It’s hard to believe that it’s only been 4 months since Michael Jackson’s death. It’s harder to believe that in that time, he has become the third top grossing dead celebrity this year. The King of Pop beat out the likes of Elvis Presley and John Lennon as Forbes has clocked the late singer as having earned $90 million posthumously. Most of the earnings are due to the countless merchandising deals and the rights to the use of his name and likeness in the film ‘This is It’. Michael also made millions from album sales, radio airplay and music video marathons from the weeks after his death. He was only beat out by fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and Broadway buffs Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, whose earnings were combined.
It’s being said that Elvis Presley’s 17-year old grandson Benjamin Presley has been offered $5 million to crank out 5 albums. Ben is Lisa Marie Presley’s son with musician Danny Keough. Ben has been said to have already begun recording his first album which he says will be nothing like the King of Rock and Roll. But before you get excited about his music, his publicist has come out that Ben “did not get a record deal, he is not recording. He is actually a student.” So where did this rumor come from? But you have to admit, having another Presley in the music business does sound appealing.
The locks the legendary singer lost when he joined the US Army will be sold by auction in the near future. It seems that the auctioneers are hoping for at least 19000 dollars for Elvis Presley’s hair, even though there are probably people who would pay much more for it. Actually, this will be part of a larger sale of memorabilia from Elvis Presley, memorabilia currently owned by his close friend Gary Pepper. Nothing like having a little stuff left over from old and very famous friends, eh? Imagine what the hair of the guys from Black Sabbath must be worth now… if anybody was inspired enough to keep it.
The music of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins is headed to the stage with the upcoming ‘Million Dollar Quartet’, scheduled to run this coming spring. The musical has been doing very well since it opened last October in Chicago. The producers are expecting the same success once it hits Broadway. The show is based on the 1956 jam session between the four iconic musicians brought together by record producer Sam Phillips of Sun Records in Memphis. The score includes ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, ‘Great Balls of Fire’, and ‘I Walk the Line’, among other popular songs of the time period.
Lisa Marie Presley has spoken out about her former nanny who recently filed a lawsuit against the singer, claiming that she’s a mean employer because she doesn’t pay overtime and wouldn’t let her take breaks to eat. Elvis Presley’s daughter believes that Christine White has self-entitlement issues. Lisa Marie told reporters that the nanny’s salary was $650 a day and even had her own guest house at their home, the place the nanny would take many breaks at. Lisa Marie went as far as to say Christine’s “self-entitlement became more and more severe” the more she got exposed to the “various ‘perks’ she was given on the job.” Shady!
Just like Elvis Presley’s life, a poem written by the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll himself starts with a promise and then ends in sudden, unforeseen tragedy. The handwritten poem, a part of the massive Elvis auction going on at gottahaverockandroll.com, is called ‘Ode to a Robin’ and was sometimes recited by the deceased music icon on stage and at one point, was used as the answering machine message at his home. If you want this piece of memorabilia, it could be yours for a cool $4000 to $5000. And here’s a fun fact for you, it’s been said that former US President Bill Clinton has ordered a catalog of the sale.
A piano that the late rock and roll legend Elvis Presley played is being put under the hammer at an auction that is to be organized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex. The auction will be held in New York.
That lone Elvis Presley piano is expected to fetch a mammoth $1 million, the white Knabe piano is
Amongst some other items also belonging to Elvis Presley that too will be going under the hammer.
Amongst the memorabilia items will be the famous gold and blue jumpsuit worn by Presley which could rake in $150,000.
The amount of interest Elvis still manages to pull so many years after his death is really amazing and you have to give it to him that is his and will remain amongst the most popular later singers ever. You they say some people have the gift of turning everything they touch into gold and that really applies to Elvis in the true sense.
His dresses, his guitars and all of his personal belongings will fetch so much more than their original worth just because Elvis touched them.
Mattel has released a special edition wedding Elvis and Priscilla Barbie set just in time for Elvis week in Memphis. The dolls are even wearing replica outfits of what the couple wore on their wedding day in Las Vegas on May 1, 1967. The dolls are such hot commodities that they’re actually already sold out. Saturday marked the 31st anniversary of the King’s death. May he rest in peace. But the fact that there are still so many people using his image in their capitalist ways, I doubt he will anytime soon. On the other hand, it’s king of nice to know that the spirit of Elvis lives on.
Paul McCartney got an honorary Doctorate of Music from Yale University on Monday afternoon. Yale has given the same honor to some of the greatest music legends, including Elvis, Sinatra, Prince, Smokey Robinson and the other three Beatles. What?! I can’t believe Sir Paul was the last to be honored. Actually, none of the above mentioned ever went to Yale. But Ezra Sims, a composer and an expert in microtonal music, is an alumnus. Now you know why none of the music legends ever came from Yale. I doubt that they would be music legends if they did study there.
Elvis Presley’s only daughter, Lisa Marie, just turned 40 years old – and she’s about to have another child. New reports are surfacing that the rock and roll royalty is pregnant with her third child. This will be the first child with her fourth husband, musician Michael Lockwood. Lisa Marie already has two teenage kids with her first husband Danny Keough – model Riley Keough and lesser known Benjamin Keough. It’s a good thing that she never had kids with her third husband Nicholas Cage, or even worse, her second husband Michael Jackson. I just realized that there’s a lot of numbers right there.
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