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Ralph Stuart Emanuel Donner is born in the Norwood Park area of Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will enjoy success in the early 1960s as pop hitmaker Ral Donner, very much in the mould of Elvis Presley.
Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Blue Barron on MGM Records enters the Billboard Popular Singles chart in the USA. It will peak at number nineteen during a run of eight weeks on the chart. The song will prove to be a much bigger hit ten years later for Elvis Presley.
In one of the most outrageous examples of musical censorship on erotic grounds, the BBC in London, England, UK, Europe, bans the latest Johnnie Ray single, Such A Night, from airplay, while it is already at No1 in the singles chart. The song, whose lyric is no more suggestive than many of the era, had been a hit in the USA for The Drifters earlier in the year, and would be a hit again for Elvis Presley in 1964 but, for reasons which have never been adequately explained Johnnie Ray [an undisclosed homosexual] suffered the ban.
Sam Phillips of Sun Records of Memphis, Tennessee, USA, invites aspiring young singer Elvis Presley into the studio for a test recording session. Presley sings the song Without You, but Phillips is not completely convinced. He asks Presley to sing a few more songs and is sufficiently impressed to decide he will get Presley together with local musicians Scotty Moore (guitar) and Bill Black (bass) for a further session.Both sides of Elvis Presley's debut single are on the local singles chart in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Blue Moon Of Kentucky reaches No1 while That's All Right is at No7.
On the Louisiana Hayride radio show in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, Elvis Presley does a commercial for Southern Made Doughnuts.
The song Mystery Train is registered for copyright by Hi Lo Music. It is written by Herman Parker and Sam Phillips, and the best-known version will be recorded by Elvis Presley.
Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA at No68.
Elvis Presley spends the last of three days screen-testing for film producer Hal Wallis at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California, USA.
Fourteen year old James Marshall Hendrix [later to become Jimi Hendrix] sees Elvis Presley perform at Sicks Stadium, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Don't by Elvis Presley enters the UK Pop Singles Chart, where it will peak at No2 during an eleven-week run.
A Big Hunk O' Love by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No1 during a ten-week run.
Elvis Presley's dermatologist, Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau, having been sacked for making homosexual advances to Elvis's friends in Bad Nauheim, Germany, Europe, flies back to London aboard BEA Flight491.
At The Fontainbleu Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA, Elvis Presley records a Timex tv special with Frank Sinatra, who had previously declared that 'rock'n'roll is made by cretinous goons'. Also on the show are Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
When Elvis Presley attends the Easter Service at the First Assembly of God Church, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, his presence causes such a disturbance that he is obliged to leave.
Elvis Presley spends the evening at The Moulin Rouge, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley records Big Boots for the soundtrack of the film G.I. Blues, at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, but is dissatisfied with the material.
The latest Elvis Presley movie, which has been filming in California, USA, under the title Flaming Lance, is re-named Flaming Star.
At Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, Elvis Presley records ISlipped, I Stumbled, I Fell, which will be released on the album Something For Everybody.
The latest Elvis Presley movie, G.I. Blues opens at The Plaza cinema, London, UK.
Elvis Presley records It's A Sin, There's Always Me and other tracks in RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with studio-based filming for the movie Blue Hawaii, at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues filming studio-based scenes for his latest movie, Follow That Dream, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley is in Seattle, Washington, USA, on the seventh day of location filming for his latest movie, It Happened At The World's Fair.
Elvis Presley continues filming studio scenes for his next movie, It Happened At The World's Fair, in MGM Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues filming scenes for his next movie, Fun In Acapulco, at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.Elvis Presley is having publicity photographs shot for his next movie, Fun In Acapulco, at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of studio-based scenes at MGM Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, for his latest movie Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret.
Elvis Presley begins location filming for his next film, Kissin' Cousins, at Big Bear, near San Bernardino, California, USA.
The musical comedy film Bye Bye Birdie opens at cinemas in Belgium, Europe. The film, based on Elvis Presley being drafted into the US Army, stars Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke, with Jesse Pearson as fictitious pop idol Conrad Birdie (a pun on Conway Twitty), along with Ann-Margret and Bobby Rydell. TV show host Ed Sullivan appears as himself.
Elvis Presley goes to Long Beach, California, to present his recently purchased yacht, Potomac, as a charitable gift to St Jude's Hospital of Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Elvis Presley signs a contract with Admiral Pictures, Inc, to make the film Frankie And Johnny.
Elvis Presley and his entourage leave Memphis, Tennessee, USA, heading for Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, where the star is to begin filming his next movie, Tickle Me.
Principal photography on the next Elvis Presley movie, Frankie And Johnny, comes to an end at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley is scheduled to begin recording soundtrack material for his next movie, Paradise Hawaiian Style, at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, but he fails to turn up, claiming to be ill.
Elvis Presley releases the soundtrack LP to his movie Harum Scarum on RCA Victor Records in the USA.
Elvis Presley is rehearsing in Houston, Texas, USA, for his upcoming performances at The Annual Texas Livestock Show.
Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla are staying at their rented home in Camino Del Norte, Palm Springs, California, USA, while looking for a new home to buy.When Elvis Presley takes his five year old daughter Lisa Marie to see the Jackson 5 play at the Sahara in Las Vegas, Nevada, she meets Michael Jackson for the first time.
Legendary Sunset Boulevard hotel The Chateau Marmont is named a Los Angeles' Historical-Cultural Landmark. Opened in 1929, the hotel became famed for its bohemian celebrity clientele, which included Jim Morrison of The Doors and gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson. Actor John Belushi died of a drug overdose in Bungalow 3 on March 5, 1982. The Chateau Marmont is the setting for the Grateful Dead's 1987 song West L.A. Fadeaway, and it is also mentioned in both Lana Del Rey's 2012 song Off To The Races, and Father John Misty's song Chateau Lobby No4 (in C for Two Virgins).
After a show at Ellis Auditorium in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Bruce Springsteen endeavours to meet Elvis Presley by the unorthodox method of scaling the walls of Graceland. He is ejected by a security guard. 
Jerry Lee Lewis, brandishing a Derringer pistol, drives to Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, and demands that Elvis Presley should come out to speak with him. Elvis declines. Jerry Lee goes home.
An 85-page report, claiming that Elvis Presley's manager, Col Tom Parker, defrauded Presley out of $2.7m, is presented to a court in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Elvis Presley is inducted posthumously into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, at the event's inaugural dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, USA.
Elsa Lanchester dies of pneumonia at the Motion Picture Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, USA. She had found success as an actress in movies as diverse as The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) and Mary Poppins (1964) but she also released three LPs in the 1950s and sang a duet with Elvis Presley in the film Easy Come, Easy Go (1967).
When Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana play at Ronnie Scott's Club, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe, Robert Plant turns up to see the show. After the gig, Scotty is interviewed by Johnny Black for Mojo Magazine, and photographed by Glenn Powell of SonicShots.1943 |
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