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Back in the quaint days when rock 'n' roll was young, parents used to get all shook up over the hip-swiveling antics and soulful squeals of Elvis Presley, Little Richard and other rock pioneers. Now Graceland is a venerable tourist attraction, and good golly, Miss Molly, Little Richard is whooping his way through an album of children's songs...
...August 16, 1977, the American political system received a blow from which it has yet to recover. On that day, Elvis Aron Presley was discovered sprawled out on the bathroom floor in his spacious Memphis mansion, Graceland...
...downtown Memphis Cook Convention Center. The 26,000-sq.-ft. facility within the center was built for boat shows, union conventions and the like, but the exhibition's designers have created a temporary museum space befitting the 16th century Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. The King's home at Graceland can't touch...
...Where are you going?" people asked. Memphis, we said. Graceland. But also Alabama and Mississippi. Arkansas and West Virginia. "America" was our answer, half facetious but half serious. We wanted to see real life, real people, not just the tourist traps and standard attractions. We wanted to eat down-home cooking in tiny diners...
...Yeah we went to Graceland yesterday, and then through Mississippi today...