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One of the gifts his parents got him was a guitar. Elvis was eleven at the time and had asked for a bicycle, but his parents couldn’t afford one so he ended up with a guitar instead.
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As a teenager Elvis worked as an usher at Loew’s State Theater in Memphis. He was fired when another usher ratted on him for getting free candy from the girl behind the concession stand.
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Presley’s idol was Tony Curtis, who had shiny black hair. When he decided to dye his hair for the first time, he used black shoe polish. He also dyed his eyelashes to match, which would later cause him minor health issues and allergies.
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An online poll during the late nineties showed that “Elvis” was one of the most popular passwords for computers in the United States at the time.
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Elvis used to tell his friends and people close to him that he would die in his forties, just like his mother. Ironically, on August 16, 1977, the date of his death, Elvis was only forty-two.
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