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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Postscripts To Earlier ElvisBlogs -- 7
We took a look at Elvis? Fabulous Rings back in May. In the article, I suggested you check out Elvis? hands in any of his jumpsuit pictures, because he would usually have three or four on each hand. Now, look at the picture below. There are no rings on his right hand.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Postscripts To Earlier ElvisBlogs -- 7
We took a look at Elvis? Fabulous Rings back in May. In the article, I suggested you check out Elvis? hands in any of his jumpsuit pictures, because he would usually have three or four on each hand. Now, look at the picture below. There are no rings on his right hand.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Elvis? His Influence On the Beatles
I find it extremely curious how an entire exhibition can be built around what promoters of it call an ?iconic? meeting between Elvis and the Beatles.� If you believe the books written by the people around Elvis at the time, … Continue reading
Elvis– His Influence On the Beatles is a post from: The Elvis Presley Blog
Bad Hair Day / Good Hair Day -- You Call It
My friend Alan Hanson writes a wonderful blog about Elvis Presley. The Elvis-History-Blog is well researched and it?s full of interesting and informative articles.
Above is Alan?s blog for this week. He and I have often come up with similar ideas, but usually they are years apart after time has dulled our memory of the other?s work. This week we both independently decided to do a blog on Elvis? hair. One thing I especially like about Alan?s story is this quote by Red West from his book Elvis, What Happened?: ?That hair has always been [Elvis?] crowning glory. I have never known any other human to take more time over his hair. He would spend hours on it, smoothing, mussing it up and combing it and combing it again.?
With that much concern for his hair, you would think Elvis had nothing but good hair days. However, as you will see here, he had some bad days, too. Also included are some shots where you might have to think about whether you would label them bad hair of good hair days for Elvis.
Here are two easy ones. Mid-seventies Elvis looked good in his long hair and enormous sideburns. The picture on the right looks pretty rough, but in fairness to Elvis, it was taken after a strenuous karate workout. A good shower and shampoo plus some of that relentless smoothing and combing certainly had it looking sharp again.
Here are two young Elvis shots. In that iconic photo on the left, that we have all seen many times, it looks like Elvis worked on his hair quite a bit. Larry Geller, Elvis? long-time hairdresser, has written about how unruly his hair was. In the second photo, it looks like Elvis? hair had a mind of its own and rebelled about being slicked into place.
Speaking of slicked down hair, how do you like the left shot? Red West also wrote, ?The handfuls of Vaseline he put on it made it look much darker than it was.? Elvis had a few handfuls on his hair the day this photo was snapped. The other picture shows Elvis with a more natural look.
Most folks would agree that Elvis never looked better than when he appeared in the ?68 Comeback Special. However, after several hours of filming, his hair was falling in his face a good bit. I don?t care. He still looks great to me. A quick look at the picture with Tom Jones makes it seem Elvis had a huge mop of hair. Look closely, and you can see that much of it is just the shadow from the photographer?s flashbulb.
Here are two photos of Elvis in Hawaii, one from 1973 and one from 1956. He looks to have been outside in both shots, but the wind was probably blowing only in the 1956 shot.
The wind most likely was responsible for this unusual look to Elvis? hair as he captained a boat on vacation. It seems like Priscilla wasn?t too keen on having sea air blowing through her hair.
Here?s another photo of Elvis and Priscilla, plus cute little Lisa. There are some other photos from this family setting floating around on the internet, and Elvis? hair looks good in all of them.
This is a Photoshopped picture. You can tell the sunglasses were added, because Elvis did not wear this type sunglasses in the 70s. They are not like the custom designed models he favored and spent a lot of money on. The hair is real, however, and it was a good hair day when the original photo was taken.
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Rupert Murdock's Tabloid World and Elvis
If you follow the news, you certainly know about the cell phone hacking scandal involving the British tabloid News of the World. When billionaire publisher Rupert Murdock saw how bad the mess was, he took the drastic step of closing down his paper.
The current issue of Time Magazine has a cover story that digs into the history of Murdock and his media empire. One illustration for the story was a shot of his six tabloid papers.
When I saw that one of them was The Star, I remembered my collection of supermarket tabloids with cover stories about Elvis. Dozens of them came out in the two years after Elvis died, including at least nine published by The Star. That?s how many I purchased years ago from an aging Elvis fan. Here they are in the order of their appearance.
September 6, 1977 September 20, 1977
October 25, 1977 December 20, 1977
January 31, 1978 May 2, 1978
August 15, 1978
November 28, 1978
April 10, 1979
As you can see by the cover story titles, these issues of The Star treated Elvis in a sympathetic and positive manner -- themes like family, wedding photos, love letters, and Christmas. Priscilla is pictured prominently on four of the covers. The only cover story that disappoints me is the first one ? Elvis: What Happened.
That is of course the title of the hatchet job book authored by three Elvis body guards and released just two weeks before his death. The Star printed an excerpt from one of the most gruesome sections in the book. A sub-title across the top of one page said, ?Elvis was sprawled across the bed, gasping? the girl?s eyes were like glass marbles.? You get the idea.
However, this was followed by a beautiful two-page pictorial tribute showcasing seven large color shots of Elvis though the years. I wondered why they would diminish this nice feature with the junk from the book. Then I noticed a footnote. It said that Elvis: What Happened? was copyrighted by World News Corp, which was owned by Rupert Murdock.
Murdock had an uncanny knack for knowing how to make money, so we shouldn?t be surprised he was behind that sorry expos� about Elvis. It?s a good thing cell phone technology wasn?t around during the 70s, or Murdock?s minions probably would have hacked into Elvis? phone looking for more dirt.
� 2011 Philip R Arnold, Original Elvis Blogmeister All Rights Reserved www.ElvisBlog.net
Elvis, Elvis Presley, and Graceland are registered trademarks of Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Backstage With Elvis
Theresea Hughes asked: Elvis often enjoyed causal meetings with celebrities like Marty Allen, Tom Jones, Bobby Darin, Jack Lord, Buddy Hacket, and Jean Rivers.In the early days Elvis also enjoyed the company of Sammy Davis Jr. and in later years enjoyed the company of Sammy Davis Jr. and his wife.At one of Elvis’s movie nights [...]
Friday, July 22, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
More Interesting Items at the Last Elvis Auction
Two weeks ago, we took at look at Elvis? personal and movie clothing that sold at the recent Gotta Have It auction. Here is a look at several other interesting items.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Priscilla Presleys Plastic Surgery - Is She Plastic Too?
Sheila Clinch asked: Living in a town where there is a constant struggle to look good, Hollywood stars would not mind if they have to shell out their living just to pay a cosmetic surgeon to maintain their look. Or this is what they think. There are numbers of celebrities that turned out to be [...]
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More Interesting Items at the Last Elvis Auction
Two weeks ago, we took at look at Elvis? personal and movie clothing that sold at the recent Gotta Have It auction. Here is a look at several other interesting items.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Before They Were Famous: Top 10 Celebrity Lorry Drivers
Luke Humble asked: Actors, athletes and mass murderers - it takes all sorts to drive lorries. With brief details of their involvement in the trade and subsequent celebrity, here is a countdown of the top 10 stars who worked as lorry drivers before they were famous, with varying degrees of success.# 10 Chris Tarrant:This radio [...]
Elvis? His Influence On the Beatles
I find it extremely curious how an entire exhibition can be built around what promoters of it call an ?iconic? meeting between Elvis and the Beatles.� If you believe the books written by the people around Elvis at the time, … Continue reading
Elvis– His Influence On the Beatles is a post from: The Elvis Presley Blog
FORGET ME NEVER FORT LAUDERDALE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNTAIN OF LOVE FRANKFORT SPECIAL
Monday, July 18, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Click Here if You Want to Get the Trendiest Ringtones or if You Want to Download Free Wireless Ringtones & How to Download Free Ringtones Onto Pc
Eric M asked: This brief articlewill demonstrate you glances at people’s obsession with ringtones, as they apply to the different areas of society, from the other manufacturers.When people just bought their cellphones one of the original things they look for are free download ringtones for cellphones. It doesn’t take them a plenty of time to [...]
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Backstage With Elvis
Theresea Hughes asked: Elvis often enjoyed causal meetings with celebrities like Marty Allen, Tom Jones, Bobby Darin, Jack Lord, Buddy Hacket, and Jean Rivers.In the early days Elvis also enjoyed the company of Sammy Davis Jr. and in later years enjoyed the company of Sammy Davis Jr. and his wife.At one of Elvis’s movie nights [...]
Click Here if You Want to Get the Trendiest Ringtones or if You Want to Download Free Wireless Ringtones & How to Download Free Ringtones Onto Pc
Eric M asked: This brief articlewill demonstrate you glances at people’s obsession with ringtones, as they apply to the different areas of society, from the other manufacturers.When people just bought their cellphones one of the original things they look for are free download ringtones for cellphones. It doesn’t take them a plenty of time to [...]
Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Backstage With Elvis
Theresea Hughes asked: Elvis often enjoyed causal meetings with celebrities like Marty Allen, Tom Jones, Bobby Darin, Jack Lord, Buddy Hacket, and Jean Rivers.In the early days Elvis also enjoyed the company of Sammy Davis Jr. and in later years enjoyed the company of Sammy Davis Jr. and his wife.At one of Elvis’s movie nights [...]
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