The 50 Greatest Songs of Elvis Presley

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1) Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog 1956
2) Love Me Tender 1956
3) Heartbreak Hotel 1956
4) Jailhouse Rock / Treat Me Nice 1957
5) All Shook Up 1957
6) (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear / Loving You 1957
7) Are You Lonesome Tonight 1960
8) It's Now Or Never 1960
9) Don't / I Beg Of You 1958
10) Stuck On You 1960
11) Too Much 1957
12) Return To Sender 1962
13) I Want You, I Need You, I Love You 1956
14) Surrender 1961
15) Good Luck Charm 1962
16) Hard Headed Woman 1958
17) Wear My Ring Around Your Neck 1958
18) A Big Hunk O' Love 1959
19) Suspicious Minds 1969

20) Can't Help Falling In Love 1962
21) Burning Love 1972
22) One Night 1958
23) Crying In The Chapel 1965
24) (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I 1959
25) In The Ghetto 1969
26) (You're The) Devil In Disguise 1963
27) Love Me 1957
28) I Got Stung 1958
29) I Need Your Love Tonight 1959
30) Don't Cry Daddy 1970
31) The Wonder Of You 1970
32) She's Not You 1962
33) Little Sister 1961
34) If I Can Dream 1969
35) My Wish Came True 1959
36) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame 1961
37) One Broken Heart For Sale 1963
38) Ask Me 1975
39) Promised Land 1974

40) Fame And Fortune 1960
41) I Feel So Bad 1961
42) Steamroller Blues / Fool 1973
43) Bossa Nova Baby 1964
44) You Don't Have To Say You Love Me / Patch It Up 1970
45) I'm Yours 1965
46) Puppet On A String 1971
47) Kentucky Rain 1970
48) Ain't That Loving You Baby 1964
49) Follow That Dream 1962
50) Way Down 1977

Please Please Me and With The Beatles (1963–1966)

Following the moderate success of "Love Me Do" "Please Please Me" has encountered a host that is more assertive, reached number two on the UK charts after its release in January 1963. Martin was originally intended to record the band's debut LP Live at the Cavern Club. The research of this "surround sound of a tank of oil" elected to do a "live" album in one session at Abbey Road Studios. Dix songs recorded for the Please Please Me, was accompanied on album of four songs that were released on two singles. Given the way the group "rushed to give a debut album, bashing about Please Please Me in one day" A reviewer comments Allmusic, "Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins." Lennon said a little thought into the composition at the time, he and McCartney were "just write songs to the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly's, pop songs without thinking of them more than that make sounds and words almost. irrelevant [.
Released in March 1963, the album reached number one in the UK charts. He started running for eleven of the twelve studio albums the Beatles released in the United Kingdom by the number of 1970 at once. The group's third single, "From Me to You", released in April and topped the charts hits. It began almost unbroken series of seventeen British number one singles from the band, including all but one of them published over the next six years. Upon his release in August, the group's fourth single, "She Loves You," was the best selling record in Britain so far has sold three- quarters of a million copies in less than four weeks. It became their first single to sell one million copies and remains the best selling record in Britain until 1978 when he overcame "Mull of Kintyre "performed by Paul McCartney and his post-Beatles band Wings. The popularity of the music of the Beatles brings with it greater press attention. They responded with an attitude, irreverent rogue who question what is expected of pop musicians and inspired more interest.
icons Beatles''goutte-T "logo, from sketches suddenly by retailers and designers Ivor Arbiter instruments, also made its debut in 1963. Logo first used on the front of Starr drum bass, and Epstein Starr bought the store Arbiter London. The band toured the UK three times in the first half of this year: four-week tour starts in February tour of three weeks of March and May to June Their popularity, a frenetic cult holds, has been dubbed "Beatlemania." Although not presented as a tour leader, they were eclipsed by other acts, including Tommy Roe and Chris Montez Roy Orbison, American artists who have established great popularity in England. performance everywhere, both on tour and show-off many in Britain, was greeted with wild enthusiasm by screaming fans. Police considered necessary to use water pipes at high pressure for crowd control, and it is inParliament debate on thousands of police officers put themselves in danger to protect the group. In late October, the five-day tour of Sweden to see the band business overseas for the first time since the Hamburg area. Return to England, they were greeted at Heathrow Airport in heavy rain by thousands of fans at the " scene similar to the shark-feeding frenzy, "attended by some fifty journalists and photographers and television camera crews BBC. The next day the Beatles began a new tour in the United Kingdom, scheduled for six weeks. Now, they denied headliners.

Please Please Me is still tops the album charts. This keeps the position for 30 weeks, only to be displaced by Beatleswhich By itself holds the top spot for 21 weeks. Using techniques more production studio live predecessor, the album was recorded between July and October. With the Beatles is described by All Music Guide as "a continuation of the highest order that improves the original by developing its own tone and adding depth." In a reversal of what was previously a common practice, this album was released in late November next will come the singles "I Want to Hold Your Hand", with songs excluded to maximize sales only. With The Beatles attract the attention of the Times music critic William Mann, who went up to show that Lennon and McCartney were "English composers of 1963 outstanding. The newspaper published a series of articles that Mann offers a detailed analysis of the Beatles, the privilege of borrowing. With the Beatles became the second album in the history of British painting to sell a million copies, a figure that had previously only accessible by a soundtrack of South Pacific 1958.
The British Invasion
Release of the Beatles in the United States were first delayed for nearly a year whenCapitol Records, EMI's American subsidiary, refused to issue either "Please Please Me" or "From Me to You". Negotiations with an independent label in the United States, causing the release of several singles, but a problem with fees and ridiculous hairstyles of the Beatles song "Moptop" constitute additional barriers. After Capitol had begun to disturb the material, not releasing discs in their original configuration, they are different from the U.S. album compiled from various recording tape, and publish their own songs as a single choice . success in the American charts came suddenly after a show on British Beatlemania thetimes triggered a strong demand, peak-Capitol release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in December 1963. The first American group is scheduled to take place a few weeks later.
When the Beatles left England on February 7, 1964, a four thousand supporters gathered at Heathrow, waving and screaming that the plane took off "I Want to Hold Your Hand" has sold 2.6 million copies in the U.S. for two weeks in advance, but the group was still worried about how they will be accepted. In New York John F. Kennedy Airport they were welcomed by other aggressive, a three thousand people. They gave their first live performance on U.S. TV two days later on The Ed Sullivan Show, watched by about 74 million viewers, more than 40 percent of the U.S. population. The next morning, a newspaper wrote that The Beatles could not take the song in the Atlantic, but days later, their first U.S. concert saw Beatlemania erupted at the rear of Washington Coliseum in New York the next day they met another strong reception at Carnegie Hall. The group appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show second time a week before returning to England on February 22. During the week of April 4, The Beatles held twelve positions on Billboard Hot 100 singles, including the big five. That same week, a third American LP joined two already in circulation, the third reached the first or second place in the U.S. album charts. the band's popularity has generated unprecedented interest in British music, and a number of other actions, the United Kingdom and then make their own American debut, managed to tour for three years in the future in so-called British Invasion. hairdressing Beatles' extraordinary measures for the time and much ridiculed by adults, is widely adopted and became a symbol of youth culture to develop.
The Beatles perform on an international tour in June. Thirty-two concerts for nineteen days in Denmark, Holland, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, they have been diligently at each location. Starr was in the hospital after a tonsillectomy for the first half of the tour, sitting andJimmie Nicol on drums. In August they returned to the U.S., with concert tours and 32-3 towns. Arouse intense interest once again, the draw for one month tour between ten and twenty thousand fans for each show thirty minutes in the cities of San Francisco to New York. However, their music can not be heard. At this stage of the amplification at the time was simple compared to modern facilities and a small group Vox amplifiers struggle to compete with the volume of sound produced by the screaming fans. Forced to admit that neither they nor their audience can hear the details of their performance, the group has grown increasingly bored with the regular visit.
At the end of August their tour was presented by Bob Dylan in New York at the initiative of journalist Al Aronowitz. Visit the group to their hotel room, Dylan introduced them to marijuana. Music historian Jonathan Gould shows the importance of music and culture of this meeting, before the fanbase of each of the musicians were "regarded as living in two distinct subcultures in the world": the public database Dylan " college kids with an artistic or intellectual inclination, a dawn political and social idealism, and a bit arty, "as opposed to 'core audience of the" Beatles of children really teenyboppers "in high school or the elementary school whose lives are really wrapped up in pop culture marketing television, radio, pop records, fan magazines, and fashion teenage Them. considered idolatrous, not idealistic. "Within six months of meetings," Lennon will make a note in which he openly imitated nasal drone Dylan, plucked fragile vocals and introspective persona. "In one year, Dylan will be" continued, with the help of a group of five musicians and Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, shaking the authenticity of the permanent population monkey on his back, "" the difference between Public folk and rock that have nearly evaporated "and the Beatles 'public' showing signs of growth."
A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale Help! Rubber Soul
Capitol Records 'lack of interest during 1963 was not granted, and a competitor, United Artists Records, prompting United Artists' film division to offer the contract the Beatles film in the hope that it will lead to recording contract. Directed by Richard Lester, A Hard Day's Night was the participation of the group for six weeks in March-April 1964, they play their own role in a film mockumentary noisy phenomenon of the "Beatles. The film's premiere in London and New York in July and August, respectively, and an international success. Examiner observer, Penelope Gilliatt, noted that "the way the Beatles are just there, and that in times that are clogged with self-explanation makes very welcome .. It also makes a natural comedian." According to Allmusic, the soundtrack album accompanying it, A Hard Day's Night, to see the Beatles "really come into their own as a band all different influences on the two albums were gathered in his home bright, happy, full of. guitar tone. "That" guitar sounds "sound, especially the product of the 12-string electric Rickenbacker Harrison prototype given to him by the manufacturer, which began on record. Harrison ringing 12-string inspired Roger McGuinn, who received his Rickenbacker and use it to develop the brand ofThe Byrds sound.
Beatles for sale, the fourth album by this band, saw the emergence of a serious conflict between commercialism and creativity. Recorded between August and October 1964, the album was intended to continue the format specified by A Hard Day's Night, which, unlike the first two albums band, already contain versions without coverage. Recognizing the challenges posed by international travel continues to attempt a band song, Lennon admits, "The materials that are a hell of a problem." Six covers a vast repertoire included in this album. Released in early December, eight issues of self-writing still stand out, shows the growing maturity of the material produced by the Lennon-McCartney partnership.
In April 1965, Lennon and Harrison dentist enriched their coffee with LSD, but they were his guests for dinner [93] L '. Two days later deliberately experiment with drugs, followed by Starr on one occasion. McCartney was reluctant to try it, but finally did in 1966, and later became the first Beatle to talk openly  The controversy erupted in June 1965, when Elizabeth II appointed the four Beatles Order of the British Empire (MBE), after Prime Minister Harold Wilson was appointed. them for the price.  In protest-compliance at the time was primarily given to military veterans and civic leaders, some conservative MBE recipients to their own emblem.
U.S. trailer for the help! with (back) Harrison, Paul McCartney, Lennon and Starr (mostly invisible)

The Beatles' second film, Help, again directed by Lester!, Released in July. Described as "primarily a relentless parody of Bond," [98] was inspired by a variety of responses between the two reviews and the band. McCartney said, "Aid is good, but that's not us so we invited the movie star. It was fun, but basically as an idea for a movie, it's a little sore ". This soundtrack is dominated by Lennon, singer and songwriter on most songs, including two of singles conducted on her, and "Ticket to Ride Help! ". The album cover, studio LP fifth group contains a mixture of original materials and times. Help! See this band increased use of vocal overdubs and enter the classical instruments in their contexts, in particular the Quartet strings on the pop ballad "Yesterday." Compiled by McCartney, "Yesterday" inspire some cover versions recorded all the songs ever written. LP's closing track, "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" on the cover band last included in the album. With the exception of Let It Be brief report of the traditional Liverpool folk song "Maggie Mae", all of their next album will contain only self-written material.
On 15 August, the third visit of the Beatles U.S. concert opened with the first big stage of history when they appeared before a crowd of 55,600 at Shea Stadium in New York. Nine other successful concerts followed in other U.S. cities. Towards the end of the tour group is introduced with Elvis Presley, on the basis of basic musical influences of the group, who invited them to his house. Presley and the band playing guitar in his living room, crowded, talks about the music industry and exchanged stories. In September, the launch of American Saturday cartoon series starring the Beatles morning and taken burlesque antics Night's A Hard Day's. Original episodes appeared during the next two years, and broadcast reruns in 1969.
Rubber Soul, was released in early December, was hailed by critics as a major step forward in the bands musicBiographer maturity and complexity and music critic Ian MacDonald notes that Rubber Soul, The Beatles' back a sense of direction that began to avoid them at a later stage of works for sale onBeatles After Help!. The foray into the world of classical music with flute and strings, introducing the sitar on Rubber Soul "Norwegian Wood (This bird has flown)," marked the development beyond the traditional boundaries of rock music. This album also saw the collaborative songwriting of Lennon and McCartney increasingly equipped with different compositions of each (if they continue to share official credit). achieve their themes more as well, including the most complex aspects of romance and other concerns. As they grow more clever lyrics, fans have begun to explore a deeper meaning. There is speculation that the "Norwegian Wood" could refer to marijuana. In 2003, Rolling Stone Magazine "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" Rubber Soul ranked number five,and the album is described by Allmusic today as a "hard folk rock classic." According to both Lennon and McCartney, however, was "just another album" Record engineer Norman Smith saw clear signs of a growing conflict within the group during Soulsessions rubber. Smith said later that "the confrontation between John and Paul became clear "and" as far as Paul is concerned, George can do no right.


1966–1970|1970–present

Special 1970-1977

Presley's only child, Lisa Marie, was born on February 1, 1968 during the period he had become very unhappy in his career. Of the eight singles released between January 1967 and Presley in May 1968, only two cards in 40 above, and no more than the number 28. His soundtrack to the upcoming movie, Speedway, died at number 82 on the Billboard charts. Parker has changed its plans for television, in which Presley did not arise since Sinatra Timex Show 1960. He maneuvered a deal with NBC that the network is determined both financial characteristics and the setting for a special Christmas.
Recorded at the end of June, a special called Elvis, which aired on December 3, 1968. Then known as the special characteristics of 68, see Comeback lavish stage production studio as well as songs by the band's first concert in front of a small audience-Presley lives since 1961. Segments saw Presley clad in black leather living tight, singing and playing guitar in a rock style and the first days free roll. Director and co-producer Steve Binder has worked hard to convince the singer was nervous and produce an event away from hours of Christmas carols Parker initially expected. Show, NBC highest ratings of the season, capturing 42 percent of viewers in total. Jon Landau Eye magazine remarked, "There is something magical about seeing a person who has lost himself find his way back, she sings. With this type of capability is not expected to rock 'n' roll. He moved his body with a lack of desire and effort must have made Jim Morrison green with envy. "The New Rolling Stone Album Guide calls one of the performance" of the grandeur and emotional resonance of history. "
In January 1969 the single "If I Can Dream", written for a number, especially for $ 12. Thesoundtrack album entered the top ten. According to the friend Jerry Schilling, a special reminder of that Presley "was unable to do for years, could choose someone, who could choose what song and can not be told what should be on the soundtrack .. . It. Leaving prison, man. "Binder said that the reaction of Presley, Elvis, I played 60 minute event, and he said to the projection room," Steve is the greatest thing I've ever done in my life that I give. You believe me, I would never sing a song, I do not believe in "
From Elvis In Memphis International
With the experience Comeback Special, Presley was involved in a series of recording sessions at American Sound Production Studio, which causes acclaimedFrom Elvis in Memphis. Released in June 1969, his first secular, non-album soundtrack of the period of dedicated studio in eight years. As described by Dave Marsh, it is "a work in which Presley soon catch the trend of pop music that seems to go through the years of the film. He sings country songs, soul and rock with real conviction, an amazing achievement. "The album featured the single" In the Ghetto "was released in April, which reached number three on the pop chart gospel Presley the first non-top ten hit since" Bossa Nova Baby "in 1963. D Other singles from the American Sound Session: "Suspicious Minds", "Do not Cry Daddy" and "Kentucky Rain."
Presley was eager to resume normal life problems. After the success of the Comeback Special offers from around the world. London Palladium offered Parker $ 28,000 for a commitment of one week. He replied: "It's good for me, now how can you get Elvis?" In May, the new international brand hotel in Las Vegas has the largest showroom in the city, announced that they had booked Presley. It is planned to achieve 57 shows over four weeks from July 31. Moore, Fontana and the Jordanaires declined to participate for fear of losing their lucrative session work in Nashville. Presley has assembled a new, accompanying high level, led by guitarist James Burton and included two gospel groups, The Empire and the Sweet Inspirations, however, he was nervous just before the start of Las Vegas in 1956, was pathetic. Parker, who intended to return Presley is an exhibition event in the company, overseeing major boost to the promotion. Meanwhile, the hotel owner Kirk Kerkorian is configured to send his own plane to New York to fly on a rock journalist for his performance.
Presley went on stage without introduction. The audience of about 2200, including many celebrities, giving him a standing ovation before she sang a note and another after his appearance. A third followed his point, "Can not Help Falling in Love" (a song that ends the number of years of the 1970s). At a press conference after the event, when the reporter called "The King," said Presley Fats Domino, who took in the scene. "No," said Presley, "the true king of rock and roll." The next day, Parker's negotiations with the hotel which resulted in a five-year contract for Presley to play each February and August, with an annual salary of $ 1 million. Newsweekcommented, "There are wonderful things about Elvis, but more remarkable is the strength of his life in a world where meteoric careers fade like shooting stars." Rolling Stone called Presley "supernatural, the resurrection itself." In November, the end of the film non-Presley concert, Habit Change, was opened. Double album from Memphis to Vegas / From Vegas to Memphis was released the same month, the first LP made up of spectacles of the International, the second cut more than Sessions of the American. "Suspicious Minds" topped the pop charts, Presley's first issue of the United States more than seven years, and the last.
Cassandra Peterson, Elvira, and then television, Presley met during this period in Las Vegas, where he worked as a dancer. He remembers their meeting, "He was very anti-drugs when I met him I mentioned that I was smoking marijuana. And he's just stunned. He said:" Never this again. "Presley was not only strongly opposed to drugs, he also rarely drink. Several members of his family had been an alcoholic, a fate that he intended to avoid.
Nixon is back on tour and meeting
Presley returned to international debut in 1970 for the first two years of commitment for a month, do two shows tonight. The recording of this event was published on the album on stage [187] At the end of February., Presley performed six shows a record turnout at the Astrodome in Houston. [188] In April, the single "The Wonder of You" was issued, the number one hit in Britain, it topped the adult contemporary chart in the United States as well. MGM exercises and concert footage filmed at the International in August documentaryElvis: The Way It Is Presley is now appearing in a combination, which became the trademark of his live act. During this engagement, he was threatened with assassination less than $ 50,000 was paid. Presley became the target of numerous threats since 1950, often without their knowledge. The FBI took the threat seriously and increased security for the next two events. Presley left the stage with a Derringer in the trunk to the right and 0.45 pistol in his belt, but the concert was uneventful.
Album That's the Way It Is, was produced to accompany the documentary and show both studio and live recordings, marked a turning point in style. As music historian John Robertson notes, "The Power of Presley singing helps disguise the fact that the album firmly moved away from the inspiration of American-roots session to Memphis more than a middle-voice Road. With the state back wore R burner, and soul and left & B in Memphis, which remains a very classy, very clean white pop-perfect for a variety of Las Vegas, but a decline for Elvis. "After the end of its international commitment on September 7, Presley began a concert tour of a week, most of the South, its first since 1958. Another tour for a week, West Coast, then in November .
On December 21, 1970, Presley strange genius meeting with President Richard Nixonat White House, where he was declared patriotism and contempt for the hippie drug culture. He asked Nixon for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge, add the same point, he began to collect and to signify the official sanction of his patriotic efforts. Nixon, who seems to find awkward meeting, expressed the belief that Presley could send a positive message to young people and it was important that it was "maintaining credibility". Presley Nixon said that the Beatles, the song is regularly performed in concert at the time, illustrated by what he saw as the trend of anti-Americanism and drug abuse in popular culture. (Presley and his friends have a four-hour appointment with the Beatles five years earlier.) After hearing the report of the meeting, Paul McCartney later said he "felt a little betrayed. ... Big joke is that we take drugs [illegal], and look what happened to him, "a reference to Presley's death, rushed to the abuse of prescription drugs. [196]
U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce named one of the men Presley annual Ten Most Outstanding Young Nation January 16, 1971. Shortly after, the city of Memphis has named a stretch of Highway 51 South, located Graceland "Elvis Presley Boulevard." In the same year, Presley became the first rock and roll will be given the Lifetime Achievement Award (then known as the Bing Crosby Award) by the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Grammy organization. Three new non-album studio Presley movie, released in 1971, a total that comes out in the past eight years earlier. Best received by critics Elvis Country is a concept album focusing on the standard kind. The biggest seller is the Elvis Sings Wonderful World of Christmas, "the true state of all", as Greil Marcus. "In the midst of Christmas carols painful polished ten, each sung with sincerity and humility terrible, you can find travel tom-catting Elvis ablaze six minutes of" Merry Christmas, Baby ", a lecherous old Charles Brown blues. .. If sin [Presley] was not his life. It is sin that brought him to life. "
Marriage and disorganization Aloha from Hawaii

MGM again filmed Presley in April 1972, this time for Elvis on Tour, who later won a Golden Globe Award for best documentary this year. His gospel album He Touched Me, was released this month, will receive his second Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance. A 14-tour begins with four sold out shows in a row without precedent in New York at Madison Square GardenThe night concert on July 10 has been recorded and published as the SEC a week later. Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Gardenbecame one of the best-selling albums Presley. After the tour, the single "Burning Love" was released last Presley hits top-ten U.S. pop charts. "The Elvis of the most interesting has been done since" All Shook Up, "wrote critic Robert Christgau rock." Who else could do "is approaching, the fire is now licking my body sounds like an assignment backup tape of James Brown?
Presley and his wife, meanwhile, has become increasingly distant, almost did not cohabit. In 1971, his relationship with Joyce Bova results unbeknownst to him during the pregnancy and abortion. He has often mentioned the possibility of passing it to Graceland, said he could leave Priscilla. The Presley separated on February 23, 1972, after Priscilla disclosed her relationship with Mike Stone, a karate instructor Presley recommended. Priscilla told me that when she told him, Presley "grabbed ... and love for" her, saying: "This is how a real man to please his wife." Five months later, the new small Elvis girlfriend Linda Thompson, a songwriter and a time Memphis beauty queen, lives with him. Presley and his wife filed for divorce Aug. 18.
In January 1973, Presley performed two benefit concerts for the Kui Lee Cancer Fund in connection with a breakthrough TV special Aloha from Hawaii. The first show was used as backup should run the practice and technical matters concerning the live broadcast two days later. Served as planned on January 14, Aloha from Hawaii concert was the first global satellite broadcast, reaching around 1.5 billion viewers live and recorded. Presley became the best known examples costume together complicated equipment with his character on the final day become intimately linked. As described by Bobbie Ann Mason, "In the end, when he unfolds his cape American Eagle, an eagle with wings spread fully studded on the back, he became a figure of God." Double album above, has was published in February, went to number one and eventually sold over five million copies in the United States. This proved to be Presley's last number one U.S. pop album of his lifetime.
In the middle of the night showed the same month, four people rushed the stage during an attack clear. man jumped defense security Presley Karate singer and instinct took over when he removed one of the invaders from the scene itself. After the show, he becomes obsessed with the idea that people were sent by Peter to kill him. Although they were found to have fans that overexuberant, he raged, "There's too much pain in me ... Stone [must] die. "His explosion continued with such intensity that doctors are unable to calm him down, although a large dose of medication. After two full-time rampage, Red West, his friend and bodyguard, is felt compelled to get a price for a contract killing and was relieved when Presley decided:. "Aw hell, let's leave it for now maybe a bit heavy


medical crisis and the last studio session
Presley divorce came into force October 9, 1973. It is now increasingly unhealthy. Twice over the years, he overdosed onbarbiturates, spent three days in a coma in his hotel room after the first incident. In late 1973, he was hospitalized, semicomatose cons effects of Demerol addiction. According to the attending physician, Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, Presley "feel that by getting [the drug] by the doctor, it was not common everyday junkie getting something off the road." Since his return, he played more live shows each year passed, and 1973 168 see the concert, his busiest schedule ever.Despite his health deteriorated in 1974, he made an extensive tour another time.
Presley condition declined rapidly in September. Keyboardist Tony Brown remember the arrival of the singer in a Marylandconcert University: "It fell from the limo, on his knees to help people jumping, and he encouraged them to go like." Do not help me. "He walked on stage and held the microphone for 30 minutes Everyone sees this first post as the other. Do tour will happen? "Guitarist John Wilkinson recalled," It is a gut every speech .. He's so messed up. ... Clearly she had been drugged. Obviously there is something very wrong with his body. While the words barely comprehensible bad song ... I remember crying .. She could barely through the introduction of "Wilkinson said. a few nights later, in Detroit," I saw him in the locker room, all draped over a chair, unable to move so often I thought, "Boss, why not just cancel the tour and take a year off ...?' I said something once in a guarded He hit me in the back. He said, "Everything will be alright Do not worry .." "Presley continued to play before crowds of demand. As a cultural critic, says Marjorie Garber, it is now widely regarded as a crooner of pop striking: "In short, it became Liberace Even his fans are now middle-aged moms and grandmother with blue hair .. "
On July 13, 1976, Vernon Presley, who had become heavily involved in the financial affairs of his son-fire "Memphis Mafia" bodyguard Red West (Presley friend since the 1950s), Sonny West and David Heble , citing the need to "cut to the detriment of the" Presley. in Palm Springs at the time, and some suggest the singer was too cowardly to face the same three. Another colleague Presley, John O'Grady, was argued that the guards were dropped because of their rude treatment of fans has made too many demands. However, Elvis' stepbrother, David Stanley said that the guards who were fired because they had become noisier on drug addiction Presley. Presley and Linda Thompson split in November, and he took with a new girlfriend, Ginger Alden. He proposed Alden and gave him the engagement ring two months later, although some of its Friends later said he had no serious intention of remarrying.
RCA, which has benefited from the flow of products Presley for over a decade, worried that interest in spending time in the studio guests. After the December 1973 session which produced 18 tracks, close enough to two albums, he did not enter the studio in 1974. Parker sold at a concert record RCA, Elvis: As Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis. Registered March 20, it includes versions of "How Great Thou Art" which will win the Third Prize Presley and his last Grammy competition. (All three of his Grammy competitive on a total of 14 applications were for gospel recordings.) Presley returned to the studio in Hollywood in March 1975, but Parker's efforts to hold another session at the end of the year did not work. In 1976, RCA sent a mobile studio at Graceland, which allows two sessions Record scale at home Presley. Even in the context of comfort, the registration process are currently struggling to him.
For all the problems of labels and managers, studio sessions between July 1973 and October 1976, Presley recorded almost the entire contents of six albums. Although no longer a significant presence on the charts, five of them in the album charts the top five countries and three were number one: Promised Land (1975), From Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis Tennessee (1976), and Moody Blue (1977). The story is similar to his pop hits not only big, but Presley is a major force in the market not only countries but also the adult contemporary radio. Eight singles studio this period was released during his lifetime that affects the top ten in any maps, four in 1974 alone. "My Boy" is the number one AC hit in 1975 and "Moody Blue" at the head of the country charts and reached second place in AC in 1976. Perhaps most critically acclaimed recordings coming time of year, in what Greil Marcus describes as "apocalyptic attack" his soul on the classic "Hurt". "If he feels he has heard "Dave Marsh wrote about the performance of Elvis," not surprised that only one year left to live, but he managed to survive that long. "

The last years and death
Journalist Tony Scherman writes that in early 1977, "Elvis Presley has become a caricature of his bizarre elegant, energetic former self thoughts are overweight. That blunted by the pharmacopoeia, he ingested daily, was almost unable to pull through Short gig. "In Alexandria, Louisiana, the singer on stage less than an hour and it is impossible to understand" [240] Presley has not appeared in Baton Rouge. He can not leave the hotel bed and the rest of the tour was canceled. Although the acceleration of injury to health, he stuck with a commitment to ride the most. In Rapid City, South Dakota, "he was so nervous on stage when she could barely speak, "according to historian Samuel Roy Presley, and unable to" make any significant movement. " Guralnick tells fans "are more eloquent about their disappointment, but all turned to the right past Elvis, the world is now almost entirely confined to his room and his book of spirituality." A cousin, Billy Smith, recalled how Presley would sit in her room and chat for hours, sometimes telling favorite Monty Python sketches and adventures of his own past, but most often plagued by paranoid obsession that recalls Smith Howard Hughes. "Way Down," Presley's last single to be released during his life on June 6 his last concert was held at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, June 26
The book Elvis:? What happened, cowritten by the guards fired three years earlier, was published on 1 August. This is the first detailed description of drug abuse Presley. He was devastated by the book and tried failed to prevent the release by offering money to the publisher. At this point, he suffered from various diseases, glaucoma, hypertension, liver damage and intestinal dilatation, each worse, and may be caused by drug abuse.
Presley was scheduled to leave Memphis on the night of August 16, 1977, to start a new tour. This afternoon, Alden found him unresponsive on floor bathroom. Efforts to resuscitate him failed, and was officially pronounced dead at 15:30 at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
President Jimmy Carter issued a statement Presley deserves to have "permanently changed the face of American popular culture." Thousands of people gathered at Graceland to see the open casket. A cousin of Presley, Billy Mann, received 18,000 dollars in secret photograph of the corpse, the image appears on the cover of National Enquirer edition of the bestseller ever. Alden reach an agreement with the $ 105,000 Enquirer for the story, but less settled when he violated his agreement exclusivity. Presley has left nothing in his will.
Presley funeral took place at Graceland, Thursday, Aug. 18. At the door, a car struck a group of fans, killing two women and seriously injuring a third. About 80,000 people lined the parade at Forest Hill Cemetery, where Presley is buried near his mother. In a few days, "Way Down" at the top of the country and British pop songs. After trying to steal the body of the singer at the end of August, the remains of both Elvis Presley and his mother buried at Graceland Meditation Garden, October 2.
Since 1977,
Between 1977 and 1981, six posthumously released single by Presley hitting ten countries. Graceland opened to the public in 1982. Attracted more than half a million visitors each year, is the second most visited house in the United States after the White House. It was declared a National Monument in 2006.
Presley was inducted into four Music Hall of Fame: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986), Country Music Hall of Fame (1998), theGospel Music Hall of Fame (2001), and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame (2007). In 1984 he was awarded the WC Handy Award for Blues Foundation and the Academy of Country Music Hat first Golden's. In 1987 he received the American Music Awards of Merit.
A Junkie XL remix of Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" (credited as "Elvis Vs JXL") is used in an advertising campaign for Nike during the2002 FIFA World Cup. It topped the charts in over 20 countries and included in the compilation of Number One Hits Presley ELV1S, who is also an international success. In 2003, a remix of "Rubberneckin ', 1969 records of Presley, the top selling cards in the United States, as well as birthday-50 re-release of" That's All Right "next year. The latter is a direct hit in the UK, reaching number three on the pop charts.
In 2005, reprinted three singles, "Rock Prison," "One Night" / "I Got Stung" and "It's Now or No," went to number one in England. Some 17 single, Presley was re-issued during the year, all being top five in the United Kingdom. For the fifth consecutive year, Forbes named Presley top-earning dead celebrity, with gross revenues of $ 45 million. In 2009 he was ranked fourth. The following year, Viva Elvis: The album was released, the establishment of a new instrumental voice to the song recorded.
Presley holds the record for most songs charts on top of the Billboard top 40 and 100: Joel Whitburn chart statistics count the total, respectively, 104 and 151; Presley historian Victor Adam gave 114 and 138. Presley ranked top ten hits and a number varies depending on how the two sides of "Hound Dog / Don 't Be Cruel" and "Do not / I beg you" single, which preceded the birth of the Billboard Hot 100-US which analyzed.d According Whitburn, Presley holds the record for most hits from ten to 38; by Billboard current assessment, he ranks second with 36 behind Madonna 37. Whitburn Billboard and agree that the Beatles hold the record for most number one hits with 20 and Mariah Carey second with 18. Whitburn also Presley with 18 and therefore linked to both; Billboard his third with 17. Presley maintain a record of cumulative weeks at number one: only 80, according to Whitburn and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, tied with Carey at 79, according to Billboard. He holds the British record for the number at least one hit, with 21, and top ten hits with 76.

Elvis Is Back (1966-1969)

Presley returned to the United States on March 2, 1960, and honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant on March 5. On the train that brought him fromNew Jersey to Tennessee stormed along the way, and Presley was summoned to regular stops to delight his fans. Back in Memphis, he lost no time to return to the studio. Session in March and April produced two best-selling singles, the ballad "It's Now or Never" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" AndElvis is back! This album has several songs by Greil Marcus described as a blues ofChicago "comprehensive threat, driven by his own acoustic guitar pickups super Presley, played brilliantly by Scotty Moore, and the work of Elvis Boots Randolph sax demon through song. Not sexy, it's porn. "Overall, the record" evoked visions of a player who can be all things "in the words of music historian John Robertson:" flirty teen idol with a golden heart, a lover, fiercely dangerous, a gutbucket blues singer, a sophisticated nightclub show;. [a] husky rocker "eleased few days after registration is completed, the number rose to two on the album charts.
Presley returned to television on May 12 as a guest on the Frank Sinatra Timex Special for the second star ironic, given the criticism Sinatra is not so far from the rock and roll. Also known as Welcome Home Elvis show was recorded at the end of March, the only time throughout the year Presley perform before an audience. Parker received an unheard of $ 125,000, the cost of eight-minute song. Release attract a wide audience.
GI Blues, the soundtrack of Elvis's first film since his return, is the number one album in October. His first LP sacred material, her hand in mine, followed two months later. Reaching number 13 on U.S. pop charts and number 3 in the United Kingdom, the remarkable figure for the gospel album. In February 1961, Presley performed two benefit performances for the event in Memphis, on behalf of 24 local charities. During lunch, before, RCA presented a plaque that indicates global sales of more than 75 million records. Nashville session of 12 hours in mid-March produced almost all of the studio album after Presley, for all tastes. As described by John Robertson, it illustrates the Nashville sound, style, cosmopolitan control that will determine the state of music in the 1960s. Presaging much of what comes to Presley during the decade of the next fifty years, this album is mostly a "pot-pourri, the pleasure of playing down the music that was once Elvis birthright." This will be the sixth number one LP. Other charity concerts, raising funds for a memorial at Pearl Harbor, took place March 25 in Hawaii. It became Presley's last public appearance for seven years.
Lost in Hollywood

See also: Elvis Presley's acting career
Parker is now owned by Presley pushed into heavy shooting schedule, focusing on the form, simple budget operetta. Presley had insisted on pursuing a more serious, but when the two films in the vein is more dramatic-Flaming Star (1960) and Wild in the Country (1961)-less commercially successful, he returned to the formula. Among the 27 films during the 1960s, there are some other exceptions. His film is almost universally highlight, a spokesman dismissed them as "the god of bad taste" However, they are almost all profitable. This Wallis, who produced nine of them, saying: "A picture Presley is the only sure thing in Hollywood."
Presley film in 1960, 15 accompanied by a soundtrack and another 5 by the soundtrack EP. rapid production of film release schedule and he often played in a period of three years affected by music. According to Jerry Leiber, the soundtrack is clear formula before leaving the army Presley. "Three walks, a medium tempo [number], an up-tempo, blues and boogie break" Over the decades, the quality of the soundtrack songs grow "worse" Julie Parrish, who appeared inParadise, Hawaiian Style (1966) . says he hates a lot of songs chosen for his films. The Jordanaires' Gordon Stoker explains how Presley would withdraw from the studio microphone ". The material was so bad that he feels like he can not sing "The majority of films featuring the album track or two authors who are respected as a team of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. But in general, according to biographer Jerry Hopkins, the numbers seem "written on order by people who never really understood Elvis or rock and roll. Regardless of the quality of the "songs, have argued that Presley generally sang well, the commitment critic Dave Marsh to claim otherwise. "Presley did not try, it might be more prudent in dealing with subjects like" no place for the Rumba in Cars "and" Rock-a-Hula Baby. "In the first half of the decade, three of The album Soundtrack Presley hit number one hits, and some of the most popular songs of his films, like "Can not Help Falling in Love" (1961) and "Return to Sender" (1962). ("Viva Las Vegas", the title song of 1964, was a minor hit as a side-B, and becoming very popular these days.) But as for artistic merit, return on sales. decreased over the five years period from 1968 to 1964 by Presley's only a ten hits:. "Crying in the Chapel" (1965), a number of gospel albums recorded in 1960 non-film, from June 1962 Press Pot Luck and November 1968 release of the soundtrack to the television special marking the return one LP of new material released by Presley: gospel album How Great Thou Art (1967) This earned him his first Grammy for Best Sacred Performance As described in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, Presley is "arguably the greatest singers of gospel of his time [and white ..] really the last rock & roll artists to gospel music as an important component of personality that his secular songs. "
Shortly before Christmas 1966, more than seven years since their first meeting, Presley proposed to Priscilla Beaulieu. They married May 1, 1967, in a brief ceremony at their suite at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. The flow formulation and assembling the soundtrack to the film rolling. It was only in October 1967, when the party soundtrack LP recorded the lowest sales for a new album, Presley, RCA Director has acknowledged the problem. "By then, of course, the damage was done," as historian Connie Kirchberg and Marc Hendrickx said. "Elvis was considered a joke by serious music lovers and have belongs to all, but fans the most faithful. "
1970-1977

Debut album 1956

The appearance on national television and debut album
On January 10, 1956, Presley made his first recordings for RCA in Nashville. Its extension to the singers now customary Moore, Black, and Fontana, pianist Floyd Cramer recorded RCA, the guitarist Chet Atkins, and three singers, including Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires quartet People to fill the sound. This session produced, moody unusual "Heartbreak Hotel", released as a single on January 27. Parker finally Presley on national television, giving it Stage Show on CBS for six performances over two months. The program, produced in New York, hosted in alternate weeks by the leaders of big band and brothersTommy and Jimmy Dorsey. After the first appearance on January 28, Presley has lived in the city to record for RCA studio in New York. The session produced eight songs, including a cover of Carl Perkins rockabilly song "Blue Suede Shoes." In February, Presley "I Forget Remember To Forget", Sun recordings originally released earlier in August, reaching a peak Billboardcountry table. Neal contract was terminated and, on March 2, Parker became Presley's manager.
RCA Victor released their first album, Presley March 23. Sun joined by five unreleased recordings, seven songs recorded recently are the big variety. There are two ways state and a catchy pop song. The other center will determine the evolution of rock and roll: "Blue Suede Shoes" - "repair of Perkins in almost every way," the critic Robert Hilburn and three R & B number that has become part of the scene directory Presley for some time, including Little Richard, Ray Charles, andthe Drifters. As described by Hilburn, this "is most revealing of all. Unlike many white artists ... simplified edge R & B and outs of the original version of the song in the '50s, Presley change their shape. He not only injected with songs vocal character itself, but also a guitar, no piano, an instrument to lead in all three cases. "She became the first rock and roll album in the Billboard top, a position he held for 10 weeks. Although Presley did not like Moore or instrumentalists innovative contemporary African-American rocker Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, cultural historian Gilbert B. Rodman claims that the album cover image, "Elvis has his time on stage with a guitar in his hands to play an important role in the position of guitar ... as an instrument that most captured the style and spirit of this new music. "Milton Berle Show and" Hound Dog "
Presley made the first of two appearances on NBC's Milton Berle Show, April 3. His performance on the deck of the USS Hancock in San Diego, prompted cheers and cries of the sailors and their dates public. A few days later, the flight taking Presley's band to Nashville for a recording session left all three very shocked when the engine died and the plane descended almost Arkansas. Twelve weeks after its release, "Heartbreak Hotel" became Presley's first number one pop. In late April, Presley began a two-week stay at New Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Strip. Showed poor received by a middle-aged guests-conservative ", as the corn liquor jug some champagne," wrote the critic for Newsweek. In the midst of its Vegas, Presley, who has serious acting ambitions, has signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. He began touring the Midwest in mid-May, through 15 cities in a few days. He showed some presence of Freddie Bell and grooms in Las Vegas and was impressed with their coverage "Hound Dog", a hit in 1952 for the blues singer Big Mama Thornton. This is a new closure amount to act. After the show in La Crosse, Wisconsin, an emergency message on the header of the local Catholic diocese newspaper sent FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. He warned that "Presley is a definite danger to the safety of U.S. action ...  and movement as sexually exciting teenagers ... .. After the show, more than 1,000 teenage gangs of room try to Presley in the auditorium. ... Indications Presley losses not only in La Crosse are two school girls ... the abdomen and thighs was the signature of Elvis. "[88]
The Milton Berle Show appearance comes second on June 5 on NBC studios in Hollywood, in the midst of another busy visit. Berle convince the singer to leave his guitar behind the scene, advised, "Let them see you, my son." During the show, Presley was suddenly interrupted uptempo return of "Hound Dog" with a wave of his arms and launched into the version, highlight the slow grinding energetic, excessive body movement. Round Presley created a storm of controversy. Television Critics angry: Jack Gould of The New York Times wrote: "Mr. Presley was not able to clear vocals ... his sentence, if it could be called that, consist of changes in stereotypes that go with the beginner in air baths .... . a specialty is an accentuated movement of the body ... especially identified with the repertoire of bombs blonde burlesque runway. "Ben Gross of New York Daily News says that popular music" has reached the depths in the 'grunt and groin' antics of one Elvis Presley. ... Elvis, who turns her pelvis ... give an exhibition suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos. "Ed Sullivan, who own variety show is the nation's most popular, said he was" unfit for family visits "Unfortunately for Presley. he soon found himself being called" the Elvis Pelvis ", which he called" one of the most childish expressions I ever heard, comin 'for adults.
Steve Allen Show and the first appearance Sullivan
Berle show attracted high ratings like that Presley recorded for July 1 hearing on Steve Allen Show on NBC in New York. Allen, not a fan of rock and roll, the introduction of a "new Elvis" in white bow tie and black tail. Presley sang "Hound Dog" less than a minute basset hound wearing a hat and tie. As described by television historian Jake Austen, "Allen thought Presley was talented and reasonable ... [she] put things so that Presley would show his remorse" Allen. For its part, has written more Later he discovered Presley "weird, thin, country-boy charisma, his wickedness is difficult to determine, and eccentricity attracted interesting" and work only singer in the "fabric comedy" traditional program. Presley to refer to Allen as the most ridiculous performance of his career. That night, he showed up at Hy Gardner Calling, a popular local television show. Pressed about whether he had learned something from the criticism he was the target, Presley replied: "No, I'm not, I do not feel like I'm doing something wrong ... I do not see. What about all types of music are a bad influence on people people when it was just music ... I mean, how rock 'n' roll to any rebel against their parents.? "
The next day, Presley recorded "Hound Dog" with "Any Way You Want Me" and "Do not Be Cruel". The Jordanaires sing in harmony, because they were on the Steve Allen Show, they will work with Presley in the 1960s. A few days later, the singer made a concert appearance in Memphis where he announced: "You know, people in New York will not change my steps. I'll show you what real Elvis is like tonight. "In August, a judge in Jacksonville, Fla., ordered Presley to tame actions. Throughout the next performance, he remained largely silent, except for wiggling his little finger suggestively in the ridiculous order. Couples single "Do not Be Cruel" with "Hound Dog" rule the charts for 11 weeks, the signs will not be exceeded for 36 years. recording sessions for the second Presley album took place in Hollywood in the first week of September. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, author of "Hound Dog", contributed "Love Me".
Allen shows with Presley for the first time, beaten The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS ratings. Sullivan, despite his announcement in June, the singer booked for three games for an unprecedented $ 50,000. The first, September 9, 1956, seen by 60 million viewers, a record 82.6 per cent of viewers. Actor Charles Laughton hosted the event, please fill in the recovery of a car accident Sullivan [93] Presley. It comes in two segments that night from the CBS television City in Hollywood. According to legend Elvis Presley has been shot only to the waist. Watch the clip shows Allen and his producer Berle, Sullivan maintains that Presley was "a certain type of device depends on the crotch of his pants leg so when he moves back and forth, you can see her pubic line . ... I think it's a bottle of Coke ... We can not have Sunday evening .. It shows the family! "Sullivan told public TV Guide," As for his turn, everything can be controlled with camera shots. "[101] In fact, Presley is shown from head to toe in first and second shows. Although the shoot was relatively calm during his debut with the foot skin close-ups when he dances, the studio audience reacted in the usual style:. Shout performance [104] [105] Presley ballad next single, "Love Me Tender," asked to destroy a record one million orders in advance. Most other single event marks the first appearance onthe Ed Sullivan Show, which made a national celebrity Presley almost unprecedented proportions.
Accompanying the increase Presley to fame, this cultural shift taking place that is good for inspiration and came to symbolize. The outbreak of "the greatest pop craze since Glenn Miller and Frank Sinatra ... Presley rock'n'roll into the mainstream of popular culture," writes historian Marty yeẓer. "As Presley set the tone art, other artists to follow ... Presley, more than anyone, give them confidence in their own youth. What is different and somehow integrated first-generation American who has never felt the power of a integrated youth culture. "
Fools and their first film
public response to performing arts Presley became increasingly hot. Moore recalled, "He will start, are you well, but Hound Dog," and they only go to pieces They. Always react the same way. There will be riots every time. "During the two concerts he performed in September at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show, 50 of the National Guard has added to the security police to avoid problems crowd. Elvis Presley's second album, released in October and quickly reached number one. Assessing the impact of music and culture of the records Presley "That's All Right" by Elvis, rock critic Dave Marsh wrote that "these cases, more than others, contain the seeds of what rock & roll, and very probably what can be expected. "
Presley returned to Sullivan show, hosted this time by its namesake, October 28. After the show, the crowd in Nashville and St. Louis burn on sculpture [93] His first film, Love Me Tender, was released on November 21 .. Although he was not charged for the original title of the film-The Reno Brothers-was changed to take advantage of his last number one record "Love Me Tender" hit the top of the charts earlier this month. To better capitalize on the popularity Presley, four musical numbers are added to what was initially a straight acting role. The film is highlighted by the critics but very well at the box office. Presley would receive top billing in all the films that followed, he did.
On December 4, Presley dropped into Sun Records where Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis were recording and jam with them. Although Phillips no longer entitled to free equipment Presley, he made sure the session was captured on tape. The results became legendary as "Million Dollar Quartet" recordings, Johnny Cash has long been regarded as having played well, but it does briefly introduce incitement to Phillips for a photo. Year ended with a front page article in the Wall Street Journal reports that Presley merchandise brought $ 22 million on the sale of his record, and declaration of Billboard that he has more songs in the top 100 than any other artist, since registration has been mapped. In the first full year on the RCA, one of the largest corporate music industry, Presley has donated more than 50 percent of sales of the single label.
Leiber and Stoller collaboration and notification of the draft
Presley was the third and final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show January 6, 1957 on this occasion was shot just below the belt. Some commentators have argued that Parker set the appearance of the probe to generate publicity. [105] [114] In any event, as criticGreil Marcus explained, Presley "can not bind down. Leaving behind his soft clothing worn in the first two shows, she went out in bizarre costumes of the pasha, if this is not a harem girl. In the mark-up over his eyes, his hair falling on his face, the players are very sexual from his mouth, he played Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik, with all stops on. "In conclusion, viewing distance and oppose Sullivan, Presley sings sweet black spiritual," peace in the valley. "At the end of the event, Sullivan said Presley" a real decent, fine boy. "Two days later, the Review Board announced that it will be Presley's Memphis classified 1A and may be arranged at times this year.
All three singles released Presley in the first half of 1957 went to number one: "Too Much," "All Shook Up" and "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear". Already an international star, he attracts fans, even if the music has not been officially published. Under "Craze in Soviet Presley recording," The New York Times reported that the music by pressing on the plaque is removed price control X-ray high in Leningrad. Between filming and recording sessions, the singer also found time to buy houses 18 rooms of eight miles (13 km) south of downtown Memphis, he and his parents to Graceland. Loving You-soundtrack to the second film, released in July, the third consecutive Presley is number one album. The title song written by Leiber and Stoller, who was arrested for writing four of the six tracks recorded in session for prison Rock, Presley's next film. Indeed the track team produce the session, and they develop a close working relationship with Presley, who came to regard them as "lucky" it. their song titles yet another number one hit, like a prison Rock EP.
Presley made a short visit of three years, continues to provoke public reaction mad [120] A Detroit newspaper suggests that "the problem to go see Elvis Presley, then you're liable to be killed.. [ 121] The Villanova students pelted him with eggs in Philadelphia, and Vancouver, a crowd of rioting after the end of the show, destroying the stadium. Frank Sinatra, who inspired the famous fainting teenage girls in the 1940s, has condemned the phenomenon of new music. In a magazine article, he denounced rock and roll as "brutal, ugly, degenerate, cruel. ... It's really encouraging about the negative and destructive reactions in young people the smell of a false and fake .. It is sung, played and written, mostly by thugs stupid ... this rancid smell aphrodisiac I deplore .. "Rapid response, Presley said:" I admire people he has the right to say what he means. It was a great success and a good actor. But I think he should not say that. ... It's a trend, as he faced when he started years ago. "
Leiber and Stoller back in the studio to record Elvis' Christmas Album. Towards the end of the session, they write a song in place at the request of Presley: "Santa Claus Is Back In Town", a blues innuendo supported. Released holiday tightrope Presley album number one to four years and eventually become the best selling album of all time Christmas. After the meeting, Moore and Black-weekly pay just a single image, no sharing of the financial success of Presley resign. Although they have been reduced on a per diem few weeks later, it is clear they are not part of Presley's inner circle for some time. On December 20, Presley received his draft notice. He was given a deadline for deciding the future King Creole, which $ 350,000 has been invested by Paramount and producer of The Wallis. A few weeks after the new year, "Do not", another Leiber and Stoller air, Presley became the tenth number one seller. Only 21 months since "Heartbreak Hotel" to raise for the first time. The recording sessions for the soundtrack of King Creole was held in Hollywood in mid-January. Leiber and Stoller offers three songs and was again on hand, but it will be the last time they worked with Presley. studio session on February 1, marked another end: it is the last chance for black to go with Presley. He died in 1965.

Military service and maternal mortality (1958-1960)
On March 24, Presley was named to the U.S. Army as a private at Fort Chaffee near Fort Smith, Arkansas. Captain Arlie Metheny, information officer, is not ready for media attention drawn by the arrival of the singer. Hundreds of people took to Presley as she stepped off the bus, the photographer, then accompanied him down. Presley announced she was looking forward to military service, said he would not be treated differently from others: ". The army can do whatever he wanted with me "Later, at Fort Hood, Texas, Lt. Col. Marjorie Schulten give the media carte blanche for a day, after which he said Presley off-limits to the press .
Shortly after Presley started basic training at Fort Hood, he received a visit from Eddie Fadal, a businessman whom she met during a tour in Texas. Fadal reports that Presley had become convinced of his career is over, "It is very safe." During the two week holiday in early June, Presley cut five games in Nashville. He resumed training, but in early August hepatitisand her mother was diagnosed with his condition deteriorated. Presley was granted emergency leave to visit her, arriving in Memphis on August 12. Two days later he died of heart failure, aged 46. Presley destroyed, they remain very close, even in adulthood, they will use baby talk with each other and Presley the address with a company name.
After training at Fort Hood, Presley joined the 3rd Armored Division in Friedberg, Germany, October 1. Presented by Sergeant amphetamines when maneuvering, it has become "almost evangelical about their benefits," not only for energy, but to "force" and weight as well and many of his friends joined him in clothing in paradise. The army also introduced Presley to karate, where he studied seriously, and then included in his live performances. Military, must be proved Presley wanted to be perceived as an army capable of normal, despite fame, and his generosity in service. He donated the Army to pay for charity, buy a TV for the base, and buy an extra set of uniforms for everyone in his clothes.
While in Friedberg, met Priscilla Beaulieu Presley 14. They are finally getting married after dating for seven and half year. In his autobiography, Priscilla said that despite fears it could destroy his career, Presley Parker believes that to gain respect from people, he must serve the country as an ordinary soldier is not in the special services, where he will be able to give several performances of music and still associated with the public. The media echoed the concerns of Presley's career, but the producer Steve Sholes and Freddy Bienstock RCA Hill and Range carefully prepared for his two-year hiatus. Armed with a large amount of unpublished material, they continue to release regular flow of success. Between induction and discharge, Presley had ten top 40 hits, including "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" "Hard Headed Woman" bestseller, and "One Night" in 1958, and "(Now and Then There is) As I Fool number one and "A Big Hunk O 'Love" in 1959. RCA has also managed to produce a long four compilation albums of material during this period, most successful Elvis' Golden (1958), which hit number three on the LP map.


1966-1969|1970-1977

Early live performances & First recordings (1953–55)

In August 1953, Presley went into Sun Records Office aims to pay for studio time to record a few minutes drive to two sidedacetate: "My Happiness" and "That's when your sorrow begin." Later he would claim he intended to record as a gift for his mother, or simply interested in what it "looks like", although there are a lot cheaper, fans to create records of service to the general store nearby. biographer Peter Guralnick claims that he chose the sun in the hope that it finds. Asked by singer Marion Keisker this kind of reception her, Presley replied, "I sing all types." When she pressed him about who he looked like, he repeatedly answered, "I do not look like anyone." After noting, Sun boss Sam Phillips asked Keisker save the child's name, what he did with his own comment: "Good ballad singer .. Hold" Presley cut an acetate January 2, 1954 - " I never will Stand In Your Way "and" It would be the same without you ", but again nothing came of it.

Shortly after he failed an audition for a vocal quartet local Songfellows. He told his father, "they said I can not sing." Songfellow Jim Hamill later claimed she was dismissed because she showed no ear for harmony at the time. In April, Presley began working for Crown Electric Company as a truck driver. His friend Ronnie Smith, after playing some local gigs with him, suggested he contact Eddie Bond, a professional conductor Smith, who has the opening song. Bonds fell after a trial, Presley advised to continue to drive the truck "because you never will do as a singer."

Phillips Meanwhile, still looking for someone who can do the voice of black musicians on which Sun is brought to a wider audience. As Keisker said, "Many times I remember Sat saying:" If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and Negro feel, I can make a billion dollars. "" In June, he received a recording a demo of the song, "Without You", which he thought might suit teenage singers. Presley came to the studio, but can not do it justice. However, Phillips called Presley to sing the numbers as much as what 'he knew. He was very affected by what he heard to invite two local musicians, guitarist Winfield "Scotty" Moore and bassist Bill Black standing, something to work with Presley for the recording session.

This session, held on July 5 nights all proved fruitless until late at night. When they will give up and go home, Presley took the guitar and launches into a blues number in 1946, Arthur Crudup of "That's All Right". Moore recalled, "Suddenly, Elvis began to sing this song, jump around and act stupid, and then bill back the bass, and he started to act stupid, too, and I started playing them with Sam. I believe, has a door open the checkpoint ... He leaned out and said: "What are you doing?" And we said, "We do not know." "Well, back up, he said," try to find a place to start, and do it again. "Phillips quickly start recording, the sound he was looking for. Three days later, a popular Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips played "That's All Right" on the living room red, hot, and Blue. Listeners began calling in, wanting to know who is the singer. interest was such that Phillips played a record several times over the last two hours of the event. Presley on-air interview, Phillips was asked what school he attended to specify color for callers who often assume he was black. Over the next few days, the trio recorded the number of bluegrass, Bill Monroe "Blue Moon of Kentucky", again in typical style and using a makeshift echo effect that Sam Phillips was nicknamed "slapback ". One button with "That's All Right" on side A and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" on the back.
In the early shows and signed to RCA
The trio played in public for the first time at the club on July 17, Bon Air, Presley was still wearing a guitar body size of children. In the end, they appeared at the Overton Park Shell, with Slim Whitman headlining. The combination of a strong response to the pace and nervous playing in front of a crowd led by Presley shook his leg as she played: wide-cut pants emphasized his motion, causing the young woman in the audience to start yelling. Moore recalled, "During the instrumental part he would resign from the microphone and playing and shaking, and the crowd is going to be wild" [53] Black, a natural showman. Rejoice and take his bass, knocking twice lick Presley will be remembered as "the voice is really wild, like jungle drums or something."
Soon after, Moore and Black out of their former band to play regularly with Presley, and DJ and promoter Bob Neal became director of the trio. From August to October, they often play in clubs Eagle's Nest and returned to Sun Studio recording sessions more, and fast-growing Presley more confident on stage. According to Moore, "His movement is normal, but he was also very aware of what was the reaction he will do something once and then it will expand with real quick .." Presley did what would be the only appearance at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville on Oct. 2, after a polite audience response, Opry manager Jim Denny Phillips said that the singer is "not bad" but not by the program. Two weeks later, Presley was booked on the Louisiana Hayride, head of the Opry, and adventure, a rival. Shreveport-based show broadcast to 198 radio stations in 28 countries. Presley had a nervous breakdown during the first series, which drew mixed reaction. A more tranquil and the second game inspired energetic enthusiastic response. Homes drummer DJ Fontana brings a new element, with the beats accented movement Presley that mastered playing in clubs. Immediately after the event, Hayride involved Presley in the value of appearances on Saturday night. Trade in his old guitar for $ 8 (and see immediately sent to the trash), he bought the tools Martin $ 175, and his trio began playing in new places, including Houston, Texas, and Texarkana , Arkansas.
In early 1955, Presley Hayride regular appearances, tour constantly, and the notes were well received has made him a regional star significantly, from Tennessee to West Texas. In January, Neal has signed a management contract with Presley and formal setting singers to the attention of Colonel Tom Parker, who was considered the best promoter of the music industry. Of Dutch origin Parker, although he claimed to be from West Virginia has a commission-colonel of the Governor of Louisiana turned country singer Jimmie Davis. After successfully completing high state star Eddy Arnold, he is currently working with the first country singer Hank Snow. Parker has been a Presley tour in February snow. When the tour reached Odessa, Texas, a 19-year Roy Orbison saw Presley for the first time: "His energy is incredible, his instinct just incredible ... I do not know what it does .. It no reference point in the culture to compare them. "Presley made his television debut on March 3 at KSLA-TV broadcast Louisiana Hayride. Shortly after he failed an audition for scouts in the Arthur Godfrey television network CBS. In August, Sun has released ten sides credited to "Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill" in the latest recording, the trio joined with drummer. Some songs, like "That's All Right", is what the journalist described Memphis as "language R & B to jazz field nigger", others, like "Blue Moon of Kentucky", "more in the country" "But there are curious combination of two different songs in" both. This mix of musical styles, it is difficult to find Presley broadcasting. According to Neal, a large number of jockeys country music CD not play, because it sounded too much like a black artist and no rhythm and blues stations will not touch it because "it looks too much like a village." The mixture became known as rockabilly. At the time, Presley varied as "The King of Western Bop", "The Hamlet of cat", and "The Memphis Flash". Presley Neal management contract was extended in August 1955, at the same time appoint Parker As special adviser. This group is maintained by an extensive tour throughout the second half of this year. Neal recalled, "It was almost frightening, the reaction that came to Elvis's teenage children Many them. As a sort of jealousy, would practically hate him. There are opportunities in several Texas cities when we should be sure to have a police guard because somebody'd always tried to take a crack at him that 'they will. get the gang and tried to stop him or something. "Trio is a quartet when drummer Hayride Fontana join as full members. In mid-October, they played a few shows of support from Bill Haley "Rock Around the Clock" is a number one hit last year. Haley notes that Presley has a natural feel for rhythm, and suggested she sing ballads less.
In the State Disk Jockey Convention in early November, Presley was voted Most Promising Male Artist of the year. Some record companies have by now shown interest in signing him. After three major labels have made offers up to $ 25,000, Parker and Phillips entered into an agreement with RCA Victor November 21, to acquire Presley's Sun contract for an unprecedented $ 40,000. Presley, 20, still small that his father signed the contract. Parker agreed with the owner of Hill and Range Publishing, Jean and Julian Aberbach, to create two entities, and Gladys Music Elvis Presley, to treat all new material recorded by Presley. Songwriter forced to abandon their use of a third of the royalties in return he has played in their composition. In December, RCA began to really promote the new singer, and before the end of the month has been reissued several of his recordings Sun.