstable currencies of wishing and seeming. Butler is fine in the few moments of offstage drama that the script allows, but most of the emotional action is telegraphed in Luhrmann’s usual emphatic, breathless style. The boy grows up poor in Tupelo, Miss., and Memphis, finds his way into the Sun Records recording studio at the age of 19, and proceeds to set the world on fire. As a movie, though, “Elvis” lurches and wobbles, caught in a trap only partly of its own devising. Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” — a biopic in the sense that “Heartbreak Hotel” is a Yelp review — works mightily to dispel this funerary gloom. (The composer and executive music producer is Elliott Wheeler.) The sonic message — and the film’s strongest argument for its subject’s relevance — is that Presley’s blend of blues, gospel, pop and country continues to mutate and pollinate in the musical present. The ghoulish, garish production design, by Catherine Martin (Luhrmann’s wife and longtime creative partner) and Karen Murphy, is full of carnival sleaze and Vegas vulgarity.

In Baz Luhrmann's “Elvis,” there's a scene based on actual conversations that took place between Elvis Presley and Steve Binder, the director of a 1968 NBC ...

I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. Luhrmann’s movie promises to reveal a great deal about one of the most captivating and enigmatic figures of our time. That was the extent of his professional obligations. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. As Elvis crafted his identity and pursued his craft, he did the same. Elvis alluded to this in 1971 when he provided a rare glimpse into his psyche upon receiving a Jaycees Award as one of the nation’s Ten Outstanding Young Men: Perhaps the most contentious aspect of his identity was the singer’s relationship to race. However, by 2021, in the midst of a changing racial climate, Jones was dismissing Presley as an unabashed racist. He tuned into the radio station WDIA, where he soaked up gospel and rhythm and blues tunes, along with the vernacular of black disk jockeys. His music could have been a window into his inner life, but since he wasn’t a songwriter, his material depended on the words of others. Over the years, he had submitted to numerous interviews and press conferences, but the quality of these exchanges was erratic, frequently characterized by superficial answers to even shallower questions. Binder, an iconoclast unimpressed by Presley’s recent work, had pushed Elvis to reach back into his past to revitalize a career stalled by years of mediocre movies and soundtrack albums.

The King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley, has long been royalty on the Billboard Hot 100, with his chart success predating the survey's start.

Presley has also scored 10 No. 1s on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart, from Elvis Presley in May 1956 through Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits in October 2002. Presley notched 10 No. 1 singles on Best Sellers in Stores, beginning with “Heartbreak Hotel” in April 1956. “Good Luck Charm,” two, April 21, 1962 “Hard Headed Woman,” two, July 21, 1958 “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You,” one, July 28, 1956 “Don’t,” five, Feb. 10, 1958

Others — including Bruce Campbell, Harvey Keitel and Robert Patrick — have played people who might be Elvis. If he hadn't died in 1977 at the age of 42, that is ...

Presley ushered in a brand new era for American music by blending sounds of his musical influences from the region where he was raised. He blended the country ...

Heartbreak Hotel, a Christopher Columbus film, is not your typical take on the Elvis story. Sun Records only got one season on CMT in 2017 and quite frankly we're still not over it. He blended the country music he grew up with and the sounds of Black gospel choirs and rhythm and blues music that is so deeply rooted in that Delta region. This story focused on the last relationship Elvis had, with former Miss Tennessee Linda Thompson. He also served his country in the U.S. Army. Presley was one of a kind and remains, even after death, a tremendous figure in pop culture. A music icon, a movie star, and a champion of the city he called home, Memphis. Presley ushered in a brand new era for American music by blending sounds of his musical influences from the region where he was raised.

No modern artist or celebrity has come close to matching Elvis Presley's legendary clothing. Many celebrities, on the other hand, are taking inspiration from ...

When it comes to Elvis Presley, this is still the case. For her outfit, this pop singer Britney Spears is known for borrowing inspiration from historic artists. His music is well-known and well-liked throughout the world.

Those missteps, courtesy of director Baz Luhrmann and an ill-used Tom Hanks, squander Austin Butler's brilliant moments in the title role, which deserve a much ...

Much of it is devoted to meticulously replicating Presley's performances, including a detailed presentation of his acclaimed 1968 NBC special, which gives Butler's unerring mimicry an opportunity to shine. Here, Luhrmann (who shares script credit with three others, nearly a decade after his last film "The Great Gatsby") makes the near-fatal error of primarily telling the story from Parker's point of view. A colorful and shadowy figure, Parker's control prompted allegations of serious financial shenanigans that were only exposed after Presley's death in 1977.

Elvis Presley and his mother Gladys temporarily moved into this house while his father Vernon was in jail. The final location is at the Lyric Theatre on North ...

Elvis and Priscilla Presley shared 13 years together before his untimely death in 1977. Here is a complete timeline of their relationship.

It was just too hard to believe," she said during an appearance on TODAY. "And going out the gates in the limo and seeing the streets lined up on both sides all the way to the cemetery. "When I came to L.A. for the first time, he was contracted for three movies a year. She recounted his words for the Orlando Sentinel, writing, "Cilla, I have to have time to think. Of which I did and then told me to open them and he presented me with a beautiful engagement ring." "He got on his knee with a gift behind his back and told me to close my eyes. "I locked myself in my room, unable to eat, unable to sleep," Priscilla said. "I saw Elvis trying to get my attention," Priscilla said. "For the next two weeks, we slept during the day and played at night," Priscilla recalled. "Finally I forced myself to go to school and found myself swamped by reporters and photographers." "I did not divorce him because I didn't love him ― he was the love of my life, truly," Priscilla told British talk show Loose Women. "If anything, I left because I needed to find out what the world was like." The entrepreneur first met the famous crooner in 1959 at just 14 years old while he was serving in the army overseas in Germany. "He was fun to be with," she told Good Morning America in June 2022. "It was a lot to expect someone my age to understand, but I tried.

Elvis Presley on stage at the Polk Theatre in Lakeland, Florida in one of three scheduled performances on August 6, 1956. In the photo, Lakeland police officer Gordon Lord attempts to restrain fans reaching out to the popular singer.

"Back in 1956, he was still new, but we loved him. “If you can imagine, my friend that I was sitting next to was screaming and pulling her hair," Shiver said. “Oh yes, I’ll never forget that day — I was in the third row,” she said.

“Really, he was the first major sensation in American music,” said Jessi Zilka, owner of Jesse Carl Vinyl. “Elvis is the first one that all the girls fell ...

"Back in 1956, he was still new, but we loved him. “If you can imagine, my friend that I was sitting next to was screaming and pulling her hair," Shiver said. “Oh yes, I’ll never forget that day — I was in the third row,” she said.

Kevin Parker updates Presley's Almost in Love song for the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's new biopic.

Elvis hits theaters today (June 24), and the soundtrack is also out now. Since then, they’ve shared the new song “ The Boat I Row,” collaborated with Diana Ross on “ Turn Up the Sunshine,” and covered the Strokes at Primavera Sound. Later this fall, Tame Impala will celebrate the 10th anniversary of 2012’s Lonerism at Desert Daze by performing the album in full. Tame Impala released their most recent studio album, The Slow Rush, in 2020 and followed it up with a deluxe edition the next year.

Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker — played by Tom Hanks in the new Baz Luhrmann movie "Elvis" — had an intense influence on the rock star and made ...

“He tried to make deals with the people there,” said Dickerson. And although Elvis had success with films such as 1957’s “Jailhouse Rock,” Dickerson believes that movies ultimately hurt Presley’s career — especially after he returned from a two-year stint in the Army in 1960. And after Elvis’ big comeback TV special in 1968, the following year Parker signed Presley to a long-term deal performing in Las Vegas that snuffed out his momentum — and his mojo. (Parker would get the honorary “Colonel” title in the Louisiana state militia for work that he did on the election campaign of Gov. Jimmie Davis, who was a former country singer.) It’s been estimated that the deal earned Parker $100 million. He didn’t listen to music.” But after Parker’s massive gambling debts had gotten him into big trouble in Las Vegas, he hiked his percentage up to 50 percent. Presley — who had dated the likes of Ann-Margret, Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno — was reluctant to wed the ingenue and settle down. Presley’s manager Colonel Tom Parker was so controlling, he pressured the rock star into marrying Priscilla Beaulieu on May 1, 1967. But the colorful, controversial Parker prevailed. But then Parker promptly cut Snow out of the deal to manage Presley. “They had a business arrangement that fell apart,” said Dickerson. “And Hank Snow said that Parker was the lowest human being that had ever walked the earth.” “He plotted and formed an association with Hank Snow,” said Dickerson. “He knew that Elvis’ mother loved Hank Snow. So he took Hank Snow with him to talk to the mother and father.”

Elvis Presley's Manager Was a Dutch Illegal Immigrant Carnival Worker Who Loved Gambling ... When it comes to successful artists, oftentimes the exploits of the ...

Both Priscilla and Jerry said he was a lovely man." Marie Mott passed away in 1986 and in 1990, he got remarried to Loanne Miller, a tour secretary for RCA who he had known for the last 20 years. The Colonel himself would die 20 years later in 1997, but he was involved in managing Elvis's estate until he did. In fact, he played a heavy part in managing Elvis up until his death in 1977. Many have claimed that he took advantage of Elvis's dislike of dealing with business in order to get him to sign contracts that he knew Elvis wouldn't read. Parker's promotional skills must have been next level because he also helped singer-songwriter Jimmie Davis become the governor of Louisiana in 1944.

Baz Luhrmann's splashy “Elvis” biopic attempts to make the King relevant to a new generation. But 50 years after Presley's last Top 10 hit, is it too late?

Back then, CKX — a company whose biggest asset was “American Idol” — offloaded the estate to a private equity firm, believing it to be in a state of decline. His last Top 10 hit, “Burning Love,” arrived half a century ago, and his peak — and that of his pioneering ’50s rock ’n’ roll peers — is even further in the past. Sean Ross, editor of the “Ross on Radio” newsletter and an observer of radio trends, notes: “Oldies radio stations pushed away from the 1950s close to 20 years ago. For decades after Presley’s ignominious 1977 death — fates couldn’t conspire to deliver a less glamorous passing than dying on the toilet from a heart attack due to his addiction to pain pills — his legacy was kept alive through a steady stream of posthumous compilations, several of which were certified platinum over the years. Rather, it presents an idea of Elvis Presley, emphasizing how he shook up society by ignoring racial boundaries and sexual conventions, accentuating this rebellion not by relying on rock ’n’ roll — the wild, unkempt music that Presley made — but hip-hop and pop. “Elvis” can be seen as the culmination of a process that the two companies set in place roughly a decade ago. At this point,” says Ross, “classic hits stations have been living without Elvis since at least the mid-’10s.” Michael Stipe’s Elvis impression on R.E.M.’s “ Man on the Moon,” a tribute to comedian Andy Kaufman’s Presley parody, may have been the last time Presley registered as cool. Blessed with preternatural good looks, Elvis exuded such a palpable carnal charisma that his 1956 appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” caused a sensation because of his sexy gyrations; famously, the CBS censors insisted that the singer be shot from the waist up. It’s been 20 years since the compilation “ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits” topped the Billboard charts, aided by the JXL remix of “ A Little Less Conversation.” It’s also been 20 years since Eminem cracked that kids were “embarrassed their parents still listen to Elvis,” which itself seemed a little outdated at the time. The image of the young, rebellious, lascivious rockabilly cat would eventually give way to its “after picture”: the bloated ’70s crooner. The second half of the 20th century, for those who came of age during it, was in essence one giant Elvis moment.