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