Elvis Presley death

Elvis' first major musical influences were the pop and country music of the time, and gospel music he heard as a teenager in church as well as the black R&B he ...

Elvis died unexpectedly at the age of 42 due to heart failure, while staying at his Memphis home in Graceland Graceland, on August 16, 1977. He is regarded as one of the most important figures of twentieth-century popular culture.Elvis died unexpectedly at the age of 42 due to heart failure, while staying at his Memphis home in Graceland Graceland, on August 16, 1977. In 1955, his recording contract was sold to RCA Victor and by 1956, he was an international sensation.

A biographical musical drama film, Elvis, directed by Baz Luhrmann, has brought the singer to a whole new audience. How did Elvis die? Elvis was scheduled to ...

In August 1977 a tell-all memoir by three of Elvis’ bodyguards, who had been sacked the previous year, detailed the singer’s years of drug misuse. Elvis’ health had been declining in his final years and in the 70s he became addicted to painkillers. This, added to his love of fast food left the singer’s health in a perilous state. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humour of this country.” “His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. According to her eyewitness account: “Elvis looked as if his entire body had completely frozen in a seated position while using the toilet and then had fallen forward, in that fixed position, directly in front of it.

It is the 45th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. So, in his honor, let's take a closer look at the death and legacy of Elvis Presley.

In his 2006 book, psychologist Jeffrey Jensen Arnett documented President Jimmy Carter’s remarks on Presley’s legacy: “His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. All of these ailments came to a head just as Presley was set to fly out of Memphis for another tour. A few years prior, in 1973, Presley and his ex-wife Priscilla Presley finalized their divorce after months of turmoil and affairs (on both sides). At the time of their divorce, Presely’s health was in a nosedive, and the divorce only pushed Presley deeper into that dive. He was a person who thought that as far as medications and drugs went, there was something for everything.” Presley’s spiral was largely caused by his abuse of a myriad of drugs, usually overprescribed by his personal physician George Nichopoulos. For instance, in 1973, Presley overdosed on barbiturates twice. During his lifetime, he a disruptor of genre and social norms.