Elvis Presley Biography

Biography

over $1 million in sales and earning him his first gold album award.

The young artist attracted much attention as he made a controversy by doing a sensuous dance while singing "Hound Dog" at the Milton Berle Show in June 1956. The adult and religious community objected the seductive performance, but ever since, the hip-movement became Elvis' trademark. With his good look and unusual sideburns style, he soon became an idol to fanatics, especially females. "Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess," says Elvis talking about his way of moving on stage.

After the Milton Berle Show controversy, he decided to make another step. He signed a seven-year movie contract with Hal Wallis and Paramount Pictures and started his first movie "Love Me Tender" (1956). Several of his movies, "Jailhouse Rock" (1957), "King Creole" (1958) and "Flaming Star" (1960), were all considered the best and received good reviews from movie critics. Meanwhile, where in "Jailhouse Rock" his acting was regarded as his best act ever, his appearance in “Flaming Star,” an interracial drama with limited music, earned appreciation from a Native ...

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American tribal. And for all his life, Elvis has starred in 31 movies, including the fanatics' favorite "Blue Hawaii" (1961) and "Viva Las Vegas" (1964).

He spent some of his movie earnings to buy a Graceland Mansion, where his parents along with his paternal grandmother were brought to move in. After his death in 1977, Graceland as well as his house in Tupelo open for public and have had a mansion tour for every place, except the upstairs to keep the family privacy. Elvis and Gladys' remains are laid in Graceland after an attempted theft of his body from the previous grave at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis. And based on the amount of the visitors, Graceland became the second most famous home after the White House and noted on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Moreover, a fashionable boutique hotel called "Heartbreak Hotel" was also built for visitors convenient.

In 1956, Elvis had to leave Graceland and was sent to U.S. Army for a two years duty at Memphis Draft Board. He cut his famous hair and thus, creating a new G.I. haircut style. He was sent to Fort Hood, Texas, for basic training and stationed there ...