Example sentences for: presley

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  • Book-- Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley , by Peter Guralnick;

  • Rhythm 'n' blues (the music of the black South) and other manifestations of the black "sound," like urban doo-wop, came to the attention of whites--like the record mogul Ahmet Ertegun in Washington, the songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (who wrote "Hound Dog" and "Kansas City") in Los Angeles, DJ Alan Freed in Cleveland, and Elvis Presley in Memphis, who was totally immersed in black music almost by accident.

  • But Butterfield, now 72 and sporting a watch with a picture of Nixon meeting Elvis Presley on it, has the details.

  • Chatterbox's proof was that the first rock 'n' roll records that reached a large, mainstream audience--Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" and Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel"--were released in 1955 and 1956.

  • Here we are, on the 22nd anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, debating rock 'n' roll--or at least James Miller's version of it.


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