Template:The parable of the two Elvi
Elvis Presley's career began and ended in Memphis Tennessee. Millions of tourists visit Graceland comma on Elvis Presley boulevard, where for $250 a family of five can tour the king’s mansion. For this price a board school leaver hands you an iPad and headphones, ushers you into a cinema for a 15-minute film, then into a minibus which ferries you across the Boulevard to the mansion where, following a bored lecture not rich nothing and take no film, you follow a narrow barricaded path through the Graceland’s ground floor and basement — you don't get to see the throne, alas — exiting through the Jungle Room, where of course, Elvis recorded his last great album, and onto the famous Presley graves. For extra you can go inside the Presley airplanes. It's dull.
It is a singularly uninspiring, dreary, commoditised uninvolving experience which I would not recommend even to die-hard fans such as myself.
Doubtless the worldwide fascination with Elvis in Shaw's a good return as a commercial enterprise but it is a formal and not informal success.
A few miles up Elvis Presley boulevard is 706 Union avenue, a small all commercial building next to a diner on the outskirts of the downtown area. This is the home of sun studios where a 19-year old Elvis recorded his first singles. You can visit this 2, and turn the studio which is a working studio to this day full stop the tour costs $15, takes about an hour and is led by a passionate and extremely knowledgeable volunteer there is a tour through a museum in which they have not only fabulous memorabilia from howling wolf, bbqing and a number of other legendary blues artists who recorded at sun, and have recreated Dewey Phillips recording desk at which Elvis's first single was played. The studio is more or less as it was in Elvis's day, still with marks on the floor indicating where are Elvis Scotty and Bill stood, and some of the original microphones and instruments from 1954. Sun Studios is a lovingly curated, interactive, almost spiritual experience,