Here are some interesting facts about The King! (As always, feel free to add your own or correct any facts you believe are not correct. I am not encycloREEdia.)

1. Elvis was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.

2. Elvis had an identical twin brother, who was stillborn.

3. When Elvis received a guitar for his eleventh birthday, he was disappointed; he was hoping for a bike.

4. Elvis was reportedly regarded by fellow students as a “trashy kid who sang hillbilly music” when he took his guitar to school and sang during lunch.

5. In the eighth grade, Elvis received a “C” in music.

6. Elvis never learned to read music.

7. Elvis made only one appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, in October of 1954. They never invited him back.

8. The first riot following an Elvis concert occurred in Jacksonville, FL, after Elvis finished a show by saying, “Girls, I’ll see you backstage.”

9. Frank Sinatra, in a magazine interview, decried the new brand of music (and fans) that Elvis introduced as “brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious. … It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people. It smells phoney and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. … This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac I deplore.”

(He must not have been into pelvic thrusts.)

10. “Heartbreak Hotel” was the first Elvis single to sell over a million copies.

11. After a controversial (and sensuous) performance of “Hound Dog” on The Milton Berle Show, Elvis appeared on The Steve Allen Show, where he sang “Hound Dog” to a Basset Hound.

12. The first Grammy Award Elvis is for the 1967 Gospel release, “How Great Thou Art.”

13. Elvis reportedly had a problem with teenage boys wanting to beat him up on his tour stops. (I wonder why?)

14. Elvis was six feet tall.

15. The Cleveland Browns was Elvis’ favorite football team.

16. Elvis’ natural hair color was blond (in his early years) and light/dirty brown; he dyed it black.

17. Elvis wore a cross, a star of David, and other religious symbols around his neck, explaining “I don’t want to miss out on heaven due to a technicality.”

18. Elvis was awarded two medals while serving in the Army, one for expert marksmanship, the other for sharpshooting.

19. Elvis held a black belt in karate.

20. Elvis died of a heart attack on August 16, 1977. Many mistakenly believe he died of a drug overdose.

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