Il 1956, anno cruciale di Elvis, raccontato con fotografie inedite, spezzoni delle apparizioni TV, cinegiornali, clip e interviste radio insieme a classici, rimasterizzati in digitale, come 'Blue Suede Shoes', 'Love Me Tender' e 'Ready Teddy'.
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00:18His power and success seem to know no bounds.
00:23One and a half billion people connect from all over the world to witness his coronation.
00:34His power and his power and his power and his power.
00:57After ten years in Hollywood, he returns to prove he can still bring down the stands.
01:19Elvis, 1956. When he's young, so is rock 'n' roll.
01:26Ring my liquor for me, don't bruise you. Do anything that you want to do.
01:31But I'm a honey, lay home for my feet.
01:35There's one of my feet.
01:38You can do anything to lay home for my feet.
01:45So put on your blue suede shoes and go back to that year,
01:49when a twenty-one year old boy from Mississippi explodes in America
01:53and changes the face of popular music forever.
02:09The year is 1956.
02:31They call him The Hillbilly Cat.
02:34He's a young truck driver from Memphis who loves to sing rhythm and blues.
02:38Before 1956, Elvis and his band were unknown outside the Southern United States.
03:12They have already recorded five albums for Sun.
03:14Sam Phillips's little Memphis label.
03:37Working together in Sun's small studios,
03:39they mix rhythm and blues with country music
03:42and create a new sound, rockabilly.
03:46These are the first signs of rock'n'roll.
03:50Good Rockin' Tonight, That's Alright Mama and Mystery Train
03:53are starting to be played on radio stations in the South
03:56and Elvis becomes a regular on the Louisiana Air Ride radio show.
04:03On the street, while playing in cheap clubs,
04:07Elvis dreams of becoming a big star.
04:10The dream seems unlikely, except for one thing.
04:14The girls scream at the way he moves when he sings.
04:23This fact is noted by Colonel Tom Parker
04:26who watches Presley's performances.
04:31Parker is not a real army colonel.
04:34His is an honorary title received in the South.
04:36The man is a former street vendor
04:38grew up in the world of easy money.
04:41Parker knows a gold mine when he sees one.
04:44and offers Elvis a personal management contract.
04:48He says to him, son, you now have a talent worth a million dollars.
04:53When we're done, you'll have a million dollars.
04:57Since Elvis is not yet 21,
04:59needs parental approval to sign the contract.
05:03His mother Gladys is a very protective woman
05:05who doesn't trust the colonel
05:07and advises his son not to sign.
05:10But Elvis and Father Vernon
05:12they absolutely decide to do it.
05:15And the boy starts with the colonel
05:17a collaboration that will last a lifetime.
05:21Parker begins promoting Elvis
05:23at major record labels
05:25and in November 1955
05:27RCA buys Presley's contract
05:30from Sam Phillips for $40,000,
05:34the largest sum ever paid
05:36for a country singer.
05:39January 8, 1956
05:42Elvis celebrates his twenty-first birthday.
05:45Two days later
05:46records his first album for RCA
05:48Heartbreak Hotel.
06:15Colonel Parker wants to make Elvis known outside the South
06:19and present it to a national audience.
06:22Television, with its enormous potential for visibility,
06:26seems like the answer.
06:28The Colonel Gets It for Elvis
06:30six appearances on the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show.
06:34On January 28th Elvis makes his very first television appearance.
06:38It's his first trip to New York,
06:40the big city, the world of entertainment.
07:15January 28th Elvis
08:06January 28th Elvis
08:37January 28th Elvis
08:41As soon as people's gaze falls on him
08:44something extraordinary happens.
08:47And it's not just about the music,
08:49even clothes, sideburns
08:51and the ducktail hairstyle.
08:53Elvis not only looks different,
08:55but dangerous.
09:00The Eisenhower 50s are an age of conformity
09:04in American life.
09:06Single-story houses,
09:10barbecue in the backyard.
09:15And Elvis?
09:16At first, no one knows what to think.
09:19His singing style has nothing in common
09:21with What will happen?
09:22or other songs from the 1956 Hit Parade.
09:41While Perry Como sings on NBC
09:43his current success
09:44Hot Digity, Dog Digity,
09:46Elvis on CBS
09:47I launch into Baby Let's Play House.
09:53Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, come back,
10:02baby, I wanna play out of you.
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12:06From wash houses to school.
12:09Racial tensions begin to spark civil rights protests and pave the way for a Baptist pastor,
12:15Dr. Martin Luther King.
12:19Elvis is a Southern boy steeped in the musical influences of his youth, white and black, country and western, pop
12:27and gospel.
12:30And he mixed them all together, creating his own kind of rock 'n' roll.
12:35Performing songs like All Richard's Fruits on national television, Elvis transcended racial barriers in music and threw
12:43down the door for many artists who will follow him, black and white.
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14:50Between one television appearance and another, Elvis and his group continue to tour furiously with an uninterrupted series
14:56of performances.
14:57Richmond, Sarasota, Greensboro, Odessa Texas.
15:05Scotty Moore on guitar, Bill Black on acoustic bass and DJ Fontana on drums.
15:31Far from New York, driving all night to play a concert, they fail to notice the earthquake they have
15:37unleashed.
15:38When they returned to New York on March 17, Heartbreak Hotel had climbed the charts to number one.
15:46And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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17:47Heartbreak Hotel sells two million copies.
17:49It is the first gold record of Elvis' career.
17:52The demand for its recordings is so high that RCA has to use the factories of other labels to satisfy them.
17:59reservations.
18:02While in New York Elvis takes the time to enjoy the success he has just achieved.
18:07Behind the scenes he meets with a jeweler and buys his first diamond ring, a horseshoe,
18:13because it brings good luck.
18:18Stroll around Times Square.
18:21It's the last time Elvis will be able to walk the streets of a big city without being recognized.
18:42Meanwhile, at the Warwick Hotel, fan mail begins to pile up.
18:46People want to know who he is and what he thinks.
19:16I thought I was around, but I guess I wasn't.
19:18He passed.
19:21I don't think I've ever met reason, but I know it.
19:24And I hope it's not too long, because I'm away sometimes.
19:27I'm far away in a city.
19:29I have a feeling that with her, whoever she is, I'm not far from where I am.
19:40Hollywood is the B-side of Elvis' dream.
19:44At 15, he worked as an usher at the Oil State Theater in Memphis,
19:49watching big screen idols like Robert Mitchum and Tony Curtis.
19:53She's awesome to be a movie star.
19:56More than anything, Elvis wants to become a real actor, like the late James Dean.
20:02He idolizes the star who died tragically in a car accident a few months earlier.
20:07He sees burned youth at least ten times
20:09and memorize all of Dean's lines.
20:14On April 1st, Elvis auditions for producer Hall Wallace.
20:18He is given a scene from The Rainmaker,
20:21an upcoming film starring Bart Lancaster and Catherine Hepburn.
20:25Wallace likes what he sees.
20:27On April 7, Elvis signs a 7-year contract
20:30with Paramount Pictures.
20:48Paramount offers him a part in The Rainmaker,
20:52but on the colonel's advice he refuses it.
20:57Instead Wallace gives Elvis to another studio
21:00for a western with Debra Paget and Richard Egan
21:02titled The Reno Brothers.
21:05Filming will begin in August.
21:10With television deals and film contracts in his pocket,
21:14the colonel passes through Las Vegas.
21:17On April 23, Elvis appears in that city for the first time.
21:22The Colonel promotes him as the singer fed by the atomic bomb
21:26and it's a fiasco.
21:29Elvis opens the show at the Venus Room of the New Frontier Hotel
21:33on the bill with Freddie Martin and his orchestra
21:36and comedian Shaky Green.
21:38Elvis Presley
21:40Well, the first night, especially, I was absolutely scared still.
22:11The entertainment magazine Variety writes that for teenagers he is a magician,
22:16but for the average Las Vegas customer it's a fiasco.
22:21Elvis would not sing in Las Vegas again for 14 years.
22:27But the two-week stay is not entirely wasted.
22:31The Hillbilly Cat meets Mr. Showmanship
22:36and Elvis gets valuable advice from Liberace
22:39on how to dress to please the public.
22:56And he brings home an autograph for his mother Gladys.
23:03Elvis returns to Los Angeles on June 5th
23:06and appears on the Milton Berle Show.
23:23It may have been a flop in Las Vegas,
23:25but receives his second gold record for
23:28I want you, I need you, I love you.
23:39Elvis decides to sing a song
23:42originally recorded by Big Mama Thornton
23:44and titled Hound Dog,
23:46eccentric, bluesy, strong and full of energy.
23:49June 5th is a fiasco in Las Vegas.
23:53June 5th is a fiasco in Las Vegas.
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29:14And he's happy to be back home in the South.
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30:52HI.
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32:50The most ridiculous performance.
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34:30Elvis.
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42:19to everyone.
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44:16and to everyone.
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44:33the whole script.
44:34his jokes.
44:35His jokes.
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46:49Show. Sullivan had sworn never to invite Elvis and Pelvis on the show, but the
46:56the strength of the boy's popularity forces him to change his mind.
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51:03Now he performs in front of 22,000 people
51:06and donates the $10,000 of his salary to charity.
51:11Today he wears a velvet shirt made for him by his mother.
51:14He will be back next year for another charity performance.
51:17dressed in his famous Hollywood-designed golden blade suit.
51:23On October 24, Variety ran a front-page headline.
51:29Elvis, millionaire in a year.
51:39Love Me Tender is out November 16th.
51:42and the first one is in New York City.
51:463,000 teenagers scream as a 40-foot-tall Elvis statue is unveiled.
51:52Elvis' transformation into a movie star is complete
51:55although some fans are disappointed that the film contains no rock'n'roll music.
52:04Critics pan the film, but it grosses a million dollars in production costs.
52:10within a few days.
52:12At the end of 1956, the two highest-grossing films in the nation were
52:17Giant, starring James Dean, and Love Me Tender, starring Elvis Presley.
52:25Elvis makes his final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on January 6, 1957,
52:31almost a year to the day since a 21-year-old Elvis Presley
52:34He had entered the RCA studios for the first time to record Heartbreak Hotel.
52:41Now he dyes his hair shiny black because he thinks it looks better in movies.
52:46and he thinks they make him look a bit like Tony Curtis.
53:05Sullivan makes a last-ditch attempt to censor Elvis, filming him only from the waist up.
53:39Here we go.
53:50As the final song in the show, Elvis performs a gospel classic, Peace in the Valley.
53:58Well, I'm tired and so weary
54:03But I mustn't go along
54:09Till the Lord comes and calls
54:13Call me away, oh yes
54:18Well, the morning's so bright
54:23And the Lamb is alive
54:27And the night, night is as black
54:32As the sea
54:35Oh yes
54:38There will be peace
54:41There will be peace
54:42In the valley
54:43For me
54:45Someday
54:47There will be peace
54:50In the valley
54:52For me
54:54Oh Lord, I pray
54:57For me
54:58For me
55:20It's the end of an era.
55:22Elvis would make only three more television appearances during his lifetime.
55:39After 1956, his fame became unprecedented, so much so that it completely turned his world upside down.
55:48By 1957, his concerts were so crowded and unmanageable that Elvis stopped touring.
55:55The original band, consisting of Scotty, Bill and DJ, split up.
56:01Elvis moves into the privacy of Graceland with his family.
56:05And just at the height of his success, his beloved mother dies.
56:13The boy made a total of 33 films and became the highest-paid star in Hollywood.
56:19It sells a billion records worldwide.
56:24Rarely has a single man influenced the world so much through his music.
56:31But after 1956, we will never get that close again.
57:03The boy makes a total of 34 films and becomes his family.
57:17The boy makes a total of 34 films and becomes his family.
57:52Thank you all
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