Elvis
Description
Vocal Characteristics
Language
EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (US South)Transcript
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The king was dead. As word spread on that sultry southern day, august 16th 1977 thousands of people gathered outside the gates of the Graceland estate in Memphis Tennessee. They joined the world in paying their respects to Elvis Presley sadly, the legendary king of Rock and Roll, died not on a throne but on his toilet, his bloated body brimming with a pharmaceutical soup chock full of morphine, codeine and Quaaludes, but that reality was in sharp contrast to the star crossed life of a man who was a god to millions In his 42 years, the one time truck driving son of a Mississippi sharecropper and an overprotective mother parlayed his raw singing talent into a virtual religion from the poor side of town, Elvis miraculously ascended to the top of the world.