10 facts about elvis presleyELVIS IS DEAD

When he was 15 months old, Elvis almost died in a Tupelo, Mississippi tornado, which would have meant that he would have joined his dead-at-birth twin Jesse Garon.

Other ethnic derivation for Elvis Presley: Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, Cherokee Indian and French.

(A little something for everyone.)

Elvis’ first 2 recorded songs cost him $4 at Sun Studios in Memphis, where he recorded “My Happiness” and “That’s

When Your Heartaches Begin” as a gift for his mother, Gladys.

Presley preferred sponge baths.

Elvis dyed his hair Black, to make his hair look black onscreen in movies. He once dyed his hair with black shoe polish in his do-it-yourself days. He also dyed his

eyelashes, which caused him health problems later in life. (Good thing he didn’t EAT the dye).

Elvis recorded 15 songs with the word “blue” in the title.

In the early 1970’s, Presley would impersonate a police officer and pull people over and hand out autographs. He had purchased police equipment for his 36th birthday.

Presley worked as an usher at Lowe’s State movie theater in Memphis. He was fired when he was discovered taking

free candy from the girl working the concession stand.

The year before he died, Presley was prescribed about 10,000 pills.

(I wonder what the count against Michael Jackson’s final year would be: which would score highest?)

Elvis died on the bathroom toilet. Elvis’ last words (to his girlfriend Ginger Alden, who had cautioned him against

falling asleep reading in the bathroom) were; “Okay, I won’t.”