Elvis Presley Ringtones
Rock and roll singer and actor. Born in a modest family, the young Elvis Presley was forced to work at a very early age. At eleven years and at his insistence his parents bought him his first guitar.
In 1948, his family moved to Memphis, one of the centers of musical activity in the country. When Elvis was barely nineteen years, the producer Sam Phillips, owner of Sun Records, decided to edit a single including the tracks That’s All Right and Blue Moon of Kentucky. This first attempt opened the door of a country music radio show, Louisiana Hayride with an emission spectrum comprising thirteen states.
In 1955, with its increasing popularity, Elvis Presley joined the RCA label. The 1956 was a landmark year for the course of Elvis, thanks to the theme Heartbreak Hotel, which sold three hundred thousand copies in three weeks and ended up being the first of his gold records. He also recorded his first LP, entitled Elvis Presley, which reached one million copies sold, and pledged for seven years with the Paramount film studios, eager to hire a teen idol and pop back then attacks provoked hysteria among the attendees to their concerts.
His television appearances began to be common and the amounts paid by them hit record highs in the history of the medium. Alongside his unstoppable rise to world fame, some conservative sectors of American society is opposed to both the character and tenacity to his music, which branded as perverse and immoral, especially after his most celebrated hip movement, whose impact was immediately so that the singer was nicknamed Elvis Pelvis.
The culmination of meteoric year 1956, was released November 16 in New York with great success Love me tender, the first film starring Elvis Presley, and The Wall Street Journal devoted an article in which he highlighted the $ 22 million the associated merchandising their image was collected until now.
In March 1957, purchased the Graceland mansion in Memphis, which eventually became a place of pilgrimage for his countless fans. In 1958, at the zenith of his career, was called up by the army and for West Berlin, where he met Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, and they married nine years later.
Elvis Presley graduated in March 1960 and immediately resumed his artistic activities, to string a long series of number one in the U.S. charts with titles like It’s now or never, or Are You Lonesome Tonight? and starring no less than ten movies, which include Girls, Girls, Girls (Girls, girls, girls, 1962) and Viva Las Vegas (1964).
In the second half of the decade started the “British Invasion” which starred bands like The Beatles and that led to some erosion in the popularity of the singer, compounded by an apparent artistic crisis that lasted until 1968, when it was offered to star in a television special , which became one of the greatest successes in the history of the small screen.
The first years of the 1970s, however, accounted for Elvis Presley new creative slump, aggravated by their addiction to drugs and imprisonment in particular fantasy world that became his Graceland mansion. In 1973 he divorced Priscilla Beaulieu and image clearly excessive assumed a tone that characterized his last appearances: exaggerated toupee, overweight and white leather suits with rhinestones.
After falling unconscious several times on stage, officially died of a heart attack, no doubt because of their excesses. Despite its rapid decline, Elvis Presley has become an icon of the twentieth century and one of the most important figures in the history of popular music, as witnessed by more than one hundred gold records, platinum and multiplatinum.
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