Priscilla Presley calls Beale Street site ‘hallowed ground’
Priscilla Presley attends a press conference announcing the new J.W. and Kathy Gibson Center of Memphis Music in the former Hard Rock location at Second Avenue and Beale Street on Thursday, March 28, 2024. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Presley was on hand for the announcement regarding the former Hard Rock Cafe site, which will house the Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum and Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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