Long before Graceland, before the gold records and the private jets, the Presley family lost absolutely everything over a piece of paper worth four dollars. Elvis was three years old. His father was sent to one of the harshest prison farms in America, his mother lost their house, and a toddler named Elvis Presley sat … Read more
On a warm July evening in 1975, a 33-year-old bank teller named Mennie Person was walking past a car dealership in Memphis on her way home. She wasn’t shopping. She had no money to spend. She just loved Cadillacs, and there was a stunning custom one sitting on the lot at Madison Cadillac, so she … Read more
In 1956, one of the most famous young actresses in America flew to Memphis to spend a week with the hottest star on the planet. She lasted two days. Then she picked up a telephone, called her sister in a panic, and begged her to invent a fake family emergency so she could get on … Read more
Here’s something almost nobody realizes about the King of Rock and Roll: Elvis Presley very nearly lost Graceland after he died. Within a few years of his death in 1977, the estate was bleeding money so badly that financial advisors were telling the family there was only one sensible option left — sell the house. … Read more
In 1968, Elvis Presley’s career was in trouble, and everybody knew it. NBC had agreed to a television special, and his manager Colonel Tom Parker had already decided exactly how it would end: Elvis, smiling in a sweater, singing “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” Safe. Cheerful. Sellable. What actually happened instead became the greatest performance … Read more
It gets played at more first dances than almost any song ever recorded. Couples all over the world sway to it under fairy lights, convinced they’re listening to the most romantic thing Elvis Presley ever sang. “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” And nearly every single one of them has no idea that the melody they’re … Read more
Michael Jackson was accustomed to watching people freeze, cry or lose control when they met him. Yet during a quiet visit to a London hospital in February 1992, those roles were unexpectedly reversed. The world’s biggest pop star entered the building not as the King of Pop but as an excited fan hoping to meet … Read more
In July 1997, Joseph Yenish travelled to London hoping to see Michael Jackson during the HIStory Tour. Outside Jackson’s hotel, the excitement turned dangerous when Joseph fell beneath a vehicle in the singer’s motorcade. The car remained on his leg for about 45 seconds, leaving him with a broken foot and a frightening memory he … Read more
Michael Jackson was used to crowds losing control wherever he went, but one London shopping trip reportedly placed an unsuspecting elderly woman directly in danger. As fans and photographers surged toward the King of Pop, Jackson noticed the stranger in their path. What he did next stopped the entire crowd and ended with a limousine … Read more
When Elvis Presley entered the U.S. Army in 1958 and shipped out to Germany, many wondered whether the teenage idol would fade from view. Live performances and free television appearances were off the table. Colonel Tom Parker had already limited Elvis’s TV exposure by the time American Bandstand went national in 1957, believing fans who … Read more
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