This guy changed music. So sad that he didn’t stick with that 1954/6 revolutionary style and opted to become a pop star.
Elvis Presley – His grave at Graceland
Memphis – Sun Studio!
If you’re ever in Memphis one of the ‘must do’s’ is to visit Sun Studio where the young Elvis, when he was cool, thin and hip, a real innovator and rockabilly hepcat, before he became a fat pop star, recorded those monumental tracks.
Sun Studios
The place where it all happened!! Howlin’ Wolf, Elvis, Billy Lee Riley, Rufus Thomas, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis. Wow!!
The Blues Trail – Hitting Memphis
Memphis felt like the middle of something! Pretty wild!!
Elvis, Sun Studio, Graceland – Photos.
You can’t go Memphis without visiting Sun Studio and Graceland. We even went down to check out Tupelo and the shack he was brought up in. There’s a whole industry built up around the Elvis religion.
Photography – Elvis Statue on Beale Street – Memphis
Photography – Elvis Statue on Beale Street – Memphis
Beale Street was where it all happened – Blues R&B and Rockabilly. It was the Black part of Town. Most of it has been pulled down and redone. It was a very dangerous area with prostitutes, gambling, dancing, gangsters, drugs and lots of knifings and shootings. Life was cheap. But it was the place to hang out where the music was hot, there was wild dancing and plenty of booze.
It’s a bit of a tourist trap now and has been cleaned up. But there is still a lot of loud music and booze and I’m sure you could get yourself shot if you tried.
This is the Elvis I love – the Hillbilly Cat. 
I don’t go for that later period with the glitzy rhinestone. I think he rapidly became a parody of himself.
Photography and story – Elvis Presley – Graceland – The Jungle Room
Photography and story – Elvis Presley – Graceland – The Jungle Room
The end wall was a waterfall feature
The story
One day Vernon came home and told Elvis about this horrendous tacky furniture he had seen in a department store. It was Hawaiian with dreadful carving of heads and faces. There were big pieces of furniture -very imposing and ugly. He thought they were the worst thing he’d ever seen and could not believe they had it for sale.
Elvis waited for Vernon to go to bed and rang up the store owner. He arranged for the furniture to be delivered and arranged in the room.
The next morning Vernon came down to find the Jungle Room set up with all that garish furniture.
Elvis had a sense of humour.
They grew to like it and Elvis had the waterfall put in. They called it the Jungle room and he often used to sit in their and jam with his band.
Photography – Elvis Presley – Graceland – Memphis
Photography – Elvis Presley – Graceland – Memphis
Graceland in Memphis
Stained glass peacocks
The TV Room with six sets
The snooker room
The Jungle Room (There’s a story here!)
The Trophy corridor and room with Gold Discs and Elvis costumes
Vernon’s Grave
Elvis’s grave
New book – The Blues Muse – The fictional story of Rock Music through the eyes of the man with no name. He lived it.
The Blues Muse is now available in paperback.
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Photography – Elvis’s family house in Tupelo
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