Elvis Presley was halfway through can’t help falling in love when his voice cracked. Not the usual crack, not the rasp from exhaustion…
The hand that grabbed Dean Martin’s arm wasn’t shaking from cold. It was August in Las Vegas, 112° outside, but the fingers digging…
August 14th, 1965, 11:47 p.m. The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas. The private poker room on the 32nd floor smelled like Cuban cigars and…
Indianapolis, Indiana, June 26th, 1977, 6:45 in the evening. Dick Grob has been doing this for 9 years. 9 years of standing in…
In the summer of 1977, 3 weeks before his death, Elvis Presley walked into a private recording booth at Graceland. Alone, no producers,…
If you had driven past a movie theater earlier this year, you might have noticed something that felt like a ghost from the…
You may not know Johnny Cooper as readily as the names David Stirling, Paddy Mayne, or other names linked to the early SAS,…
October 29th, 1976. RCA Studio C in Hollywood. A veteran studio engineer named Mike Moran walked into the control room at 2 p.m.…
Dean Martin was halfway through That’s [music] Amorei when he stopped singing. Not because he forgot the words, not because his voice failed.…
On May 16th, 1990, the world lost one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived. Sammy Davis Jr. was gone. At 64 years…