Priscilla had never gotten involved with budgets during her six-year marriage to Elvis, but she knew that the only thing Elvis ever did with money was spend it. He didn’t just buy things for himself. He also loved giving friends--and even strangers--Cadillacs and other things he knew th...
t keep up Elvis’spopularity soldhis contractto RCA Johnny Cash made his name madehis money AtlanticRecords NewYork City Ahmet Ertegun hisbrother Nesuhi sons America’sfirstambassador from Turkey began building bluesThemore established labels didn’t believe AfricanAmerican market had enough disposable...
March 17, 1978: Elvis Costello, ‘This Year’s Model’ and Generation X, 'Generation X' Elvis Costello's second album, "This Year's Model," was the first full-length effort with the musicians that would back him on most of his work for the next decade, the Attractions. Another British...
Elvis Presley's Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee Sitting on a multi-acre estate in Memphis, Tennessee, is Graceland, the mansion once owned by Elvis Presley. The singer, along with a number of his family members, are buried there, too. The house is now one of the most popular musical destina...
Sign up for the B105 Newsletter "I told those guys then, 'I wanna look around in 30 years and see the same faces.' And that doesn't always work out, but I did everything I could to keep doing what I was doing with the people I was doing it with," Blacktold Taste of Countryin...
RCA 88. Johnny Russell, 'Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer' When you come up with a title as perfect and lifestyle defining as "Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer," you use it for both the album and the single names, as Russell did back in 1973. In fact, Pabst Bl...
“Our producer, Flood, and I looked at each other and I told Trent, ‘Well, you had the pop single for the record until you said ‘fuck’ in every line of the chorus.’ Trent started laughing and he said, ‘I know.’ He did it on purpose because he didn’t want, necessarily, ...