Hints and tips:
...Jim and Mike had to move out at midnight to avoid fans’ prying eyes. The National Trust bought the house in 1995 and curators drew on Mike’s early photographs to restore the property....
...“Elvis Presley was from an extremely poor background . . . and yet he rose to this enormous celebrity. I also wrote about Mike Tyson, from a very poor background....
...I was also inspired by Elvis Presley when he started to wear black leather....
...Indonesia, Independence Day national holiday Norway, the country’s oil wealth fund, one of the world’s largest funds, reports half-year figures at Arendalsuka US, former vice-president Mike Pence speaks...
...The set opens with the unmistakable melody of Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel”, here delivered by Batchelor’s gravelly cornet lead....
...“Las Vegas,” says Mike Myers in the movie’s best line, “is a radioactive mutation of capitalism.”...
...You’re always thinking the ideal is the single,” says the group’s keyboard player and main songwriter Mike Barson (favourite 7in: “Israelites” by Desmond Dekker & The Aces)....
...Interesting, but please put me down as a sceptic — or imagine me singing Elvis Presley’s “Return to Sender”....
...Artistically, Elvis Presley. Teaching me how to be professional, my dad. Teaching me my moral code, my mother. Teaching me about the business, [record producer] Mickie Most....
...Elvis Presley swivelled his hips. The members of Kiss painted their faces and spat fake blood. Tom Petty did nothing of the kind....
...In the only memorable moment of the 1992 comedy film Wayne’s World, the slacker played by Mike Myers visits a guitar shop. He starts to pick out the first four notes of a familiar acoustic arpeggio....
...‘Tiger Mike’ Davis, oilman....
...Some were recorded in the Sun studios, where he met Elvis Presley. King recalled in his 1996 autobiography Blues all Around Me (its dedication lists 15 children) that Presley “always called me ‘sir’....
...His co-writers on “Stand By Me”, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, wrote perhaps the most famous of them, “Hound Dog”, which Elvis Presley performed with his gyrating hips on primetime television in 1956....
...With writing partner Mike Stoller he created some of the most memorable hits of an era that saw an irreversible shift in social attitudes....
...Though a thug even then, Mike Tyson was, in his early career, as David Remnick wrote, “almost academic in his regard for boxing”. His slovenly (and vicious) style in later bouts was depressing....
...Aaron Stone, the Apollo senior partner leading the deal, signalled in a statement that it intended to keep CKx’s management, saying it looked forward to working with Mike Ferrel, its chairman and chief executive...
...I am being serenaded by Elvis Presley ballads, of all things. There is a 1960s Russian variety show on the television....
...But since then he has diversified across genres – Elvis Presley, commissions for the New York Philharmonic, and 26 film scores including A Star is Born and Invasion of the Body Snatchers are only the tip...
...In 1959 Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller backed the Drifters with a full string section, opening the door for the lavish orchestrations of Phil Spector....
...South African laments, cod Elvis Presley and German opera – these to gee up a somewhat overawed choir – Bach fugues and skittery improv were among many idioms freely exchanged....
...frets a writer in the New York Times – alongside yellowing attempts to place the new superstar Elvis Presley in some kind of context....
...Sony/ATV, the music publishing joint venture between Sony and Michael Jackson, is thought to have paid about $40m for the works of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who also wrote “Stand By Me”....
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