Cool Boy Singer - Memphis When we are talking about Memphis, immediately the name of Elvis Presley, that cool boy-singer, goes into mind. The image of the handsome young man with guitar will never be forgotten. Elvis was a truck driver from Memphis, and his cool boy-songs were just his hobby. However he happened to be a very talented guy who loved his mother very tenderly. It was in 1953, when Elvis Presley came into the studio “Sun” for the first time. He was planning to make a birthday present to his mother. Thus, his career began that day. Sam Fillips, the firm manager put his eye on Elvis and invited him to make a professional record. So the first song was Memphis’ blues “That’s all right, mother”. In 1956 Elvis Presley wrote his “Heartbreak Hotel” and since that moment he had become the main leader of American hit-parades. Memphis’ cool boy-singer is famous in all over the world. I guess, it is quite hard to remain a real man and a terrific singer when you are surrounded with lots of fans as Presley was. Elvis Presley tried to be such a person. Joining the army Elvis had become an idol for the youth. Everybody knows him as the King of rock-and-roll from Memphis. Nowadays one can get Presley’s records in Kohls Coupon Codes, Sears Coupon, or Target Coupon any time. Later this phenomenon of mass culture changed into pop-music. There were “The Beatles”, “Rolling Stones”, “Creams” and the like from England and so on so forth. The themes of youth problems faded away and love stories and daily romantics started to cherish. Then rock-and-roll wrapped in a sweet package turned into something like a commerce deal. That was already a different story; there were no Elvis, no Memphis ... *** However Memphis and Presley are interwoven so tightly that when one says Elvis he means Memphis and on the contrary if one says Memphis he means Elvis. So living in this city I am considered to be a lucky man, because I walk where Presley did walk. It seems to me that I watch everything around me with his eyes, feel as he did … The spirit of that cool boy-songs is alive for ever … |