Elvis Presley, the lone star

The spontaneous recording session not only changed the life of the truck driver; It also partially changed the history of music.

Elvis died, 23 years later, after collapsing in one of the bathrooms of his huge mansion of 23 rooms in Memphis.

At the time of being a victim of a heart attack caused by an excessive cocktail … of drinks.

He was the singer popular, most famous in the world, at that time.

With a style Adapted from the traditional blues troubadours of the North American South and a mouth sensuality On stage, he had attracted what was probably the most numerous adolescent audience in history.

Despite the decades elapsed since his death has demonstrated an amazing endurance.

Elvis died on August 16, 1977 and –Unusual case– On August 2002, in which 25 years of physical disappearance were completed, more than 70,000 people from all over the world, placed flowers and messages of love with their grave and marched- come them in hand- to give up a dessert tribute.

At the same time, a hundred imitators of Elvis, dressed in their traditional white jacket with golden ons, tight marine mouth pants, overwhelmed hair, long pins and dark glasses, converged in Memphis to participate in one of the central acts of the reminder.

They were part of a legion of more than 35,000 imitators from all over the planet of Iceland to Japan.

It is that everything was spectacular, unique.

Because this American singer and actor named Elvis Presley truck driver arrived as an exhalation to stardom.

But he came to create a dress style. And even a lifestyle.

It was mobilized in the stages as moved by a high voltage cable.

It was the era of black cameras and general psychosis by a possible atomic war.

In 1957 he was the best paid Hollywood star.

His music, rock and roll, was the generational sound that united as a flag, millions of young people.

At 30- he was only 30 years old!- He surprised that world surprisingly and wasolated himself in his lavish residence in Arizona.

No journalist managed to interview him for years.

The lonelinessthat silent enemy wrapped it.

He returned 7 or 8 years later with his name and fortune intact. And at 42, with loneliness hitting it mercilessly, I leave this world voluntarily.

Eighty thousand people accompanied their remains.

In an autobiographical book Elvis Presley talks about his feeling of loneliness.

And he expressed that everything left over could not replace what he felt he was missing.

But I think we are interested in the phenomenon- as done- Elvis Presley.

Like every myth, it is difficult to explain. Perhaps the secret of his success was that at that time of post-war-World War II had ended, with all his sequelae of horror. Young people lodged a high dossis of rebellion, of violence, that strident music interpreted fully.

It was an indisputable idol.

I was at the summit. But “the summits are usually very close to the abysses.”

He was mediocre as an actor. His films- 30 approximately- they were too. He even had a privileged voice.

But the King of Rock was still in many years of his death. A king who revolutionized his time without weapons, with only his extraordinary charism and a frantic movement that harmonized with the newly discovered sensuality of the adolescents of both sexes.

In the sixties a partial sunset, a cone of shadows. Reason?. The appearance of the Beatles.

He was 26 or 27 years old.

It reappeared, almost obese, at 33 in a television program.

In just an hour of action he returned to success.

What he had had yesterday, had it again today. But … it was no longer yesterday.

He had returned to the lights transformed into a tree and had reunited his roots. Although his organism was no longer the same.

The excesses had left marks that perhaps were not noticeable. But that could no longer be erased.

Until the death of his luxurious 18 room mansion on his bed, dressed in a blue pajamas, weighing 120 kg and defeated forever for his exorbitant and empty form of living.

But death did not betray it.

He did not understand his message …

And an aphorism for EP and its tragic end:

“Life has lights and shadows. But shadows are usually … definitive.”