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Dire Straits were one of the most unlikely success stories of the 80s, making 1985’s world-beating Brothers In Arms album before guitarist and leader Mark Knopfler ended the band at the height of ...
After Elvis Presley died in 1977, Priscilla Presley seemed to distance herself from his extended family, maintaining contact only with his father, Vernon Presley. Now, a new explanation may ...
Another tragic loss for the Presley family. Elvis Presley’s beloved nurse, Marian J. Cocke, has died at 98. She worked with the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll starting in 1975 until his sudden death ...
There’s even a suitably swaggering cover of the Elvis Presley ballad “Love Me ... lead-guitar licks on a hollow-body Gretsch Chet Atkins model of the type Duane Eddy favored won’t ...
Since the 1950s, Burton has recorded and performed with many artists, including several who are likewise in both Halls: Johnny Cash, The Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
R. BIENSTOCK Elvis Presley – 1942 Martin D-18 “Sun Sessions” Known as the “Sun Sessions” guitar, Presley used this Martin on his early classics at Sam Phillips’ studio between 1954 and ...
Elvis Presley was pronounced dead at Baptist Hospital on Union Avenue in Memphis at 3:30 p.m. Aug. 16, 1977. He had been transported to the hospital by Memphis Fire Department ambulance after he ...
Yes, Chet Atkins — a 1973 Country Music Hall of ... Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley, plus Clint Black and Steve Wariner — is being honored via a YouTube clip of an original ...
It was during her stint at KERB that Colonel Tom Parker, who would soon rise to fame as Elvis’s manager ... to run RCA’s Nashville operation. Chet Atkins, the Country Music Hall of Famer ...
Then when he was 14, he saw Elvis Presley on TV ... etiquette from (American guitarist often called 'Mr. Guitar') Chet Atkins," he said. That includes "letting other people play." ...