Monthly Highlights Update: July 2024

It's July and so it now comes time to update our monthly highlights!

Last month, we celebrated the start of the 2024 European Championships, in Germany, by looking into three albums that provided the musical backdrop for England in previous tournaments. Combining football and music, as we so often do, June saw one of our most eclectic monthly highlights to date. We focused on "Different Class" by Pulp, for Euro 1996, The Streets' "A Grand Don't Come For Free" in 2004, and more recently, "Future Nostalgia" by Dua Lipa as the sound of the Euros in 2021.

This month, for July, we're getting back on track with the music, and where better to return to than the king of rock and roll himself. On July 5th 1954, a shy Mississippi teenager strolled into Sun recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee and cut two unbelievably raw and unpolished country tracks, "That's All Right" with B-side "Blue Moon of Kentucky." That teenager, was none other than Elvis Presley, and the tracks he recorded that day quite simply blew people away. The rest, as they say, is history.

So, seventy years on, we have decided to go all-out Elvis for July. We are focusing on three of the best albums from the extraordinary life and career of The King. Head on over to the homepage to check them out!