The history of rock & roll may have begun with a man known as Uncle Silas Payne. Uncle Silas was a black man, blinded by syphilis, who lived in Florence, Alabama, with the Phillips family, whose eighth child was named Sam.| Elvis Australia | Official Elvis Presley Fan Club
George Nichopoulos, known simply as Dr. Nick, talks with Andrew Hearn about his time with Elvis Presley.| Elvis Australia | Official Elvis Presley Fan Club
Rick Nelson talks a little about Elvis Presley and their football games' starting at 3:44.| Elvis Australia | Official Elvis Presley Fan Club
Linda Diane Thompson was born May 23, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Did you know Elvis did not want to record 'Blue Christmas'? Ordered to do the song, he told the band to play and sing as badly as possible. In this video Millie Kirkham tells the story as she remembers her first Recording Session with Elvis Presley. In the video below Millie talks about the recording session. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Could Elvis actually play guitar? He played pretty good, yeah. And he played piano and drums. The first sessions he'd come in and work. After that, when he got more confident, he'd come in and play drums a while, then guitar, then piano. Then he'd practice his karate and then send out for 85 White Cottage burgers and then he'd go to work around 11 o'clock at night. But he loved gospel music. Jake Hess had influenced him and Bill Monroe and Big Boy Crudup. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Interview with Elvis Presley on Monday, October 28, 1957, just after the general press conference, but prior to his debut at the Pan-Pacific in Los Angeles. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
American martial arts man Bill 'Superfoot' Wallace who was Elvis Presley's bodyguard and personal trainer from 1974 until his death in 1977 recently talked about his times with the King and gave a rare glimpse of the man behind the legend. 'He was a wonderful person, a nice guy. It was fun working out with him too but you couldn't hit him too hard. You couldn't punch Elvis in the face but it was fun beating up hisMemphis Mafia. He was very good at martial arts, he worked out very hard. I can'...| www.elvis.com.au
Can you tell me how you met Elvis? When you're assigned a film role, you have to go to the doctor, because of the insurance company. They have to make sure you don't have a bad heart, any of that nonsense. They made my appointment for me at the studio, so I was there and I had on a white shirt and these slacks my mother had made for me that were like wine coloured. I went in the office and I was waiting to be called in. In walks Elvis with two of his buddies. I looked at him and he looked at ...| www.elvis.com.au
Eleven years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Elvis' first drummer D.J Fontana. I was working as a reporter at a radio station, when, one day in April, 2006, a press release caught my eye. It announced that Fontana was touring Sweden as part of a Swedish group called The Cadillac Band that would be playing my home town that very night. As my news editor didn't seem to understand the significance of this, I practically had to beg him to let me interview the drummer instead of doing the news p...| www.elvis.com.au
Once an in-demand Hollywood actress, Dolores Hart shocked the entertainment industry when she gave up everything to become a cloistered Benedictine Roman Catholic nun. She left her career, broke off her engagement to Los Angeles businessman Don Robinson, and pursued her vocation as a nun. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au