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Elvis Auction: Hunka, Hunka Earning Locks
Originally posted 10/19/2009 07:30AM
Apparently, everything the King touched did turn to gold – including the hair on his head: A clump of Elvis Presley's hair has sold for $15,000 in a Chicago auction.
The hair, believed to have come from Presley's head when he had his first Army haircut in 1958, was only the most publicized Elvis item up for sale among 200 at the Leslie Hindman Auctioneers house on Sunday.
Others included a shirt that Elvis wore that sold for $52,000, photos from his 1967 wedding, Christmas cards, records, and Elvis Pez dispensers, all from a late Presley friend and coordinator of his fan club.
– Michael Y. Park
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Own a Hunka Hunka Elvis's Hair!
Originally posted 10/12/2009 04:35PM
Always liked Elvis Presley's hair?
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago is putting up a clump of the King's locks for auction Sunday along with memorabilia, clothes and sweat-stained scarves, the Associated Press reports.
The hair is said to have come from Presley's crewcut in 1958 after enlisting in the service. Another collector, who owns some of Presley's hair, has matched the latest sample to one he owns. In 2002, a clump of the late singer's hair went for $115,000 at auction. – Brian Orloff
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BUZZ: Another Presley Is Not Recording an Album
Originally posted 10/07/2009 12:45PM
Music certainly runs in the Presley family, but reports that singer Lisa Marie's son, Benjamin, will be following in the footsteps of his mother and Elvis himself are nothing more than false rumors.
The U.K.'s Daily Telegraph on Saturday first reported that Elvis's 17-year-old grandson had signed a recording contract with Universal Music, and quoted the young singer (whose father is musician Danny Keough) as saying, "The music will be nothing like Elvis. Nothing like him at all."
"This story is totally untrue," Peter LoFrumento, Executive Vice President of Universal Music Group, told PEOPLE Wednesday.
Guess at least the quote was remotely accurate!
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Bill Murray Channels Elvis Presley
Originally posted 10/24/2007 09:05AM
Thousands have impersonated Elvis Presley over the years. Now, Bill Murray offers his own indelible tribute to the king of rock 'n' roll – on the cover of Condé Nast's new music/movie magazine, Movies Rock.
The magazine, which covers music and its impact on filmmaking, launches in November as a supplement in the December subscriber issues of 14 Condé Nast publications. It will showcase stars, directors, and musicians who "create the movies we love, and the music we can't forget."
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Priscilla Presley: Graceland Not for Sale
Originally posted 03/28/2006 02:00PM
Graceland, the Memphis mansion that Elvis Presley called home for 20 years, was designated a National Historic Landmark on Monday, prompting the late King's wife, Priscilla Presley, to squelch rumors that their daughter Lisa Marie would ever dispose of the 14-acre estate.
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Lisa Marie Sells Elvis Estate for $100 Mil
Originally posted 12/17/2004 08:30AM
Lisa Marie Presley is keeping her dad's castle, Cadillacs and cast-off jumpsuits. But a New York media entrepreneur is pretty much buying the rest – for $53 million in cash, about $22 million in stock and accepting the estate's $25 million in debt.
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Presley 'Saw Things' When Wed to Jacko
Originally posted 03/15/2004 01:00PM
In a rare TV appearance in which she spoke publicly for the first time about their marriage, Lisa Marie Presley says that Michael Jackson made her feel manipulated during their 1994-96 union and that she "saw things I couldn't do anything about" during their 19 months together, according to an interview she gave to a respected Australian TV program.
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Europeans Paying Tribute to Elvis, Too
Originally posted 08/14/2002 10:00AM
While the devoted in America descend upon Graceland in Memphis, Europeans are flocking to the hotel where the famous GI once lived.
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Charting Elvis's New York City Haunts
Originally posted 08/12/2002 10:45AM
As of Friday it will be 25 years ago that Elvis Presley died, and New York will not be left out of the nostalgia for the lost King of Rock 'n' Roll. Both The New York Times and New York Post have gone to town with stories of Presley's favorite hangouts in the Big Apple. Though a Memphis boy through and through, Presley, who was 42 when he died Aug. 16, 1977, made his first trip to Manhattan in 1956, to appear on a few TV shows. The most famous, notes The Times, was CBS's "The Ed Sullivan Show," which was broadcast from the theater where David Letterman now tapes his "Late Show." The next year, 1957, Sullivan made his now-infamous decision to show the swivel-hipped musician only from the waist up, so as not to offend viewers' sensibilities. But it was in 1958 that Elvis took his most publicized New York trip: to the Brooklyn Army Terminal, before he was shipped off to serve with the U.S. Army in Germany. Despite his passages through New York, the Southern boy never really warmed up to the big city, Gordon Stoker, a member of Elvis's backup group, the Jordanaires, told the Post. "He didn't like the hustle and bustle," reveals Stoker. Viva Las Vegas.
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Younger Generation Discovers 'The King'
Originally posted 08/08/2002 01:00PM
Elvis lives: Eminem can't avoid him, "Lilo & Stitch" highlights him in its score and Dutch artist DJ Junkie XL had a No. 1 it with an old Presley tune.
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