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Elvis Pal Blames Hollywood for the King's 'Disappointment' -- Exclusive Video

Michael Ochs Archives, Getty Images Just before he became an overnight sensation in Memphis, a young truck driver named Elvis Presley quarterbacked a regular Sunday football game with a few buddies. Short of players, one day they asked an athletic grade-school kid named Jerry Schilling to join them. In January 1956, Schilling watched his ...

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Barry Manilow Explores the 'Dangerous' Side of Fame on '15 Minutes'

Stiletto Entertainment The long-running hit machine that is Barry Manilow takes a bold step at age 67 with his new release, '15 Minutes,' a rocking concept album that follows the story of a pop singer who hits giddy highs and rock-bottom lows. Spinner recently spoke to Manilow to discuss the perils of fame, his recovery from tumors and why ...

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My Morning Jacket's Jim James Gets 'Turned On' by Movies for 'Circuital'

Danny Clinch To celebrate the release of their sixth studio album, 'Circuital,' My Morning Jacket will perform in a live webcast on May 31, part of the Unstaged series sponsored by American Express. It's a busy time for this barrel-aged band from Kentucky: frontman Jim James is also nearing completion of his first full-length album, due next ...

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Robert Johnson Founds the '27 Club' With Devil Pact -- Twisted Tales

AP Robert Johnson, the archetypal bluesman who gave his soul over to the music, would have been 100 years old this month. As the founding member of the 27 Club -- those musicians who lasted only 27 years on this earth -- it's both bewildering and surprisingly easy to imagine how the guitar virtuoso's life would have turned out had he survived ...

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Bob Dylan Is 70, and Forever Young

Columbia When Ben Lee was 18, he heard Bob Dylan's song 'Isis' playing on a turntable. It was Christmas Day, and the onetime boy rocker was in California, far from his home in Australia. Lurching headlong into the "mysterious, terrifying world of adulthood," the young singer was floored by the mid-period Dylan track -- number 34, if you're ...

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Skeeter Davis Declares 'The End of the World' -- Twisted Tales

Gems, Redferns The sun goes on shining, the birds go on singing. Don't they know it's 'The End of the World'? Harold Camping, the 89-year-old mogul of the Family Radio network, and his followers have been touting this weekend as the Biblically ordained date of Armageddon. If that's true, there's only one soundtrack for the festivities -- ...

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'What's Goin On,' 40 Years Later: A Track-by-Track Look at Marvin Gaye's Classic LP

Redferns The incoming 1970s were a time of deep despair. The idealism of the '60s had been swept away by racial strife, atrocious news from Vietnam, joblessness and rampant drug casualties. Marvin Gaye, Motown's crown prince, once recalled hearing one of his own effortless love songs on ...

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