Greg McDonald, a Palm Springs resident whose chance encounter with Elvis Presley started his journey from the air conditioning business to life as a prominent entertainment promoter, died Friday ...

And what a recording career it was. From 1957 to 1962 only Elvis Presley had more top 40 hits and sold more records than Ricky Nelson. I love Nelson’s music from that time and always have.

“I never bought a Ricky Nelson record, I bought a James Burton record,” Keith Richards explained when inducting Burton into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. As one can glean from the ...

regularly tossing around footballs on-set and inviting luminaries like Ricky Nelson to join him for pickup games. The studios got wind of these games, and required Elvis to wear a helmet to ...