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LISA MARIE PRESLEY releases her debut album, To Whom It May Concern, next week--following a bunch of revelations about her marriage to Michael Jackson. "I absolutely fell in love with him and fell into this whole thing, which I'm not proud of now," she tells Rolling Stone. Near the end she suspected him of using her to improve his reputation. "It was a scary thing," she says, "somebody who's constantly at work, calculating, calculating, manipulating. It just got really ugly at the end." She makes it sound like this Jackson fella is a little disturbed...
...only an audition. That's why there were no drums, no backup singers and no expectations. Sam Phillips had heard about a good-looking local kid who favored ballads, knew a few guitar chords and was blessed with the ostentatiously original name Elvis Presley. In his search for a new sound, Phillips had run nearly every singer in Memphis through his Sun Records studio; on that Monday summer evening, Elvis, 19, was merely next in line...
...reporters who were there, of whom I was one, covering the event for TIME, the noise was what seemed new. Surely these kids were louder, more frenzied, than Frank Sinatra's fans had ever been, or even Elvis Presley's. Sullivan made a pact with them before the show: Keep it down while other acts are on; otherwise you can do what you like...
DIED. HANK BALLARD, 75, rhythm-and-blues man whose soulful, often raunchy songs helped set the stage for Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry; of throat cancer; in Los Angeles. As frontman for the Midnighters, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer won teen adulation, if not radio play, for such racy hits as 1954's Work with Me Annie. In 1958 he wrote and recorded The Twist as the b side of the sappy Teardrops on Your Letter. After Chubby Checker recorded Twist a year later, the song launched a dance craze and became one of rock's seminal hits...
...morality of the highly civilized and educated residents" of the city. Tabloids had a field day when Taufik Kiemas, President Megawati Sukarnoputri's husband, was photographed shaking his considerable booty behind Inul after a TV performance. Even the television stations profiting from her appearances paid unintentional homage to Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show by cutting away from Inul's hips when gyrations commenced. Many middle-class and upper-class Indonesians read their papers and shook their heads at the controversy?then told their drivers to pick up a copy of Inul...