Elvis Presley

Name: Elvis Presley
Date of Birth: January 08, 1935
Place of Birth: Tupelo, Mississippi, USA

Biography: Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" or simply "The King", was an American singer and actor. He is regarded b...( read more

)y many to be the greatest entertainer of the 20th century. (Presley's birth certificate uses the spelling Aron, but his estate has designated Aaron as the official spelling of his middle name.)

Presley admired the style of James Dean and Tony Curtis and returned from the military eager to make a career as a movie star. Although "he was definitely not the most talented actor around", he "became a film genre of his own." Pop film staples of the early sixties, such as the Presley musicals and the AIP beach movies were mainly produced for a teenage audience and called by film critics a "pantheon of bad taste". In the sixties, at Colonel Parker's command, Presley withdrew from concerts and television appearances, after his final appearance with Frank Sinatra on NBC entitled "Welcome Home Elvis" where he sang "Witchcraft/Love Me Tender" with Sinatra, in order to make these movies. "He blamed his fading popularity on his humdrum movies," Priscilla Presley recalled in her 1985 autobiography, Elvis and Me. "He loathed their stock plots and short shooting schedules. He could have demanded better, more substantial scripts but he didn't." According to most critics, the scripts of the movies "were all the same, the songs progressively worse." The latter were "written on order by men who never really understood Elvis or rock and roll." For Blue Hawaii and its soundtrack LP, "fourteen songs were cut in just three days." Julie Parrish, starring in Paradise, Hawaiian Style, says that Presley hated such songs and that he "couldn't stop laughing while he was recording" one of them.

Although some film critics chastised these movies for their lack of depth, the fans turned out and they were enormously profitable. According to Jerry Hopkins's book, Elvis in Hawaii, Presley's "pretty-as-a-postcard movies" even "boosted the new state's (Hawaii) tourism. Some of his most enduring and popular songs came from those movies." Altogether, Presley had made 27 movies during the 1960s, "which had grossed about $130 million, and he had sold a hundred million records, which had made $150 million." Overall, he was one of the highest paid Hollywood actors during the 1960s.

On August 16, 1977, Presley was found dead at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.

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ash6986

Elvis rocks!!

posted 4 days ago
littlejenny21

wo wo wo
hold on here u lot arnt tellin me that ur talking to yes a cool person
BUT A DEAD ONE
plz ur all sad
THE LOT OF YA

posted 55 days ago
angelgurl1972

his just the best there is no1 is as gud as elvis his the king of rock n roll

posted 78 days ago
pwarren82

the true king of rock n roll. Just listen to him each and every day

posted 134 days ago
tinksrocks1

I LOVE ELVIS

posted 135 days ago
Jc4ever11

elvis you rock!

posted 139 days ago
MorpheusOne

Let me try and make this clear! I don't hate Elvis, I'm just not a fan. Soo, as someone who can stand back and view his career without a biased point of view it has been wildly & excrutiatingly clear for a long time now that Elvis Presley is the most overated human being in the history of western civilization, dead or alive!

Some could say he could sing, some say he could dance, some even say that he could act, well there was a lot of ppl who could do that back in the 1950's and they did it BETTER than Elvis ever could! Elvis had something back in then that certain ppl gave a damn about & some still do. He was white, native american heritage (Cherokee) be damned, as most ppl never knew about his real heritage!

He's overated ppl, get over it!

posted 147 days ago
georgiabrackpool

i love elvis he rocks coz hes king of rock' n roll forever and ever I LOVE ELVIS PRESLEY!!
my dad's a big fan of elvis hes got all this movies and all hes erm... cd's.
and im a big fan of elvis foreva and ever

xxgeorgiaxx

posted 167 days ago
terryc1000

I simply couldn't just pass by this post and not say anything. What is there left to say out there about a man who changed American history forever. He was the pioneer of rock and roll. Sure there were others struggling to make it at the same time, but none of them had the ambition, the drive or the super talent of this one man. He paid the dues for all rockin rollers. He paved the way. There are many impersonators out there that are very good, but it's like saying that a cz is a real diamond. Some people do not like his movies. Watch them again and just look at his acting. Nothing else and you will see the real talent. Now one else could have pulled off those movies but him. I had the chance to meet him 3 times in my life, including and invitation to stay at Graceland for week but they sadly, were near misses. He still lives in my heart and always will.

posted 169 days ago
simnic78

Happy Birthday Elvis!

posted 199 days ago