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Elvis had Graceland. Las Vegas had Las Vegas. For more than 10 years, Elvis and Las Vegas were synonymously linked. Today, Las Vegas serves as the cultural icon's home, a super capital of Las Vegas impersonators, references, and other memories. On this site you can find all you'll ever need to know about the musical king of the entertainment capital of the world.

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Elvis' first performance in Las Vegas

From the Las Vegas Sun, 21 April 1956: "Elvis Presley, unanimously acclaimed by critics as the most important singing find since Johnnie Ray, will open in the New Frontier Hotels' Venus Room Monday, April 23, as a special added attraction to the Freddy Martin show."

Review of Elvis' first show in Las Vegas

From the Las Vegas Sun, 28 April 1956: "Elvis Presley, arriving here on the wave of tremendous publicity, fails to hit the promised mark in a desert isle surfeited with rock and rollers who play in shifts atop every cocktail lounge on the Strip. The brash, loud braying of his rhythm and blues catalog (and mind you, they are big hits everywhere it seems) which albeit rocketed him to the big time, is overbearing to a captive audience."

Elvis Strikes Back

From the Las Vegas Sun, 1 August 1969: "Elvis Presley made his first public stage appearance anywhere in eight years last night when he opened a four week engagement at the International Hotel...It is 13 years since Elvis worked LV. His previous and only appearance in our town was at the old Frontier Hotel on a bill headlined by Shecky Greene."

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