Elvis Presley’s iconic guitar up for grabs

Elvis Presley fans will have a chance to claim a bit of musical history when a guitar used during an iconic performance by the king of rock ‘n’ roll goes up for grabs later this month.

Kruse GWS Auctions is putting Presley’s flaming red Hagstrom Viking II guitar on the block.

The instrument was used by Presley during his nationally televised 1968 “Comeback Special”, after the star had devoted much of the previous seven years to his movie career.

The eye-catching instrument was also featured on the cover of the From Elvis in Memphis album in 1969. Presley, who died in 1977, has sold over one billion records worldwide.

According to the auctioneers, the guitar has not been offered for auction since the 1990s and the starting price has been set at $250,000.

The Spirit Untamed animation

Universal and DreamWorks’ animated Spirit Untamed has added Jake Gyllenhaal, Julianne Moore, Isabela Merced and more to its voice cast.

Spirit Untamed is the follow-up to the 2002 Oscar-nominated Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron.

Elaine Bogan directs the film, which is an epic adventure about a headstrong girl longing for a place to belong, who discovers a kindred spirit when her life intersects with a wild horse.

Spirit Untamed comes from DreamWorks and will be released by Universal on June 4. The trailer is set to Taylor Swift’s “Wildest Dreams,” but specifically the new version of Swift’s track that she recently re-recorded.

A research station on the moon

Leaders of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and Roscosmos, Russia’s federal space agency, signed a memorandum of understanding on the construction of a moon outpost called the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS).

“The ILRS is a comprehensive scientific experiment base with the capability of long-term autonomous operation, built on the lunar surface and/or [in] lunar orbit, that will carry out multi-disciplinary and multi-objective scientific research activities such as lunar exploration and utilisation, lunar-based observation, basic scientific experiment[s] and technical verification,” CNSA officials wrote in an announcement.

Published in Dawn, Young World, March 27th, 2021