For a few weeks earlier this year, the halls of Sam C. Phillips Recording Service on Madison Avenue reverberated with the unmistakable sounds of Elvis Presley. Inside Phillips’ Studio B, ...

Fifty years ago, on July 31, 1969, Elvis Presley began a concert series in Las Vegas at a critical career juncture. Nine years earlier, following his stint in the army, he had traded the stage for the ...

Elvis was terrified. The contracts had been signed, the audience was packed with celebrities — Cary Grant, Ann-Margret, Sammy Davis Jr. — and billionaire Kirk Kerkorian had flown in a slew of critics ...

Elvis’s bona fides were in question when he returned to the stage after more than eight years. His ’69 comeback show was a make-or-break gamble. By Richard Zoglin The 1960s may have been a wildly ...