Elvis Presley feted in Memphis on 75th birthday

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MEMPHIS, Tennessee., Jan 9 — The cold couldn’t keep them away from the “King.”

Hundreds of Elvis Presley fans braved frigid, snowy weather to celebrate the late rock’n’roll legend’s 75th birthday yesterday at his Graceland shrine, part of a marketing machine that generates US$50 million (RM170 million) a year.

“It feels like his presence is here,” long-time Elvis devotee Debbie Bradshaw of Texas said during a tour of the Memphis mansion where Presley died in 1977 from heart failure, aged 42.

Some 1,500 people shivered and sang along with the early Presley hit “That’s All Right” in 11-degree temperatures (minus 11.7 Celsius) as snowflakes swirled.

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