Elvis Presley was born on this day in 1935. Some say he died on August 16, 1977. Others believe Elvis is alive.
- Once, after receiving a kidnap/assassination threat, Elvis performed with a pistol in each boot.
- His Graceland mansion is the second most-visited house in America after White House.
- Won three Grammy Awards, all for his Gospel music.
- Owned a pet chimpanzee called “Scatter,” who was thought to have died of liver disease, since he had developed a drinking problem. Some think a maid, whom he had bitten, poisoned the chimp.
- His autopsy detected ten different drugs in his bloodstream.
- The year before he died, Presley was prescribed about 10,000 pills.
- Was offered roles in such films, as The Rainmaker, Defiant Ones, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, West Side Story, Sweet Bird Of Youth, The Fastest Guitar In The West, Midnight Cowboy, True Grit and A Star is Born
- Only performed two concerts outside of the United States, both in Canada
- His favorite aftershave to impress the ladies was Brut.
- Elvis recorded more than 600 songs — but did not write any of them. 15 of those songs had the word “blue” in the title.
- He collected statues of the Venus de Milo.
- “Unchained Melody” was a song he only performed during the last 6 months of his life.
- At its height his daily food intake was an estimated 94,000 calories a day. An Asian elephant consumes only 50,000.
- He loved Fool’s Gold Loaf, a hollow loaf filled with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of grape jelly and a pound of bacon. It had 42,000 calories.
- Elvis was a big Monty Python fan and the film Monty Python and The Holy Grail was in his video recorder when he died.
- Elvis made only one appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, in October of 1954. They never invited him back.
- Elvis was awarded two medals while serving in the Army, one for expert marksmanship, the other for sharpshooting.
- Was the Biggest Tax Payer in 1973.
- “Jailhouse Rock” was the first ever music video.
- Elvis released an entire album of between-song stage banter – “Having Fun With Elvis On Stage” in 1974 to fulfill a contractual obligation.
- Elvis wrote to President Richard Nixon requesting that Nixon make him a Federal Agent in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Nixon allegedly mailed him a Special Agent badge.
- Elvis had plastic surgery in the mid-1970s. He had two full face-lifts and rhinoplasty surgery. During this time he would have been around 40 years old.
- Elvis has been inducted into Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
- He made 31 movies in his lifetime.
- Actor Nicolas Cage, who was briefly married to Elvis’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley, was the only person aside from Presley’s immediate family to see the inside of Elvis’s Graceland bedroom.
- In 1977, the year that Elvis died, there were about 170 working Elvis Presley impersonators. Today, there are around 250,000.
- Sometimes, Elvis would sign “Elvis” on a female fan’s left breast and “Presley” on the right.
- Elvis hated fish. He wouldn’t allow Priscilla to eat fish at Graceland.
- Elvis preferred sponge baths.
- Elvis dated Natalie Wood, but only for a very brief period. He said he didn’t like the way she smelled.
- Elvis did LSD in 1965 with The Beatles.
