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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century. Presley's energetic and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a mixture of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and initial controversy.
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Born 8 January 1935 · Died 16 August 1977 · Q303
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“he was so afraid that he wouldn”
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“was taking care of the whole entourage. There were about 150 people I took care of. You had a couple of bands. You had the songbirds. You had the people that set up the stage... And all these people were night people, too.”
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“My wife still calls me George.”
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“I just wanted to put all this behind me and go on with my life.”
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“his parents bought him this house next door so he could be close to me - 10, 20 years ago.”
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The Commercial Appeal: Elvis Presley's death on historic newspaper front pages across U.S.
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Yahoo: The year Elvis changed entertainment takes center stage at Graceland
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Yahoo: Suzi Quatro Reveals Elvis Presley Invited Her to Graceland in 1974—But She Declined
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Robb Report: Inside Elvis Presley’s Legendary Property Portfolio
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El Sol de México: Erick David rendirá tributo a Elvis Presley y Alberto Vázquez con un show lleno de clásicos
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Hoy Digital: Elvis Presley, leyenda del rock
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Public attention spiked: 40,477 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 12,526, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Undid revision 1360675595 by Mypc252wastaken (talk) page still needed
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Snopes rated the claim “Elvis Presley stopped a Sept. 15, 1975, performance to meet a dying 7-year-old boy.” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A real drawing created by a 12-year-old Jimi Hendrix depicts Elvis Presley, who Hendrix had seen perform live in concert.” Mostly True.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A image accurately depicts Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley photographed together.” Fake.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows a 12-year-old Madonna getting an autograph from Elvis Presley in 1970.” False.
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Baz Luhrmann's film Elvis, a biographical film about Presley's life, was released
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Snopes rated the claim “In 1975, Elvis Presley gave a young blind girl $50,000 and a concert ticket — plus travel expenses — to every one of his upcoming shows.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Elvis Presley’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Nancy J. Burdine, was Jewish.” True.
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FACTLY rated the claim “The granddaughter of Elvis Presley singing ‘It’s Now or Never’.” FALSE.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “The body of a homeless man found in San Diego is identified as Elvis Presley” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows a prescription for several stimulants, sedatives, and narcotic painkillers issued to singer Elvis Presley the day before he died.” False.
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Donald Trump (2018).
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RCA/Legacy released Elvis Presley—Where No One Stands Alone, a new album focused on Presley's love of gospel music
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President Donald Trump awarded Presley the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously
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Presley was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Joyce Rochelle Vaughn, who investigated the alleged remark since 1997, stated in her book Thirty Pieces of Silver: The Betrayal of Elvis Presley that the alleged racist comment was in fact started by white people involve
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Snopes.com rated the claim “The body of a homeless man found in San Diego has been identified as that of Elvis Presley.” False.
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And 2016, two albums setting Presley's vocals against music by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, If I Can Dream and The Wonder of You, both reached number one in the UK
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The spider Paradonea presleyi was named in his honor
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Awarded honorary citizen of Budapest (2011).
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Released album “Christmas With Elvis Presley”.
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RCA issued a virtually complete disc of the event, in best-ever quality
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Returned to the top spot the next two years, and ranked fourth in 2009
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Forbes magazine named Presley the top-earning deceased celebrity for the fifth straight year, with a gross income of $45 million
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Another three reissued singles, "Jailhouse Rock", "One Night"/"I Got Stung", and "It's Now or Never", went to number one in the UK
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A remix of "Rubberneckin'", a 1969 recording, topped the US sales chart, as did a 50th-anniversary re-release of "That's All Right" the following year
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Elvis Presley's backup singers walked out on a concert after he remarked that their breath "smelled like catfish."” True.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A musician for whom a young Elvis Presley auditioned advised him to "stick to driving a truck, because you'll never make it as a singer."” True.
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The Presley autopsy report was reopened
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Released album “Gold Collection Vol. 3”.
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Released album “Gold Collection Vol. 1”.
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Released album “Gold Collection Vol. 2”.
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Received the American Music Awards' Award of Merit
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986).
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Released album “Sweet Songs”.
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Released album “Elvis’ Gold Records, Volume 5”.
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Released album “Rocker”.
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Released album “I Can Help”.
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Released album “32 Film-Hits,Vol 1”.
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Released album “Merry Christmas”.
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Released album “Elvis, Scotty and Bill: In the Beginning”.
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Released album “A Legendary Performer, Volume 4”.
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Released album “Elvis Sings Inspirational Favorites”.
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Released album “Elvis Forever: 32 Hits”.
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Released album “His Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Love Songs”.
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Released album “The Complete Bonus Songs”.
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Released album “Elvis Presley (La grande storia del rock)”.
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Released album “Memories of Christmas”.
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Released album “By Request”.
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Released album “Historia de la música rock - 26”.
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Released album “Suspicious Minds”.
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Released album “Guitar Man”.
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Released album “The History of Rock, Volume One”.
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Released album “Always on My Mind”.
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Released album “Inspirations”.
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Released album “Country Classics”.
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Released album “Elvis Presley”.
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19794 items
Forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht reviewed the reports and concluded that a combination of depressants had resulted in Presley's accidental death
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Released album “Our Memories of Elvis, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Welcome to My World”.
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Released album “The King...Elvis”.
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Released album “A Legendary Performer, Volume 3”.
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Released album “He Walks Beside Me: Favorite Songs of Faith and Inspiration”.
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Released album “From Elvis With Love”.
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Released album “Elvis Sings For Children And Grownups Too!”.
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Presley was scheduled for an evening flight from Memphis to Portland, Maine, to begin another tour
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Died 1977-08-16.
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Released album “Double Dynamite”.
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“The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, "What'd I do? What'd I do?" And he said, "Whatever it is, go back and do it again.”
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“(en) The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, "What'd I do? What'd I do?" And he said, "Whatever it is, go back and do it again.”
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Released album “C’mon Everybody”.
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Released album “Moody Blue”.
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Vernon Presley—who had become deeply involved in his son's financial affairs—had fired "Memphis Mafia" bodyguards Red West (Presley's friend since the 1950s), Sonny West, and David Hebler, citing the need to "cut back on
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Released album “From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee”.
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Released album “Blue Christmas”.
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Released album “A Legendary Performer, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Elvis in Hollywood”.
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Released album “Les 40 Plus Grands Succes Originaux”.
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Released album “Disque D’or / “Pure Gold””.
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RCA sent a mobile recording unit to Graceland that made possible two full-scale recording sessions, but the recording process had become a struggle for him
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Released album “Today”.
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Released album “Easy Come, Easy Go”.
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Released album “20 Fantastic Hits”.
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Released album “The Sun Sessions”.
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Released album “Promised Land”.
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Released album “Pure Gold”.
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Released album “Elvis Forever”.
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Released album “Solid Rocks”.
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Released album “40 Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Good Times”.
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Released album “A Legendary Performer, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Raised on Rock / For Ol’ Times Sake”.
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Released album “A Portrait in Music”.
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Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the world, Aloha from Hawaii
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Released album “Separate Ways”.
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Released album “Rock ’n’ On, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Elvis”.
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Released album “Burning Love and Hits From His Movies”.
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Released album “He Touched Me”.
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Released album “Elvis Now”.
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Released album “Sings Hits From His Movies”.
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Released album “Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas”.
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Released album “I Got Lucky”.
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Released album “The Other Sides: Worldwide Gold Award Hits, Volume 2”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1971).
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Released album “Love Letters From Elvis”.
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Released album “Elvis Country: I’m 10,000 Years Old”.
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An affair he had with Joyce Bova resulted—unbeknownst to him—in her pregnancy and an abortion
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Released album “You’ll Never Walk Alone”.
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Presley engineered a meeting with US President Richard Nixon at the White House, where he explained how he believed he could reach out to the hippies to help combat the drug culture he and the president abhorred
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Released album “That’s the Way It Is”.
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Released album “Almost in Love”.
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Released album “Let’s Be Friends”.
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For the first of the year's two-month-long engagements, performing two shows a night
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Released album “Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits, Vol. 1”.
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Released album “Please Don’t Stop Loving Me”.
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19693 items
Released album “Back in Memphis”.
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Released album “From Elvis in Memphis”.
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Released album “Elvis Sings Flaming Star”.
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19684 items
During a period when he had grown deeply unhappy with his career
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Released album “Elvis’ Gold Records Volume 4”.
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Released album “The Rockin' Days”.
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Returned to the stage in the acclaimed NBC television comeback special Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and several highly profitable tours
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19672 items
In a brief ceremony in their suite at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas
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Released album “How Great Thou Art”.
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Released album “Elvis for Everyone!”.
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Released album “Elvis’ Golden Records, Volume 3”.
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Released album “Pot Luck”.
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Released album “Something for Everybody”.
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Released album “His Hand in Mine”.
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Released album “Elvis Is Back!”.
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And was honorably discharged three days later
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Presley continued to perform rock and roll, but the characteristic style was substantially toned down
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19594 items
Released album “50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong: Elvis’ Gold Records, Volume 2”.
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Released album “A Date With Elvis”.
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Released album “For LP Fans Only”.
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Sight and Sound's Peter John Dyer described his onscreen persona as "aggressively bisexual in appeal"
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Presley was assigned to the 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32d Armor, 3d Armored Division, at Ray Barracks, West Germany, where he served as an armor intelligence specialist
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Presley was drafted into the United States Army at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas
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Released album “Elvis’ Golden Records”.
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Relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work
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And "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" and the number-one "A Big Hunk o' Love" in 1959
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19573 items
Released album “Elvis’ Christmas Album”.
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Released album “The Best of Elvis”.
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His first gospel record was released, the four-song EP Peace in the Valley
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Released album “Rock ’n’ Roll”.
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Was seen by approximately 60 million viewers—a record 82
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Presley made his first recordings for RCA Victor in Nashville
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Recalled how in his childhood he would listen to blues musician Arthur Crudup—the originator of "That's All Right"—"bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel all old Arthu
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Transformed the field of popular music and had a huge effect on the broader scope of popular culture
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With Elvis Presley's first release, on the Sun label", writes Craig Morrison
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At Sun Records with the producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience
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For blues singer Big Mama Thornton by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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Presley checked into Memphis Recording Service, the company run by Sam Phillips before he started Sun Records
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Singing and playing "Till I Waltz Again with You", a song by Teresa Brewer
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Studied at Humes Preparatory Academy Middle School (1953).
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Presley began practicing guitar under the tutelage of Lee Denson, a neighbor
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When he was 10; he sang "Old Shep" and recalled placing fifth
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Lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of altering a check and was jailed for eight months
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Born 1935-01-08.
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In Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Love (née Smith) and Vernon Presley
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Awarded Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
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Awarded Grammy Awards.
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Career landmark: death of Elvis Presley.
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Career landmark: conscription.
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