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Trump Slams Freedom 250 Concert Dropouts, Compares Himself to Elvis

Trump Slams Freedom 250 Concert Dropouts, Compares Himself to Elvis

President Donald Trump is speaking out about the “third rate artists” who have dropped out of his Freedom 250 concert series, suggesting that he may invite “the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis,” referring to himself, to take their place with a speech. Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday, where he argued that he draws larger crowds that the King of Rock and Roll “in his prime.” He wrote, “I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate ‘Artists,’ and give a major speech, rallying the Country forward like I have done ever since being President!” …

Priscilla Presley says Lisa Marie’s death has ‘separated’ Elvis’ family

Priscilla Presley says Lisa Marie’s death has ‘separated’ Elvis’ family

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Priscilla Presley has spoken about the impact her daughter Lisa Marie’s death in 2023 has had on their family. Lisa Marie, the only child of Priscilla and music legend Elvis, was 54 when she died from complications related to a weight loss surgery she had undergone years before. Speaking at an event at Westgate Las Vegas over the weekend, Priscilla, 80, admitted that the death of her daughter has “separated” her family. “Because, you know, we would get together and have meals and, of course, you know, have family,” she said, according to US Weekly. Referring to Lisa Marie’s youngest daughters, Finley and Harper, whom she shared with her fourth husband, Michael Lockwood, Priscilla said: “[The] girls are 18 now, the twins. So they have their boyfriends and, you know, do their thing. It’s been, even though we’re close — what?” Priscilla Presley’s …

Long Live The King! Baz Luhrmann and Vanity Fair Host a Snowy, Society-Heavy Screening of EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert

Long Live The King! Baz Luhrmann and Vanity Fair Host a Snowy, Society-Heavy Screening of EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert

Luhrmann’s film doesn’t quite square with Bangs’s counterman source there. After the screening, he tells Vanity Fair that Elvis at this point of his life was completely co-opted by his questionable manager, Colonel Tom Parker, who only let him tour in America and sometimes made him play up to three times a day. Parker had him in Las Vegas, playing nightly, for close to a decade. “He’s fatter, he loses his spirit. He’s deteriorating, that’s what you’re seeing. Imagine wanting to tour overseas and doing that for seven years?” Luhrmann says. “But Clive Davis told me to this day he still has never been to an opening night as great as that Vegas show was.” Indeed, while some moments of the film show Elvis sweating, sluggish, and struggling to get through his set, others show his once-in-a-lifetime performing prowess, like when he belts out Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge over Troubled Water.” For those of us who weren’t alive when Elvis was, it feels like an a-ha moment: where you finally get why the generations of …

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert review – Baz Luhrmann restores The King to his real-life Seventies glory

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert review – Baz Luhrmann restores The King to his real-life Seventies glory

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There is a moment in EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert when a teenager in the front row clamps her lips onto Elvis like a limpet, before she is swiftly dislodged by her mother. Elvis, unruffled, moves on to the next one. At another point, a bra is flung in his direction; he instinctively turns it into a bonnet. Just as The Beatles incited mass hysteria, so too did the King – all despite never performing outside of North America. Clearly, Baz Luhrmann is one of his devotees. Returning to the subject four years after his feverish, Oscar-nominated biopic Elvis was released in a blizzard of sequins and rhinestone-encrusted bombast, the Australian director fashions a film that is exhilarating, immersive and so immediate that the 5,000 miles (and 50 years) between the singer’s Las Vegas stage and a cinema seat in Britain …

Priscilla Presley says ‘love never faded’ between her and ex Elvis

Priscilla Presley says ‘love never faded’ between her and ex Elvis

Priscilla Presley is honoring her late ex-husband Elvis Presley. Though the former couple split in 1973 after six years of marriage — when their late daughter Lisa Marie Presley was five years old, and four years before the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s untimely passing aged 42 — the Elvis and Me author has always been at the forefront of preserving his legacy. Such was the case on Thursday, January 8, when the “A Little Less Conversation” singer would have been celebrating his 91st birthday. On the poignant day, Priscilla, 80, took to Instagram and shared a touching tribute to Elvis, posting a photo of the two sharing a kiss.  Priscilla appears wearing a short blue dress with a hood while Elvis in a velvet suit, and the photo appears to be from Elvis’ childhood friend and DJ George Klein to ex-wife Barbara Little in 1970. © GettyPriscilla and Elvis in 1967 Over the photo, Priscilla penned: “It’s hard to believe you would be 91 today — surely just as handsome as ever,” adding: “No …