 |  | The most memorable, exciting personality in American music was born January 8,1935 in a two-room plank shack in East Tupelo, Mississippi,on the wrong side of the rail road tracks.
He won his first prize for singing at the age of 10 and by 19, he had made his first record and become a worldwide sensation as a rock and roll singer.
Extraordinary entertainer, enigmatic myth, Elvis Presley lives on as legend decades after his death at the age of 42 on August 16,1977.
Today, in 2010, he is more popular than ever,thousands of fans still flock yearly to his Graceland Mansion and sales of his albums top one billion.
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