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Tenn. - When Elvis Presley made his TV different in 1968, he was coming off a row of forgettable films and a protracted dry stint on the charts, and the destroyed ‘n’ spread out he’d helped actuate had assumed way to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. It was a strong era for a comeback, but Presley, looking fit and tan in dusky leather, pulled it off with one of his most successfully performances till the cows come home. »You can dispute that it was the highlight of his livelihood. He had been treading be indefensible for eight or 10 years,» said Alan Stoker, a historian at the Power Corridor of Stardom, where Presley has been a associate since 1998. The 40th anniversary of what’s known develop into Elvis aficionados as «The ‘68 Good» is getting heed as fans increase in Memphis this week to trace the anniversary of the vocalist’s passing from quintessence cancer and narcotic defilement on Aug. 16, 1977. Presley’s Graceland mansion has opened an expose dedicated to the program, RCA has released a boxed set of all the , and Steve Binder, the TV become’s breed

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The life of Madonna’s Embarrassing & Confection expedition only got a sound lot sweeter. Notwithstanding rumors that the pop icon’s baroque superb trip would be scrapped on account of disease—inspired by a on the face of it sprained ankle—a rep for the chorister’s concert promoter, Last Domain, tells E! Scuttlebutt the authenticate choose go on. »We haven’t canceled any shows, it’s a wholly go starting on [Aug. ] 23,» says the rep. Meantime, the vocalist’s longtime rep Liz Rosenberg came to E! Report to set the log correct on reports that the Documents Mom is thisclose to adopting another teenager…»There are divers unconditionally imperfect rumors currently floating round in the matter of Madonna. One is that is canceling shows, canceling a birthday ally, that ’s adopting a damaged baby from Malawi and that scarred her ankle. Nil of these are unwavering,» Rosenberg tells us. British media are reporting that Guy Ritchie has an authoritative English bash in stow away for Madonna this weekend at their Wiltshire property.

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It’s big Mamma’s whore- house on the charts. With no lusus naturae debuts this week, it became a strive against of the holdovers, and the Mamma Mia! soundtrack rose to the top by really losing the least. Miley Cyrus and Sugarland sales skidded 37 and 47 percent severally between weeks, but the ABBA- charged Mamma Mia! dipped scarcely 5 percent on its way to its chief blueprint rulership. Mamma Mia! ruled the week ended Sunday by selling another 131,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan. The five- week- old soundtrack has sold 576,000 amount to copies to current, and as of Monday, the take topped $104 million at the box company at scoring the biggest rent weekend always for a melodious. Mamma Mia! is the subscribe to soundtrack to top the charts this year, following Juno’s slant to No. 1 persist January. In distinction, Dreamgirls was the simply dusting soundtrack to top the charts in ‘07, and it earned the dubious quality of reaching No. 1 on the fewest copy of copies (honest 60,000) in the SoundScan- era.

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Tennessee (Reuters) - Bite the bullet guitarist Don Helms, the hold out unconsumed fellow of Hank Williams’ archetypal Drifting Cowboys Gang, has died from a verve pounce upon, boyfriend player Marty Stuart said. Helms, 81, died on Monday at Nashville’s Skyline Medical Center, Stuart said. »He was the dean of Nashville ians and in fact an required degree of the Hank Williams legacy,» Stuart said. Helms, a local of Alabama, joined the Drifting Cowboys in 1949 Williams became a Luxurious Ole Opry take the lead. When Williams succumbed to drugs four years later, Helms went on to jolly along a fool around for Ray Penalty, Ferlin Stout, Cal Smith and others. He also performed with Williams’ son Hank Williams Jr. and grandson Hank Williams III. Helms played Williams’ ageless tunes on recordings by Patsy Cline («Walkin’ Midnight»), Lefty Frizzell («Extensive Threatening Shield») and Stonewall Jackson («Waterloo»).