Last year's Elvis Presley box set was Memphis, devoted to the King's lengthy history with recording studios in the Tennessee city that became his home. Ahead of another annual Elvis Week at his Graceland estate, the next box set will trace his connections to a recording studio on the West Coast.

Sunset Boulevard, available August 1, is a 5CD set featuring Presley's work at RCA Records' Studio C in Hollywood - one of the more important studios he'd record in through his final recording years in the 1970s. Like Memphis before it, the set will feature new remixes by acclaimed engineer Matt Ross-Spang that will offer fresh remixes of familiar studio masters and rare outtakes. (A curation of those mixes will be pressed as a 2LP set.) The other half of the set finds Elvis and The TCB Band rehearsing for his legendary residencies in Las Vegas in 1970 and 1974. The box features rare archival photos and liner notes by Colin Escott, along with an introduction by Presley's friend and confidante Jerry Schilling. A listening event and Q&A will take place at Graceland's Guest House Theater during Elvis Week, the annual celebration held around the anniversary of Presley's passing. (The iconic singer would have turned 90 this past January.)

Elvis Presley, of course, had a long, long history with Hollywood, parlaying his hitmaking status in the '50s into a string of films that he increasingly tired of making. After his dramatic 1968 TV special (filmed for NBC at their Burbank studio) re-established him as a potent, commercially-viable performer, The King would largely split his time between Tennessee (cutting late-period classics at Memphis' American Sound and Stax studios and RCA's Studio B in Nashville) and marathon residencies at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, with regular national tours and killer live albums to boot. Elvis' first studio time at RCA's Studio C would happen on July 24, 1970, while he was prepping his second Vegas residency and being followed around by a documentary crew for the film That's the Way It Is. With his TCB Band - including lead guitarist James Burton, rhythm guitarists John Wilkinson and Charlie Hodge, keyboardist Glen D. Hardin, bassist Jerry Scheff and drummer Ronnie Tutt - Presley would run through songs for his set in a relaxed but commanding manner. (Similar rehearsals, shot at MGM's Culver City studio, would be included in That's the Way It Is.)

Presley would not book formal time at Studio C until 1972: short, intense sessions that typically only produced material for singles. Those singles, however, would become some of the best-known of this period: "Burning Love," a No. 2 scorcher, was the last Top 10 of his lifetime in 1972, and the deeply personal "Separate Ways" was a Top 20 follow-up. ("Separate Ways" also included the B-side "Always on My Mind," later a hit for Willie Nelson.) After another TCB rehearsal at the studio on August 16, 1974, Elvis' last session there - a breakneck three days in March 1975 - yielded the studio album Today, which included standouts like "T-R-O-U-B-L-E," Don McLean's "And I Love Her So," Billy Swan's "I Can Help" and "Green, Green Grass of Home," a favorite of Elvis' that was a hit for Tom Jones nearly a decade prior. By this point - with nearly two decades in the spotlight and the first signs of exhaustion, poor health and pharmaceutical dependency that would claim his life in just a few short years - Elvis was tired of stepping foot in any studio, and all his remaining sessions would be recorded by RCA's mobile truck set up in the "Jungle Room" of his Graceland mansion.

Sunset Boulevard will be available August 1 and can be pre-ordered below. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Sunset Boulevard (RCA/Legacy 19802 90551-2, 2025)

5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP (* included): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

CD 1: The Masters (newly remixed by Matt Ross-Spang)

1. Burning Love *
2. Always on My Mind *
3. Where Do I Go from Here
4. Separate Ways *
5. For the Good Times *
6. It's a Matter of Time *
7. Fool *
8. T-R-O-U-B-L-E *
9. And I Love You So
10. Susan When She Tried *
11. Woman Without Love *
12. Shake a Hand
13. Pieces of My Life *
14. Fairytale
15. I Can Help *
16. Bringin' It Back *
17. Green, Green Grass of Home

CD 2: Outtakes Highlights (newly remixed by Matt Ross-Spang)

1. Separate Ways - Take 25 *
2. For the Good Times - Take 3 *
3. Where Do I Go from Here - Take 2 *
4. Burning Love - Take 2 *
5. Fool - Take 1 *
6. Always on My Mind - Take 2 *
7. It's a Matter of Time - Takes 1-3
8. It's a Matter of Time - Take 4
9. Fairytale - Take 2 *
10. Green, Green Grass of Home - Takes 2 and 3 *
11. And I Love You So - Take 2 *
12. Susan When She Tried - Takes 1 and 2
13. T-R-O-U-B-L-E - Take 1 *
14. Tiger Man *
15. Shake a Hand - Take 2 *
16. Bringin' It Back - Takes 2 and 3
17. Pieces of My Life - Takes 2 and 3

CD 3-5: Rehearsals - July 24, 1970 (CD 3; CD 4, Tracks 1-12), August 16, 1974 (CD 4, Tracks 13-18; CD 5)

1. That's All Right
2. I Got a Woman
3. I Got a Woman
4. The Wonder of You
5. I've Lost You
6. The Next Step is Love
7. Stranger in the Crowd
8. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
9. Something
10. Don't Cry Daddy
11. Don't Cry Daddy
12. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
13. Polk Salad Annie
14. Bridge Over Troubled Water
15. I Can't Stop Loving You
16. Just Pretend
17. Sweet Caroline
18. Love Me Tender
19. Words
20. Suspicious Minds
21. I Just Can't Help Believin'
22. I Just Can't Help Believin'

1. Tomorrow Never Comes
2. Mary in the Morning
3. Twenty Days and Twenty Nights
4. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
5. Just Can't Help Believin'
6. Heart of Rome
7. Heart of Rome
8. Memories
9. Johnny B. Goode
10. Make the World Go Away
11. Stranger in My Own Home Town
12. I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water
13. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
14. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
15. Promised Land
16. Promised Land
17. Down in the Alley
18. Down in the Alley

1. It's Midnight
2. It's Midnight
3. Your Love's Been a Long Time Coming
4. Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
5. Softly As I Leave You
6. Softly As I Leave You
7. I'm Leavin'
8. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
9. Proud Mary
10. If You Talk In Your Sleep
11. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
12. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
13. The Twelfth of Never
14. Faded Love
15. Just Pretend

CD 1, Tracks 1 and 6 released as RCA Victor single 74-0769, 1972
CD 1, Tracks 2 and 4 released as RCA Victor single 74-0815, 1972
CD 1, Tracks 3 and 7 released on Elvis - RCA Victor APL1-0283, 1973
CD 1, Track 5 and Disc 2, Track 14 released on Walk a Mile in My Shoes - The Essential 70's Masters - RCA 07863 66670-2, 1995
CD 1, Tracks 8-17 released as Today - RCA Victor APL1-1039, 1975
CD 2, Track 1, 6 and 11 released on Platinum: A Life in Music - RCA 07863 67469-2, 1997
CD 2, Tracks 2, 4-5, 8, 10, 12-13 and 15-16 released on 6363 Sunset - Follow That Dream/RCA/BMG 74321 84214-2 (U.K.), 2001
CD 2, Tracks 3 and 7 released on Standing Room Only - Follow That Dream/RCA/Sony Music 88697 48444-2 (U.K.), 2009
CD 2, Track 9 released on Great Country Songs - RCA 07863 66880-2, 1996
CD 2, Track 17 released on Today - Follow That Dream/RCA/Sony BMG 82876 63927-2, 2005
CD 3 and CD 4, Tracks 1-12 released on Summer Festival 1970 (The Rehearsals) - Memphis Recording Service MRS10007070 (U.K.), 2021
CD 4, Tracks 13-18 and CD 5 released on From Sunset to Las Vegas - Follow That Dream/RCA/Sony Music 506020-975002 (U.K.), 2009