CONTRIBUTORS
Richard Zoglin
In the spring of 1956, Elvis Presley’s star was on the rise, at least with teens. But when the 21-year-old debuted at the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas on April 23, 1956, the“sat through Presley as if he were a clinical experiment.” Ouch. “Elvis was something new — not what the Vegas crowd was looking for,” says Zoglin, who writes about that event in “When Elvis Flopped in Vegas” (page 36), regarded “as a rare misstep in a year of meteoric success.”
