* Graceland, former home of Elvis Presley

For example, fans of Elvis Presley may choose to visit his home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee.

* August 16 – Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll dies in his home in Graceland at age 42.

Graceland is a large white-columned mansion and estate that was home to Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee.

According to Mark Crispin Miller, Graceland became for Presley " the home of the organization that was himself, was tended by a large vague clan of Presleys and deputy Presleys, each squandering the vast gratuities which Elvis used to keep his whole world smiling.

" Graceland was Lisa Marie Presley's first home after her birth on February 1, 1968 and her childhood home, although her main state of residence was California where she lived with her mother after she divorced Elvis when Lisa was in elementary school.

The company is working with the Bob Weis, the recently named new CEO of Disney Imagineering based in Orlando, Florida, to improve the tourist area around Graceland, which is located in an economically depressed area of Memphis, while keeping intact the historic home.

* The title of Paul Simon's album Graceland and the title track was inspired by Elvis ' home.

In 1999, Elvis Presley Enterprises purchased a Wilson World Hotel branch and after several renovations, opened it and named the hotel after the song, located across the street from Presley's home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee.

* August 16 – Elvis Presley is found dead at his home Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.

The song was to be her only Stateside chart success, and Elvis Presley had a copy on his personal jukebox at his Graceland home.

* 1977-Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll dies in his home in Graceland at age 42.

CKX, INC, which now owns Elvis Presley's estate, has full control including the grave of Elvis Presley and his family members along with his home Graceland in early 2008.

* Memphis, Tennessee at the grave of Elvis Presley at his home " Graceland "

This area is home to Bill Moose Run, the recently refurbished Graceland Shopping Center, the Ohio School for the Deaf and the Ohio State School for the Blind.

* Graceland ( Elkins, West Virginia ); the summer home for Davis and a National Historic Landmark

Elvis Presley had many of Smith's albums in his record collection at his Graceland home and intended on recording Smith's version of " The Wonders You Perform ", but never got around to doing so.

Elvis Presley, bored with his confined existence in Graceland, leaves his home on his own for the first time since he was 21.

Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland draws heavily on South African music, and includes pennywhistle solos in the traditional style, played by Morris Goldberg.

In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music.

He also embarked on the very successful Graceland Tour, which was documented on music video.

Although not as successful as Graceland, The Rhythm of the Saints was received as a competent successor and consistent complement on Simon's attempts to explore ( and popularize ) world music, and also received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

" When " people who to a real degree shared Elvis Presley ’ s class background, and whose lives were formed by his music ," visited the inside of Graceland, Greil Marcus says in similar terms, they " have returned with one word to describe what they saw: ' Tacky.

* While touring across the United States, the band members in the rock music " mockumentary " This Is Spinal Tap gather around Elvis Presley's grave at Graceland and sing a verse of " Heartbreak Hotel a capella in three-part harmony.

The reversal of fortunes was in part due to Paul Simon's incorporation of South African music into his Graceland album ( 1986 ) and subsequent tour.

The music has its roots in southern Africa but later adaptations of this and many other African folk idioms have permeated Western music ( listen to both " A Swinging Safari " ( album ) by the Bert Kaempfert Orchestra ( 1962 ) and Graceland by Paul Simon ( 1986 )) which gave modern South African music, particularly jazz, much of its distinctive sound and lilting swagger.

In the following year, Hugh Masekela introduced Makeba to Paul Simon, and a few months later she embarked on the very successful Graceland Tour, which was documented on music video.

After several years in the doldrums, a reinvigorated Paul Simon burst back onto the music scene in late 1986 with Graceland.

His influential, multi-million-selling Graceland album bore the unmistakable stamp of Simon's recent discovery of South African township music, and he recorded the album with leading South African session musicians and the vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

He also helped finance a statue of the music pioneer and made a historical visit to Graceland in June 2006 with United States President George W. Bush.

This was due to the explosive interest in South African music following Paul Simon's massively successful Graceland album, in which Simon collaborated with acts such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Stimela, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and many more.

* 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public ; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

Kid Rock became the first musician to play in a recorded concert for television at Elvis Presley's Graceland on November 28, 2011 when PBS taped an episode for their Live from the Artists Den.

Co-writer Billy Steinberg came up with the title after Susanna Hoffs told him about the band's visit to Graceland, Elvis Presley's estate in Memphis, Tennessee.

* March 26 – 22-year-old Elvis Presley buys Graceland on 3734 Bellevue Boulevard ( Highway 51 South ) for $ US100, 000.

Featured at Graceland are two of Presley's private airplanes, his extensive automobile and motorcycle collection and other Elvis memorabilia.

Elvis Presley was originally buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, the resting place of his backing band's bassist, Bill Black, but after an attempted grave robbing, his body was moved to the grounds of Graceland.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, like many fans of Elvis Presley, visited Graceland.

" In chapter 1 of his book, Elvis ( 1981 ), the author describes Graceland as looking like a brothel: " it appears to have been lifted from some turn-of-the-century bordello down in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

" In Graceland: Going Home With Elvis, Karal Ann Marling deals with the decorative arts that makes Elvis ' mansion seem a creation as well as a site.

Wife-to-be Priscilla Beaulieu also lived at Graceland for five years before she and Elvis married.

Graceland officials envision a strip of Elvis Presley Boulevard transformed into a beautiful entertainment district from East Brooks RD all the way down to East Shelby Drive.

* The film 3000 Miles to Graceland is about a group of criminals who plan to rob a casino during an international Elvis week, and to make it easier, they are all disguised as Elvis impersonators.

* There is a movie Finding Graceland starring Harvey Keitel with Johnathon Schaech, as Kietel being a impersonator who claims to be the actual real Elvis after Schaech picks him up as a hitch-hiker trying to get a ride to Memphis.

" Graceland: Going Home with Elvis.