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 on January 8, 1935 in Mississippi in 1948, his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee where he graduated from Humes High School. He was drawn to music at 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 acted in 33 films and has done hundreds of shows and specials. This success ultimately led to his early death. Most significantly, Elvis was the world's most popular entertainer, a figure of constant attention who came across as the boy next door as his life grew increasingly bizarre. He was fascinated by firearms and in his later years 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 his entourage. He covered hotel room windows with aluminum foil to prevent daylight from entering. His appetite for food and addiction to drugs such as sedatives, tranquilizers and painkillers were incredible. Elvis did not spend his last 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 friends Linda Thompson and Ginger Alden. His bodyguards, Red and Sonny West, and his sidekicks, Joe Esposito and Charlie Hodge. And his doctor, George Nichopoulos. But in 1974 Elvis was a very sick man. And it seemed that none of the people who had gathered around him could do anything to stop him from escaping. Elvis' health took a nosedive in the middle of a sheet of paper... as many as ten different drugs coursing through his body, taking control of his brain and heart. Four of the drugs were in quantities that the medical examiner would describe as "significant quantities." These were codeine, ethynamate, methaqualone and unidentifiable barbiturates. He had also taken a number of capsules of Placidyl and Valium, both tranquilizers, and unknown quantities of Demerol and Meperidine, both painkillers. Bringing the staggering total to ten were morphine and chloropheniramine, an antihistamine that alone would make its user sleepy. Elvis sat staring at the open book in his lap, his eyes glassy, ​​his body motionless. His chin dropped to his chest, his large body slumped imperceptibly, then he shifted and fell from the large padded chair, the sound of his fall muffled by the shag brown carpet. The room was silent except for the sound of his dying breath..