You watch his hair get shorn on the front pages, feel the ticket sales freeze, and wonder how a global sensation could survive being peeled away from fame. Elvis’s induction in 1958 didn’t just slow ...
On March 24, 1958, Elvis Presley—already the most famous rock-and-roll star in the world—traded in his rhinestone-studded stage outfits for a U.S. Army uniform. At just 23 years old, Presley was ...