How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...

It was Martin Luther King Jr. who had the dream. But it was the pop songwriters of the 1960s who set it to music. And a few brave TV producers who put it on the tube. And a few exceptional ...

They transformed the “call and response” of gospel music into a frenzied stage show and recorded ... adding that he once opened for a group of Elvis impersonators. “That’s funny to think back to it ...

The popularity of Elvis songs at funerals is a marker of some kind of spiritual impact. But perhaps the best way to understand his Christian legacy is through his creations that speak directly of God: ...

Radio 2 announces that Suspicious Minds is the nation’s favourite Elvis Presley song. It takes the Number ... Elvis’ love of gospel and opera, his career and the ’68 comeback special There ...

The top 40 favourite Elvis singles as voted for by Radio 2 listeners are announced Radio 2 announces that Suspicious Minds is the nation’s favourite Elvis Presley song. It takes the Number 1 ...

“Even as I’m up there proclaiming the Gospel ... Elvis’ movies. “I thought he was cool, the girls, the guitars, the motorcycles, the hairstyle,” recalled Liguori, who began playing Elvis ...

Determining which song was Elvis’ biggest hit is a tricky thing. Over the course of a career that began with 1954’s Sun single “That’s All Right,” (which sold around 20,000 copies ...

Radio 2 announces that Suspicious Minds is the nation’s favourite Elvis Presley song. It takes the Number ... Elvis’ love of gospel and opera, his career and the ’68 comeback special There ...

Elvis Presley passed away in 1977, after decades as one of the biggest stars in the world. By that time, he’d released countless singles and dominated the charts with many different songs and ...

This book considers the influence on Elvis Presley of Black musicians, especially the gospel and R. & B. pioneers of the ...