The King, 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)

Between 1977 and 1981, six of Presley's posthumously released singles were top-ten country hits.

His home, Graceland, was opened to the public in 1982. Attracting over half a million visitors annually, it became the second most-visited home in the United States, after the White House. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2006.

Presley has been inducted into five music halls of fame: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986), the Country Music Hall of Fame (1998), the Gospel Music Hall of Fame (2001), the Rockabilly Hall of Fame (2007), and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame (2012). In 1984, he received the W. C. Handy Award from the Blues Foundation and the Academy of Country Music's first Golden Hat Award. In 1987, he received the American Music Awards' Award of Merit.

He is one of the top-earning deceased celebrities, and in 2018, Presley was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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