I’m not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I’m singing, I’m dead. Man, I might as well go back to driving a truck.

American popular singer and film star Elvis Presley, born this day in 1935, was widely known as the “King of Rock and Roll” and was one of that genre’s dominant performers from the mid-1950s until his death in 1977.