The following is one of my favorite Elvis Presley Fun Facts:

Elvis was considered an average-looking, pimply-faced teenager as many of us were during our adolescent years, and legend has it that not only was he not popular at all in high school, he wasn’t a particularly impressive performer either; at least, not initially!

Elvis was picked on and teased, and actually bullied by classmates while attending first grade at Lawhorn School in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1942. Kids would always tease him as being a “Mama’s boy” and because he had a mild stuttering problem. Elvis Presley was quite shy as a kid, but he was always known as a “good, well-mannered kid” by his teachers.

When Elvis entered high school he took on a different persona than all the other students around him. While all the other boys were sporting crew cuts and wearing plaid shirts, Elvis wore his hair slicked back while wearing “pimped out,” flashy clothes! He was already “coming into his own,” preparing himself for his dreams of playing guitar and singing for a living!

So what happened to this awkward teenager?  How did Elvis go from being “just an average guy”into arguably the best-looking male singer of the twentieth century?  Probably for the same reason I went from being a pretty darn-good-looking kid (or so they say) to an average-looking adult male.  We all change!  Although I don’t tell my wife (I hope she doesn’t read this) I know several girls who were “plain Janes” in high school, only to develop and mature into beautiful goddesses!

As far as his performing ability; Elvis performed at his high school’s talent show in 1953 and won first prize after singing “Cold Cold Icy Fingers” to a thunderous applause, and it’s reported that a girl actually fainted!

I guess practice does make perfect!

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Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, has been quietly living well for years now after inheriting her father’s estate and controlling it until she sold 85% of it in 2005 to a company named CKX, Inc.

For the longest time she had been merely known as Elvis Presley’s daughter until she burst into the spotlight by marrying Michael Jackson in a possible publicity stunt.  She goes on record as saying she had become a close personal friend to Michael Jackson and she felt she could help save him from health problems and drug addiction, and that she simply fell in love.  Regardless of the motive, it turned out to be a well-timed, lucrative move on her part. 

The Elvis Presley daughter we came to adore in the early seventies had been virtually “off the map” until she wed Jackson, and suddenly we rekindled our curiosity with her as we found her on almost every magazine at supermarket shelves everywhere.  We’ve been intrigued ever since, and soon enough, she began recording and indeed has two gold Albums to prove her success!

Fast forward>>>>>

Lisa Marie, now the proud mother of 4 children, has lived through a stormy childhood where she admitted to being a drug user until the age of 17, and she’s made it just fine!  Although she’s been married 4 times, this is quite typical in that fast-paced life where some family values seem to be a bit skewed, and many big-time entertainer’s’ kids virtually raise themselves in a spoiled environment.

Yes, this is Elvis Presley’s daughter, the same one we marveled at when she was borne into the the Regal Presley family on February 1st, 1968, the same year of the Elvis Presley Comeback Special.  What a year that must have been for Elvis!  Today she seems to be at peace and enjoying life while being married to rocker Michael Lockwood, and her recently-born twins who entered this world on October 7th, 2008, will play a part in carrying on the Elvis legacy.

Congratulations Elvis Presley’s daughter–errrr…-I mean Lisa Marie!!   

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