Chinese name: Elvis Presley
English name: Elvis Aron Presley
Birthplace: Mississippi
Occupation: rock singer, Actor
Birthday: January 8th, 1935
Memorial Day: August 16th, 1977
Spouse: Priscilla Presley
Daughter: Lisa Marie Presley
22-year legendary acting career
88 gold records, 67 platinum records
1,1 concerts
1. Champion song
A century-long collection
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Elvis Presley, the king of rock music
Elvis Presley was born in a poor farm worker's family in the United States on January 8, 1935. He was addicted to gospel music since he was a child. At the same time, the strong rhythm of black music, blues and folk songs popular in slums also deeply touched the young Elvis Presley. The choir singing in the church inspired Elvis Presley's music, and the passionate singing and dancing of the church members had a profound influence on Elvis Presley, from which his famous and controversial hip twisting movement was born.
In p>1948, Elvis moved to Memphis. Here, Elvis Presley began to get in touch with professional musicians, and accidentally he participated in the performance of the four-person gospel singing group "Blackwood Brothers". It can be said that this move has opened the R& of Elvis Presley's music career, Memphis's black soul music and R&; B, combined with white country music, it became the root of Elvis Presley's unique music and singing style.
A very accidental opportunity started Elvis Presley's brilliant music career. One day in 1953, when he was recording a song for his mother in a recording studio under the name of Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records, he met Marion Chesca, Phillips' assistant, and was deeply appreciated by Chesca. In June 1954, Phillips sent Elvis Presley to SUN Company to record a song from Nashville. At the same time, local musicians Scotty Moore (guitar) and Bill Black (bass) were invited to accompany Elvis Presley. The effect of this combination was not ideal at first, until Elvis Presley sang Arthur Crudupiz's rhythm and blues song "That's All Right", and they found the feeling. This song eventually became Elvis Presley's first single record on Sun Records, and conquered local fans. Since then, Elvis Presley has released several records and started touring. His combination of country music and rhythm and blues, as well as his wild and unruly attitude, set off an unprecedented storm in rock music. Elvis Presley embarked on the road to success, and a superstar began to rise.
In November 1955, he was considered as the most promising singer in the style of "country and west" in a public opinion poll attended by radio music program hosts. At this time, "Colonel" Parker became the manager of Elvis Presley, and Phillips transferred his contract with Elvis Presley to Victor, a subsidiary of RCA, which has the ability to promote and distribute records nationwide, for $35,. Coupled with Parker's successful arrangement of Elvis Presley's selective appearance on TV, Elvis Presley immediately became a national star, and every record since then has been among the best in the charts. Joining RCA's first single, "Heartbreak Hotel/I Was The One", created the first champion song for Elvis Presley, and in March of the same year, she released her first album Elvis Presley, which won the Billboard album list for 1 weeks. Then, after the release of the second album Elvis, the single Love Me Tender occupied four rankings in the United States. At the same time, more than 2 kinds of Elvis Presley products, including shirts, scarves, jeans and lipsticks, came out one after another, earning 2 million dollars in the first year of Elvis Presley's entry into RCA.
By the late 195s, Elvis Presley had reached a very high social status, and his songs were handled more and more exquisitely and skillfully. In September, 1956, RCA Company made an unprecedented attempt to release seven singles of Elvis Presley at the same time. As a result, from August to December, Elvis Presley topped the charts every week.
on March 24, 1958, he wore an English uniform and reported to the camp of the 2nd Armored Division in the suburb of Killeen, Texas, and officially began his military career. In November 1959, Priscilla, the 14-year-old daughter of Air Force Captain Joseph Beaulieu, opened Elvis Presley's love heart. In 196, Elvis Presley started shooting his first film "G.I. Blues from Military Music". After its soundtrack was released in October, it quickly climbed to the top of the championship again, staying on the list for 111 weeks, ranking first among all the albums of Elvis Presley's life. At this time, Priscilla moved into Graceland to live with Elvis Presley.
On February 25th, 1961, the governor of Tennessee declared this day as "Elvis Day". Since then, every Christmas, Elvis Presley will give a charity concert in his hometown. During the launch of the album "Sticking to You" and the rise of Beatlemania in the United States, Elvis Presley still maintained his most outstanding position as a singer who mainly published singles, although there were only a few records, such as "A Mess Of Blues" and "It is the last flame"/"Little Sister". However, from this time on, Elvis Presley shifted his career focus to Hollywood and took on 25 films such as "Blue Hawaii". Although Elvis Presley is at the peak of his career in terms of sales volume, in fact, his image is far less radiant than it was in the 195s. Most of the respected songs are gentle and soothing works, such as "It's Now Or Never", "Are you lonely tonight" and "Surrender", or episodes selected from movies, such as "Wooden Heart" and "Wild". In addition, he also released some albums, a large part of which were composed of episodes selected from a series of Hollywood musicals in which he began to star.
This series of efforts and adventures in choosing songs makes it even more inexplicable that Elvis Presley's records have been poor. In fact, since 196, there have been very few of his outstanding works as in the 195s. In 196, His Hand in Mine, a religious album, was very exquisite and pure in voice processing, and in the B-side "It Hurts Me" (1965) of Kissin' Cousins, people suddenly saw the exciting and adventurous light of Elvis Presley in the 195s. It is worth mentioning the albums "From Elvis in Memphis" and "Elvis Country)(1971) and the live recording of" American Trilogy "album" Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite "(1973).
In the mid-197s, Elvis Presley once again seemed to give up in despair any efforts to win respect as an artist and completely lived in his last stereotypes. His voice is more lazy and careless than ever. It looks rough and harsh when the volume is high, and vacillates when the volume is low, and completely loses its original vitality and delicacy. His spirit seems to have become blurred. To make matters worse, taking a lot of drugs, overeating and dissolute private life also destroyed his health.
In October, p>73, Elvis Presley was hospitalized due to pneumonia, pleurisy, colon dilatation and hepatitis. Parker, the agent, used his own squeezing brokerage strategy to push Elvis Presley, who was in poor health, into financial crisis. It is pointed out that Parker deliberately did not pay royalties to Elvis Presley before 1973. In order to alleviate the economic situation, Elvis Presley had to travel and sing, and he was tired of relying on sedatives and other drugs, and his health problems became more and more serious.
Even so, the whole year of 1976 was a tight tour. At the end of November, Elvis met his new girlfriend Ginger Alden, and Ginger became the last girlfriend before Elvis died. At the beginning of April, 1977, Elvis Presley was hospitalized again. After discharge, he insisted on continuing his singing trip until June. The concert in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 26th turned out to be Elvis Presley's last performance. Elvis Presley, who had been recuperating at Graceland's home for another concert, was found lying in the bathroom by the tour manager (or his girlfriend). After being rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment, the doctor announced that Elvis Presley had died of a heart attack due to serious arrhythmia (or overdose) at the age of 42. The news was released in the afternoon, which shocked the whole world, and thousands of fans came to Graceland to mourn. Elvis Presley's body was finally buried with his mother in the' silent garden' behind Graceland.
after the death of Elvis' father in p>1979, Elvis' huge legacy was inherited by his only daughter Lisa Marie, who was only 11 years old at that time. After nearly two years and four lawsuits, it was finally decided that Parker, the agent, was forced to return all the videos and recordings of Elvis to RCA and the Elvis family. In the autumn of 1982, Graceland became a tourist attraction, attracting nearly 6, people every year on average. The value of Elvis Presley's legacy has already exceeded 1 million. In 1986, Elvis Presley became one of the top ten singers in the music world. As of August, 1999, RCA Records and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)*** awarded 131 gold and platinum records to Lisa Marie, Elvis Presley's daughter, which is the record of receiving the most gold and platinum records in history. Elvis Presley is undoubtedly the greatest singer in history. At the same time, RCA also awarded the' Artsit Of The Century' special commemorative award to pay tribute to this generation of superstars.
Elvis Presley in the 195s influenced at least a whole generation. Since the 196s, they have always held an illusion that the Elvis Presley in their hearts was only defeated by himself. Just let the elderly and obese Elvis Presley change his Las Vegas/Hollywood lifestyle and let him listen to his own music in a closed jukebox house full of his early records, and he will find an Elvis Presley who was once so great and once so dazzling. So he will struggle on his own, and finally win and restore his former genius.
Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll forever.