More than 40 years after Elvis Presley’s death, a documentary backed by his former wife, Priscilla, will chart the singer’s early life as a young man from Tupelo, Mississippi. A two-part, three-hour HBO documentary, Elvis Presley: The Searcher, will be broadcast in the US this month. Director Thom Zimny says his effort was to reveal a man driven by music “even at his darkest times”. “They know him as a movie star, the king of rock’n’roll, and now we’re exposing what went on behind the scenes. People there in the inner group did, but you did not tell Elvis Presley what to do.

Source: The Guardian April 07, 2018 23:03 UTC