How old was Elvis Presley when he died
"In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed television comeback special ""Elvis"", which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the world, ""Aloha from Hawaii"". Years of prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at his Graceland estate at the age of 42. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century. Commercially successful in many genres,"
"Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the ""King of Rock and Roll"" or simply ""the King"". Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore"
"In falling he had cut his face. Ioan P. Culianu was shot dead while on the toilet in the third-floor men's room of Swift Hall on the campus of the University of Chicago on 21 May 1991, in a possibly politically-motivated assassination. His killer has never been caught. Elvis Presley died when using the toilet. ""Most sources indicate that Elvis was likely sitting in the toilet area, partially nude, and reading when he collapsed."" According to Dylan Jones, ""Elvis Presley died aged fortytwo on August 16th, 1977, in the bathroom of the star's own Graceland mansion in Memphis. Sitting on"
"time Presley would record in a studio. He last recorded at Studio C, Hollywood in 1972 where he recorded the gold records ""Burning Love"" and ""Separate Ways"". At this time, Elvis was 40 years old. He was accompanied by his then-current girlfriend, Sheila Ryan. In the 2005 FTD TODAY release from these sessions, Presley asked her to ""step up here Sheila, let me sing to ya baby"" on Take 1 of Don McLean's ""And I Love You So"". He continued to make ""And I Love You So"" and ""Fairytale"" a part of his live concerts until his death. On stage,"
"using the commode and then had fallen forward, in that fixed position, directly in front of it. [...] It was clear that, from the time whatever hit him to the moment he had landed on the floor, Elvis hadn't moved."" Attempts to revive him failed, and his death was officially pronounced at 3:30 p.m. at the Baptist Memorial Hospital. President Jimmy Carter issued a statement that credited Presley with having ""permanently changed the face of American popular culture"". Thousands of people gathered outside Graceland to view the open casket. One of Presley's cousins, Billy Mann, accepted $18,000 to secretly photograph"
"Knnillssonn Knnillssonn is the fourteenth album by Harry Nilsson, released in July, 1977. ""Knnillssonn"" was his final album for RCA Records and Nilsson's personal favorite while recording it, as his voice had recovered from the damage done during the ""Pussy Cats"" sessions; his songs were more developed and his singing was in top form. RCA Records agreed and had prepared to promote the record heavily as a comeback album after his previous efforts were released with little notice and promotion and were mostly missed by the public. Shortly after the album was released, Elvis Presley died suddenly, at age 42."
"he would ""be willing to take a lie detector test, even by the FBI."" When Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977, Ulysses Jones and Charles Crossby were the two paramedics on the scene at Graceland when it was reported to Memphis Fire Department's Engine House No. 29 that a person was having trouble breathing. Jones was also interviewed by Albert Goldman for his book ""Elvis"", he also appeared on several TV shows talking about that day. Ulysses Jones Jr. Ulysses Jones Jr. (born June 7, 1951 in Memphis, Tennessee, died November 9, 2010) was an American politician and a"
"recordings has been variously calculated as 665 and 711. His career began and he was most successful during an era when singles were the primary commercial medium for pop music. In the case of his albums, the distinction between ""official"" studio records and other forms is often blurred. For most of the 1960s, his recording career focused on soundtrack albums. In the 1970s, his most heavily promoted and best-selling LP releases tended to be concert albums. TV concert specials Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one"
"during the twentieth century. The title was usurped by a Colombian Harra was featured in newspapers and magazines, and on national TV shows like Merv Griffin, Johnny Carson and Dick Clark. Johnny traveled internationally performing his ""Profiles of Presley"" show. He died on March 30, 2011, aged 64. Johnny Harra Johnny Lee Harra (born Harry Lee Lovett; July 11, 1946 – March 30, 2011) was an American Elvis impersonator. He began impersonating Elvis at the age of 11 and was cast as the 42-year-old Elvis in the 1981 docudrama ""This Is Elvis"". Harra, one of four actors to portray Elvis"
"19 and 21 concerts are the last official live professional ones ever recorded of Presley alive, Vernon Presley, Elvis' father, recorded a message that was broadcast at the end of the special and included on the soundtrack album, in which he erroneously states that the performance featured was his son's last appearance; in fact Elvis made five more concert appearances after the filming of the special. Elvis' last concert was in fact on Sunday, June 26, 1977 at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana. No professional recording of this last performance has ever been issued, but bootlegs of amateur"
"group run by Scientologists, Presley expressed her view that parents should be informed about alternatives to drugs so they may ""make an informed choice about their child's educational and medical needs"". Presley officially defected from the church in 2016, though she had been experiencing growing dissent with Scientology as far back as 2008. After Elvis Presley's death at Graceland on August 16, 1977, his will appointed his father, Vernon Presley, executor and trustee. His fortune had dwindled to $5 million. The beneficiaries of the trust were Vernon, Elvis's grandmother Minnie Mae Presley, and his nine-year-old daughter Lisa Marie Presley, whose"
"series ""Summer Fun"". Butterworth ultimately left acting after her brief stardom; she continued in the entertainment business as a singer. Donna Butterworth died on March 6, 2018 at a medical center in Hilo, Hawaii from undisclosed causes. She was 62 years old. Donna Butterworth Donna Lee Butterworth (February 23, 1956 – March 6, 2018) was an American actor, best known for starring opposite Elvis Presley in the 1966 musical comedy ""Paradise, Hawaiian Style"", when she was 10 years old. Butterworth's career as an actor and performer was brief; however, during that short time, she received critical acclaim. Donna Lee Butterworth"
"Elvis Presley's death in 1977, Vernon Presley served as executor of his estate. Upon his death in 1979, he chose Priscilla to serve as the estate executor for Elvis' only child, Lisa Marie who was only 11. Graceland itself cost $500,000 a year in upkeep, and expenses had dwindled Elvis' and Priscilla's daughter Lisa Marie's inheritance to only $1 million. Taxes were due on the property; those and other expenses due came to over $500,000. Faced with having to sell Graceland, Priscilla examined other famous houses/museums, and hired a CEO, Jack Soden, to turn Graceland into a moneymaker. Graceland was"
"his cousin Red West died at Baptist Hospital in Memphis, aged 81, after suffering an aortic aneurysm. Sonny West (actor) Delbert Bryant West Jr. (July 5, 1938 – May 24, 2017), known as 'Sonny' West, was a friend and bodyguard of the late singer Elvis Presley along with his cousin Red West for sixteen years, as part of the Elvis entourage at the Elvis Memphis home Graceland, which became known as 'The Memphis Mafia'. His parents came from the Pontotoc area of Mississippi, not far from Tupelo, from where Elvis Presley came. West was one of two sons and five"
"Elvis) 1994, Alabama 2006. A version of the song by Clinton Ford appeared in the UK Singles Chart in October 1959, spending one week at number 27. Colombian performer Marco recorded a Spanish language version in 1986. On October 3, 1945, Elvis Presley sang ""Old Shep"" at age ten for his first public performance, a singing contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. Dressed as a cowboy, he stood on a chair to reach the microphone. He came in fifth place, winning $5 and a free ticket to the fair rides. At sixteen years of age, in 1951, he"
"as Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and Tommy Steele, he moved in 1957 to the US, where he performed cabaret shows in the Catskills ""Borscht Belt"". He died in February 1961 of a heart attack at the age of 40, while touring in the West Indies. Lee Lawrence Lee Lawrence (born Leon Siroto, 1920 – 26 February 1961) was a British singer who was popular in the 1950s. He was born in Salford. Both his parents sang with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, and at the age of 16 he went to Italy to study opera for three years. After returning"
"16, Presley was pronounced dead at age 42 at his Graceland home in Memphis, Tennessee due to heart failure after years of prescription drug abuse. The Center sold over 12,000 tickets for the two scheduled shows. The Grateful Dead performed at the Center on three occasions, including a performance on September 2, 1979 and a celebrated two-night run spanning October 11-12, 1984. Phish performed on October 19, 2010 during their Fall Tour. Pearl Jam performed during their No Code Tour on September 26, 1996, with The Fastbacks as their opening act. Chicago Bulls player Dennis Rodman attended the show and"
"surroundings which were completely familiar and comforting,"" the room in question, 'The Jungle Room' being ""an example of particularly lurid kitsch."" On August 16, 1977, Presley died in the bathroom at Graceland allegedly of a heart attack. Elvis Presley lay in state in a 900-pound copper-lined coffin just inside the foyer while over 3,500 of Elvis' mourning fans passed by to pay their respects. A private funeral with 200 mourners was held on August 18, 1977 in the house, with the casket placed in front of the stained glass doorway of the music room. Graceland continued to be occupied by"
"Elvis Presley on film and television Elvis Presley (1935–1977) was an American entertainer who achieved initial success as a singer, expressing an early career goal of following in the footsteps of his role models James Dean and Marlon Brando to become a top dramatic actor. His manager Colonel Tom Parker's persistent lobbying of William Morris Agency president Abe Lastfogel for a Presley screen test paid off on March 26, 1956, when the singer auditioned at Paramount for a supporting role in ""The Rainmaker"". Although not chosen for the part, he signed a contract with Paramount producer Hal Wallis on April"
"suffered ""anaphylactic shock brought on by the codeine pills he had gotten from his dentist, to which he was known to have had a mild allergy"". A pair of lab reports filed two months later strongly suggested that polypharmacy was the primary cause of death; one reported ""fourteen drugs in Elvis' system, ten in significant quantity"". In 1979, forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht conducted a review of the reports and concluded that a combination of central nervous system depressants had resulted in Presley's accidental death. Forensic historian and pathologist Michael Baden viewed the situation as complicated: ""Elvis had had an enlarged"
"forced himself on her in his Las Vegas hotel room, telling her, ""This is how a real man makes love to a woman."" Separated on February 23, 1972, the Presleys divorced amicably on October 9, 1973, mutually agreeing to share custody of their daughter. Elvis had made another televised special called """" in January 1973, but after not seeing him for several months prior to the actual court hearing, Priscilla was bewildered by his physical appearance. She remarked on how swollen his hands were when she held them in hers. Less than four years later, Elvis died. After his death,"
"publicized and were suddenly even more of interest to fans of the singer and of those seeking answers about how he could have died so young and suddenly. This interest led to the book selling in excess of three million copies, making it one of the most successful Presley books of all time. Elvis: What Happened? Elvis: What Happened? is a book about the personal life of singer Elvis Presley. The book, which is based on the personal accounts of three of Elvis' former bodyguards, went into detail on the singer’s dangerous drug-dependence. His death, only two weeks after the"
"including pop, country, blues, and gospel, he is the best-selling solo artist in the history of recorded music. He won three competitive Grammys, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Love Presley (""née"" Smith) in the two-room shotgun house built by his father, Vernon Elvis Presley, in preparation for the birth. Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered 35 minutes before him, stillborn. Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially"
"a gray-haired, balding Elvis sneaking into a movie theater and coming out of a Burger King restaurant. When the U.S. Postal Service conducted a poll to determine the design of the Elvis commemorative postage stamp, the ""WWN"" conducted its own poll pitting the USPS's 1950s Elvis and 1970s Elvis versus its own, 1990s Elvis; the elderly Elvis won. In 1994, the newspaper ran a front cover with the headline ""Elvis Presley Dead!"", stating that Elvis was now ""really dead"" from heart failure after slipping into a diabetic coma. In a 2004 ""Washington Post"" article on Clontz's death, humorist Gene Weingarten"
"My Farewell to Elvis My Farewell to Elvis is the 27th studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1977, his first for MCA Records. It reached Number 6 on the Country album chart. The single ""From Graceland to the Promised Land"" reached number 4 on the Billboard Country Singles chart. The album is a tribute to the music of the late Elvis Presley, who died on August 16, 1977. He is backed by Roy Nichols, Ronnie Reno, and Mark Yeary of The Strangers. Haggard, who had previously recorded tribute albums to Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills, had"
"divorce. According to her account, he forced himself upon her; ""'This is how a real man makes love to a woman,' he said."" However, Priscilla in an interview stated that she regretted her choice of words in describing the incident, and said it had been an overstatement. Freudian and other sexual psychologists say that Presley is a ""classic example of the mother/Madonna/whore split"". He ""adored his mother and never recovered from her early death."" He met Priscilla ""when she was 14. She became a mother at 23. It is said that Elvis never made love to her again after the"
"a tribute to the legendary rock 'n roll singer Elvis Presley. During live performances, Roger Daltrey gives a short introduction to the song, describing it as a song about ""A man that changed my life at the age of 11. I saw Elvis Presley live at 11. Thank God I did, I loved him because everybody under the age of 20 thought they were Elvis and dressed like him. Everybody over 20 hated them and that was good enough for me."" The piano intro borrows from the Elvis song ""Can't Help Falling in Love"", and one of the later verses"
"Elvis in Concert Elvis In Concert is a posthumous 1977 TV special starring Elvis Presley. It was Elvis' third and final TV special, following ""Elvis"" (a.k.a. ""The '68 Comeback Special"") and ""Aloha From Hawaii"". It was filmed during Presley's final tour in the cities of Omaha, Nebraska, on June 19, 1977, and Rapid City, South Dakota, on June 21, 1977. It was broadcast on CBS on October 3, 1977, two months after Presley's death. It was transmitted by the BBC in the United Kingdom on June 9, 1978. Unlike the majority of Elvis' programs, it is unlikely to be commercially"
"Donna Butterworth Donna Lee Butterworth (February 23, 1956 – March 6, 2018) was an American actor, best known for starring opposite Elvis Presley in the 1966 musical comedy ""Paradise, Hawaiian Style"", when she was 10 years old. Butterworth's career as an actor and performer was brief; however, during that short time, she received critical acclaim. Donna Lee Butterworth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 23, 1956, the daughter of Isabella ""Isa"" Chalfant. She had one sibling, a brother named William ""Bill"" Butterworth. Butterworth's family lived in Pennsylvania for the first three years of her life before they moved to"
"Blue"" was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in a special edition that contained the original album tracks along with a selection of alternate takes. Moody Blue Moody Blue is the twenty-fourth and final studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records in July 1977, less than a month before his death. The album was a mixture of live and studio work, and included the four tracks from Presley's final studio recording sessions in October 1976 and two tracks left over from the previous Graceland session in February 1976. ""Moody Blue"" was a previously"
"were driving from Palm Springs to Las Vegas when their vehicle swerved off the road. Bonja was treated at the hospital and released, but Dvorin was thrown from the car and died at the scene. Al Dvorin Albert Dvorin (18 November 1922 in Chicago, Illinois – 22 August 2004 near Ivanpah, California) was an American bandleader and talent agent who made the phrase ""Elvis has left the building"" famous. (It was coined by Horace Logan.) Dvorin met Elvis Presley through Colonel Tom Parker in 1955, and organized Presley's concert tours for the next 22 years. After Presley's death, Dvorin kept"
"1969, aged 53, at the USC Medical Center Hospital in Los Angeles. He was the subject of a 1994 biography by Tony Collins. Since the end of the twentieth century, there has been a resurgence of interest in his music. Some of his recordings are being reissued, and he has been honored posthumously. In 2011, Harris's song ""Quiet Whiskey"" was number 9 the list of Top 10 Drinking Songs published by AskMen.com. Elvis Presley saw Harris perform in Memphis in the early 1950s. According to Henry Glover, Harris's record producer, Elvis ""copied many of the vocal gymnastics of Wynonie as"
"In fact, Presley made five more concert appearances before giving what would be his final show in Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 26. However, the CBS special was Elvis' last professionally recorded concert. The special actually contains two messages by Elvis' father: one taped in a hotel room during the tour in June when Elvis was still alive, and the other taped in the back office of Graceland shortly after his death, where Vernon thanks the many people who sent letters and cards after Elvis' death. Allmusic called it Presley's worst, saying, ""it's hard to believe that CBS-TV actually would have"