Elvis Presley’s hair strand fetches £1,055 at auction

November 13th, 2009 ELVIS PRESLEY will celebrate his birthday from beyond the grave - a new career-spanning album is to be released to mark his 75th year. The three-CD pack, titled Elvis 75, will contain 75 songs - one for each year since The King was born.

November 9th, 2009 LONDON - A strand of hair Elvis Presley's hair saved by his barber will soon be up for grabs at an auction. Homer Gill Gilleland, who trotted the globe with the King of Rock n Roll for more than 20 years, gave the precious lock to Thomas Morgan Jnr in 2002, reports the Daily Star.

October 19th, 2009 LONDON - A large tuft of Elvis Presley's hair, bought by a devoted fan for 18,300 dollars, was among 150 items that went under the hammer at Chicago's Leslie Hindman auctioneers. The hair is believed to have been cut from the King of Rock 'n' Roll's head when he joined the army.

October 14th, 2009 LONDON - Hair salvaged from late pop legend Michael Jackson's scalp after he was burned during the filming of a Pepsi commercial is to be sold at an auction. The King of Pop's mane was famously set alight by pyrotechnics in the 1984 accident, leaving him with second degree burns but his fire-damaged locks were collected by the executive producer of the commercial, Ralph Cohen, who helped rescue the star by extinguishing the blaze with his coat, reports thesun.co.uk.

October 13th, 2009 LONDON - Elvis Presley's sprawling Mississippi ranch is up for grabs. Presley's 154.5-acre ranch in Horn Lake, Mississippi, is up for sale at a price tag of 6.5 million dollars.

October 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - Supermodel Stephanie Seymour's 1992 photo snapped by famous photographer Richard Avedon has been auctioned off for a whopping 46875 dollars. The portrait fetched more than the speculated price of 20000 to 30000 dollars, at the Sotheby's auction house.

October 9th, 2009 LONDON - American Rock 'n' Roll star Elvis Presley's hair will be auctioned later this month. The hair is being sold as part of a collection of Presley memorabilia that includes signed records, photos and clothing.

October 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A clump of Elvis Presley's hair will soon be auctioned and is expected to fetch up to 12,000 dollars. A friend of The King of Rock 'n' Roll had preserved the locks since 1958 after Presley enlisted in the U.S.

October 7th, 2009 LONDON - Benjamin Presley, grandson of American Rock 'n' Roll star Elvis Presley, has landed a record deal worth $5 million with Universal. The teenager says his compositions will be different from his grandpa's music.

October 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Elvis Presley's teenage grandson Benjamin has a reported offer of five million dollars to come out with up to five albums. Universal was said to have laid the papers for the 17-year-old, whose legendary grandfather died 15 years before he was born.

September 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Veteran Welsh singer Tom Jones has revealed that he was once stunned to find Elvis Presley's gun in his dressing room lavatory. He says that he found the silver-plated Colt .45 automatic pistol on his toilet cistern, after Presley had used the bathroom.

September 17th, 2009 LONDON - Jay-Z may soon become the solo artist with the most chart-toppers in US chart history beating King of Rock 'n' Roll Elvis Presley. The rap star's new album 'Blueprint 3' might as well be his 11th American number one album, which will take him past the late 'Jailhouse Rock' hitmaker's record of 10 number ones.

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - A jewelled glove once worn by Michael Jackson has fetched 49,000 dollars at an auction in Melbourne. The late King of Pop threw the crystal-encrusted white glove into a crowd after a film premiere, while visiting Australia in 1996.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - The black cape worn by Sir Christopher Lee in the 1958 hit Dracula sold at an auction for 26,400 pounds. Angels The Costumiers sold the woollen cape, which has 250 lots of film and TV costumes in its archive.

May 28th, 2009 LONDON - Rock and roll legend Elvis Presley's old pill bottles are going into a Las Vegas auction, as part of a rare showbiz memorabilia. The bottles will be bid alongside a store card belonging to Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroes mirror as well as more than 150 other items from Monroe' final home in Brentwood, California including furniture, clothing, and rare photographs, reports femalefirst.co.uk.