Is Elvis still alive? Is Lisa Marie broke?

Is Elvis alive? Is Lisa Marie broke?

41 years ago, Elvis Presley took his last breath on this earth. I’ve always found his impact on people around the world to be facinating. He came from a very poor upbringing to one of the most recognizeable faces in the entire world. Women swooned, men wanted to be him. But Elvis did things his way.

But on this day in 1977, in the days before instant news from the internet, the news traveled around the globe instantly. Paramedics had been called, but they failed to revive Elvis, and he was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital where further attempts to resuscitate him failed. He was pronounced dead by his physician, Dr. George Nichopolous, who listed the official cause of death as erratic heartbeat, or cardiac arrhythmia.

Interesting that someone who seemingly had everything a man could want except for privacy. 

In 1956, when Elvis tunes came blaring out of every radio and speaker in the land, young Americans notions about independence — from parents, from religion, from the values of the time — were forming.

Elvis became ‘The King of Rock and Roll’, but also of the emerging youth culture. He was a young, hip-thrusting, white singing music that was essentially black. Part of his attraction was that the ’50s teenagers viewed him as epitomizing everything they thought their parents feared they would become.

Here’s what former President Jimmy Carter said of Elvis: 

Elvis Presley’s death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique and irreplaceable. More than 20 years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense, and he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor of his country’. (August 17, 1977).