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Elvis Presley’s Famous “Unchained Melody” Performance

Just weeks before his death, on June 21, 1977, Elvis Presley sat down at a piano in front of around 10,000 fans in Rapid City, South Dakota, and sang “Unchained Melody.” He was 42, nearing the end of another concert tour, and performing with television cameras recording the show. The footage would become one of …

“Jolene” hardly needs an introduction. That name alone is enough to get the chorus going in your head. But Dolly Parton’s duet with Olivia Newton-John gives the familiar song a particularly moving place in both singers’ stories. Released on February 17, 2023, the collaboration was Newton-John’s final song recording and music video before her death …