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He was born to a Mississippi sharecropper and started his career with a $12.95 guitar. Now the value of Elvis Presley's multimillion-dollar empire cannot even be calculated (much of it is in future royalties). According to the terms of his will filed in a Tennessee court last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1977 | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

Earlier, he had rented a Memphis movie theater and a roller rink for afterhours amusement. In recent years, his only forays out into the real world were concert tours that were carefully insulated. The routine was usually the same: private plane to private limo to back entrance of hotel to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Stop on the Mystery Train | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

The world he left behind so quickly had still not quite recovered from the changes he brought down on it. In England, the punk rockers who are raising such a ruckus, spooking the music business and intimidating their elders, turn themselves out just like the Elvis of the '50s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Stop on the Mystery Train | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

So the legend goes. And grows. From out of the barrage of funeral images, from the fragmented memory of dozens of Presley lyrics, one reaches for a single last memory, searches for an epitaph. Go way back, to another of those early Sun records and there is one that seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Stop on the Mystery Train | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

Now there is, for everyone. Elvis saw to that.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Stop on the Mystery Train | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

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