In keeping with longstanding policy for dealing with anything that could remotely be construed as idolatry, divine wrath manifested itself to the throng gathered in Memphis for the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death.
Twenty-five years after his death, we are once again in the midst of an Elvis revival: he has a single in the top 10 and 100,000 are people expected in Memphis to mark the anniversary next month. Why? Matthew Engel looks for answers at Graceland
June 2002
Little known Elvis dances back to top of charts
Elvis Presley stormed to the top of the British singles
charts yesterday and rewrote pop history in the
process as he overtook the Beatles to become the
artist with the most number one hits in the chart's
50-year history.
