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Well, it’s one for the money … Elvis Presley’s iconic blue suede shoes have sold at auction for $152,000, the top end of what auction house Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. had expected to fetch for the lot. The shoes were expected to command anywhere between $126,000 and $152,000 when bidding recently began. The auction ended on June 28 with the shoes going for the highest expected amount. READ MORE: 25 Elvis Presley Songs From the ’70s You Need to Hear Presley received the shoes not long after his version of Sun Records labelmate Carl Perkins’ “Blue Suede Shoes” appeared as the opening track on Pre...
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Well, it’s one for the money … Elvis Presley’s iconic blue suede shoes have sold at auction for $152,000, the top end of what auction house Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. had expected to fetch for the lot. The shoes were expected to command anywhere between $126,000 and $152,000 when bidding recently began. The auction ended on June 28 with the shoes going for the highest expected amount. READ MORE: 25 Elvis Presley Songs From the ’70s You Need to Hear Presley received the shoes not long after his version of Sun Records labelmate Carl Perkins’ “Blue Suede Shoes” appeared as the opening track on Pre...
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If you take a look around in 2024, you can still find a ton of things that will remind you of Elvis Presley. But there are only a few of us who will remember being there and hearing an Elvis song on the radio for the first time ever on July 2, 1954. The Moment the World Was Introduced to Elvis PresleyPrior to the moment that Dewey Phillips — a local radio DJ in Memphis, Tenn. — played Presley’s first ever song, “That’s All Right,” most people in America had never heard the name Elvis Presley. As the story goes, Phillips heard the tape that had been recorded just days before at Sun Records, and...
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Well, it’s one for the money … Elvis Presley’s iconic blue suede shoes have sold at auction for $152,000, the top end of what auction house Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. had expected to fetch for the lot. The shoes were expected to command anywhere between $126,000 and $152,000 when bidding recently began. The auction ended on June 28 with the shoes going for the highest expected amount. READ MORE: 25 Elvis Presley Songs From the ’70s You Need to Hear Presley received the shoes not long after his version of Sun Records labelmate Carl Perkins’ “Blue Suede Shoes” appeared as the opening track on Pre...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Eddie Murphy thinks “God was looking over” him when he refused cocaine offered to him by the late comics John Belushi and Robin Williams. The ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ actor, 63, soared to fame in the 1980s at the height of the pair’s drug addictions and says he is grateful he didn’t give in to the same temptations that killed John and contributed to Robin’s depression battle. Father-of-10 Eddie told ‘The Interview’ podcast: “I remember I was 19, I went to the Blues Bar. It was me, Belushi and Robin Williams. “They start doing coke, and I was like, ‘No, I’m cool’. “I wasn’t taking some moral stance....
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A pair of Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes are expected to sell for around £100,000. The 'Suspicious Minds' hitmaker wore the size 10.5 footwear both on and off stage in the 1950s, but gave them away to his friend, Alan Fortas, the night before his induction into the US army in 1958 and now they are to be auctioned off by Henry Aldridge + Son in Wiltshire on Friday (28.06.24). The shoes, which Elvis acquired after recording his 1956 song 'Blue Suede Shoes', are expected to fetch £100,000 to £120,000 and have been authenticated by Jimmy Velvet, who was a close friend of the late singer and has ...
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When Elvis Presley took the stage in Indianapolis on June 26, 1977, nobody knew it would prove to be the final concert performance of his career. The King of Rock and Roll ran through a set of his biggest hits that night, ending with one of his best-known songs, “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” The 42-year-old entertainment icon’s career had been in decline for years, tanked by a combination of bad B-movies, bad soundtracks from those movies devaluing his music and declining sales, as well as his massive weight gain and tendency toward lazy, self-indulgent performances. But he enjoyed a career re...
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When Elvis Presley took the stage in Indianapolis on June 26, 1977, nobody knew it would prove to be the final concert performance of his career. The King of Rock and Roll ran through a set of his biggest hits that night, ending with one of his best-known songs, “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” The 42-year-old entertainment icon’s career had been in decline for years, tanked by a combination of bad B-movies, bad soundtracks from those movies devaluing his music and declining sales, as well as his massive weight gain and tendency toward lazy, self-indulgent performances. But he enjoyed a career re...
Taste of Country
Nick Jonas is set to star in a Broadway production of 'The Last Five Years'. The 31-year-old singer will star alongside Adrienne Warren in a revival of the musical, which is scheduled to open in spring 2025. Jason Robert Brown, who has written a score for the show, said in a statement: "I have always believed that when the time was right, 'The Last Five Years' would make its way to Broadway. "To have Nick and Adrienne taking on these roles is a composer’s dream come true." The upcoming production has never previously appeared on Broadway. However, 'The Last Five Years' premiered in 2001 and it...
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Mark James, a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee best known for writing hits for Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson and a long list of other top artists, has died. The BBC reports that James died at his home in Nashville on June 8 at the age of 83. Born Francis Rodney Zambon in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 29. 1940, James took up the violin in his youth before switching to guitar. He launched his music career in Houston, playing the club scene before beginning to record his own songs. He released a string of minor local singles before interrupting his musical career to serve in Vietnam, and after he retur...
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