Elvis Presley on This Day in History

Dixieland - An American Trilogy (1972)

The King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, died on this day in 1977. I still remember where I was when I heard of his death. I was building a fireplace in the Thorhild, Alberta area with my dad. 

Elvis has sold over one billion records worldwide and has had over 150 different albums and singles certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum. Elvis still holds the record for Most Top 40 hits at 114 total. He had 53 Top 40 albums on the Billboard Top 200 chart.

Elvis Presley is the only music artist to be honored with two U.S. Postal Service commemorative stamps (1993 & 2015). The 1993 stamp is still the most popular U.S. commemorative stamp of all time.

Elvis only performed in three cities outside the U.S., all in Canada: Ottawa, Vancouver and Toronto.

He also had bad eating habits, which may explain a lot in his later years:

"Elvis is famously associated with a sandwich made with peanut butter, bacon, and banana, then pan-fried in butter like an even fattier grilled cheese. It wasn’t his only extreme dietary indulgence, though: 'The King' also enjoyed deep-fried pickles and is said to have once flown from Memphis to Denver just for a massive Fool's Gold Loaf sandwich, which involves stuffing a pound of bacon, a jar of peanut butter, and a jar of jelly inside a buttery loaf of hollowed-out French bread." (Mental Floss)