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Elvis Presley

Born January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, died August 16, 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee.

Elvis Presley, the most popular and most successful performer in the history of music.

Key points of a mega career: truck driver. Sun Records. Manager and mastermind: Colonel Tom Parker (real name: Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk from Breda, Holland). Elvis Presley films: 33 (including the documentaries 'That's The Way It Is' and 'On Tour'). 1973: the TV event 'Aloha From Hawaii'. Entered the army on March 24, 1958 as a private with the service number 53310761. US single hits from 1956 until his death in 1977: 148 (15 of them in EP format). More hits posthumously.

Estimates of the number of Presley records sold worldwide vary: it is probably close to two billion. From October 1, 1958 (arrival in Bremerhaven on the USS Randall) until March 2, 1960 (return flight from Rhein-Main in Frankfurt), Elvis Presley was stationed in Friedberg in Hesse. It was there, on September 14, 1959, that he met 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, whom he married on May 1, 1967 (divorced 1973). On the 1960 single 'Wooden Heart', Elvis Presley included German-language passages from the folk song 'Muss i denn zum Städtele hinaus'.

From the Bear Family book '1000 Nadelstiche' by Bernd Matheja (BFB10025).

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