ELVIS PRESLEY

PREPARED BY;
Aahana Sapkota
Bhawana Khadka
Jesika Sitoula
Pratiksha Katwal
Saleena Shrestha
INTRODUCTION
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 –
August 16, 1977) was an American
singer and actor. Regarded as 
one of the most significant cultural ico
ns
 of the 20th century, he is often referred
to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or
simply "the King".
 Cont.…

Presley was born in

Tupelo, Mississippi, United States
Presley is one of the most celebrated and
influential musicians of the 20th century.
Commercially successful in many genres,
including pop, country, blues, and gospel, he
is the best-selling solo artist in the history of
recorded music.
INFULENCES
Elvis' musical influences were the pop and
country music of the time, the gospel music
he heard in church and at the all-night
gospel sings he frequently attended, and
the black R&B he absorbed on historic
Beale Street as a Memphis teenager.
 He won three competitive Grammys,
received the 
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at
age 36, and has been inducted into 
multiple music halls of fame.
 LIFESTYLE
Being a rock and roll king and an actor he was
introduced to drugs in early phase of his career.
With a sound and style that uniquely combined
Elvis' diverse musical influences and blurred
and challenged the social and racial barriers of
the time
Elvis did everything to excess, he had massive
appetite for food, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
 EXPOSURE TO DRUG
After the break up with his wife Elvis health
condition was increasingly unwell.
He was served up whatever pills he wanted by
sycophantic doctors and was in total denial
about his addictions.
 CAUSE OF DEATH
A tell-all book released just days before his
death, which exposed his reported drug abuse.
In the book, titled Elvis: What Happened?
He was in the influence of the different
pharmaceutical drugs.
Although his death was claimed to be a heart
failure, later toxicology reports identified high
levels of several pharmaceutical drugs in his
system.
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