Term 3 Week 2 Learning Log

Last week, was the first week our class had started to acknowledge the most famous American singer. Elvis Aaron Presley(January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll"orn in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954 or simply "the King".He became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. Conscripted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He staged few concerts, however, and, guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood movies and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided.

Elvis Presley 's only child, Lisa Marie, was born on February 1, 1968, during a period when he had grown deeply unhappy with his career. Presley 's divorce took effect on October 9, 1973. He was now becoming increasingly unwell. Twice during the year he overdosed on barbiturates, spending three days in a coma in his hotel suite after the first incident. Toward the end of 1973, he was hospitalized, semi comatose from the effects of Demerol addiction.