EDITORIAL

KINGS OF THE STRANGE Welcome to our first issue of 2025. This January marks a fortean musical anniversary: Ninety years ago, on 8 January 1935, Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. Just 20 years later, as a shy and slightly strange young man living in Memphis, Tennessee, he was poised to take the world by storm, launching a career that would make him one of the major cultural icons of the 20th century. But it wasn’t just about the music, as Neil Nixon points out in this month’s cover feature: the rise of Elvis paralleled the rise of all kinds of extra-musical weirdness, from mass hysteria and faith healing to UFOs and new religious movements. Presley’s life, of course, came to a premature end in 1977 – but that’s…

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