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=// ﻿ From Blue Suede to Graceland...(the childhood story)//=

Every tale has to be told from beginning to end, so lets start from the boring stuff..
It all started when Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Love Smith fell in love with. January 8th, 1935; Tupelo, Mississippi. In better termonolgy "A King was Born" but not the normal royal king who generally loves money and loathes the people, but a king whose influence would usher out culture like no other has completed. He had a twin brother named Vernon, he was stillborn, though his brother died the day after and was buried in a non-marked graveyard.

His parents weren't the weathiest, quite literally they'd be considered poor. Though money didn't matter to the Presley family, what really mattered was their church and their love for each other. They attended a church called //The First Assembly of God//. The Pentecostal service always included singing. Elvis liked music so he joined the choir, after choir Elvis would take his guitar and just play under the stars.

Elvis was raised in Tulepo and moved to Memphis when he was 13. In 1949, his family moved to the Lauderdale district where Elvis visited cultural & musical influences such as Beale Street, Elliss Auditorium, and the Popular Tunes store a mile away from Sun Studios. In his spare time Elvis would take up his guitar and just play his heart away in the laundry room in Lauderdale district. People would listen some times, but for the most part it people would just walk past him. He was alright with this, because he was just practicing for the talent show most of the time.

After he played at his senior year talent show he began to become a little popular with the local people. He played gigs in the malls and courtyards of the courts with other musicians who lived there. After high school he worked at Precision Tool Electic Company driving a truck around until he was noticed by Sun Studios where his musical career would begin to flourish into the king we all know of. Elvis was on his way to becoming The King of Rock.