“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 ...

Elvis Presley is the undisputed King of Rock and Roll, whose music continues to thrill millions around the world. There's not many artists who recorded more songs and albums than Elvis Presley during ...

It sits next to Elvis’s childhood church, where he was first exposed to the Southern gospel music that so greatly influenced his sound. From quiet Tupelo, I headed on to gritty Memphis ...

From the raw emotion of “Heartbreak Hotel” to the haunting melancholy of “Suspicious Minds,” Elvis Presley’s catalog ... with its blend of country twang, gospel power, and blues feeling – transformed ...

"[But] Colonel Parker really liked the status quo that Elvis was making these movies that had soundtracks. Lots of songs… were coming out of the movies. [And the films] were fun and light ...

Vernon Kay will count down Radio 2 listeners top 40 favourite Elvis songs (BBC/PA) Casey Cooper-Fiske8 minutes ago Suspicious Minds has been voted as the UK’s favourite Elvis Presley song by BBC ...

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 ...

When Elvis Presley stormed the pop-music world with “Hound Dog” in ... Herbert Brewster, a seminal and radically progressive gospel composer and minister whose black Baptist church in ...

I didn’t realise it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help. So it was my fat Elvis period.” When ...

“Any person playing this kind of music was so fortunate that we had a guy to open the door like Elvis,” he said much later. In the near-total absence of breathing witnesses, it’s one of ...

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: ...

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 ...