PHOTO: Fans Pay Homage to Elvis

Thousands of fans gathered in Memphis to pay their respect to Elvis Presley on the 30th anniversary of his demise.

The fans of the king of rock and roll formed a procession that ended on Elvis’s grave, in the garden of his estate Graceland. Elvis died on August 16, 1977 at the age of 42.

High temperatures of more than 40 degrees Celsius did not prevent the fans of his music to assemble to pay homage.

Elvis Aaron Presley was a poor man who succeeded in life, a white man who sang like a black man, a sex symbol close to his mother, a rebellious patriot and king of rock and roll who died too young and fame and fortune pushed him into drugs and depression.

Although he was not the first to meld the blues: typical black music inspired by slavery and country music typical for white folks, with his album “Heartbreak Hotel” in 1956 he gave great momentum to rock music.

To this day Elvis is the most popular solo singer in the world who sold a billion albums across the world. Each year 600,000 tourists go on pilgrimage to Memphis where Elvis recorded his first songs and where he lived in Graceland where he was buried.

This great man still makes between 40 and 50 million dollars a year. The unprecedented campaign prepared for the marking of the 30^th anniversary of his death should even more fill the cash registers thanks to the reissuing of his songs, movies, coffee mugs and wall clocks with his image.

Look at photographs from the mass gathering of his fans in the PHOTO GALLERY.