Happy Birthday Elvis!

January 8, 2018

The Elvis Birthday Proclamation Ceremony gets underway this morning at Graceland’s North Lawn, celebrating the birth of Elvis, January 8th, 1935. Today’s ceremony will be followed up by the ribbon cutting of his new “Hollywood Backlot” exhibit later in the day…

Elvis died in his bathroom in his luxurious Memphis home on August 16th, 1977.

Elvis Aaron Presley was born into poor Tupelo, MS family; born as a twin, losing his twin brother Jesse Garon Presley 30 minutes before his birth. In 1954 Elvis made a recording for his mother at Sun Records (Sam Phillips) the secretary was so blown away by his sound, she ran out to get Sam before he left for the night.

Elvis recorded thousands of songs but never wrote any of them. Elvis was a performer and not at all the writer. He won three Grammys and earned a Lifetime Achieve Award and is in many Halls of Fame.

Elvis was at once time a truck driver working for the Crown Electric Company? We almost lost Elvis in a tornado when he was 15 years of age in Tupelo, MS. He was prescribed over 10,000 pills the year he died.
The estate of Elvis is valued at over $300 million; in 2017 the estate made an estimated $55 million, a figure that is typical over the years.

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Photo credit: American Spirit / Shutterstock.com

Written by: Vipology Staff Writer

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