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Alaina Hodges Mrs. Doerr 7th Grade ELA 19 March 2024 Elvis Presley “Presley’s biggest selling single, spending a record-setting 11 weeks at number one in 1956 – a record which stood for 36 years.” This song was none other than “Hound Dog” (Susan Pennington et al., 2024). This is a fine example of how absolutely amazing Elvis Presley was. He held a number one record for 11 weeks and 36 nobody could beat that (Funk). Elvis used to go to the Church of Music (Funk). Elvis Presley was one of the most talented singers in America. Elvis was supposed to be a twin, but his brother was stillborn. As a kid, Elvis would attend a Pentecostal church. Elvis would also go to an all-night gospel singing group. After high school, Elvis was a truck driver. During …show more content…

Elvis died a very embarrassing death on the toilet trying to have a bowel movement. The strain of it all caused Elvis to die of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, also known as a heart attack. “Like so many rock stars, including Michael Jackson and Prince, Elvis employed an all-too-willing physician to feed his addiction and hasten his death” (Markle). This quote is an example of how doctors of celebrities feed the addiction thinking that is helping but it only gave them a shortened life (Markle). Ultimately, Elvis Presley died very old and bloated and just wasn’t quite the same man he was at the beginning of his career. Elvis died at the young age of 42 and his death was pronounced at 3:30 p.m. Many people important to Elvis did not want other people to find out the truth about Elvis’s death. Many people in Elvis’s life worry that if the cause of Elvis’s death goes away it could ruin his reputation forever. Elvis did have struggles in his life and those struggles made it harder during his career but he was passionate about what he did and he went out on the stage and sang like it was his last performance. That was what made Elvis Presley the greatest singer in

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He would go on to be a national star in 1956 and “according to Billboard, Elvis had 149 charting pop singles: 114 Top 40, 40 Top Ten, and 18 Number Ones (Elvis Presley Biography). Not even his draft into the army on March 28th, 1958, could hinder his career. In fact, “in 1958 alone, Presley earned over $2 million” and once he returned to civilian life he would create his first stereo record and would later film a TV special with Frank Sinatra (Elvis Presley Biography). The rock and roll legend Elvis Presley came from very humble beginnings, but would grow into The King, one of the largest names in the history of rock and roll.

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