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CBS Records, which last year became a subsidiary of Japan's Sony, agreed to pay more than $35 million for Tree International, the last big independent country-music publisher in Nashville. The Tree catalog contains some 35,000 songs, including such hits as Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel, Roger Miller...
Visitors almost did not get to see Graceland at all. By 1981, four years after Elvis died, taxes, security and upkeep cost some $400,000 a year. But, says Soden, "you couldn't just plunk down a FOR SALE sign out front. There are people buried up there." Also, Priscilla...
In the trophy room, a low building beside the house, where Elvis used to keep his slot-car racetracks, visitors are reminded of what all the shoutin' is about. Some 150 of Elvis' gold and platinum records, including Hound Dog and Heartbreak Hotel, range down a long corridor. His film...
Graceland's most intense experience comes in a small plot of shrubs and religious statuary near the pool. Here the graves of Elvis, his parents and his maternal grandmother are marked by large bronze slabs. Fans pluck blades of grass from the plot and leave a variety of mementos, including...
The admiration may be as much for the time as for the man. Graceland's furniture, hues, appliances and attitudes are frozen in the 1970s. "People complain that Graceland isn't up to date," says cousin Karen. "But you have to remember what people looked like in the '70s -- the...