Elvis at the Richmond Coliseum, April 10, 1972 (Elvis On Tour-MGM)

Elvis Presley performed 15 concerts in Richmond, Virginia, which also happens to be home of The Mystery Train Blog. The purpose of this evolving page is to document the time Elvis spent in Richmond.

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Richmond Concerts

Elvis on stage, Richmond Coliseum, April 10, 1972 (Elvis On Tour-MGM)

Richmond Venues

WRVA Theater

• Former location: 9th & Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219
• Opened in 1913
• Formerly known as Lyric Theater
• Home of Old Dominion Barn Dance radio program, broadcasting on AM 1140 WRVA
• Demolished in 1963

Mosque Theater
“One particular night in Richmond, Virginia, whoever booked me came on stage in the middle of my act and presented me with this scroll, and all these hundreds of names on it that were there. It read in the scroll that I had drawn the biggest crowd that had ever been to Richmond before in that particular auditorium, the Mosque Theater.”
–Elvis, March 1956

• Location: 6 North Laurel Street, Richmond, VA 23220
• Opened in 1927
• Now known as Landmark Theater
• Continues to host concerts and other events
• Official site

Richmond Coliseum

• Location: 601 East Leigh Street, Richmond, VA 23219
• Opened in 1971
• Continues to host concerts and other events
• Official site
• The paint was probably still fresh when Elvis first performed at the Coliseum less than eight months after its grand opening
• Today, the venue is in need of serious repair and may instead be torn down altogether

“You’re a fantastic audience, you really are. Until the next time here in Richmond, I’d like to wish you an affectionate adiós.”
–Elvis, March 1974

Elvis greets a fan as movie cameras roll for MGM's Elvis On Tour documentary, Richmond Coliseum, April 10, 1972

Related Links

• Posts related to Richmond, VA — The Mystery Train Blog
• REVIEW: Forty-Eight Hours To Memphis: Recorded Live On Stage In Richmond, Virginia – March 18, 1974 — The Mystery Train Blog
• Elvis at the Coliseum live in concert to be released — WTVR CBS 6
• The Mosque Theater, Richmond, VA — Scotty Moore Official Site
• The Mosque Theater Revisited — Scotty Moore Official Site
• Mosque Theater, Richmond, VA, June 30, 1956 — Elvis Australia
• The Wertheimer Collection (Official Site)
• Elvis At 21, Photographs By Alfred Wertheimer — Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition
• Elvis At 21 — Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
• Elvis fan shares unseen photo as new exhibit opens at VMFA — WTVR CBS 6
• The Lady and the King — Vanity Fair
• REVIEW: Elvis On Tour-75th Anniversary Celebration — The Mystery Train Blog
• Elvis On Tour Blu-ray & DVD trailer (2010)
• Vintage Richmond Blog
• WRVA Old Dominion Barn Dance — Hillbilly-Music dawt com

Research Sources

• Elvis Day By Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music by Peter Guralnick and Ernst Jorgensen, Ballantine Books, 1999.
• Elvis Presley: A Life In Music – The Complete Recording Sessions by Ernst Jorgensen, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1998.
• Elvis On Tour (Blu-ray Book) by Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Warner Home Video, Burbank, 2010.
• Elvis On Tour, dir. Pierre Adidge and Robert Abel, perf. Elvis Presley, 1972, Blu-ray Disc, Warner Home Video, Burbank, 2010.
• Elvis Presley In Concert
• 48 Hours To Memphis FTD 7″ CD Set : Newly Discovered : 16-track Stereo Recording — Elvis Australia
• 48 Hours To Memphis Soundboard Concert CD — Elvis Australia
• “The Complete Warwick Hotel Interview,” interview with Elvis Presley by Robert Carlton Brown, March 24, 1956, Young Man With The Big Beat: The Complete ’56 Elvis Presley Masters, CD, Disc 4, Track 17, Sony Music Entertainment, New York, 2011.
• Richmond Then & Now
• Scotty Moore Official Site
• Landmark Theater Official Site

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