ELVIS IS DEAD! Today in 1977: Popular music icon Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 42. The death of the "King of Rock and Roll" brought legions of mourning fans to Graceland, his mansion in Memphis. Doctors said he died of a heart attack, likely brought on by his addiction to prescription barbiturates.
Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935. His twin brother, Jesse, died during the birth. Elvis grew up dirt-poor in Tupelo and Memphis and found work as a truck driver after high school. When he was 19, he walked into a Memphis recording studio and paid $4 to record a few songs as a present to his mother. Sam Philips, the owner of the studio, was intrigued by the rough, soulful quality of his voice and invited Presley back to practice with some local musicians. After Philips heard Elvis sing the rhythm-and-blues song "That's All Right," which Presley imbued with an accessible country-and-western flavor, he agreed to release the rendition as a single on his Sun Records label. The recording went to the top of the local charts, and Presley's career was launched.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
I remember watching Elvis's first movie, "Love Me Tender". Elvis dies at the end of the movie and as the curtain closed, Elvis was singing the Love Me Tender theme... Girls crying, running out of the theater in hysterics, throwing themselves on the theater floor... it was hilarious!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I remember watching Elvis's first movie, "Love Me Tender". Elvis dies at the end of the movie and as the curtain closed, Elvis was singing the Love Me Tender theme... Girls crying, running out of the theater in hysterics, throwing themselves on the theater floor... it was hilarious!
I happened to be in the same city when the two biggest southern icons (imho) in the last 75 years died...Elvis Presley and Dale Earnhardt. Both times I was in Myrtle Beach, SC. Each one was treated probably as or more important than a presidential assassination.
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