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Elvis star Shonka Dukureh dies, aged 44

The star was found unresponsive in her bedroom by one of her children

Manchester Evening News

Elvis actress Shonka Dukureh found dead in Nashville home, aged 44

Ms Dukureh starred as Big Mama Thornton in Baz Luhrmann’s high-acclaimed Elvis Presley biopic

Evening Standard

Director of Elvis biopic ‘heartbroken’ after death of actress Shonka Dukureh

The singer starred as Big Mama Thornton in the film about Elvis Presley.

The Independent UK

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Elvis star Shonka Dukureh found dead by one of her young children in flat

The actress played Big Mama Thornton in the new Elvis biopic.

Daily Record

Elvis actor Shonka Dukureh found dead in her home by her child

Dukereh went viral after portraying Big Mama Thornton in the film - with her performance of Hound Dog getting plaudits around the world.

Irish Mirror

Elvis director Baz Luhrmann heartbroken as Big Mama Thornton actress found dead at home

Tributes have paid to the late Shonka Dukureh, who made her film debut in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis (2022), with her having played blues singer Big Mama Thornton in the biopic about Elvis Presley

Daily Mirror

Elvis actor Shonka Dukureh dies one month after big screen debut

The 44-year-old singer, who portrayed Big Mama Thornton in Baz Luhrmann’s latest film, was found unresponsive in her Nashville home

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Shonka Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thornton in ‘Elvis,’ found dead at 44

Autopsy results pending for the Nashville actor, singer and former teacher.

Chicago Sun-Times

Shonka Dukureh dead: Elvis actress, 44, found by one of her young children in flat

Actress Shonka Dukureh, who stars in the new Elvis Presley film, was found by one of her young children in her Nashville apartment this morning, TMZ have reported

Daily Mirror

Elvis Presley's ex-wife Priscilla now - real reason she left singer and the truth of how they met

Priscilla Beaulieu was just 14 years old when she first met Elvis at a party in West Germany in September 1959

Irish Mirror

LQ Jones obituary

Character actor best known for war movies and Sam Peckinpah westerns as well as directing the cult B-movie A Boy and His Dog

The Guardian - UK

Edward George: ‘You can’t have Afrofuturism without some ambience of a fascist thinking creeping in’

The artist and film-maker talks about Black cultural history, Tupac Shakur, the evolution of dub and his remarkable cinema essays with the Black Audio Film Collective

The Guardian - UK

Michael Bublé in Cardiff review: Canadian singer is king of the castle as he pays homage to Elvis

And the show, An Evening With Michael Bublé, also proved the hitmaker's banter is as popular as his music

Wales Online

Michael Bublé at Cardiff Castle: Stage times, set list, road closures, parking, and more

An Evening with Michael Bublé is rescheduled from July 2021

Wales Online

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A woman in a man's world

US R&B legend Big Mama Thornton is one of the forgotten "originators", to use Dr John's term for Professor Longhair, of rock'n'roll. The late Alabama native, who died almost exactly 38 years ago on July 25, 1984, recorded the first version of Leiber and Stoller's Hound Dog in 1952. After…

The Guardian - UK

Alan Blaikley obituary

Songwriter who with Ken Howard wrote tracks for Elvis Presley, Lulu and many more, as well as TV themes and musicals

Wales Online

Rocking reverend uses the power God and Elvis Presley to help patients living with dementia

For the last eight years, Reverend Wynne Roberts BEM has been performing as an Elvis Presley tribute artist

Daily Mirror

Sam Fender shares plan to turn life story into a movie three years after cracking charts

The British singer first hit the top of the album charts back in 2019 and has now opened up about who he thinks would play him in a big screen biopic about his life

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The Independent UK

Lisa Marie Presley shares the matching tattoo she got with her late son

Lisa Marie’s daughter Riley Keough also honoured her brother’s memory with a heartfelt post on Tuesday (13 July)

Salon

11 historically significant toilets

Johns are privy to important events. Only a few have truly made an impact in the lives of users or in world history

Motor1

This Guy Bought Elvis Presley's Custom Cadillac Wagon From Craigslist

Elvis gave it a pink vinyl top and matching pinstripe on the body.

Newcastle Herald

Newcastle producer shakes up Elvis classics for Luhrmann film

Newcastle's Jamieson Shaw on working on Elvis.

Los Angeles Times

'Minions' is inescapable. So is the blockbuster's musical mastermind, Jack Antonoff

LOS ANGELES — For a guy who got his first big break with a song called "We Are Young," Jack Antonoff sure seems fixated on old music.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Songs of Summer 2022: From Beyoncé to Bad Bunny to Kate Bush

This list of 26 songs isn't seeking one single Song of the Summer.

The Conversation

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singer who inspired Elvis: one of many women sidelined from musical history

Elvis Presley is the perfect subject matter for Australian film director Baz Luhrmann. Not just because the opulence of Presley’s showmanship and Lurhmann’s trademark visual style are perfect bedfellows, but because the “Presleyverse” itself is not about Elvis Presley. It’s about the idea of Elvis, the great myth of Elvis…

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