Never-before-seen Elvis photos revealed !

Never-before-seen photos have surfaced of Elvis Presley rocking Madison Square Garden in all his jumpsuited glory.

View News story from Australia's Herald Sun - Friday April 11, 2008



The images were taken in 1972 by George Kalinsky, the official photographer of the famed arena, the singer's estate said Wednesday.

Kalinsky came across the photos while working on a campaign for a billboard company called 'Great Moments in New York'.
Now one of them is on display as part of the campaign on a three-story billboard atop the Virgin Megastore in Times Square;
it shows The King glancing up, his outstretched arms holding the cape of his glittering jumpsuit.

Kalinsky needed to get permission from Elvis Presley Enterprises, the business arm of the performer's estate, to reproduce Presley's image for the campaign.
The estate asked if he had any more photos, and Kalinsky came back with about 40 unpublished images from Elvis' second-night performance at the Garden in 1972, said Kevin Kern, spokesman for Elvis Presley Enterprises.



Kern said a team of archivists well-acquainted with publicized images of Presley were quite impressed with Kalinsky's photos.

'What came from their mouths was 'Wow!' Kern said. 'These are very crisp, clear, professional photos of Elvis. It's such a rare find'.

The collection will be displayed at Graceland starting Memorial Day weekend as part of 'Elvis Jumpsuits: All Access,' an exhibit that will also feature more than 50 of Elvis' famous jumpsuits.

Kalinsky said he didn't realize at the time that he had so many good shots.

'When I photographed the show, I thought I only had a few good ones,' he said. 'I just never really looked at the files until recently'.

Kalinsky has been the official Garden photographer for more than 40 years. He's also the official photographer of Radio City Music Hall and a special photographer for the New York Mets.

He has photographed scores of celebrities and famous athletes, including Muhammad Ali, Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti and Pope John Paul II, and his images have appeared in Life, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Time and Newsweek. Kalinsky's images of Jimi Hendrix and Sinatra are also part of the Times Square billboard campaign.

Back in '72, he went backstage to meet Presley.

'He was electrifying in his white jumpsuit, with his cape on,' Kalinsky remembered. 'He was quite humble, but he had an aura. There are very few people who have triple-X charisma, and Elvis was one'.

View News story from Australia's Herald Sun - Friday April 11, 2008

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Who else has Elvis treasures?

By: Julie Muhlstein - April 12, 2008
Source: Herald Net

Rare. Never-before-seen. Wow!

That's how a newly discovered photo of Elvis Presley was described in Thursday's Herald.
Reading the Associated Press article over breakfast, and seeing the 1972 image of a caped King of Rock 'n' Roll at Madison Square Garden in New York, I had to laugh.

Then I had to go check. Yep, Elvis was still in the house.

Before leaving for work, I managed to find my prized Presley picture. It was tucked in an envelope of photos of my late father-in-law, David Muhlstein.



In the late 1950s, David Muhlstein was news director for a Dallas radio station, KLIF. There's a mention of him in a book called 'Gordon McLendon: The Maverick of Radio'. McLendon owned KLIF, and in the early '50s had pioneered the top-40 music format at the Texas station.

All I know about my Presley photograph is second-hand information, stories from my late husband and his mom. Apparently the young Elvis dropped by the radio station one day to promote a new single -- I don't know which one. Found in boxes of my husband's stuff were several Presley 45 rpm records from the 1950s and early '60s. They're marked 'not for sale,' so they likely came from the radio station.

The picture has no date on it, but I know my father-in-law worked at KLIF in 1958 and 1959, when Presley would have been 23 or 24. Perhaps a publicity shot, the photo shows a dreamy Presley, with the slightest hint of a lip curl, in all his 'Hound Dog' glory.

My father-in-law is on the right in the picture, and looks to be waiting for the star to sign an autograph. I don't know who the two men are on the left; both appear to be thrilled by the encounter. All the men are wearing the era's white shirts, skinny ties and big-shouldered jackets.

Whenever I look at it, I wish that photo could come to life. I'd love to hear the banter between the King and the man who died before I met his son.

The wire story touting the newly found 1972 pictures reported they were taken by George Kalinsky, Madison Square Garden's official photographer. He recently found more shots of a Presley performance than he knew he had.

With permission from Elvis Presley Enterprises, part of Presley's estate, one of the photos is now on a billboard in New York's Times Square.

Kalinsky's photos will be displayed at Graceland, the Presley mansion in Memphis, Tenn., over Memorial Day weekend.

Although never seen at Graceland, my photo was displayed for years in a hallway in my late mother-in-law's house in Arcadia, Calif., near Pasadena. It was hung, framed, alongside all the family graduation, wedding and baby pictures. I remember a few heated talks between my husband and his siblings about who'd end up with the Elvis picture. Finally, one sister had copies made for all of them.

When I went to find the picture Thursday, I was half surprised I still had it. Knowing that my 21-year-old musician son has a few kitschy Elvis items, I thought maybe the photo had become part of his collection. Ah, but it's still mine.

Reading about never-before-seen Presley pictures, I wondered if they're really all that rare. If I have Elvis in an envelope, how many others do?

1963's 'It Happened at the World's Fair' was set in Seattle. Anybody out there have a Kodak Brownie snapshot of Presley being kicked in the shin by 10-year-old Kurt Russell?

There must be hundreds, even thousands of never-before-seen Presley pictures. The New York discovery is just the thing to flush them out. Seeing that young, cool Elvis, I couldn't resist. I'll go first.

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Source : http://www.elvis.com.au/