Saturday, September 29, 2007

Journal: The Imortal King of Rock an Roll.

At the beginnig of the year 1935, in a small town called Tupelo, a mother gave birth to twin brothers. One of them, called Jessie, died minutes later, the other one, called Elvis started his short but famous life...
At the age of 13, Elvis and his parents had their home in Menphis, Tennessee. This locattion was the place where the life of this boy who had a very humble american way of life was influenced for ever and in a great scale, by music. The sounds of the 40's and 50's, like the gospel music, the blues and the jazz, the country music and the rockabilly situated Elvis Presley inside a musical dream, that he decided to achieved.
Elvis first opportunity of succes arrived when he was 19. A record company called Sun, edited his first two singles. His voice and style started to turned down the socio-racial barriers of those times....Elvis was white, but he sang with the soul of a black man. He adopted the rythm originated in the black american culture and proyected it to the world for the appreciation of all ethnic type of audiences.
Two years later from this beginning, Elvis Presley had already popularized Rock and Roll all around the world. After that, he took part in 33 movies , bated the records in what refers to live presentations and tv shows, sold more than a thousand million albums, was nominated to 13 grammy awards and he finally died under strange cicumstances in the year 1977 at the age of 42. The abuse of drugs and the preassure of his enormous succes are believe to be the causes of the end of his full of excess way of life.
Any way, Elvis death was only a phisical disappearence, though he inmidiatly after it, became the icon of rebeldy, what makes him to be "alive" in a way, even after 30 years of his departure. It is probably a mistery the reason why Elvis could not yet be reduced to the categorie of a simple legendary popular idol. And he undoubtly continue to be a unique phenomenon in what regards all types of millionary sells. If you wonder haw is this posible, let me tell you and anecdote that will clarify this : on Dicember 15, 1956, Elvis gave a presentation in a radio programme at Louisiana. The shouts of the fans where so stronge that it was impossible to detect which song was Elvis and his band performing. This was the day when the famous phrase "Elvis has left the building" saw the light, which was said to the ardent audience when Elvis left the show and the people satrted to leave their seats to follow him all around the place! The phrase became as popular as Elvis worlwide and its used to refer to something that is finally over.... this clerly shows not the reasons, but the fact, that Elvis became the intouchable, unforgetable, inmortal king of rock and roll. And will continue to be seen as that....

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