Elvis facts:

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1.. Elvis and David bowie shared the same birthday (January 8th)

2.. Elvis recorded over 600 songs but didn't actually write a single one of them!

3.. There's a total of  15 Elvis songs with the word 'blue' in the title. Can you name them all?

4.. the song crazy little thing called love was written by Freddy Mercury as a tribute to elvis and was completed in 10 minutes.

5.. when he was 12 years old, a local radio station offered elvis to sing live on the show but he turned it down due to shyness.

6.. Elvis has only ever played 5 concerts abroad; it was during a 3-day tour in Canada in 1957.

7.. though Elvis is commonly associated with Memphis, he was actually born in Tupelo mississippi.

8.. if you ever wondered what banter with elvis was like, there's an album showing you just that. He recorded an album titled " Having fun with elvis on stage" in 1974 of him talking in between songs.

9.. the song "Heartbreak hotel" was inspired by an article in a newspaper about a local suicide.

10.. Elvis infamous black hair is actually dyed, his natural colour was blonde.

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