It was the summer of 1969 in Los Angeles and the city was burning with a particular kind of energy that only that year could produce. The Vietnam War was on every television screen. The moon landing was just weeks away and the music industry was in the middle of something that…
Janis, darling, I bet you can’t sing a single note of proper blues without screaming. Jim Morrison said it with a laugh, bourbon in hand, at a private party in Los Angeles. The entire room erupted in laughter. Everyone knew Janis Joplin was the queen of the scream, not the queen of…
It was the first time Janis Joplin performed Me and Bobby McGee after recording it. Halfway through, her voice broke completely. Not cracked. Not wavered. Gone. Janis collapsed on the stool sobbing. The song about the man she loved stopped. The arena went silent. Then a woman in the seventh row did…
On October 18, 1969, inside the Hemisphere Arena in San Antonio, Texas, a young man stood near the front of a Janice Joplain concert, and started dancing like the whole world had disappeared. He was not famous. He was not part of the band. He did not have a backstage pass. He…
And I do not want to betray his trust even in death. What would be betraying his trust? At 88, Ann-Margret finally breaks her silence about Elvis Presley, and what she reveals feels surprising and deeply personal. She says the man the world loved was not the same man she truly…
August 14th, 1958, 3:15 a.m. Glattis Presley lay dying in a hospital bed at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She was only 46 years old, but her body had given up. Liver failure, heart failure. Years of drinking and stress had finally caught up with her. Her son, Elvis, sat beside…
Elvis Presley came home to Graceand on February 23rd, 1972 and found Priscilla sitting in a living room with a single piece of paper in her hands. What she told him in the next 10 minutes would destroy Elvis in a way that no failure, no criticism, no career setback ever had….
My dad did Apocalypse. I said, “My dad was here, too.” He goes, “What movie was he in?” I went, “Charlie, it was The Real War.” What? I said, “Liberation of the Philippines with MacArthur.” Tom Behringer once had it all. Fame, fortune, the dazzling glow of an Oscar. But behind the…
Gordon McCrae made all of America believe that a voice could hold people in place with the gentlest of feelings. But few knew that this very voice was nurtured from darkness he never spoke about. On stage, he stood as a near perfect image of Hollywood’s golden age. A full resonant baritone…
what he’s doing. He’s reenacting the big triumph of his career, the cheese and Hollywood sold romance, but the real love stories were happening behind locked doors. While studios paired leading men with glamorous starlets for publicity, these heartthrobs were going home to each other. Shared apartments, hidden beach houses, and business…
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