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'''Elvis Aron Presley''' (1935-1977), known as "the King of [[Rock and Roll]]", was one of the most influential singers of the mid-20th century, selling over a billion records worldwide. He began his professional singing career and signed his first contract in 1954 with when [[Sam Phillips]], the owner of Sun Records, who teamed him with two other musicians, guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black. (They were later joined by drummer D.J. Fontana.)

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* [[Big Eater]]: More like ''Huge'' Eater. Elvis (with a pair of Colorado cops) once flew all the way out to [[Denver]] at about midnight to eat a couple of [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Fool%27s_Gold_Loaf's Gold Loaf|Fool's Gold Loaves]] (a hollowed-out, lightly-toasted Italian loaf) filled with a whole jar of peanut butter, a whole jar of grape jelly, and an [[Bacon Addiction|entire pound of bacon]]. That's right, we said a couple: he probably ate at least four of the things that night. Since one of the cops was the friend of the guy who owned the restaurant that made the damned things, they got a tray of them wheeled out to the Denver airport, where they and their pilots ate the sandwiches (washed down with Perrier sparkling and ''Dom Perignon'') and flew back to Memphis. Without even leaving the airport.

* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: Inverted; he ''hated'' being called The King, and would tell anyone who called him this that there was only one King--considering he was a Christian, you can probably guess [[Jesus|who he meant.]]

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: One colleague said, "I'm straight as an arrow and I got to tell you, you stop, whether you're male or female, to look at him. [[Distracted Byby the Sexy|He was that good looking]]."

* [[Hell -Bent for Leather]]: The Elvis 1968 special: The man rocks both the music and his black leather jacket and tight pants.

* [[MommasMomma's Boy]]: Elvis promised that he would take care of his parents when he made it big, and he kept that promise, even bringing his parents to live at Graceland, where they are buried alongside him.

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Elvis Presley met [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] once. No one recorded it. Cue agonisedagonized groans of despair from fans.