Graceland - in Pop Culture

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  • The title of Paul Simon's album Graceland and the title track was inspired by Elvis' home. The title song, which presents Graceland as a holy place, also won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year a year later. The song "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn and later Cher features Graceland prominently.
  • The film 3000 Miles to Graceland is about a group of criminals who plan to rob a casino during an international Elvis week, and to make it easier, they are all disguised as Elvis impersonators.
  • There is a movie Finding Graceland starring Harvey Keitel with Johnathon Schaech, as Kietel being a impersonator who claims to be the actual real Elvis after Schaech picks him up as a hitch-hiker trying to get a ride to Memphis.
  • In the ABC sitcom Modern Family, Graceland is mentioned in the Season Two episode "Mother Tucker." Phil Dunphy Ty Burell explains to another character that it is not an amusement park, but in fact the resting place of "The King" (Elvis).
  • In the second verse of "Walking in Memphis," Marc Cohn references Graceland and the Jungle Room.
  • While touring across the United States, the band members in the rock music "mockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap gather around Elvis Presley's grave at Graceland and sing a verse of "Heartbreak Hotel" a capella in three-part harmony.

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