This August 16 met 39 years since he died Elvis Presley , the second most successful of all time artist in terms of records sold (600 million) behind the Beatles
His legacy is undeniable. it was the first musician to dance so wild on stage and could throw the racial barriers that existed at the time , to commercialize the genre of rock and roll, created by Chuck Berry and especially oriented blacks in the 50′s, and transformed it into something cool and revolutionary for the time.
like many artists, untidy and had a life full of excesses. Before perishing, suffering from glaucoma, high blood pressure and liver damage, product abuse tons of drugs in the body ingestó.
His girlfriend, Ginger Alden , who went to visit her apartment, found him unconscious on the floor one day on August 16, 1977. The woman called health personnel tried to revive him and took him to a hospital in Memphis , but the news was official: Elvis Presley died at 15:30 pm at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
in commemoration of the 39 years since he died, T13.cl gathered information about some aspects of his life that may not know.
1. The black cod king of rock & amp; roll was not that color, but brown. Elvis dyed her hair all the time he was famous.
2. When he was 11, Elvis wanted at all costs a bicycle. But her mother, noticing some artistic sensitivity on your child, gave him a guitar . Then the musician gave his mother his first recording at age 18, which cost $ 4.
3. His first nickname was Little Elvis as a child. Later, after appearing on the television show Milton Berle in 1956, the movement of her hips caused such a stir that the nickname Elvis the Pelvis won . However, his friends, musicians and family affectionately called him “E”.
4. When I was a kid Elvis was a fan of Captain Marvel Jr . His hair, his sideburns, his white suit and beam used as a logo come from the super hero.
In addition, the beam captain became part of decorating your home, her jewels and her private jet.
5. Despite its enormous success worldwide, Elvis came only after international tour in 1957, when he appeared three days in Canada. This is because your manager, Tom Parker , was an illegal immigrant Dutchman, who could be deported if she asked for a US passport.
6. Elvis he participated in a contest imitators of Elvis in a restaurant … and won third place.
7. Presley shot a total of 31 films in his career. The second was “Loving you” , where her parents appear as extras. After the death of his mother in 1957, never again see her anymore , according to the artist confessed to estadpunidenses media.
8. one of his best friends was Johnny Cash. Both musicians were equally rupturistas for the time
9. Elvis he was two years in the Navy United States and earned $ 78 a month. That meeting in the military, he met his future wife. Priscilla Beaulieu, who at that time was 14
10 Singer Barry White , before being known worldwide, was in prison for stealing a vehicle wheels and one day when he was in the penitentiary heard “it’s Now or Never” launched in 1960, and in that time decided to stop crime to pursue music.
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