The tour bus broke down outside Bakersfield, California on August 19th, 1963. A Thursday afternoon, middle of nowhere, desert heat making everything shimmer.…
The phone call came during breakfast on August 16th, 1977, a Tuesday morning. Dean Martin was reading the newspaper at his Beverly Hills…
Traffic was light on Sunset Boulevard on March 9th, 1974. A Tuesday afternoon, Dean Martin drove alone in his Lincoln Continental. Black, pristine,…
Graceland Archives room. August 14th, 1979, two years after Elvis Presley’s death. Felton Jarvis, Elvis’s longtime producer, was sorting through boxes of unreleased…
Elvis Presley collapsed on stage at the Civic Center Arena in Lakeland, Florida on February 20th, 1977. It was 9:47 p.m. on a…
Priscilla Preszley’s phone rang at 11:47 p.m. on August 15th, 1977. She was in her Los Angeles apartment getting ready for bed. Lisa…
Ed Sullivan stood in the control booth of Studio 50. His face read with fury as he watched the Rolling Stones on the…
In 1955 at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in Hollywood, Morino O’Hara walked onto the stage to present the best actor award to…
Ed Sullivan sat at his desk at Studio 50 on a Tuesday morning in September 1955, reading the letter for the second time.…
The big guy, Jerry Wininrob, didn’t want me for this. He wouldn’t even consider me for a reading. Every time my name came…