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Birth
Elvis was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. Her mother gives birth to twin sons. The first, Jessie Garon is stillborn. Elvis grow up in a working class family. Elvis loves singing gospel. He also grows up listening to the bluesmen in the neighborhood and country music on the radio. -
The first guitar
Elvis's parents buy him a guitar at the Tupelo Hardware store for his 11 th birthday. -
Move
Elvis and his parents move to Memphis, Tennessee. -
Gift to his mother
Final exam in L.C. Humes High School, then Elvis starts working as a truck driver. As a gift to his mother, he pays for the recording of the two of his singles at the Memphis Recoding Service on Sun Records -
The first concerts
Record That`s All Right Mama at the Sun Records. Shorly after, the subject is passed on radio. Elvis offers the first concerts -
Start
Elvis becomes a star. The biggest American record company , RCA, buys Elvis for 35000 usd. -
Houng Dog
Seven million people buy RCA's second Elvis album, Hound Dog. Roll your first movie, Love Me Tender. Another 33 are followed by Viva Las Vegas and King Creole -
Sergeant
The soldier Presley arrives at the German city of Bremerhaven and is sent to a barracks in Friedberg, in the state of Hesse. In 1960 he returned to the United States as a sergeant. -
Married and daughter
Elvis marries Priscilla Beaulieu, he had met during his stay in Germany. Just a year after his daughter Lisa Marie was born -
Elvis dies
Elvis dies at age 42 of a heart attack at his Graceland mansion in Memphis. In 2006, the house is declared a national monument of the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people visit Elvis Presley's tomb every year.
