Blues , Blue Hawaii , Girls! Wild in the Country , based on the J. Salamanca novel The Lost Country, marked his debut in a straight dramatic role. Elvis began a well-publicized stint in the army in That year, while he was stationed in Fort Hood, Texas, his mother died.
The remainder of his military service was spent stationed in Germany, until his discharge release in It was in Germany that he met Priscilla Beaulieu — , his future wife.
Elvis's success in the entertainment industry was accompanied by numerous failures in his personal life. He arranged to have Priscilla, still a teenager, live at his new Memphis home, Graceland Mansion, while she finished high school there.
He married her in , and she bore him his only child, Lisa Marie Presley, in In he and Priscilla were divorced. During this time, and for his entire career, his personal manager, Tom Parker, controlled his finances. As Elvis's millions grew, so too did the mismanagement of Parker, a known gambler.
Parker was later prosecuted for his financial dealings, but he was acquitted proven innocent. This caused frequent legal battles during and after his lifetime among his management people and several record companies.
Elvis had similar luck with his friendships, and frequently surrounded himself with a gang of thugs to shield him from an adoring public. A weight problem became evident in the late s, and in private Elvis became increasingly dependent on drugs, particularly amphetamines and sedatives. His personal doctor, George Nichopoulos, would later be prosecuted, but acquitted, for prescribing and dispensing thousands of pills and narcotics illegal drugs to him.
Though Elvis's weight and drug dependency were increasing, Elvis continued a steady flow of concert performances in sold-out arenas well into the s. The official cause of death was heart disease, although information revealed after his death about his drug dependency created a media event.
His death caused worldwide scenes of mourning. Elvis continues to be celebrated as superstar and legend as much in death as he was in life. Presley became the first-ever inductee into three music halls of fame when it was announced that he would be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame on November 27, , in Nashville, Tennessee.
Gordon, Robert. The Elvis Treasures. After moving to Memphis as a teenager, his family had only been off welfare a few weeks when he was discovered by music producer Sam Phillips, according to a Britannica biography. Read More. Elvis had a twin brother, Jessie Garon, who was born stillborn, according to the official Elvis Presley website.
Elvis would frequently talk about his twin in his adult years. Before his career in music took off, Elvis was a truck driver for an electric company while attending night school where he studied to be an electrician.
He is credited as a co-writer of " I'll You'll Be Gone" It is found in his five-CD box set of '60s recordings. Elvis composed the lyrics and brought the song to a recording session. With a lot of entertainers making a living mimicking Elvis, Jimmy Buffett wrote a song called "Elvis Imitators" making mention of a few of Elvis' films, song titles, and mannerisms.
Has sold 1. He was discovered by Sun Records owner Sam Phillips. On Thursday, November 11th, , he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame for his outstanding contribution to British music and integral part of British music culture. In he wrote to J. Edgar Hoover requesting to join the FBI at the height of its campaign against political protests in the United States.
Met President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House in He did an early '60s concert in Hawaii, and donated the proceeds to help build the USS Arizona memorial. After his concert in Hawaii in , Presley concentrated on making movies and did not perform before a live audience again for seven years until his TV special and subsequent return to Las Vegas in He was voted best singer of all time by Q Magazine. As a young man, Elvis idolized a gospel group called The Statesmen. According to Elvis' backup singer and lifelong friend Joe Moscheo , Elvis' leg-twitching dance moves were inspired by The Statesmen's bass singer, "Big Chief" Wetherington, who was famous for his leg twitching.
Between he performed only two concerts and made just two television appearances. In he ceased almost completely to record non-soundtrack songs until his album "From Elvis in Memphis". In July of , Presley was named one of the top "Greatest Americans," following a vote organized by Discovery Channel.
His records have spent a total of 79 weeks at the 1 position on the US charts. His records have spent 2, weeks in both the UK singles and album charts, were and still are way ahead of his closest competitors Cliff Richard 1, , Queen 1, , The Beatles 1, and Madonna 1, In Alexandria, Louisiana, early in a local journalist complained that the singer was on stage for less than an hour and "was impossible to understand.
He was unable to get out of his hotel bed and the rest of the tour was canceled. Robbie Williams dedicated his song "Advertising Space" to him. He is also listed in the writer's credits to "Heartbreak Hotel".
Brando personally strongly disliked Presley. He was mentioned in Walter Kirn 's novel, "Thumbsucker". Was a fan of actors Peter Sellers and Tony Curtis. Was the first entertainer to introduce karate in an American motion picture Flaming Star While he never joined any political party, his political views were somewhat mixed. During the early s he was an outspoken admirer of liberal President John F. He later confessed to "weeping openly" at the news of Kennedy's death.
Later in life, however, he made a more conservative move on the political spectrum. He began singing the praises of President Richard Nixon , and his right-wing streak culminated in a visit to the White House in December During the visit, Presley was photographed giving the President a handgun, which was for security reasons presented but not given.
Presley spoke of his admiration for Nixon, revealed his disgust at the hippie counterculture, spoke disparagingly of The Beatles he said that having earned their money in America, they had then left for England to promote "anti-American" feelings , fervently expressed his patriotism, offered to infiltrate and go undercover in left-wing hippie groups, asked to be appointed a federal narcotics agent, and even hugged the president twice. Nixon, for his part, was not sure if Presley was serious or not, but granted his request and made him an honorary federal agent.
Nixon said he was equally parts bewildered and amused by the encounter, thanked Presley for his support, and the picture of the duo has become one of the most famous photos taken in the White House. On Presley's death in , the former president asked Americans to lower their flags all over the country as a mark of respect. Elvis was a good friend of Johnny Cash , going back to their Sun Records' days recordings, after being discovered by Sam Phillips.
Voted the third greatest singer of the rock era in a Rolling Stone magazine poll in Moore acted as Elvis' first manager. Black in the late '40s was a member of Gene Krupa 's band and later had a successful recording career with Bill Black's Combo.
The last song he sang was "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain", at home, and playing the piano, to family and friends, Monday evening, August 15th, In while working as an usher in a local Memphis movie theater he sang, by request, "That's Amore" on stage. The trip to New York City for the audition was not a complete loss for Elvis.
That same day he went uptown to see Bo Diddley , who was appearing at The Apollo. This film has yet to be released. It is still reportedly the property of Polygram International and in the Universal vault. His funeral procession on August 18, , consisted of 49 cars led by 11 white Cadillacs--Cadillac was his favorite car.
His live performance of "My Way" done early in his tour and featured on his October TV special was a million-selling single following his death.
Four grandchildren: Riley Keough b. May 29, , Benjamin Keough b. October 7, During his year association with RCA Records , the only year he failed to have a single in the Billboard Top Pop 20 was Owned a collection of Andy Kaufman tapes. During the s he had 28 singles reach the top 40 on the Billboard Hot chart.
Posthumously, he had a 1 single on the Hot in with the remix of "A Little Less Conversation". Both his father Vernon Presley and grandmother Minnie Mae outlived him. Vernon died in at age 63 and Minnie Mae died in at age Elvis' Aunt Delta Vernon's sister continued to live on the Graceland estate until her death on July 29, , eleven years after Priscilla opened it to the public as a tourist attraction.
According to Tommy Steele , Presley did visit London once in However, this has not been substantiated. His death on August 16, , was 29 years after baseball athlete and first home-run king, Babe Ruth 's death, August 16, and 21 years after actor, Bela Lugosi , August 16, Reports of the last words spoken by Elvis vary.
He ended his last press conference with the words: "I hope I haven't bored you. Elvis owned one of the world's first mobile phones. Elvis's phone was contained in a suitcase-size carrying case with his name in black letters on a gold label on the front. He would use it to talk from his limousine. His last film, Change of Habit , had him as a doctor in an urban clinic, reflecting his attempt to be "relevant" to the social activism of the youth of the '60s.
Additionally, this film dealt with what was then considered to be medical treatment of an "autistic" child, a topic almost unheard of in After not having a Top 20 hit single since , Elvis' Nov. On his first appearance on Stage Show on Jan. That breakthrough performance of "I Got A Woman", to a startled audience, had not been seen for years, but as of it is available on YouTube.
It was Steve Allen 's second show and Elvis' appearance skyrocketed it in popularity. This was quite an accomplishment--or lack of foresight--as Sullivan and Allen were broadcast in the same Sunday-evening time slot and had an ongoing "ratings war" against each other. Elvis already had sold at least five million records for RCA. Allen would later state that his reason for "giving away" Elvis was that he ran strictly a comedy show. After this, Sullivan was not as interested in biding for Lewis as he was for Elvis.
Lewis did not appear on Sullivan's show until This earlier version of the song appeared on some copies of his debut album titled "Elvis" and was later issued in a compilation package..
The media coverage of his death overshadowed that of the year-old comedian and film star Groucho Marx , which occurred three days later. In the mid-'70s he was approached to help finance a karate movie called "New Gladiators" in which he would narrate and make a cameo appearance at the climax. The film was never completed in his lifetime. Stage: "All Shook Up", a show based on his work, debuted on Broadway in Just months later, in , Willie Nelson covered the song and it became a Grammy winner and one of Nelson's all-time signature hits.
As the song was not written specifically for the film, it could not qualify for an Academy Award nomination. Reportedly, in he received a death threat, just prior to his opening in Las Vegas. Though he had FBI agents providing security for him, for added protection he carried a Derringer pistol on stage, in his shoe. What resulted was a captivating extended televised performance by Elvis of the not yet recorded "Hound Dog"; enjoyable to his fans, though shocking to others including the news media, it was a song that he had been performing, up to that point, with guitar in hand.
By the time of his second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show , later in , Elvis sang without his guitar, with The Jordanaires as his back-up vocal group and his back-up combo. For the most part this format would be followed for all of Elvis' stage performances for the remainder of his career. In , when he returned to Las Vegas, a full orchestra was added. While performing his classic "Hound Dog", Presley switched tempo in the middle of the song and began gyrating his hips suggestively.
The performance caused such a furor that Berle received a reported 30, letters decrying his decision to allow such "lewd behavior" on national television. Fontana drums. Prior to marrying Priscilla Presley , Elvis proposed marriage to legendary cult actress Tura Satana , who turned him down.
It is believed that Priscilla copied her hairstyle after that. One set of genealogical research states that Elvis' surname leads back to Irish ancestors, who hailed from the village of Hacketstown in County Carlow. William Presley was forced to leave Ireland for America after a local dispute over land. He later moved to Carolina, where he had a son called Dunnan, and then moved on to Tennessee.
Dunnan's granddaughter Rosella was born in and, though she never married, she had several children including one called Jessie.
Curiously, cut from the issue of his critically acclaimed film King Creole was his performance of "Hard Headed Woman" a 1 hit for Elvis at the time of the film's release. A rare occurrence, possibly, the only time in film history that an essential musical number has been cut from a film, over a half-century after the film's release. Added in its place in is the then previously unseen stripper's sequence with the song "Banana". In the "Banana" scene, complete with female stripper, with its obvious phallic reference, would have been "too much" for the censors and mainstream America.
Of Terry Stafford 's cover of Elvis' recording of "Suspicion", a back-up group was added to sing the word "suspicion". This addition proved successful for Stafford, though many listeners still think they are listening to Elvis. Stafford's version of the song received considerable airplay and rose to 3 on the US pop charts. Many rock singers mimicked Elvis' singing style, early in their careers, before adopting their own style for which they are most remembered. Twitty later crossed over to the country field.
Charlie Rich 's initial hit, "Lonely Weekend" , followed the same pattern, long before he was known as country music's "Silver Fox". One of Johnny Rivers ' first recordings, "You're The One" , and a recording of "That'll Be The Day" by Buddy Holly --not the million selling version that is most played--sounded like Elvis behind the mike. Of course, there's Terry Stafford 's successful cover of Elvis' recording of "Suspicion".
Unfortunately, that performance was not recorded. On previous occasions he headlined Christmas specials that were aired on radio stations throughout the Southern US. Producer Steve Binder and Elvis decided that a song that reflected the turbulence of the s, and at the same time gave a plea for hope and understanding, would be more appropriate than a Christmas ballad to end the show. Earl Brown , the show's Musical Director, was asked by Binder to go home and write such a song.
Brown's newly composed song contained the lyrics, "If I can dream of a better land, where all my brothers walk hand in hand". With minimal rehearsing and no demo to work with, Elvis' spontaneous live performance of the new closing song was released as his next million-selling single, peaking at 13 on the US pop charts.
His 1st big performance was at the Oventon Park Shell in Memphis in He was discharged from the army on March 24, Eight days later, on April 1, he began filming G. Blues It was reported that John Lennon was secretly in the audience, but Lennon insisted in a interview that he had never seen Elvis live. Bruce Springsteen was in the audience, having signed with Columbia Records about a month prior.
The album was also the inspiration for a young Eddie Murphy , who would play it loud and lip-sync to it in front of the mirror. Murphy has gone on to say that it was Elvis who inspired him to become an entertainer. Although Bob Dylan enormously admired him, Elvis was disparaging of Dylan, especially in terms of his singing voice.
Once he was said to privately quip, "My mouth's so dry, feels like Bob Dylan slept in it". Later, however, he recorded a cover of Dylan's song, "Tomorrow is a Long Time".
Elvis reportedly disliked much of the s popular music, including The Beatles , because he associated it with the "drug culture", although he did freely cover songs by many such bands. In early March of , Elvis was on his way back to America from military duty in Germany. The plane Elvis was boarding on made a brief stop in the town of Prestwick, Scotland, where he was greeted and embraced by hundreds of British fans. This would be his first and only visit in the United Kingdom.
Exotic Animal Ranch in Soledad Canyon, California on weekends to play with the animals and pitch in with the chores. Elvis' favorite animal was a chimp named Coffee, who once belonged to Mae West. Childhood friend of Wink Martindale. His all-time favorite horror movie was Black Christmas He made it a tradition to watch the film every Christmas and to this day his family honors his memory by watching the film every Christmas.
Received his first ever screen kiss from co-star Jana Lund in Loving You Former son-in-law of Ann Beaulieu and stepson-in-law of Paul Beaulieu. Former brother-in-law of Michelle Beaulieu.
The song reached 2 on the Billboard charts and was inspired by the success and then conscription of Elvis Presley. Double first cousin of Patsy Presley Geranen.
Though Elvis is famed for the "I don't sound like nobody". He did have idols, and one of these, was dubbed 'the greatest entertainer of them all' it seems a fitting tribute to think that the King was in awe of Al Jolson. When he wanted to emulate Ricky Nelson 's hairstyle, his hairdresser Carrie White talked him out of it: "Elvis please, let's don't mess with success.
Turned down advances from Ursula Andress because her shoulders were too wide. He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Jailhouse Rock
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