Blog #Elvis Presley

A look at the season of Elvis Presley films that BBC 2 ran over the Christmas of 1977 to the New Year of 1978

Some of the songs in the Elvis Presley catalogue which have been maligned, overlooked, or underrated over the years. These are my own personal favourites, songs that I love to listen to, a love that few others share.

A review of Elvis Presley, "That's The Way It Is," film and music. My selection of the best Elvis footage from the stellar 1970 shows.

Leonard Cohen's views on Elvis Presley

A review of Howard Jackson's book on Elvis Presley, "Treat Me Nice."

An examination of what Elvis Presley could have seen in the Roger Whittaker song "The Last Farewell." It's a song that found little favour among Elvis' friends and musicians, but Elvis insisted on recording it. Elvis evidently identified with the song. Here I speculate on what that could have been.

If I Can Dream Elvis Presley's tribute to and support for Martin Luther King jr's dream of peace and brotherhood.

A brief appraisal of Elvis Presley's very emotional and very moving rendition of Buffy Sainte-Marie's beautiful folk ballad "Until It's Time For You To Go."

I had been an avid buyer of Elvis Presley albums in the 1970's, but found other interests in the 1980's. I became a huge Queen fan, but explored a wide range of music (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Iron Maiden, Genesis, Status Quo and lots of the new eighties bands like Prefab Sprout, U2, too many to name). But as we entered the 1990's my old interest in Elvis Presley was re-ignited. There were significant gaps in my Elvis collection, so I set off in an attempt to fill them ...

A brief discussion of Elvis' Gold Records, vols 1-5. I've never been happy with volume 5 in this series, considering it to miss out too many good tracks from the last decade of Elvis' life. Here, I give my own selections for 1967-1977 over two volumes of music. These tracks were not all of them hits, let alone million sellers - but they should have been.