HACKNEY SENIOR CHOIR - SONGS YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO HEAR!
No 5 – BLUE SUEDE SHOES Click to hear it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm5HKlQ6nGM NAME OF SONG
ARTIST
Blue Suede Shoes
Elvis Presley
DATE OF RELEASE Carl Perkins February 1956 Elvis Presley September 1956
KEY FACTS •
‘Blue Suede Shoes’ was Elvis’s first major hit
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It was featured in a film in which he starred called ‘GI Blues’
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The kind of shoes that people wore in the 1950’s were as important then as they are today. Blue suede shoes were THE look.
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Elvis was – and still is – known as ‘The King of Rock and Roll.’ Born in poverty, he became one of the richest stars ever.
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Here are Elvis’s Blue Suede Shoes!
Note Elvis’s wonderful slickedback hair! Also, he was famous for his curledup lip!
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His home – Graceland – is still a major tourist attraction.
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Elvis was seen as one of the first ‘bad boys’ of popular music