Elvis PresleyElvis Presley was a rock and roll legend in life. He's still the king of rock and roll, even in death. He was born January 8, 1935 in Mississippi. In 1948, his family moved to Memphis Tennessee, where he graduated from Humes High School. He was attracted to music from a young age and began his musical career in 1954 with the Sun Records label in Memphis. In late 1955, his recording contract was purchased by RCA Victor. By 1956, he was an international sensation. He has appeared in 33 films and directed hundreds of shows and specials. This success would ultimately lead to his untimely death. Most telling of all, Elvis was the world's most popular entertainer, a figure of constant attention who presented himself as the boy next door as his life grew increasingly bizarre. He was fascinated by guns, and in his later years he rarely went anywhere without carrying one. He became a nocturnal creature who rented an amusement park outside Memphis so he could ride roller coasters at night – alone, except for those around him. He covered hotel room windows with aluminum foil to keep out daylight. His appetite for food and addiction to drugs like stimulants, painkillers, and painkillers was incredible. Elvis did not live out his final years alone. There were other actors in the drama. The Colonel. His father, Vernon, and his daughter, Lisa Marie. The women: his ex-wife, Priscilla, and his girlfriends Linda Thompson and Ginger Alden. His bodyguards, Red and Sonny West, and his assistants, Joe Esposito and Charlie Hodge. And his doctor, George Nichopoulos. But in 1974, Elvis was a very sick man. And it seemed like none of the people gathered around him could do anything to stop him from slipping away. Elvis' health collapsed like... middle of paper... up to ten different drugs were coursing through his body, taking control of his brain, his heart. Four of the drugs were contained in what the medical examiner would describe as “significant quantities.” These included codeine, ethinamate, methaqualone and unidentifiable barbiturates. He had also taken a number of Placidyl and Valium capsules, both tranquilizers, as well as unknown quantities of Demerol and Meperidine, both painkillers. Morphine and chloropheniramine, an antihistimine that alone would make its user drowsy, brought the astonishing total to ten. Elvis sat staring at the open book in his lap, his eyes glassy, ​​his body still. His chin fell to his chest, the large body slumped imperceptibly then shifted and fell out of the large cushioned chair, the sound of the fall muffled by the brown shag carpet. The room was silent except for the sound of his last breath..