Throughout the 1960s Elvis Presley made a whole host of Hollywood movies, leaving behind his live performances and career as a recording artist. Instead, The King’s music continued through mainly ...
Elvis Presley's legendary 1968 television special was a turning point not only for him but for many of the other people involved in it. One was producer-director Steve Binder, who then was building a ...
Elvis Presley is enshrined in music history as the King of Rock and Roll, but he’s also television royalty. His meteoric rise from regional musical act to world-famous superstar synced up perfectly ...
Back in late 1968, Elvis Presley had been out of the spotlight for a while — unusual for the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. That all changed with the TV show that became known as The ’68 Comeback Special, in ...
Hilary Remley is a News Writer at Collider. She is a recent graduate of SUNY Albany. By 1968, Elvis Presley had gone from America's biggest musical act, the man whose swiveling hips set many young ...
Today would have been Elvis Presley’s 80th birthday. To celebrate, let’s look back on one of the most memorable moments of his career: his 1968 comeback special. At that point, interest in Elvis’s ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Before production began on his 1968 TV special, Elvis Presley spent an hour talking with Steve Binder, ...
During most of the 1960s, Elvis Presley gave up his music career to focus solely on the movie business. While he would have liked to have kept singing, he was contracted for what he felt were poor ...
The lives of Blake Shelton and Elvis Presley overlapped for only a few calendar pages. Shelton was born in June 1976. Presley died in August 1977. But the careers of Shelton and Presley will intersect ...
When Elvis Presley made his TV special in 1968, he was coming off a string of forgettable films and a long dry spell on the charts, and the rock 'n' roll music he'd helped pioneer had given way to the ...
A flashy guitar used by Elvis Presley during a 1968 comeback performance following the end of his seven-year movie career will be sold at auction later this month. The bidding for the red Hagstrom ...