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Review: 'Million Dollar Quartet' is glossy tribute to rock legends

4779 days ago
Detroit Free Press"Million Dollar Quartet" places onstage what has long been a fascinating footnote in rock 'n' roll history. On Dec. 4, 1956, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash found themselves in the same Sun Records studio in Memph... more info

Chris Isaak - Chris Isaak Given Keys To Rock 'n' Roll Diner

4781 days ago
ContactMusicVeteran musician Chris Isaak was left stunned during sessions for his latest album when studio bosses gave him free run of a nearby diner where his idols Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash frequently ate The Wicked Game hitmaker has paid tribute to his ro... more info

Dolly Parton - Dolly Parton Rejected Elvis Presley Cover After Royalties Demand

4785 days ago
ContactMusicCountry icon Dolly Parton refused to let Elvis Presley record her hit song I Will Always Love You because she didnt want to give up the publishing rights to the track The 9 to 5 hitmaker reveals The King was a big fan of her 1970s tune and was set to... more info

Leonard Cohen: 'All I've got to put in a song is my own experience'

4786 days ago
Guardian MusicSombre prophet, mordant wisecracker, repentant cad: Leonard Cohen is back with a great new album, Old Values – and more wit and wisdomOn Leonard Cohen's gruelling 1972 world tour, captured in Tony Palmer's documentary Bird on a Wire, an interviewer... more info

Johnny Otis

4786 days ago
Guardian MusicOne of the first US musicians to cross the racial divide in his search for 'soul'The bandleader Johnny Otis, who has died aged 90, was one of the first white American musicians to cross the racial divide, aligning himself with the black community a... more info

How Gil Scott-Heron and Stevie Wonder set up Martin Luther King Day

4797 days ago
Guardian MusicIn an extract from his memoir written before he died last year, Gil Scott-Heron talks about when he toured with Stevie Wonder to establish Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday in the USMemphis, Tennessee was only 90 miles west of Jackson, my ... more info

Elvis Presley's Former Girlfriend Says He was Great in Bed

4799 days ago
411 ManiaLinda Thompson speaks up... more info

Elvis Presley Birthday Celebrations Get Underway In Palm Springs

4799 days ago
ContactMusicTo mark what would have been his 77th birthday fans of Elvis Presley can book tickets for a special guided tour of the Elvis Honeymoon Hideaway The Palm Springs residence is the house that Elvis and Priscilla Presley retreated to after their wedding ... more info

Howler: Ransacking rock'n'roll

4800 days ago
Guardian MusicFor Howler, comparisons with compatriots the Strokes are inevitable – the young Americans unashamedly raid rock history"I'll take it as a compliment," shrugs Howler's Jordan Gatesmith, of the growing pile of articles favourably comparing his band t... more info

Mapping the storyverse

4802 days ago
Guardian MusicA new website provides some unexpected route maps by hooking up the characters that move from one fiction into anotherThe concept of a "metafictional reality" – a sideways universe in which characters in books know they are characters in books – ... more info

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