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To mark the 30th anniversary of her father’s death, Lisa Marie Presley’s voice was added to the original version of her father’s hit song from 1969. The video duet features Presley and images of her late father.

“We had absolutely no intention of getting into the industry,” confesses Santhush. However, ‘get into the industry’ they did! And although success has altered their lifestyles, the duo takes it in their stride: “You have to be presentably dressed at all times. One loses the luxury of walking around looking dishevelled, since that would mean disappointing some fans,” laughs Bathiya.

Born in a shotgun shack in Tupelo, Miss., the world couldn’t help falling in love with Elvis, the flaming star that rose to become one of the most beloved entertainers of all time.

Today, 30 years after his premature death, Elvis still outsells most living performers. His estate, estimated at approximately $5 million at the time of his death, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars now.

What keeps him so popular – even with fans who weren’t even alive in his heyday?

“His persona is timeless. His voice is gold,” said musician James Bilagody, who is a well-known Elvis impersonator. “The information highway is exceptionally complete; and a P.R. team and sales staff are diligent and successful in their efforts.” More…

Lisa Marie Presley singing In the Ghetto, accompanied in the remix by her dead father, Elvis Presley, will be posted on the internet.

To mark the 30th anniversary of her father’s death, Lisa Marie Presley’s voice was added to the original version of her father’s hit song from 1969. The video duet features Presley and images of her late father.

It will be posted today… on the AOL internet site Spinner.com, a company spokesman said today.

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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. Here are some famous quotes made about the late great Elvis Presley. These were not made by Elvis himself, rather celebrity quotes or quotes from movies. If you have any more please post them. More…
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The United States Junior Chamber of Commerce (the Jaycees) named Elvis One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation for 1970 in a ceremony on January 16, 1971, one of Elvis’ proudest moments. This award has been given since 1938 and has honored men of achievement in all areas of endeavor – sports, government, science, medicine, entertainment, etc. It recognizes outstanding personal achievement and the exemplification of the opportunities available in the free enterprise system, along with patriotism, humanitarianism, and community service.

In America alone, Elvis has had 150 different albums and singles that have been certified gold, platinum or multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), with more certifications expected as research into his past record sales continues and as current sales go on.

Research is also underway to document his record sales achievements in other countries.

It is estimated that 40% of Elvis’ total record sales have been outside the United States.

In 1998, Elvis-The Concert was designated a Guinness World Record as the first live tour headlined by a performer who is no longer living.

Graceland Mansion

Graceland, Elvis Presley’s home and refuge for twenty years, is one of the most visited homes in America today, now attracting over 600,000 visitors annually. It is also the most famous home in America after the White House. In 1991, Graceland Mansion was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2006, Graceland was designated a National Historic Landmark.

Elvis is pulling in more money 30 years after his death than he did at the height of his career as his iconic image graces everything from the tackiest of ceramic sculptures to slick ad campaigns.

His face, his hair, his jumpsuits and his stance are instantly recognizable and they adorn just about everything imaginable, and much that is unbelievable.

A hundred merchants set up shop an Elvis week expo in Memphis to ply their wares to the devoted fans who came to pay from across the globe to pay their respect to the King.

There are – of course – the decorative plates, the posters, the blankets, the lighters, the watches, the jumpsuits and the playing cards.

But Elvis boxer shorts? A singing, animatronic bust of Elvis? Organic, fair-trade Elvis coffee and California-grown Elvis merlot and shiraz?

Ari Heino of Finland dropped 87 dollars on a replica of a horseshoe ring that was designed by Elvis in the 1950’s. There were others on sale for ten dollars, but this one looked like a closer copy.

“It’s not gold, but maybe someday I’ll make it solid gold,” the 56-year-old banker told AFP.

Everything in the expo is licensed by Elvis Presley Enterprises, which carefully manages him image and rejects all but about two percent of the thousands of requests it receives every year to use the Elvis image and name.

“The tacky unlicensed merchandise, that’s a continuous and ongoing battle that is fought by our legal department,” said Jack Soden, chief executive officer of Elvis Presley Enterprises.

These losses are small change compared to the millions made through licenses to deep pocketed merchandisers like Hershey’s, which has launched a limited edition peanut butter and banana Reese’s cup in honour of the King’s favourite sandwich.

But the battle is waged to protect the value of the Elvis brand, although Soden prefers to use the word legacy.

Unflattering products are simply disappeared from the market place.

And footage of Elvis in his last days, when he was overweight and forgetting lyrics on stage, is kept locked in the vault, something Soden compared to sticking an unflattering photo at the bottom of the drawer.

Elvis Presley Enterprises pulled in 48 million dollars last year, about 13.6 million of which came from licensing.

That figure is expected to grow rapidly under the management of billionaire Robert Sillerman, who bought an 85 percent stake in the company for over 100 million dollars in 2005.

“The Presley family – Lisa Marie and Priscilla – never had the money to really market Elvis the way he should have been,” said Amos Maki, a reporter at the Memphis Commercial Appeal who covers the business side of Graceland.

“They’ve done a pretty darn good job themselves with minimal resources. Now with Sillerman they’re thinking on a whole different plane.”It starts with a 250 million dollar expansion and renovation of Graceland and the Heartbreak Hotel that will bring a convention centre to the downtrodden neighborhood and the latest in interactive exhibits to the dated museum that has seen attendance dip in recent years.

Then there’s an Elvis entertainment centre in Las Vegas, complete with an Elvis-themed touring Cirque de Soleil show. And there is talk of a hotel and casino in Vegas as well.

“The expectations for Elvis are virtually exponential,” Soden said in a telephone interview.

“The Elvis phenomenon is bigger than it’s ever been.”One reason for that is because the media market place has expanded so rapidly in the past thirty years, as has our desire for popular culture, said Andrew Bergstein, a marketing professor at Penn State University.

“We have so many different ways to distribute popular culture and it lasts a lot longer,” he said.

There isn’t enough money in the marketing industry to generate new images and ideas to go with every product. And besides, consumers are drawn to familiar images and have a nostalgic attachment to the past.

“Elvis, by the very nature of who he was, he’s taken on a life of his own.”

(AFP)

The thousands of Elvis Presley fans descending on Memphis for the 30th anniversary of his death Aug. 16 won’t see much sign of it, but plans are moving along for big-time changes at Graceland.

Managers of Presley’s famous home want to overhaul its tourist complex – with a new visitors center bigger than a football field, a convention hotel and high-tech museum displays that can give a new, digital life to the King himself.