Elvis Presley: The King lives on
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maro_pat
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January, 08 2008
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 Elvis Presley: The King lives on
A Mississippi Blues Trail marker will be placed at the birthplace of Elvis Presley on Tuesday. The ceremony will honor Presley for his contribution to Mississippi and America's blues heritage.
He was born in Tupelo on Jan. 8, 1935. Elvis Presley died at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tenn., on Aug. 16, 1977. He first encountered the blues in Tupelo, and it remained central to his music throughout his career.
He started his career under the name the Hillbilly Cat and was soon nicknamed Elvis the Pelvis because of his sexually suggestive performance style. Though Presley was repeatedly dismissed as vulgar, incompetent and a bad influence. However the force of his music and image signaled to the mainstream culture it was time for a change.
“People asked him how he got interested in music, and he said before Elvis Presley, there was nothing. Elvis led to the Beatles, which led to so much more great music. He really got rock ’n’ roll jumpstarted,” said Wyatt Lilly, owner of Cheap Thrills Records in Princeton.
"By all accounts, Elvis Presley was the single greatest influence on modern-day rock 'n' roll in America, and much of his musical inspiration drew on the Mississippi blues," Gov. Haley Barbour said in a statement Friday.
The event is sponsored by the Mississippi Development Authority's Tourism Heritage Trails Program, the Mississippi Blues Commission, the Tupelo Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Elvis Presley Birthplace Museum.
Even people who never saw Elvis Presley in concert will always remember him.
Elvis Day - January 8th, our tribute to the "King" of rock. |
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