Guardian Music — October 1955: Number 2 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicIn February 1955, the music that would become known as rock'n'roll was still latent. Bill Haley and the Comets were in the pop top 20 with Dim, Dim the Lights. Elvi... more info
Guardian Music — December 1956: Number 3 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicCarl Perkins was already scheduled to be recording in Sun Studios in Memphis on Tuesday 4 December 1956, with Jerry Lee Lewis. But it was chance that brought Elvis... more info
Guardian Music — 5 June 1956: Number 4 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of pop musicThis wasn't Elvis's first TV appearance – six months earlier he'd featured on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show on CBS – but his performance on The Milton Berle Show... more info
ContactMusic — Hellraising rocker Alice Cooper once considered shooting Elvis Presley as The King was showing off his gun collection, but the late legend kicked the pistol out of his hand and pinned him to the floor. The School's Out hitmaker was once invited to me... more info
The Telegraph — Ever since Elvis Presley picked up his guitar in 1954 to holler That's All Right Mama, Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup's rhythm and blues hit from 1946, rock and roll has looked backwards to go forwards. more info
TMZ — Filed under: Elvis Presley, Photo Galleries
For Memorial Day, we thought it would be fitting to honor the brave celebs who have served in the armed forces!
** TMZ's fearless leader Harvey Levin is out of town and did not sel... more info
Guardian Music — Hollywood actor known for her roles in the so-bad-they're-good films of Ed WoodThere are artists in various fields whose fame rests solely on how bad their work is alleged to be. Among them are the poet William McGonagall, the novelist Amanda McKittr... more info
Topix — When Wanda Jackson was a girl with a gravelly voice who opened for Elvis Presley in the 1950s, nobody had ever heard a woman sing like that before. more info
Guardian Music — 'There's a fascination in bands and their backing singers, the distance between a song and the voices that give it a blood-red vitality'A warm May afternoon in north London, and in John Moore's living room we are recording backing vocals for some of ... more info
Guardian Music — Adam Anders won't be straying far from his TV background, with a Disney Channel star providing the label's first releaseIn what seems further evidence of Glee's dominance over pop, show producer Adam Anders is launching his own record label.Anders, w... more info
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