May 1
Rock and roll royalty wed today in 1967 when 32-year-old Elvis Presley married 21-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas, beginning the marriage between the King and the teenager he'd groomed since she was 14 in Germany, their union lasting eight years before divorce freed Priscilla from Graceland's gilded cage… Folk lost its greatest storyteller on this day in 2023 when Gordon Lightfoot died at 84 from natural causes, ending the career of the Canadian singer-songwriter whose "If You Could Read My Mind" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" proved that narrative folk could create timeless radio hits… Grunge tourism reached its darkest today in 1997 when the Seattle house where Kurt Cobain shot himself three years earlier went up for sale with a $3 million asking price, proving that even suicide sites could become macabre real estate opportunities in the music business… Soul's deepest voice faced mortality today in 2003 when Barry W...
