#epaug16th

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Rest in Peace, Elvis ♛ Jan. 8, 1935 – Aug. 16, 1977.

I like to entertain people. That's why I pick all my records and try to pick the best songs possible. I try to do the best I can in the movies, with the experience that I've gotten, and everything. But I look at myself strictly as a human being who’s, like I said, has been very lucky, but whose life…I have blood running through my veins…and can be snuffed out in just a matter of seconds, and not as anything supernatural or better than any other human being. -- Elvis.

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Elvis backstage at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, May 25, 1972.

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Rest in Peace, Elvis ♛ Jan. 8, 1935 – Aug. 16, 1977.

From the first quavering notes of the first song that he sang, it was obvious that there was something different about him, something unique - you could detect his influences, but he didn’t sound like anyone else. -- Peter Guralnick.

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Rest in Peace, Elvis Aaron Presley ♛ Jan. 8, 1935 – Aug. 16, 1977.

I’ve never had a singing lesson in my life. No music lesson of any kind, in fact. I just started singing when I was a little kid […] and I’ve been doing it ever since. I was 11 years old when I went in front of a real audience for the first time. It was at a fairground in the town I was born, Tupelo, Mississippi. I was shaking like a leaf, but I’d set my heart on singing, and nothing in this world could have stopped me from going ahead and entering the talent contest at the fair. I did it all on my own, and I didn’t have any idea what I was going to do once I got out there in front of all those people. All I had in my head was the idea that I was going to sing. – Elvis Presley, 1956.

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Rest in Peace, Elvis Aaron Presley ♛ Jan. 8, 1935 – Aug. 16, 1977.

Elvis fans at Graceland, August 1977.

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In Memory Of Elvis Aaron Presley ♛ – Jan. 8, 1935 – Aug. 16, 1977.

Elvis Presley across the street from Lauderdale Courts in Memphis, c. 1949. Photograph by Margaret Cranfill.

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Elvis Presley || the boy who dreamed

A lovely video tribute sent by recreatethemagic.

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Elvis Aaron Presley ♛ Jan. 8, 1935 – Aug. 16, 1977.

They ask me why I wear the clothes I do. What can I say? I just like nice clothes, that's all. I like color and such. Is there something wrong with that?