Elvis Presley

Conrad Ashton was nine years old when he witnessed Pete Townshend's exhilarating stage presence at Live 8, changing his life forever. He knew he wanted to make music and soon after picked up a guitar. By the age of eleven, he was writing…

Each August, I’m reminded of Elvis Presley’s sudden expiration and I find myself poring through his enormous catalogue of material and diving into the details of his Earthly existence with great fascination. No idea where this obsession…

The welcoming flame once burned brightly on the Statue of Liberty, today it slowly loses its glow and darkness descends. The word freedom is locked within a cage of shrouded racism, the lessons of the past fading. We live in an era where…

Two of the most famous photographs of Elvis are the cover of his debut album and a shot of him onstage, where he leans into the microphone, doused in sweat, his face white against the blackness of the background. On the cover of that first…

The most basic way of explaining the plot of Elvis and Nixon is that it’s a film about two mutual and equally delusional quests. Theorizing that his movie experience has given him a good background in disguise and infiltration, and that his…

The movie Elvis & Nixon will be released next month. Directed by Liza Johnson, it tells the story behind the most requested photo from the US National Archives, of the meeting between Elvis Presley and President Richard Nixon on…

It seems I can’t open a newspaper or magazine these days without seeing a picture of Justin Bieber fighting with the paps or reading about the romantic antics of One Direction’s Harry Styles. The tattooed Harry Styles who likes…