Elvis Presley came from a very poor family. He was born on the 8th of January, 1935 in Mississippi.Elvis loved music. He went to church every Sunday and sang in the choir. When he was 13, mother bought him a guitar. (Elvis wanted a bicycle, but it was too expensive.) In the same year Elvis and his family left Mississippi. They moved to Memphis, Tennessee.One day in 1954 he went to a recording studio called Sun Records. He wanted to make a record for his mother's birthday. The secretary at the studio, Marion Keisker, heard Elvis and she told her boss, Sam Phillips.Elvis was just what Sam Phillips dreamed about: "a white boy with a black voice".Phillips became Elvis's manager and Elvis made his first single — "That's All Right, Mama". When disc jockeys played it on their radio stations, American teenagers went wild. Many American parents didn't like Elvis. He was too sexy.In 1955 Elvis appeared on TV in New York. The following year he went to Hollywood and made his first film "Love Me Tender".In 1958 Elvis joined the American army and went to Germany. When he returned to the United States in the early 60s, pop musicwas not the same. British groups like The Beatles and The Rolling Stoneswere the new stars.Elvis was a millionaire, but he was a very lonely man. In his last years he became fat and depressed. He died of a heart attack on the 16th of August, 1977 in his mansion at Graceland, Memphis.But for his millions of fans Elvis is still the King, the King of Rock'n'Roll.
