By CARMYN ANDERSON
Staff Writer
Elvis was a star in the 1900s, everyone knew who he was whether they liked him or not. He was the king of rock and roll. Elvis was known for his music but also known for his outfits, all the rhinestone-covered jumpsuits. After decades and decades, everyone finally heard the story about the famous fabulous Elvis Presley. Just like everyone else, he went through the ups and downs and hardships in life. His family have money problems growing up when he was 11 years old, he thought he could help by singing and making money. After all the issues with people in the south having a problem with his appearance, he had to change and his fans didn’t really like it. He then realized that he doesn’t need to change, and started going back to how he was. After a while, he had a big struggle with addiction to prescription drugs and drinking. He started to spiral badly downwards. He started to step out of his marriage and had multiple affairs on tour and his wife knew and she had enough and she left him with his kids. It wasn’t soon later that he started to struggle worse with his addiction. He learned that his manager was lying to him about tours and money and he outed him in front of millions of people. On August 16,1977, he was only 42 years old and he died of a heart attack.
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