- Elvis Presley - History

Everything started on January 8, 1935, in tupelo (mississippi), a very poor area of the south of the united States. Elvis Aaron Presley lived in a small house with his mother and his father, a guy who changed the office all the time and even was jailed for forging a cheque when Elvis was three years old (because of that there was a relationship very special and very direct between he and his mother, to the point that some sensationalists came to talk about incest). In the '48 moved to Memphis, in search of better horizons. But they had to live from unemployment insurance: they were below the poverty line.

In July of '53, Elvis, who worked as a truck driver, went to the Memphis Recording Service, Sam Phillips, and, with the excuse of making a gift for his mother, he recorded an acetate -disc 78" - unique called My happiness. His true intent was to be heard by Philips, which on that day was not in the company. However, what I hear Marion Keisker, a secretary he insisted the owner of the recorder so that it complies to Elvis: Philips always said that "If I could find a white singer with the feeling of a black would be millionaire."

In January 1954 Elvis returned to the recorder to make two more topics. This time if I was Sam Philips, but nothing happened. Months passed, and in juloio Philips received a demo with the theme "without you", recorded by a black boy. He searched desperately but not finding it (at the suggestion of Marion Keisker) called "The boy of the pins). In its first hearing, Elvis may I introduce you to Sam Philips your material, and this recommended him to two musicians: Scotty Moore, and Bill Black; there was born what later would call "The Perfect Threesome". They started to rehearse, and in jun io '54 made a first formal session. But everything that Elvis did were country songs and ballads. Until the July 6, '64, Philips so intimate to make something good and new or to leave. That Night, Elvis begins to sing a song called "That's All Right Mama" with a feeling of black, gave a "rhythm" that at that time did not exist, which is what after is called Rock 'n' Roll.

It appeared the Colonel Tom Parker, his future manager, who took him to RCA Victor, with a pass record at the time of 35,000 Dollars, in 1956, Elvis stops being a regional phenomenon to be an international star. The formula that use the company to sell it in the United States was to make it act in television, where it showed that it was cent per cent sex (at least according to the patterns of the time: senator MC Carthy was reigning in Washington), from the way that it moved up the lyrics that she sang. The girls went crazy. It was a revolution that received a critical unfavorable of all the american press. Several conservative radios forbid it, and even in some states they came to organize the burning of his discs. Just made him a favor: The adolescents were identified with his Music. And in 1956 only, the record sales of Elvis was 10 per cent of the entire billing gross of the RCA Victor (who not only was driving disks, but also televisions, radios and all kinds of electronic devices).Elvis earned seven gold albums in the first year. For 50 weeks was number one in sales in the united States.

In the '58 was recruited. He spent two years in Germany. Elvis completed the circle: He was a rebel, but cute. When he came - in the '60s - their first four simple were all number one. There began a time where Elvis relaxed, as if he had lost the fire that led him to fame. From '61 to '67, He stop doing live performances and became a myth. The reunion with the public occurred recently in '68, in a special television. In '69, Elvis is back to the tours, which continued until the day he died. In total he made 1126 shows.

While in Argentina, Elvis had been wiped off the map from the '62 to '66. In a house of discs, was chock full of beatles records but nothing of Elvis. 11 LP, only published five, according to us, the fans, it was easier to impose the model Beatle (four guys with bangs and tie, they sang She loves you, I Want to have your hand) that sex and the freedom that showed Elvis, Too much for the moral half of argentina at the time. Took it as a threat against the system. Yes they showed their work, but also lightweight, movies. It is the image of Presley that had an entire generation. But it is not the best.

Could the end. With a declination - staff - that had already started in '72, when he separated from his wife, Priscilla Beaulieu. Already lived in his mansion, Graceland, now a museum. From there I leave to take care of. Helped by a doctor, I end up taking pills for everything (waking up, falling asleep, especially for weight loss). On his last night, August 16, 1977, Elvis went to the dentist, he went back at two in the morning to his house and played raquet ball with his girlfriend of turn (Ginger Alden) and another couple friend. I had pain in a wisdom tooth and the dentist had prescribed codeine, a drug that I could not take because I was allergic to. The cause of his death, according to the doctor, was cardiac arrhythmia (just could not say it was drug overdose: I Had to preserve the american dream). But it is known that he talked to his own doctor and asked him another soothing, that he received that night. However, when you did your autopsy, appeared codeine in a ratio of ten times greater than the lethal one and not the other drug. Were presented possibilities: o he was too drugged and it was wrong, or someone wanted to kill. Today, it no longer matters. What counts is his music.