Elvis Aaron Presley
(January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977)
was an American
singer and actor.
Often referred to as the
"King of Rock and Roll"
or simply
"The King"
he is widely regarded as
one of the most
culturally significant figures
of the
20th century.
Presley's energetic and
sexually provocative
performance style,
combined with a mixture of
influences across color lines
during a transformative era
in race relations,
brought both great success
and initial controversy.
Presley was born in
Tupelo, Mississippi;
his family moved to
Memphis, Tennessee,
when he was 13.
He began his music career
in 1954
at Sun Records with
the producer
Sam Phillips,
who wanted to bring
the sound of
African-American music
to a wider audience.
Presley, on guitar
and accompanied by
the guitarist
Scotty Moore
on lead and the bassist
Bill Black,
was a pioneer of rockabilly,
an uptempo,
backbeat-driven fusion of
country music
and rhythm and blues.
In 1955,
the drummer
D. J. Fontana
joined to complete
the lineup
of Presley's classic quartet
and RCA Victor
acquired his contract
in a deal arranged by
Colonel Tom Parker,
who managed him
for the rest of his career.
Presley's first RCA Victor single,
"Heartbreak Hotel",
was released in
January 1956
and became a
number-one hi
t in the US.
Within a year,
RCA Victor sold
ten million Presley singles.
With a series of successful
television appearances
and chart-topping records,
Presley became the leading figure
of the newly popular
rock and roll,
though his performing style
and promotion of the
then-marginalized sound of
African Americans led
to his being widely considered
a threat to the moral
well-being of
white American youth.
In November 1956,
Presley made his film debut in
Love Me Tender.
Drafted into military service
in 1958,
he relaunched his
recording career
two years later
with some of his
most commercially successful work.
Presley held few concerts,
and, guided by Parker,
devoted much of the 1960s
to making Hollywood films
and soundtrack albums,
most of them critically derided.
Some of Presley's most
Famous films included
Jailhouse Rock
(1957),
Blue Hawaii
(1961),
and
Viva Las Vegas
(1964).
In 1968,
he returned to the stage
in the acclaimed
NBC television
comeback special Elvis,
which led to an extended
Las Vegas concert residency
and several highly
profitable tours.
In 1973,
Presley gave the first concert
by a solo artist to be
broadcast around the world,
Aloha from Hawaii.
Many years of substance abuse
and unhealthy eating
severely compromised his health,
and Presley died in
August 1977
at his Graceland estate
at the age of 42.
Presley is one of the
best-selling
music artists in history,
having sold an estimated
500 million records worldwide
.He was commercially successful
in many genres,
including pop,
country,
rock and roll,
rockabilly,
rhythm and blues,
adult contemporary,
and gospel.
Presley won
three Grammy Awards,
received the Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award
at age 36,
and has been posthumously
inducted into multiple
music halls of fame.
He holds several records,
including the most
Recording Industry
Association of America
(RIAA)-certified
gold and platinum albums,
the most albums
charted on the
Billboard 200,
the most number-one albums
by a solo artist on
the UK Albums Chart,
and the most number-one
singles by any act
on the UK Singles Chart
. In 2018,
Presley was
posthumously
awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Notes :
This Is A Little Something
To Celebrate The Life
of
"THE KING"
ELVIS PRESLEY
This Is A 4 CD
Box Set I Made
(Just Took The Cover From Somewhere Else)
It Is A Box Set
First Two CD's are
Slow Tunes
And Last Two
Are
Fast Songs
From Throughout
His Career
Cover Songs,
Live Songs,
Demos
TRACKLIST
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