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A live concert to me is exciting because of all the
electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
Elvis Presley
Drafted into the US Army on August 16, 1958, they assigned ElvisNine to the 3rd Armored Division in Friedberg, West Germany.
Nineteen years later on this day, the world lost an icon, August 16, 1977. Elvis Presley died today at 42 from heart failure. Then girlfriend Ginger Alde found him lying on his bathroom floor.
His first record for RCA, ‘Heartbreak Hotel‘ was also his first US No.1. He starred in 31 films. Elvis holds the record for the most entries on the US Hot 100 chart with 154. Elvis became the first rock ‘n’ roll artist honored by the US Postal Service with a stamp.
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.
Elvis Presley
Trivia
Elvis stepped on British soil only one time in his life. In 1960, after completing his national service and flying back to America, the plane carrying him stopped for refueling at Prestwick Airport, Scotland.
His first public appearance was at age 10 in a talent contest. Elvis came second at the Mississippi, Alabama Dairy Show, singing ‘Old Shep’.
They fired him from his job at Loew’s State Theatre during 1952 after punching a fellow usher. The usher had told the manager that Elvis was getting free candy from the girl at the concession stand.
Elvis Presley was a big Monty Python fan. His favorite film was The Holy Grail. It was in his video recorder when he died.
In 1957, they rushed Elvis to a Los Angeles hospital after swallowing a porcelain cap from one of his front teeth, which then lodged itself in one of his lungs.
Sheet metal worker Louis Balint punched Elvis at a Hotel in Toledo, claiming that his wife’s love for the singer had caused his marriage to break up. They fined Balint $19.60 but ended up being jailed after he could not pay the fine.
In 1957, Elvis purchased the stately mansion ‘Graceland’ in Whitehaven, Memphis. He paid $102,500 for the property the Graceland Christian Church had previously used which.
In 1958, Elvis Presley’s ‘Hound Dog’, exceeded three million copies in the USA, becoming only the third single to do so.
American Juke Boxes named Hound Dog the most played record of all time in 1988.
Elvis was the first rock ‘n’ roll artist honored by the US Postal Service with an Elvis Forever commemorative stamp.
Elvis has scored 21 UK No.1 singles, had 130 UK hit singles, and spent over 1170 weeks on the UK singles chart. Making him the No.1 artist of all time.
In 1997, a report showed that Elvis was the world’s best-selling posthumous entertainer. With worldwide sales over 1 billion, over 480 active fan clubs, and about 250,000 UK fans still buying his records.
In Switzerland, it is illegal to cut a front lawn while dressed as Elvis Presley.
The lightest Elvis ever weighed as a six-foot-tall adult was 170 lbs in 1960 following his discharge from the U.S. Army. The heaviest was at the time of his death, which was 260 lbs.
Elvis became a karate black belt in 1960 and used karate moves in his stage shows.
Preseucoila imallshookupis is a species of gall wasp derived from the Elvis Presley song ‘All Shook Up’.
In 1977 there were 170 Elvis impersonators. By 2002 there were 85,000. At that rate of growth, by 2019 a third of the world’s population will be Elvis impersonators.
