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Remembering Elvis Presley, born on this day in 1935.
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Elvis Presley
(Tupelo, United States, 1935 – Memphis, id., 1977) rock and roll American singer and actor. Born into a modest family, young Elvis Presley was forced to work from an early age. At the age of eleven, and at his insistence, his parents gave him his first guitar.
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In 1948, his family moved to Memphis, one of the centers of musical activity in the country. When Elvis was barely nineteen years old, producer Sam Phillips, owner of Sun Records, decided to release a single for him that contained the songs That’s All Right and Blue Moon of Kentucky . This first attempt opened the doors of a country music radio program, Louisiana Hayride, with a broadcast range that included thirteen states.
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In 1955, with his popularity on the rise, Elvis Presley signed with the RCA record label. 1956 was a key year for Elvis’s career, thanks to the song Heartbreak Hotel , which sold three hundred thousand copies in three weeks and ended up being the first of his gold records. He also released his first album, titled Elvis Presley , which sold one million copies, and made a seven-year commitment to the Paramount film studios, eager to hire an emerging youth idol who was already causing attacks of hysteria among the audience. to their concerts.
His television appearances began to be common, and the amounts earned from them reached record figures in history. of the middle. Parallel to his unstoppable rise to global fame, some conservative sectors of American society strongly opposed tenacity of both the character and his music, which they called perverted and immoral, particularly as a result of his famous hip movement, whose The impact was so immediate that the singer received the nickname Elvis Pelvis .
, the first film starring Elvis Presley, premiered in New York with great success on November 16 As a culmination of the meteoric year of 1956, Love Me Tender , and the Wall Street Journal dedicated an article to it highlighting the $22 million. that the merchandising associated with his image had raised until that moment.
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In March 1957 he acquired the Graceland mansion in the city of Memphis, which would eventually become a place of pilgrimage for his countless admirers. In 1958, at the height of his career, he was drafted into the army and assigned to West Berlin, where he met Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, whom he would marry nine years later.
Elvis Presley graduated in March 1960 and immediately resumed his artistic activity, stringing together a long series of number one hits on the American charts with titles like It’s now or never or Are you lonely tonight? and star in no less than ten films, including Girls, girls, girls (Girls, girls, girls, 1962) and Viva Las Vegas (1964).
In the second half of the decade the so-called “British Invasion” began, starring groups like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones ; This led to a certain erosion in the singer’s popularity, aggravated by an apparent artistic crisis that lasted until 1968, when he was offered to star in a television special that became one of the biggest hits in the history of the small screen.
The early 1970s, however, meant a new creative slump for Elvis Presley, aggravated by his drug addiction and confinement in his private fantasy world that became his Graceland mansion. In 1973 he divorced Priscilla Beaulieu and his image acquired the clearly excessive tone that characterized his last appearances: exaggerated pompadour, overweight and white leather suits with rhinestones.
After falling unconscious on stage several times, he officially died of a heart attack, undoubtedly a consequence of his excesses. Despite his accelerated decline, Elvis Presley has become an icon of the 20th century and one of the most relevant figures in the history of popular music, as attested to by his more than one hundred gold, platinum and multi-platinum records.
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[00:00:00] – 01. B̲u̲̲rni̲̲ng L̲o̲̲ve̲̲ [00:02:52] – 02. C̲a̲̲n’t H̲e̲̲lp F̲a̲̲lli̲̲ng I̲̲̲n L̲o̲̲ve̲̲ [00:05:49] – 03. S̲u̲̲spi̲̲ci̲̲o̲̲u̲̲s M̲i̲̲nds [00:10:17] – 04. A̲̲̲lwa̲̲ys O̲̲̲n M̲y M̲i̲̲nd [00:13:56] – 05. T̲re̲̲a̲̲t M̲e̲̲ N̲i̲̲ce̲̲ [00:16:10] – 06. H̲a̲̲ve̲̲ I̲̲̲ T̲o̲̲ld Y̲o̲̲u̲̲ [00:20:06] – 07. S̲u̲̲ch A̲̲̲ N̲i̲̲ght [00:27:06] – 08. C̲’mo̲̲n E̲̲̲ve̲̲rybo̲̲dy [00:30:24] – 09. H̲e̲̲a̲̲rtbre̲̲a̲̲k H̲o̲̲te̲̲l [00:32:14] – 10. H̲i̲̲s L̲a̲̲te̲̲st F̲la̲̲me̲̲ [00:35:57] – 11. H̲i̲̲s L̲a̲̲te̲̲st F̲la̲̲me̲̲