January 23 - Bootleg Rip-off And Pick Of The Day

A new import CD entitled "Live At The Showroom Internationale" featuring the February 23rd, 1971 Dinner Show was released. This concert was previously released on the 2009 "Elvis Internationale" double CD set (disc 2) from the International import label.

The T2 (Alive) budget label re-issued the "V" Best Of five disc compilation and "Elvis - An American Icon" 1 DVD/ 2 CD set in Germany.




In Brazil Elvis' image was used promote the English school lessons from Lexical.

The book "Elvis Presley's Gold Cadillac Tour of Australasia 1968-69" was released. The 58 pages book is a comprehensive account of the tour of Elvis's Gold Cadillac "downunder" by Peter R. Hayden.

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley's 1994 marriage certificate has sold for $70,800 at auction. The document, which boasts both stars' signatures, was issued to the couple following a 15-minute ceremony on 26 May (94) in the Dominican Republic.

It went under the hammer on Saturday with an opening price of $27,000 and quickly sparked a bidding war as two collectors vied for the item, racking up 20 offers between them.

Pick Of The Day



Discussion at MOJO Magazine (U.K.) HQ recently turned to the vast, labyrinthine world of Elvis releases. It's been 33 years since Mr Hips left the building for the very last time and yet his songs are still re-ordered, re-packaged and re-issued several times a year. So, how do you buy Elvis Presley? Greatest Hits/Best Ofs... are all very well, but, as a MOJO reader, you know there's nothing better than going straight to the source.



Not only is Elvis Country his most consistent album of the 1970s, it's also a record that taps into every facet of a man who, after 15 years of superstardom, was still desperate to find satisfying material to record.

Read any account of Elvis in the studio, and you'll be presented with a man who just loved to sing the southern spirituals that coloured his childhood. From his early days at Sun, the songs he sang with his mother and father equipped him with the feel and the atmosphere he needed to tackle the session ahead.

On this album, Willie Nelson's Funny How Time Slips Away, Ray Price's Make The World Go Away and Stonewall Jackson's I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water are driven by vocals that come straight from that lagoon of spiritual solace that, by the turn of the '60s, Elvis was finding it harder to tap into. He'd already re-captured an impassioned authority on 1969's From Elvis In Memphis, but Elvis Country is a better record because we hear a soul torn between the glory and the darkness: on one side, the lean, 'aw-shucks' rock 'n' roll rebel; on the other, the pale, lethargic schlub of the Las Vegas lounges. What's amazing is Elvis seems aware of this. In fact, he thrives on it.