Elvis Presley Hardships

There are many musicians in the world, but there is no other musician like Elvis Presley. Most people still listen to his music today even younger people. He is the king of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Elvis Presley was and still is the greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll musician of all time; he overcame many hardships to become the prominent Rock ‘n’ Roll artist he is today.

Elvis was born in a two-room house on January 8, 1935 in East Tupelo, Mississippi, and Elvis’s parents are Vernon and Gladys Presley and Elvis was there only child. The parent was from impecunious families, so Vernon borrows three dollars from a friend to pay for the marriage license. However, despite their poverty, the Presley’s are a happy and loving family, but the family’s happiness

disintegrates after Vernon perceives out the judge is sending him to the state penitentiary for forgery. Gladys and Elvis resolve to move in with relatives and rely on weekly trips to the welfare office for food, but the need for the welfare mortifies her even though she is a proud and hardworking woman. Elvis and his mother travel twice a month on a ten hour round trip to visit Vernon in prison, but they did not have to travel to many times because after serving nine months, he finds sovereignty from having financial hardships and vigorous behavior (Graf1).
In the years, that follows Vernon works economical-paying jobs, and the family alternates between living with relatives and in degenerate houses.

On Elvis’s tenth birthday, Gladys is able to conserve enough money to buy him a guitar, although what he really wanted is a rifle or a bicycle, but even though he did not want the guitar, he assimilates how to play it and appreciates singing with his parents at church and religious revivals. Elvis’s fifth grade teacher encourages him to enter the singing contest at the state fair, but Elvis is farouche and deteriorates from feelings of inferiority because of his family’s poverty even though he has inconceivable singing expertise (Graf1-2). By playing the guitar whenever he can at school, he conquered some of those feelings even though some kids ridicule his “hillbilly” music, but that did not plaque his music talent. The family moves to Memphis with hopes of ameliorating their financial situation in 1948, but instead of improving, they end up living in roach-infested rooming houses before moving to a federal housing project. In Memphis High School Elvis is associated with bullying. Elvis has long, slicked-back hair, long sideburns, and ostentatious clothes although most of the other boys reinforced crew cuts and blue jeans

(Graf2).
In 1953, Elvis graduates and soon started driving a truck for an electric company with expectations of indoctrinating to become an electrician.

He uses four dollars to record two songs at Sun Records Studio, and the idiosyncratic singing voice of Elvis stupefaction, the owner of the studio. Even though Sam Phillips takes a risk, he gives Elvis the opportunity to record some songs in the studio. Elvis has the perfect voice Phillips was pursuing for his song “That’s All Right” puts the icing on the cake. Radio stations play the song, and it is an instantaneous hit in 1954. The sound of Elvis’s voice is an amalgamation of rhythm and blues, country, rock ‘n’ roll, gospel, and spiritual music, and that makes it impenetrable to describe his voice to anyone who had fascination in his music. Elvis starts performing live and during his first concert; he is so anxious that he could not control the shaking of his legs, so Elvis starts exaggerating the moves after he realizes it makes the girls scream with delight. The release of the song “Heartbreak Hotel” in 1956 makes Elvis an instant superstar. He churns out one hit song after another, makes national television appearances, and films the first of thirty-one movies. He stages a comeback in 1969, begins performing live after an eight-year absence from the stage in front of sell-out crowds, and breaks box office records. He starts getting addicted to prescription drugs, his health is impecunious, and he is struggling to stay

slim, and is isolating himself from other people; that cause him to get a divorce. Despite these problems, it shocks the world when EMs suffers a cardiac arrhythmia and dies on August 16, 1977, at the age of forty-two. It is a tragic ending for the rags-to-riches story of the minuscule town boy from Tupelo, Mississippi (Graf2-3).
Elvis Presley shocks the world with his impressive career. Elvis inspires many artists today. He is still very popular; his songs still plays on the radio. He overcame many hardships, which makes his music career magnificent and inspirational. Elvis’s career performances is why most people consider him to be the superlative rock ‘n’ roll artist of all time.