MEMPHIS & THE KING OF ROCK 'N' ROLL
One of the positives of being in New York is that here the "New World", the mythical "America" is extremely close.
Indeed, wanting to be precise, it is under my feet (and in my All Star gold).
So I said to myself, why not take the opportunity to visit a bit 'this vast and fascinating continent where Chinese, Indians, Latinos, Italians, Irish and so on and so forth, live in a (mostly) peaceful and harmonious?
And so, like a good little DONNAVVENTURA, I started planning a few tours of the U.S. soil.
First stop: Memphis, Tennessee.
The home of Miley Cyrus and my idol: the King of rock 'n' roll, nientepocodimenoche Elvis the Pelvis (in the Memphis, of course).
To arrive at their destination, from Brooklyn, I took taxis, trains, air trains, buses and two planes.
But it was worth it, I assure you.
Memphis is a great city and it seems as if time, there has locked the '60s.
The streets are full of colorful vintage cars, billboards reproduce the style of the Swinging 60s, on Main Street the paving is in porphyry and the only means of transport allowed are delicious "Trolleys" of wood, just like the ones we are at Disneyland.
on buses the streets of the city and then you listen anytime, anywhere just rock & soul music.
Beale Street, the alley most famous, the one filled with local and motorcycles (Harley is the factory of a few hours from Memphis) beginning at 4 pm, every day, it becomes a huge and multifaceted set of the concert.
At that time, the road is closed to traffic, is filled with people, beer (apart from the Strip in Vegas, this is the only place all across the U.S. where you can drink in the street) and music by all kinds.
Jazz, soul, rock: every room has its own band and each input port comes out a sound so intense and exciting that you virtually forced to come in and go to see and hear.
The whole city revolves around music, because, apart from the legendary Elvis, even BB King, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash began their musical career in this city of antiquity.
So, a tour of Memphis respectable, can not include the Rock & Soul Museum, the factory of Gibson guitars, Sun Studios (where all these artists have recorded their first singles) and ça va sans say, the mythical aka Graceland home of Elvis, complete with custom airplanes (With seat belts 24 k gold - mica joke) and private stables.
experience and visits to local attractions are also, of course, American typically invigorating dall'imprescindibile tacky, and then, in virtually every corner, tourists looking for souvenirs kitchissimo can find some memorabilia to take home.
For example I bought (from Schwab, a store that is unbelievable in Beale Street since 1876) a ball of plastic with glitter and Elvis for my mom to hologram postcards to my friends and beautiful cups with big face the King for my brother and my boyfriend.
For me, however, a beautiful t-shirt that says "I love Elvis."
All great stuff great class, as you probably imagined.
But, once again, resist the music and the glitter is virtually impossible.
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