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Elvis Presley's record player in UK auction: A record player belonging to the King is set to be auctioned in Penzance next month. In early the woman had helped Presley's father, Vernon, with some German translation and Mr Presley Senior invited her to the Presley apartment in the Hotel Grunewald as a thank you. She visited the apartment a couple of times and spoke at length with Elvis. On one occasion there was a party when Elvis played records on. There were frequent parties in the Presley apartment at the Hotel Grunewald and Elvis was actually asked to leave in February after an increasing number of complaints from other residents.

I put the record player in our loft where it remained forgotten until we saw a picture of Elvis with an identical record player in the Daily Mail. Had I not seen that picture I would have eventually thrown it away. Knowing that President Clinton was a long time avid fan of Elvis and his music, Marty decided to send him an interesting story about Elvis and an item pertaining to the Memphis Mafia that was suitable for framing if the President wanted to hang it in his New York office or in his library in Arkansas.

It will also include the envelope it came in that has Clinton's marking on it. From the Venus label, this new and forthcoming volume of the "Unedited Masters" series will revisit the recordings from Nashville. With this companion CD to "Nashville " and "Nashville " Venus treat you again with studio outtakes you never heard in this form and sound quality before.

We are confident that this volume will also become a favorite of yours and will not leave your CD player for a long time! The CD comes in a standard jewel case with a beautiful 16 page booklet. This is a limited edition so don't miss your chance to own a copy! Including 8 pages booklet with photos and recording information.

Now newly remastered from the original source. The singing star, who shot to fame on Britain's Got Talent, said: And now that this is able to raise money and help children is simply fantastic. The single will be released on Sunday December 8. EIN can only suggest you judge it for yourself. Eternal Flame presents Elvis 35th Anniversary Concert. This 35th Anniversary Concert is the icing on the cake of a very special Elvis week that year. This is quite simply the best Elvis Video Concert ever produced filled with many original band members that played with him throughout his career.

As a bonus on this DVD you will get the original video in high quality as it was produced for this concert. Other bonus features on this release are several interviews: The footage on this DVD is combined from the best available fan footage shot that night and is in great quality and sound. Many different angles were used to produce the best possible impression of this very special concert for your viewing pleasure. Running time minutes. Getting the info about the efforts to save the Circle G ranch out to those outside the Elvis world - the more people who are aware and can become interested and involved, the better.

In the interview Lesley Pilling notes that she believes that Elvis spent his happiest times away from the celebrity circus, with his horses on his ranch, the Circle G. Elvis was a very spiritual individual who was constantly searching and learning. He had a deep faith and the Circle G resonated with him for that reason. Even today when you stand and look at that 75 foot white cross that first drew Elvis there you can feel that calm and peace that Elvis did. Elvis also did a great deal for charity, much of it anonymously. Here at the Circle G Foundation our aim is to continue his charitable and humanitarian legacy at the ranch.

The sky was aglow in misty blue and radiant pink. I saw them as silhouettes against the darkening sky. Elvis was walking slowly, I could practically hear him breathe. His breath was easy, his body relaxed. At that moment I was convinced that my husband had actually found peace.

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Go HERE for the full article and to find out more about the campaign. Watch as 20 timeless tunes battle for the prestigious No1 slot.. ITV commissioned an exclusive poll to find out, and this feature-length show counts down 20 timeless tunes to the prestigious No1 slot. His music broke down many barriers. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis Aaron Presley started his career in music a few years after his family moved to Memphis.

For two thrilling decades, Elvis released dozens of hit singles and albums for RCA, as well as acting in a string of Hollywood blockbusters. Millions mourned his death from a heart attack in August of , aged just New Elvis Greeting Cards: EPE has licensed greeting cards manufactures Paper Style to created a line of holiday cards featuring vintage photographs and artwork of Elvis from the Graceland Archives.

These exclusive designs allow fans to kick off the season with party invitations and Christmas cards that incorporate the King of Rock 'n' Roll. They really embrace what Elvis means to so many and captured how much he appreciated the holiday season. EIN finds some of their designs pretty stylish while others very silly! You need to be a Facebook Member. Raquel Welch on Elvis: I first saw Elvis Presley in concert in , when I was 15 years old.

Hearing that song was a real turning point for me as a teenager. When I saw him in action, he was mesmerizing. I screamed myself silly. Something about his voice on that song made me think, "This must be what sex is all about. At the concert, Elvis was dressed in a pair of loose trousers, loafers, a shirt and open jacket. When he moved, he was smoldering. His hair fell over his eyes, his tone was sensual and he put a lot of body into it.

His delivery on "Heartbreak. Hotel" was loaded with insinuation. The song was also in a minor key, which always triggered a sexy reaction in me. When he slipped in those low-register Elvis-isms - you know, the huh-huh thing - it came from his body, not from his head. He had that emotional, erotic intensity that was impossible to resist.

I never imagined when I got to Hollywood in that my first job would be in an Elvis movie. In Roustabout, I was a day player with one line. I met Elvis briefly on the set, but his hair was sprayed, he was wearing stiff pants and a wimpy windbreaker. I was so disappointed. He wasn't the same guy I saw in concert. After the shoot, one of his buddies came over and said, "Elvis is having a party at his house.

He thought you might like to come by and have some fun. Whenever I hear "Heartbreak Hotel" now, it takes me back. It reminds me of what a force Elvis was. He still is today. Sometimes I get misty-eyed over the whole thing. So grab a chance to listen to it before the Internet police remove it. With Elvis Presley and Susan Boyle united across time and space, defying all mortal bonds their voices are joined together in song, with a living dead duet of 'O Come All You Faithful'.

While some have described it as a travesty and further Elvis exploitation, EIN can only suggest you judge it for yourself. The 'X' Factor single will not be released until 15th December. Looking likely that Elvis might get his 22nd UK No. On such duets both artists are credited with a No. Bush and his wife Laura have decided after many years of marriage to renew their vows at the Elvis Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas on their anniversary November 18th.

It has been stated that their two daughters, Barbara and Jenna will be in attendance as well as his parents George Sr. Rumor has it that former Presidents Clinton and Carter may attend along with their wives as well as Mr. They specifically said they wanted the Vegas Elvis to remarry them. First they were going to buy Graceland and live there and now over the top publicity loving Kardashian will forfeit another garish. However we do find it interesting that a It appears the super-famous rapper Kayne West is an Elvis fan. In it is still a small world with some odd Elvis connections! There is another connection as Priscilla after splitting with Mike Stone dated Kim's father, lawyer Robert Kardashian.

I met him in Atlanta when they attended a record convention together we sat at the same table during the awards presentation Also there was Joan Esposito with Kardashian's brother Tom who she is now married to. You can now pre-order the book. With this book, I will try to Now she shares her unique story, and while a lot has been written about the King, the Elvis we meet in this long-anticipated memoir is a revelation. In her own words Ginger details their whirlwind romance—from first kiss to his stunning proposal of marriage. And for the very first time she talks about the devastating end of it all, and the 80, mourners and reporters who descended on Graceland in , exposing Ginger to the reality of living in the spotlight of a short, yet immortal, life.

Above it all, Alden rescues Elvis from the hearsay, rumours, and tabloid speculations of his final year by shedding a frank yet personal light on a very public legend. From a unique and intimate perspective, she reveals the man- complicated, romantic, fallible, and human - behind the enduring myth, a superstar worshipped by millions, and loved by Ginger Alden.

From Berkley publishers, due out August 5, After the release of two essential new soundboard albums in a row Houston We Have A Problem and The Creeping Crud Express Audionics is now back with the third soundboard release of the year. This time from June 3rd 8: His setlist during the June tour was a rather strong one, with a solid mix of classics and more recent numbers.

Most of these were performed really well too, and even the oldies were treated with a bit more respect than usual. Keen observers will note that he dropped the tempo a notch or two on songs like All Shook Up and Teddy Bear. This CD is presented in beautifully designed deluxe digi-pak with relevant liner notes and a couple of rare photos as taken on the night. Due to the lack of quality photographs from Tuscaloosa, we also used a few photos from the Huntsville, AL, May 31st 8: Elvis only wore the Red Eagle or Red Phoenix jumpsuit on these two nights.

We know what you want to ask now…. Audionics is planning a special release before the end of this year, with more previously unissued material. While the other import guys appear to be in hibernation, we are only just warming up! You can always count on Audionics to deliver the goods. Interestingly the CD's sleeve artwork will include an original ticket stub where the venue is correctly noted. She is also a keen Elvis collector. Next month she performs at Queanbeyan, near Canberra, Australia.

Today the property located in an unassuming suburb on the outskirts of Nashville, is available to the highest bidder on ebay. Parker maintained the offices even after Elvis dominated the entertainment world. Meanwhile, he also managed such legendary. Photographs and books document their casual "drop ins" to see the Colonel. The home has been well preserved over the years, decades from and , when Elvis would swing by following recording sessions at RCA or en-route back to Memphis, to Audubon Drive or his new Graceland mansion.

Just minutes from downtown Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry and Hank Snow's Rainbow Ranch in an adjacent neighbourhood, the property remains extremely well maintained, having retained MUCH of the original 's charm, as noted in the knotty pine paneling, entertainment bar, and pink-and-black and aqua tiled bathrooms.

The property will be showcased on ebay with strict bidding criteria, starting the second week of October. Private tours will be available. The property is zoned for multiple use. When it was first sold, a substantial amount of Col Parker's Elvis Memorabilia was found in the basement and later collected by Graceland. Sadly it is doubtful that any Elvis precious possessions are now hidden it its walls. Jackson reclaims the No. This is a similar amount flowing in to EPE's coffers as in the last two years - even with the closure of his Cirque Du Soleil show in Vegas. As Gore Vidal once noted, "Death is a good career move"!

Elvis left the building 36 years ago - will Michael Jackson still be in the list in 30 years time? Kim Kardashian and Kanye West may only be celebrating their engagement but they have already checked Elvis Presley's Graceland Chapel in Vegas as a potential venue for their wedding.

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Speculation over where the couple's nuptials will take place has already started, and it looks like they could be saying "I do" in Las Vegas. According to sources, rapper Kayne West is a big Elvis Presley fan and would love to get married at a chapel in Sin City. Media has noted that, "Kanye is a big Elvis fan and he thinks it would be fun to get married in a chapel. It was his suggestion and he was surprised when Kim said it was a great idea.

Mixing rich archive footage and home videos with new interviews, the documentary paints a picture of the man behind the music, telling the story of how these timeless songs came about and what impact they had on the world. The order was voted for by a large, representative panel of ITV viewers from across the country. See full tracklisting in our news story below. Marty Lacker on 'Elvis The Seeker': This has all of his California Cult Crap that he espouses all over it. Don't misunderstand, Elvis was a spiritual person but as a Christian not as a disciple of Geller's Far Eastern Spiritual nonsense.

First of all, what a HUGE exaggeration in saying Elvis read thousands of books on spirituality when at the most it was ten and that's stretching it. They were books fed to him by Geller, who both Elvis, I and a few others suspected he had ulterior motives in getting Elvis hooked on that crap and in fact Geller revealed part of what he was up to while we were on the bus travelling to Hollywood in the 60's.

For which I had to set Geller straight on because Elvis was put in an embarrassing position when Geller said what he did. That's not just my opinion, Elvis stated that later when we all stopped at a motel to get some sleep. Elvis' head got so screwed up by all that junk that Parker finally talked Elvis into getting rid of Geller and burn the books in As for Elvis' so-called epiphany in Arizona, all it was was a cloud formations that looked like famous people including himself which means a total of ZERO importance.

I hate to say this but I do from personal experience in taking them, pills make you see things and interpret them in the way you want them to. For whatever reason, Elvis took Geller back full-time in late '76, not '72 as Geller likes to tell people. Having said all this, I have always thought Geller was a nice guy and I wish him no ill-will, I just don't like what he did to Elvis. I nicknamed him The Swami.

As for this book, it seems to me this guy Tillery read some of Geller's stuff and sat down at a computer and embellished and exaggerated much of it. Elvis believed in God very deeply even though he didn't go to church. He didn't go for two reasons, one he didn't want the attention put on him by the church goers and taken away from the services as it would have been.

Secondly, he was upset and disheartened by the preachers because he said every time he saw them they had their hand out wanting money and like a few of us, he didn't believe religion was about money. Elvis gave to charity and he did it the right way, anonymously. This created a musical landscape which defined her art and established a creative path which would lead her on a journey in different artforms and inspired the creation of a charity, Elvis Presley became her first muse. Linda Ann says, "Elvis' voice was the first poetry I had ever heard. His song was the first I ever sang too.

His music, the first I had ever danced to. I was five years old when I first saw him. I saw my dreams in Elvis Presley. The Trust has received the Award for making. When I was a child I was a dreamer. When I was five years old my dream was to meet Elvis Presley. After playing to over 50 thousand Brazilians in with six sold out presentations in Brasilia, Rio and Sao Paulo, it was inevitable that "Elvis Presley in Concert" would return for an encore.

In his new book 'The Seeker King: A Spiritual Biography of Elvis Presley' - published this month - author Gary Tillery explores the an alternative side of the King, as a seeker eager to grasp life's secret meanings and to explore a whole range of spiritual paths. We learn, for instance, that Elvis read thousands of books on religion; that his crisis over making bimbo movies like Girl Happy led him to writers such as Gurdjieff, Krishnamurti, and Helena Blavatsky; and that, while driving in Arizona, an epiphany he had inspired him to learn Hindu practice.

Elvis came to believe that the Christ shines in everyone and that God wanted him to use his light to uplift people.

And so he did. Elvis' exploration led to a dramatic revelation along an Arizona highway in , and he continued his search, in spite of the ups and downs of his enthralling life, until the very moment of his death in This intimate, objective portrait inspires new admiration for the flawed but exceptional man who said, "All I want is to know and experience God. A Spiritual Biography of Elvis Presley and for more information. In a recent discussion with the media, Lisa Marie Presley confirmed that talks for a big screen film about the life of her father Elvis have begun and she is all for a credible new biopic.

John Fusco is adapting the script. Forty years ago Elvis and Priscilla Divorce: Forty years ago on October 9, , Elvis and Priscilla Beaulieu Presley's six-year marriage officially came to an end: The marriage, Elvis' one and only, which also produced his one and only child, Lisa Marie was marred by numerous accounts of infidelity and discord. And this tempestuous time, which left Elvis in a broken emotional state, was captured on record in an often overlooked song released by the King.

The deeply personal feel to 'Separate Ways' comes in part from co-writer Red West, one of Presley's closest friends since high school who worked as a bodyguard and was a member of Presley's infamous Memphis Mafia. West, who began penning the lyrics with his own marital issues in mind, decided midway through the composition that it was pertinent to Elvis and tailored the song to the Presleys' separation. According to co-writer Richard Mainegra, West was determined the song was a good fit for Elvis, despite Mainegra's protests that the superstar would not want to spotlight what was already a very public situation.

In its final form, the song gained a middle eight where previously there had been a twelve-bar blues jam. Lennon credited Allsop's rebuke about A Spaniard in the Works as the catalyst for " In My Life ", [] which he considered his "first real major piece of work".

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Harrison wrote " If I Needed Someone " as a love song to Pattie Boyd , the English model to whom he became engaged in December and was married the following month. Gould refers to it as "a rueful rain check of a love song" directed to the "right person at the wrong time", [] while, according to Jackson, "the lyrics address all the women of the world, saying that had he met them earlier [before committing to Boyd], it might have worked out, but now he was too much in love but give me your number just in case.

In keeping with the company's policy for the Beatles' albums in the United States, Capitol Records altered the content of Rubber Soul for its release there. The four songs were replaced with two tracks that had appeared on Help! Through the mix of predominantly acoustic-based songs from the two releases, according to Womack, Capitol's Rubber Soul "takes on a decidedly folk-ish orientation". The album title was intended as a pun combining the falseness intrinsic to pop music and rubber-soled shoes. Rubber Soul was the group's first album not to feature their name on the cover, [] an omission that reflected the level of control they had over their releases and the extent of their international fame.

McCartney recalled the band's reaction: Can you do it like that? The distinctive lettering was created by illustrator Charles Front , [] who recalled that his inspiration was the album's title: According to author Michael Frontani, writing in his book The Beatles: Image and the Media: And that's good — that's when you trust the people who make music to take you somewhere you haven't been before. Rubber Soul was commercially successful, beginning a week run on the UK albums chart on 12 December While British albums typically avoided including previously released songs, [] the lack of a hit single on the North American version of Rubber Soul added to the album's identity there as a self-contained artistic statement.

Rubber Soul sold 1,, copies in America by the end of and 2,, by the close of the decade. Critical response to Rubber Soul was highly favourable. The writer of Record Mirror ' s initial review found the album lacking some of the variety of the group's previous releases but also said: Keeping up their pace of creativeness is quite fantastic. Green acknowledged that his was an unpopular opinion, before concluding: In another review that Richard Williams later cited as an example of the British pop press not being "quite ready" for the album, Melody Maker found the Beatles' new sound "a little subdued" and said that tracks such as "You Won't See Me" and "Nowhere Man" "almost get monotonous — an un-Beatle-like feature if ever there was one".

In a September review of Revolver , KRLA Beat said that the title of Rubber Soul had "become a standard phrase used to describe a creation of exceptional excellence in the field of music", such that several highly regarded releases had since earned the description "a ' Rubber Soul in its field'". According to Decker, notwithstanding the band's advances in , music critics generally view Rubber Soul as the Beatles' "'transitional' album … from successful pop act to unparalleled masters of the studio". Rubber Soul is the result of their first extended period in the studio.

The production is open and spacious, adorned but not yet overcrowded with new instruments and ideas. The songs themselves are like little Pop Art vignettes, where the lyrics are starting to match the quality of the melodies and arrangements. Under the influence of Bob Dylan — and, it might be said, marijuana — the Fab Four laced their tunefulness with new introspection, wordplay and social comment. University professors and newspaper columnists started taking note. Writing in Paste , Mark Kemp says that the influence of Dylan and the Byrds seems overt at times but the album marks the start of the Beatles' peak in creativity and, in the context of , offered "an unprecedented synthesis of elements from folk-rock and beyond".

He adds that Rubber Soul is "full of great tunes" from Lennon and McCartney notwithstanding their divergence from a common style, and demonstrates that Harrison "was also developing into a fine songwriter". Rubber Soul is frequently cited by commentators as the first of the Beatles' "classic" albums. Stanley highlighted Rubber Soul as having been "a good 18 months ahead of its time" and "the first album of the rock era that sounded like an album".

He said that the album was "way ahead of what anyone had done before" and, given the short period in which they had to record, he called it the Beatles' "accidental masterpiece". It's a fitting product from a quartet just beginning to explore their inner selves on record. He says that Rubber Soul usually trails the Beatles' next four albums in critics' assessments of their work, yet "it's undoubtedly their pre-acid, pre-antagonism masterpiece: In his chapter on Rubber Soul in the Cambridge Companion to Music 's volume on the Beatles, James Decker credits the album with effecting the "transformation" of s pop.

The belated acceptance of the Beatles by the editors of Newsweek and Time magazine was indicative of those publications' recognition of the band's popularity among American intellectuals and the cultural elite. Walter Everett sees the album as a successful combination of "rich multipart vocals brimming with expressive dissonance treatment, a deep exploration of different guitars and the capos that produced different colors from familiar finger patterns, surprising new timbres and electronic effects, a more soulful pentatonic approach to vocal and instrumental melody tinged by frequent twelve-bar jams that accompanied the more serious recording, and a fairly consistent search for meaningful ideas in lyrics".

Without reneging on the group's masscult appeal, it reached into private lives and made hundreds of thousands of secretly lonely people feel as if someone out there shared their brightest insights and most depressing discoveries. Among its individual songs, the use of sitar on "Norwegian Wood" launched what Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar described as "the great sitar explosion", as the Indian string instrument became a popular feature in raga rock and psychedelic music. In , Rubber Soul was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame , [] an award bestowed by the American Recording Academy "to honor recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old".

Rubber Soul was released on compact disc on 30 April , [] with the fourteen-song track line-up now the international standard. He went back to the original four-track tapes and remixed them for stereo. A newly remastered version of Rubber Soul , again using the Martin remix, was released worldwide as part of the reissue of the entire Beatles catalogue on 9 September The accompanying Beatles in Mono box set contained two versions of the album: The Capitol version was relaunched in , for the Capitol Albums, Volume 2 box set, [] [] using original mixes of the Capitol album, and then in , individually and on the box set The U.

All tracks written by Lennon—McCartney except where noted. BPI certification awarded only for sales since From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the album. For other uses, see Rubber Soul disambiguation. Folk rock [1] rock [2] pop [3]. Rubber Soul was a matter of having all experienced the recording studio, having grown musically as well, but [getting] the knowledge of the place, of the studio.

We were more precise about making the album, that's all, and we took over the cover and everything. It's the marijuana period The word is "love," right? It seems like the underlying theme to the universe. Everything that was worthwhile got down to this one, love, love thing. Sample from "In My Life", including a portion of the piano solo. People have always wanted us to stay the same, but we can't stay in a rut. No one else expects to hit a peak at 23 and never develop, so why should we? Rubber Soul for me is the beginning of my adult life. It was the most out-there music they'd ever made, but also their warmest, friendliest and most emotionally direct.

As soon as it dropped in December , Rubber Soul cut the story of pop music in half — we're all living in the future this album invented. Now as then, every pop artist wants to make a Rubber Soul of their own. The latter article represented "the first substantial rock review devoted to one album to appear in any nonrock magazine with accreditory power".

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And which Garland would revisit for his next novel The Tesseract. Coincidentally, The Naked and the Dead was published when Mailer was It is not a long list: Some of us may find comfort in this. Only the war against boredom. And, ultimately, Richard is bored. He is bored that all his experience has been through a screen.

As his psychosis deepens during his solo jungle patrols, and the blood-spattered Daffy starts appearing to him during his waking hours as well as his sleeping ones, he wants something to happen. He wants the confrontation that will come when the Americans and their friends arrive. He wants to be discovered by the marijuana guards. Like the bored grunt on his fifth non-event mission, Richard wants enemy contact, he wants some action. He wants that Doors soundtrack to kick in and the tracer fire to start tearing apart the jungle canopy.

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