American superstar that died too young? Or did he? Follow back to the rabbit hole.

I'm your host, Danny, and today we are talking about Elvis Presley.

Thank you, Athen, for your request of this episode.

So this is going to be a series because there are several

of these that are said to have faked their deaths. So this is the first in a series of fake

deaths that we're going to cover in the next couple weeks. So if you have requested a fake

death or you have a request for a fake death, Yes, I'm going to cover Tupac and

Michael Jackson and Paul Walker has been requested as well. So if you have any others outside

of those guys, let me know. But let's get into Elvis. So Elvis Aaron Presley was born on

January 8th of 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi.

His parents were Vernon and Gladys Presley.

And Elvis actually was a twin, but unfortunately, Jesse, who was his twin, was delivered stillborn.

And so his mom would often say that he had the strength of two men, so him and his brother Jesse.

But because of that death, Elvis was very close with his parents, and in fact, he was quite the mama's boy.

The family attended an Assembly of God church, which is where he first found musical inspiration.

And Vernon kind of made money just doing odd jobs, but that meant that the family didn't have

much money.

In 1938, Vernon was found guilty of altering a check, so he went to jail for eight months.

And this caused the family to lose their home. And Gladys and Elvis moved into a

black neighborhood, which was all they could afford at the time. And this would greatly influence

his music later to the point where sometimes people would ask, like in his early days, if he was a

white man or a black man, because they just assumed he was black because of the way he

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