All right. I always has left the building.

Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone, music now.

Got a really packed episode for you today and is all inspired by the number one movie at the box office right now.

Elvis. We're going to talk a little bit about the real Elvis Presley and about the movie as well.

To do so, first of all I I have an absolute legend joining us.

Mike Stower of the Leiber and Stower songwriting team.

His collaborator, Jerry Leiber, died back in 2011,

but together these two guys wrote Kansas City. They wrote Smoky Dose Cafe, they wrote of course Hounddog, as we will discuss in great detail.

You're so square, baby, I don't care.

Yackity Yack. A million songs for Elvis, from Trouble to King Creole.

There goes my baby for the drifter stand by me for Benny King on Broadway by the drifters.

Just an endless list of classic songs.

I'm so happy to have him. Then we'll be talking with

David Fear about Baz Lerman's movie and after that we have a great interview with

the singer-songwriter Yola who plays the key Elvis influence sister Rosetta Tharp in the Elvis movie.

That interview was conducted by Rolling Stone News correspondent Delissa Shannon and is a great reminder

of the importance of black women in particular to the formation of Elvis's sound.

But let's start with Mike Stolm.

So Mike, you got a chance to see the new Elvis movie at a screening hosted by

Priscilla Presley actually is someone who knew and worked with Elvis and the

Colonel. What did you make of the whole thing? Well you know it's a movie and I loved it. I thought it was a wonderful movie.

Frankly, a little over the top, but I think that's Boz-Lerman's is always a little over the top and so was Colonel Parker. So I see them being jointly

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