This book considers the influence on Elvis Presley of Black musicians, especially the gospel and R. & B. pioneers of the ...

It’s been nearly 48 years since Elvis Presley passed away, but he is still one of the most beloved singers to this day. What ...

Bruce Springsteen has long talked about his affinity for Elvis Presley. Like many people from his generation, The King is more than deserving of his nickname in Springsteen’s eyes. He’s paid homage to ...

A radio DJ accidentally coined the title of Patty Loveless' "I Try to Think About Elvis" while discussing postage stamps.

To properly acknowledge Elvis Presley is to properly acknowledge the Black musical sources that went into his sheer ...

The gospel great earned plenty of awards and accolades. His legacy has also had quieter impacts on individual believers like ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...