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Bob Johnston (aka Joy Byers), writer / co-writer of several Elvis songs passed away.  Bob Johnston, a staff producer at Columbia Records who worked on legendary LPs like Bob Dylan's Blonde...

Source:Various | Updated: August 16, 2015 | People

Wayne Carson, a songwriter whose hits include the Elvis classic 'Always On My Mind' has died aged 72. Carson, along with two co-writers Johnny Christopher and Mark James won Grammys for...

Source:Various | Updated: July 23, 2015 | People

Mark James, author of Suspicious Minds, Always On My Mind and Moody Blue (among others) will be inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame this year.

Updated: July 17, 2015 | People

D.J. Fontana, a Shreveporter and one of the rock world’s legendary drummers, will be honored in Nashville this weekend. Fontana, who was Elvis' drummer during the singer’s pioneer...

Source:Elvis Information Network | Updated: July 11, 2015 | People

Roy C. Bennett, a songwriter who, with Sid Tepper, wrote songs for an extraordinarily wide range of artists including Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and the...

Source:Variety | Updated: July 10, 2015 | People

Elvis' tour promoter and Hollywood mega-producer Jerry Weintraub, died Monday of heart failure in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 77. Weintraub who got the Ocean's Eleven franchise to the big...

Source:Elvis Information Network | Updated: July 07, 2015 | People

Elvis Presley is a 2015 inductee into the R&B Hall of Fame. Elvis is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Country Music Hall of Fame and Rockabilly Hall of Fame, to name a...

Source:Elvis.com | Updated: June 17, 2015 | People

Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who built Las Vegas' biggest hotels, tried to take over Chrysler and bought and sold MGM at a profit three times, has died. He was 98. MGM...

Source:Various | Updated: June 16, 2015 | People

Sir Tom Jones, who just turned 75 last week, started a festival tour. In his new setlist is a tribute to Elvis, Gillian Welch and partner/Producer David Rawlings wrote this song, Elvis Presley...

Updated: June 11, 2015 | People

Marty Pasetta, who directed and produced Elvis' "Aloha from Hawaii," died Thursday, May 21, following a car accident. He was 82. Pasetta was a veteran director of live TV specials. He...

Source:Various | Updated: May 26, 2015 | People

After Elvis and Isaac Hayes, the third Memphis Music Icon has passed away.  Riley B. King, the legendary guitarist known as B.B. King, whose velvety voice and staccato-picking style brought...

Source:CNN | Updated: May 15, 2015 | People

Songwriter Sid Tepper, who co-wrote more than 40 songs specifically for Elvis Presley plus hundreds of others performed by Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, Dean Martin, Eartha Kitt, Perry Como, Jeff Beck...

Source:LA Times | Updated: April 26, 2015 | People

It's now 40 years ago that bass-player Duke Bardwell performed his last show with Elvis. This was at the Las Vegas Hilton on April 1st, 1975. It was April Fool's Day, and the King was in a...

Updated: March 29, 2015 | People

Don Robertson, born December 5, 1922, deceased March 16, 2015. Don was a Grammy nominated writer and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, as well as being an ASCAP songwriter, music...

Source:The Tennessean | Updated: March 23, 2015 | People

Bobby Emmons, one of 'The Memphis Boys' who played at the American Sound Studio, passed away just after his 72nd birthday. The sad news was announced by BJ Thomas, who like Elvis recorded with...

Source:Various | Updated: February 24, 2015 | People

Lizabeth Scott, a sultry blonde with a come-hither voice cut out for the seething romantic and homicidal passions of her Hollywood film noir roles in the late 1940s and early ’50s, died on Jan....

Source:New York Times | Updated: February 07, 2015 | People

IMDB shows a still for the upcoming movie Elvis And Nixon, starring Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon.

Updated: February 06, 2015 | People

Great News that Ronnie Tutt has been inducted into the 'Classic Drummer Hall of Fame'. The magazine notes...  Whenever you see film of The King slaying an audience in one of his...

Source:Various | Updated: January 26, 2015 | People

On January 8, 2015, Elvis Aaron Presley would have turned 80. And even though he’s been dead for more than 37 years, his fame is still unrivalled and his legacy continues to inspire new...

Updated: January 12, 2015 | People

After the premature news earlier this weekend, we just came to know that Joe Guercio passed away this morning. May this kind man rest in peace.

Source:ElvisMatters | Updated: January 04, 2015 | People

Fortunately the first part of this update turned out to be false. Joe Guercio, Elvis' long-time conductor and musical director, died today. He was hospitalised recently after a fall and sadly...

Source:Various | Updated: January 03, 2015 | People

The Beverly Hillbillies star Donna Douglas has died at 81. The actress, who played buxom toyboy Elly May Clampett on the beloved 1960s TV series, passed away Thursday at her home in Louisiana, her...

Source:Various | Updated: January 03, 2015 | People

A month after a triple bypass surgery legendary guitarist Chip Young passed away last Saturday. Born Jerry Marvin Stembridge in Atlanta in 1938, Young got his start as a prodigy of Jerry Reed and Chet...

Source:Various | Updated: December 22, 2014 | People

A few days after her stroke Elvis' soprano background singer of the 50s, 60s and early 70s Millie Kirkham passed away in a hospital in her hometown of Nashville this Sunday, December 14,...

Source:The King's World | Updated: December 14, 2014 | People

Actress and beauty queen Mary Ann Mobley died Tuesday in Beverly Hills after a battle with breast cancer at age 75, according to a statement from her alma mater, the University of...

Source:Various | Updated: December 10, 2014 | People