“When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.”- Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley had always been into music and got his first guitar at age eleven. Elvis had always wanted to be a performer and recorded his first album at the age of eighteen. Although the album was only for his mother, he felt as if he had accomplished something. The songs Elvis wrote were all rock and roll songs in the beginning. Elvis was known for all of his rock and roll songs and was named “The King of Rock”. Elvis had a song that was different than the rock and roll songs he wrote before. This song was inspired by a suicide, Elvis and a few others heard about a suicide that was in the newspaper and read