As Elvis Presley in 1977, died of failure at just 42 years of heart, collapsed to his Fans an the world. Until today, many do not believe that the King is really dead. A glance at his life story.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
From small town boy to a Superstar
Was born, Elvis Presley in the small town of Tupelo in the U.S. state of Mississippi. When he was 13 years old, his family moved to Memphis in the neighboring state of Tennessee. There, he recorded in 1954 in the Studios of the famous label Sun Records his first Songs and created his unmistakable, Rockabilly Sound. Two years later, the breakthrough with his Hit “Heartbreak Hotel”.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Profit after the death of
16. August 1977, the most successful solo artists of all time died on his estate “Graceland” in Memphis. According to the White house, it is the most visited historic home in the United States. “Elvis Presley Enterprises” managed in addition to “Graceland” the entire estate of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll and every year, millions of.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Military service in Germany
From 1958 to 1960, the Star and the girl was stationed swarm as a soldier in Friedberg. Instead of living with the comrades in the barracks, stayed he, together with his grandmother, his father and two Bodyguards in a Hotel in nearby Bad Nauheim. Today, guests of the hotel can spend the night in the “Elvis room”.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Look into the past
Elvis’ time in Germany is well documented. 2011-opened three collectors, including Andreas Schröer (photo), the “Elvis Museum” in Düsseldorf. It has the largest Elvis collection outside the United States. More than 600 exhibits, many of them from his time in the Federal Republic of Germany, can be admired in Düsseldorf.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Hits made in Germany
Even if performances had been banned during his military service actually was the “King” still time for his greatest passion: the music. In Germany, Elvis wrote two of his Hits “One Night” and “Fool such as I”. He also helped the German folk song “Must glory, I because to the Städtele hinaus”, to the world. In his Version it reads, “Wooden Heart”.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Happy the rest of your life?
The time in Germany meant Roll for Elvis is not just fast cars and Rock ‘n’. Here he also met his future wife, Priscilla Beaulieu, the daughter of a US officer who was at the time of their acquaintance just 14 years old. The Couple married in 1967 at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. Elvis, however, were said to have numerous extramarital Affairs. The marriage was in 1973, divorced.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
The “King” lives on
His legacy is held around the world in honor of. The draws in Bad Nauheim, Germany, to be held at the end of the “European Elvis Festival” every year, numerous lookalike of the singer. Elvis also has official fan clubs in 38 countries. And also on stamps of the “King could not be missed”, of course. The Spanish city of Granada is printed on his face already, in 1978, on a trademark, the Federal Republic followed in 1988.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Legendary Fashion Trend
According to legend, swore Elvis on the jumpsuit after it was ripped during a concert on stage in the pants. What ever might have been the reason – the piece of clothing was for the absolute fashion Hit. A business in Charlestown, Indiana, true to the original replicas (photo) of Elvis jumpsuits. Fans and DoppelgangeR have to wait 14 to 16 weeks to such a magnificent specimen.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Inspiration from Hollywood
Elvis has inspired not only countless look-alikes, but also film-makers and generations of musicians. But who inspired the “King”? To be betrayed in his lifetime that he admire the gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and also identified the actor James Dean (photo) “a genius”.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Candles for the “King”
Every year on the 16. August to commemorate Elvis Fans you light the death of their idol, by in front of his former mansion, “Graceland” candles for him. 2012, at his 35. Death came to 75,000 people from all over the world in front of the gates of his former residence, to honor the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll”.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
From small town boy to a Superstar
Was born, Elvis Presley in the small town of Tupelo in the U.S. state of Mississippi. When he was 13 years old, his family moved to Memphis in the neighboring state of Tennessee. There, he recorded in 1954 in the Studios of the famous label Sun Records his first Songs and created his unmistakable, Rockabilly Sound. Two years later, the breakthrough with his Hit “Heartbreak Hotel”.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Profit after the death of
16. August 1977, the most successful solo artists of all time died on his estate “Graceland” in Memphis. According to the White house, it is the most visited historic home in the United States. “Elvis Presley Enterprises” managed in addition to “Graceland” the entire estate of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll and every year, millions of.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Military service in Germany
From 1958 to 1960, the Star and the girl was stationed swarm as a soldier in Friedberg. Instead of living with the comrades in the barracks, stayed he, together with his grandmother, his father and two Bodyguards in a Hotel in nearby Bad Nauheim. Today, guests of the hotel can spend the night in the “Elvis room”.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Look into the past
Elvis’ time in Germany is well documented. 2011-opened three collectors, including Andreas Schröer (photo), the “Elvis Museum” in Düsseldorf. It has the largest Elvis collection outside the United States. More than 600 exhibits, many of them from his time in the Federal Republic of Germany, can be admired in Düsseldorf.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Hits made in Germany
Even if performances had been banned during his military service actually was the “King” still time for his greatest passion: the music. In Germany, Elvis wrote two of his Hits “One Night” and “Fool such as I”. He also helped the German folk song “Must glory, I because to the Städtele hinaus”, to the world. In his Version it reads, “Wooden Heart”.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Happy the rest of your life?
The time in Germany meant Roll for Elvis is not just fast cars and Rock ‘n’. Here he also met his future wife, Priscilla Beaulieu, the daughter of a US officer who was at the time of their acquaintance just 14 years old. The Couple married in 1967 at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. Elvis, however, were said to have numerous extramarital Affairs. The marriage was in 1973, divorced.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
The “King” lives on
His legacy is held around the world in honor of. The draws in Bad Nauheim, Germany, to be held at the end of the “European Elvis Festival” every year, numerous lookalike of the singer. Elvis also has official fan clubs in 38 countries. And also on stamps of the “King could not be missed”, of course. The Spanish city of Granada is printed on his face already, in 1978, on a trademark, the Federal Republic followed in 1988.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Legendary Fashion Trend
According to legend, swore Elvis on the jumpsuit after it was ripped during a concert on stage in the pants. What ever might have been the reason – the piece of clothing was for the absolute fashion Hit. A business in Charlestown, Indiana, true to the original replicas (photo) of Elvis jumpsuits. Fans and DoppelgangeR have to wait 14 to 16 weeks to such a magnificent specimen.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Inspiration from Hollywood
Elvis has inspired not only countless look-alikes, but also film-makers and generations of musicians. But who inspired the “King”? To be betrayed in his lifetime that he admire the gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and also identified the actor James Dean (photo) “a genius”.
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40 years after his death, Elvis lives on
Candles for the “King”
Every year on the 16. August to commemorate Elvis Fans you light the death of their idol, by in front of his former mansion, “Graceland” candles for him. 2012, at his 35. Death came to 75,000 people from all over the world in front of the gates of his former residence, to honor the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll”.
16. August 1977 was Elvis girlfriend left him collapsed in the bathroom. Neither the establishment gerufenene ambulance, the paramedics were able to revive him. At three o’clock in the afternoon, the Doctors at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis were able to determine, finally, the death of Elvis Aaron Presley.
The King was no more, but his spirit lives on today. He not only inspired countless fan clubs and music festivals around the globe, but also the fashion industry: A successful company has specialized in imitations produce his typical Overalls.
Presley was one of the most famous musicians of the 20th century.Century. His Name was immortalized in Rockabilly, Gospel, Country, UK Music and Rock & Roll halls of fame, and until today its popularity is undiminished. Over a billion of his records have been sold worldwide.
Make a pilgrimage to Graceland
Graceland, which once belonged to Elvis Presley in Memphis in the U.S. state of Tennessee, is still today an audience. Around 500,000 Fans make the pilgrimage there every year. Thus, Graceland is the second most visited historical buildings in the United States – first in the White house. The “Elvis Presley Enterprises” host parties for your Idol year, birthday, auctions, and club events. No wonder that Elvis has done it several times on the top of a special list of the business magazine Forbes, the anmute a little macabre: to find the name of a dead Celebrity, earning posthumously at the most.
In Germany, the “King fans” a giant – because, after all, he graduated in the town of Friedberg, near Bad Nauheim from 1958 to 1960 his military service. And this is where he met his future wife, Priscilla.
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GI Elvis in GermanyArrival in Friedberg
He came, saw and rocked: 1. October 1958 lands Elvis Presley with the ship “USS General Randall” in Bremerhaven, Germany, to make Germany his military service. From here, it goes by train to Hessen Friedberg, where Fans and the press are preparing a noisy reception. With over 50 million records sold, he was already a world star.
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GI Elvis in GermanySoldiers duties
On 2. October, the King in the Ray Barracks in his room in building 3707. 18 months in the life of a soldier lying in front of him, he was serving in a tank unit. However, a soldier Presley enjoys with his superiors, some of the privileges and only needs to provide limited service. The King enters the hut quickly to a Hotel and later an apartment in a peaceful mountain, the neighboring town of Bad Nauheim.
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GI Elvis in GermanyElvis reads a Bravo
Elvis grandmother Minnie Mae, and his father, Vernon, as well as two bodyguards to follow the King to Germany. First of all, you’ll be in the Hotel Grunewald in Bad Nauheim, then drag in the Goethe Strasse 14. Only in his chamber Elvis rest in front of the Fans. The around-the-clock vigil in front of the house to the King to intercept. And patiently signed autographs to find a nice word.
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GI Elvis in GermanyAutograph hunters
Day and night the young people persevere, the King rewarming. Who waits long enough will be rewarded: Elvis Presley denied anyone the much-coveted signature. Especially female Teenagers are forfeited to the King. His hips and his languid songs can a woman’s heart beat faster.
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GI Elvis in GermanyMemories
Also Angelika Springauf besieged as a Teenager, Elvis’s home in Bad Nauheim. Proud of you posing decades later, in front of a photo that shows them as young people next to the King. Until today, die-hard Fans awake in the Hessian town of the memory of the Rock’n’ Roll legend.
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GI Elvis in GermanyVisit with colleagues
As Bill Haley his European tour starts in October 1958 in Frankfurt am Main, visited the Elvis of the colleagues in the dressing room. Always the press. Haley and Elvis Presley are considered to be fathers of Rock’n’ Roll. The older Generation is suspicious of the new music from America, the youth is a head at the new sounds, the sloshing across the big pond.
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GI Elvis in GermanyLeisure pleasure instead of a soldiers everyday life
During his military time in Germany, Elvis prefers hot cars and pretty women with the strict soldiers everyday. Here, the Hessian of the beauty Queen of the year 1958, the keys to the BMW 507 sports car, with the racing driver Hans-Joachim Stuck, several times drove to victory handed to him, Uschi Siebert,.
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GI Elvis in GermanyGreat Love
In Germany, Elvis in 1959, meets his future wife. Priscilla Beaulieu was 14 years old when her stepfather, a is placed air force officer, to Bad Nauheim. Currie Grant, Manager of the Eagle’s Club and a friend of the family, takes Priscilla to parties at Elvis home in the Goethe Strasse 14. The wedding of the two, however, takes place only eight years later.
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GI Elvis in Germany“Muss i Denn…”
The popular soldiers – and farewell song “muss i Denn zum Städtele” is at least 200 years old. Its triumphal March around the world it occurs, however, only in Elvis Version as “Wooden Heart”. The King sings the song in English with a German Refrain and noted that the phonetic transcription. For the first time it is heard in 1960 in the movie “G. I. Blues”, a homage to Presley’s army period in Germany.
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GI Elvis in GermanyWay back home
On 2. March 1960 Elvis Presley’s military service ends in Bad Nauheim. He flies back home and never returns. However, in the heart of the city, residents, an Elvis-Stele, an Elvis-remember the place, and even a “walk of fame” a day at the famous visitors. At the European Elvis Festival, the inhabitants of the King in his “European home” each year to rise again.