Word: presleys
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...that's not what some folks think in Memphis. This month the city is celebrating what officials bill as the "50th Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll," pegging it not to Rocket 88 but to one made three years later: Elvis Presley's July 5th, 1954 recording of That's All Right, a cover of a song previously released by its composer, bluesman Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, in 1946. This is certainly not all right...
...wife Tina) and his clashes (again, with Tina, as portrayed in the 1993 movie that was made about their stormy marriage and breakup, What's Love Got to Do With It). Rocket 88 was a product of Turner's collaborative side. The song explored the major sonic themes that Presley would revisit years later on That's All Right and then some - Rocket 88 was brash and it was sexy; it took elements of the blues, hammered them with rhythm and attitude and electric guitar, and reimagined black music into something new. If the blues seemed to give voice...
...Captain William Eaton put together a mixed force of Arab rebels and mercenaries and American Marines, and in a maneuver that has since been compared to that of the charismatic T.E. Lawrence, led a desert march from inland that took Tripoli's second city, Derna, by surprise. Lieut. Presley O'Bannon of the Marine Corps hoisted the Stars and Stripes over the captured town, and the Marine anthem preserves his gesture to this...
...mother loved Elvis Presley. I incidentally have a twin sister, and I’m not making this up—Lisa. She’s older, so she got the better name...
Runways are often plied by rock stars' offspring--Liv Tyler, Elizabeth Jagger, Alexandra Richards--who fortunately look little like their grizzled dads. Enter the next generation: RILEY KEOUGH, 14, daughter of LISA MARIE PRESLEY, right, and granddaughter of Elvis, who is making her modeling debut this month in Milan. She has the King's face; let's hope she also has the swing of his hips...