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...Phillips, the man who discovered Elvis Presley, denies he ever said it, but the quote is still among the most famous--and most prescient--in the history of rock 'n' roll. "If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel," Phillips is said to have said, "I could make a billion dollars." In a segregrated America in which certain radio stations would not play songs by black artists, Presley more than filled the bill, and in the process helped solidify the image of rock 'n' roll as the music of white teenage rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: IS ROCK 'N' ROLL A WHITE MAN'S GAME? | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

DONATELLA VERSACE Publicity-shy Woody Allen, Mike Tyson and Lisa Marie Presley come to her Versus show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 8, 1996 | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

Beginning with a section on the "Representation of Others," including gays and lesbians, communists and people of color, Women's Studies 111 moves on to investigate film, love and immortality throughout the decade, ending with units on Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Like Ike and Love Lucy but Adore This Class | 3/13/1996 | See Source »

Perhaps figuring that Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley's split has left a gap in the market for odd matches, PRINCE has settled on a lifetime mate. The artist, formerly known as avidly polygynous, will marry MAYTE (pronounced my-tay) GARCIA, a Puerto Rican--born belly dancer and singer who has been a member of his backup group since 1992. The happy nuptials will take place in Paris on Valentine's Day, to the strains of Kamasutra, a symphony Prince has commissioned from his band, the New Power Generation. Further details--what Mayte's married name will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 12, 1996 | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...Cemetery, Renton, Washington Janis Joplin: Ashes on coastline of Marin County, California Jim Morrison: Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, steps away from romantic composer and pianist Frederic Chopin Hank Williams: Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama Bobby Darin: Body donated to UCLA medical research Buddy Holly: Lubbock City Cemetery, Lubbock, Texas Elvis Presley: Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee, in a mausoleum, alongside his mother

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook, Feb. 12, 1996 | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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