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I took a road trip from Memphis to New Orleans and gained a new appreciation for Elvis Presley

🎸Damien Gabet for @iPaperTravel

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@iPaperTravel 🎞️ The King’s formative years are chronicled in a new biopic by Baz Luhrmann, with a sharp focus on the musical cradle in Memphis, Tennessee – and it features plenty of places that you can still visit today.

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@iPaperTravel 📍 🚘 Gabet went on a road trip through the Deep South to get under the skin of The King.

He rides shotgun in a ’55 Cadillac Fleetwood – Elvis’s favourite car – and starts his tour in the still-spinning Sun Studio to learn more about how The King of Rock ’n’ Roll came to be.

📍 🍳 After a calorie-bomb breakfast at the neon-fringed Arcade Diner – where Elvis would eat peanut butter and banana sandwiches – Gabet cruises down musical Beale Street, Memphis’s bluesy Broadway.

📍 🚘 For a proper pilgrimage, Graceland, the mansion that Elvis died in, is essential.

Its theme-park reception area does its best to raze the romance, but suffer that and you’ll be rewarded with a tour around the mad mansion over the road.

📍 🏠 Onwards, eastward and backwards – to Tupelo, Mississippi.

Here you can visit where Elvis was born. The two-room shack still stands and a museum documenting “Elvis the boy” surrounds it.

📍 🚘 Damien Gabet ends in New Orleans, where Elvis shot King Creole.

You can stroll through the antiquity of the French Quarter and bring some of the film’s most memorable scenes to life: singing from a cast-iron balcony on Royal Street and running from foes in Pirate’s Alley.

Read more about the road trip here ⬇️

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