THE KING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN ! THE KING!!!

Born January 8, 1935, in East Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis Presley was the son of Gladys and Vernon Presley, a sewing machine operator and a truck driver. Elvis Presley was the first real rock and roll superstar. A southerner, with a white ethnic background singing blues laced with country and country tinged with gospel, Elvis Presley brought together music from both sides of the color line. Presley performed this music with a natural hip swiveling sexuality that made him a world famous teen idol and a role model for generations of the world. Elvis Presley was dismissed as vulgar, incompetent and a bad influence. However the force of his music and image signaled to the mainstream culture it was time for a change. THE KING WAS BORN!!!!!!