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Elvis film has doubled the amount of people learning the King’s songs on guitar

Baz Luhrmann’s biopic has caused a surge in guitarists learning songs like ‘Jailhouse Rock’

The Independent UK

Jess Conrad still 'vainest man in showbiz' at 86 - 'my wife and I love the same man!'

The actor and singer has been on stage and screen since 1955 - but you think he was a mixture of Elvis Presley and Brad Pitt rolled into one the way he talks

Daily Mirror

Resurfaced photo shows Vanessa Hudgens meeting ex Austin Butler’s girlfriend Kaia Gerber in 2007

Social media users are sharing red carpet photo from 2007, which shows Hudgens meeting her ex-boyfriend Austin Butler’s current girlfriend

The Independent UK

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Elvis Presley's DNA used in experiment to genetically engineer Elvis-mice hybrids

The artist said 'the purpose of the work was to raise those almost frightening issues'

Daily Mirror

Elvis Presley’s personal jewellery collection is up for auction

‘It brings back memories for sure,’ says singer’s ex wife, Priscilla

The Independent UK

Elvis Presley’s Jewelry on Auction with Priscilla Presley’s Support

A collection of jewelry that Elvis Presley gave to his manager Colonel Tom Parker is going up for auction on Aug. 27. Two hundred items, including gold rings encrusted with jewels, cufflinks, watches and chains, have been brought together by GWS Auctions. Also included is the guitar played by Presley…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Elvis was a devout Christian who prayed before shows, reveals stepbrother

Even at the height of his fame, the singer called on God to calm his stage nerves, his stepbrother reveals in a new biography

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Elvis: Austin Butler says he was left ‘in tears’ following Baz Luhrmann’s method approach

Leonardo DiCaprio had warned Butler that the director would ‘push you in ways you didn’t know somebody could’

The Independent UK

‘Jailhouse Rock made prison seem like fun’: Billy Gibbons’s honest playlist

The ZZ Top vocalist and guitarist was five when he went to an Elvis Presley concert, and has a passion for dice. But which tune is his karaoke favourite?

The Guardian - UK

Elvis star Shonka Dukureh dies, aged 44

The star was found unresponsive in her bedroom by one of her children

Manchester Evening News

Elvis actress Shonka Dukureh found dead in Nashville home, aged 44

Ms Dukureh starred as Big Mama Thornton in Baz Luhrmann’s high-acclaimed Elvis Presley biopic

Evening Standard

Director of Elvis biopic ‘heartbroken’ after death of actress Shonka Dukureh

The singer starred as Big Mama Thornton in the film about Elvis Presley.

The Independent UK

Elvis star Shonka Dukureh found dead by one of her young children in flat

The actress played Big Mama Thornton in the new Elvis biopic.

Daily Record

Elvis actor Shonka Dukureh found dead in her home by her child

Dukereh went viral after portraying Big Mama Thornton in the film - with her performance of Hound Dog getting plaudits around the world.

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Elvis director Baz Luhrmann heartbroken as Big Mama Thornton actress found dead at home

Tributes have paid to the late Shonka Dukureh, who made her film debut in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis (2022), with her having played blues singer Big Mama Thornton in the biopic about Elvis Presley

The Guardian - AU

Elvis actor Shonka Dukureh dies one month after big screen debut

The 44-year-old singer, who portrayed Big Mama Thornton in Baz Luhrmann’s latest film, was found unresponsive in her Nashville home

Chicago Sun-Times

Shonka Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thornton in ‘Elvis,’ found dead at 44

Autopsy results pending for the Nashville actor, singer and former teacher.

Daily Mirror

Shonka Dukureh dead: Elvis actress, 44, found by one of her young children in flat

Actress Shonka Dukureh, who stars in the new Elvis Presley film, was found by one of her young children in her Nashville apartment this morning, TMZ have reported

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Irish Mirror

Elvis Presley's ex-wife Priscilla now - real reason she left singer and the truth of how they met

Priscilla Beaulieu was just 14 years old when she first met Elvis at a party in West Germany in September 1959

The Guardian - UK

LQ Jones obituary

Character actor best known for war movies and Sam Peckinpah westerns as well as directing the cult B-movie A Boy and His Dog

The Guardian - UK

Edward George: ‘You can’t have Afrofuturism without some ambience of a fascist thinking creeping in’

The artist and film-maker talks about Black cultural history, Tupac Shakur, the evolution of dub and his remarkable cinema essays with the Black Audio Film Collective

Wales Online

Michael Bublé in Cardiff review: Canadian singer is king of the castle as he pays homage to Elvis

And the show, An Evening With Michael Bublé, also proved the hitmaker's banter is as popular as his music

Wales Online

Michael Bublé at Cardiff Castle: Stage times, set list, road closures, parking, and more

An Evening with Michael Bublé is rescheduled from July 2021

Bangkok Post

A woman in a man's world

US R&B legend Big Mama Thornton is one of the forgotten "originators", to use Dr John's term for Professor Longhair, of rock'n'roll. The late Alabama native, who died almost exactly 38 years ago on July 25, 1984, recorded the first version of Leiber and Stoller's Hound Dog in 1952. After…

The Guardian - UK

Alan Blaikley obituary

Songwriter who with Ken Howard wrote tracks for Elvis Presley, Lulu and many more, as well as TV themes and musicals

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