Elvis Aaron Presley - Elvis Aaron Presley - KingRock and roll, the creator of rockabilly - the merger of blues and country. He was not the first performer of rock and roll, but managed to become the most commercially successful popularizer. World popularity has not left him after death, his numerous collections are republished regularly and in our time. His biography and music will probably never cease to find a mass of followers, just fans and fans. More than a billion of his records are sold; Presley is a three-time Grammy Award winner. And if anyone in this world is not given death and oblivion, then this is probably Elvis Presley.
The most famous musician was born in January 1935in Mississippi. The town of Tüpelo, where Elvis’s parents lived, Vernon and Gladys Presley, was religious and musical, like most of the provincial towns of the American South. It is difficult to determine exactly what family roots fed the talented boy: in his family were immigrants from Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Normandy, and even Cherokee Indians.
The family was not rich, and this is putting it mildly.Vernon had a mild nature, and probably this inability to defend himself affected his fate, he even spent two years in prison on a strange accusation of forging checks. Argued that here he was framed.
Elvis Presley, whose biography is reviewed inthe article, being a boy, literally grew up in a church, from the earliest years began to sing in the choir and so touched his parents that they gave him a guitar for the eleventh anniversary (they did not have enough money for the bicycle that Elvis dreamed of). Perhaps the parents also chose the guitar because by that time Elvis sang not only in the temple - he managed to get a prize at the annual fair after performing folk songs from the stage.
В 1948 году семья переезжает в штат Теннесси, в Memphis, where there was much more opportunity to find a job for Elvis parents. It was there that the famous singer first touched the music that made his life. It was this music from the Negro quarters that helped make an ordinary boy the star that Elvis Presley became. His biography as a musician has just begun.
However, the first tests of instant success are nothave brought. Even a teacher of singing at school noticed that he could not sing. But Elvis stubbornly took guitar lessons, knocked down the yard musical team, with which he played and sang right in front of the country and gospel house. And his neighbors at home from time to time visited the brothers Burnett and Johnny Black. In the future, Burnetta - rockabilly stars, and John - the bassist in the team of Elvis Presley.
But it is in the future.In the meantime, Elvis saved up eight dollars and recorded two songs in the studio Memphis Recording Service: “My Happiness” and That’s When Your Heartaches Begin. He said that as a gift to my mother. Phillips Elvis liked, he even ordered the secretary to take note of the boy.
However, it did not go further.No proposals were received, the quartet was not accepted, the audition at the Memphis club failed. One and all asserted that the singer from him will not work. And Elvis Presley, whose biography was so unpretentious at that time, continued to drive a truck.
Only in June 1954, Sam Phillips rememberedliked the singer and invited him to sample. As a performer of the song Without You, Presley did not impress again, but after a week, rehearsing with guitarist Moore and bassist Black, during the break, he began playing the familiar blues in a completely new manner, so exciting that his colleagues immediately joined, and already came to these sounds and Phillips himself.
So was recorded that’s all right, whichthe disc jockey on the radio was forced to repeat several times an hour. The singer who conquered the audience was Elvis Presley. Biography Presley as a musician began on this day. A few days later, without letting go of luck, Presley, Black and Moore recorded Blue Moon of Kentucky - the single became the fourth in the charts and was sold in a circulation of twenty thousand copies. Elvis Presley, whose work was only just beginning to understand, began to follow the path designated by the stars.
Элвис и его друзья по удаче начали выступать по the clubs, on the radio, recorded the second single - Good Rockin "Tonight, then three more and gradually gained popularity. After a year, Presley's records became crowded in the American South. They started writing about the singer in the magazines Billboard and Cashbox as a future star Country. In January 1956, Elvis Presley was recorded - the first swallow under the name "Elvis Presley", whose albums after this success recorded inspiration itself. And the success was tremendous: first place in the USA charts, a million LPs with this album were sold out almost instantly.
Quickly found a singer glory truly nationalscale, and even more: his singles began to occupy the first places in England, Canada, Australia, as well as in Italy and South Africa. His records were not sold in the USSR, but in 1957 he was more popular than anyone else in Moscow. So, Presley performs on television, gives concerts and, of course, writes new material. And in October 1956, he was first named the King of Rock and Roll, it was the magazine "Variety". Rock roll Elvis Presley did not come up with himself, it was done before him. But the best modern music in the world of rock and roll has become thanks to the talent that Elvis has invested in the performance.
Elvis in 1956, starred in the movie "Love megently ", was very keen and busy, but the second album - Elvis - was made first-class. As a result - the first place of the charts. At the same time a completely unplanned album thundered when Elvis came to Memphis to visit Sam Phillips. Karl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis, the musicians staged a jam session, as the journalists put it, “The Million Dollar Quartet.” The Million Dollar Quartet was not immediately released, in 1980, when I couldn’t add anything. to Elvis's exceptional fame, but the fans were crying.
And Presley continued to act in films.He liked it. As a result, we have nine films - real evidence of the singer's charm. It was then that he (for the film) dyed his hair black and never returned to the natural color again. Is that in 1958, when he had to serve in the American army. Yes, and in the army was Elvis Presley, his biography is capacious.
During the service, Elvis did not give a single concert.He served in the tank division in West Germany. During this time, he lost his mother and found a wife. He served merrily: he rented a house where his friends came, the father and other relatives moved in, and Elvis Presley spent his time there. Rock and then was in his life.
Priscilla Bewley he first sawfourteen in 1959. They began dating and were later married. Very soon - in 1967 Elvis skillfully combined his service in the army with the recordings of his new music, singles were constantly coming out in a year! Four LPs with albums. And in 1960, Presley still dragged the film career, and he moved to Hollywood.
Movies Elvis has played for the most partviewership had no success, with the exception of "Blue Hawaii". In principle, all the films where Presley took part were started only for the sake of his music. In the meantime, new stars came to rock and roll, and they were no less significant. Trends in the music industry changed under the "British invasion": in 1965, Presley secretly met The Beatles.
Only the Beatles and Elvis Presley - photo,press releases and stuff were missing. After this meeting, Presley recorded another album with a religious component - How Great Thou Art. For this work, he received the second Grammy award. The main task assigned to the sound engineers by Elvis was to reconsider the role of the instruments and bring the sound to the level of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
By 1969, Elvis from rock and roll almostwalked away His recordings at the American Memphis Studio combine country, rhythm and blues and pop. There were released two albums with session musicians of the studio: From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis, which are considered his best works.
In Las Vegas, Elvis Presley, whose workas if getting a second wind, he created the group of musicians who accompanied him to the end of his life: this is a rock band with guitarist Burton, Negro vocalists of The Sweet Inspirations, the gospel quartet The Imperials is the only group that Elvis subsequently had to part with, replacing it with The Stamps, and a thirty-five-piece symphony orchestra. Within a month, this line-up gave fifty-eight concerts.
Back in 1958, it seemed that ahead was absolutelystraight, without any obstacles the way. But it happened to Elvis completely unexpected. So, in 1962, he suddenly disappeared after a concert in Memphis. What assumptions did not make the press! A singer with a lush coc on his forehead, meanwhile, was sitting in his mansion and reading the Bible. True, in the breaks he shot pistols sightingly - at expensive knick-knacks. No boredom, no apathy, no whiskey, no drugs.
When Priscilla and Elvis reunited in 1967Presley (the photos of this time are great!), Melancholy, seemed to be the end: as soon as Lisa-Maria was born, Elvis began touring and in 1971 again entered the top ten most popular personalities in the United States. Five years have been undisturbed, and if we take into account the rhythm of the life of a creative person, this is very, very much. Then the wife took her daughter and left the singer, tired of fighting the bad habits of her husband.
Presley was one of a hundred and fifty Americans,Having a black belt, however, neither training nor close acquaintance with Bruce Lee saved the singer from alcohol, depression and gluttony. He tried to fight: he was treated by the doctors, he was starving on his own, but by the mid-seventies it was clear that Elvis was seriously ill. And in 1977, August 16, Presley was found dead. Fourteen types of drugs were found in his blood.
Priscilla grieved like no one, but she had the strengthturn Graceland, where Elvis almost always lived, into a house-museum. After the White House is the most visited place in America so far. Many idols knew the world. The same Sinatra, from which the ladies in rapt fainting fell. But Elvis is different. Such passions on earth have not yet been.
