Elvis Presley
埃尔维斯·普雷斯利
One of the most popular American singers of the twentieth century was Elvis Presley. He made the Rock & Roll music popular around the world.
埃尔维斯·普雷斯利（猫王）是二十世纪最受欢迎的美国歌手之一，他让摇滚乐风靡了全世界。
He sold millions of records and made many successful films, and he helped change the direction of popular music in the 1960s.
他卖出了数百万张唱片，拍了许多成功的电影，并在20世纪60年代推动改变了流行音乐的发展方向。
Elvis Presley was born in a poor family in 1935. His parents often took him to church, where he learned to sing and he never forgot the kind of songs that he used to sing in church as a child.
埃尔维斯·普雷斯利于1935年出生在一个贫穷的家庭。他的父母经常带他去教堂，在那里他学会了唱歌，他永远不会忘记他小时候在教堂里唱过的歌。
When he was a teenager, Elvis moved from Tupelos to Memphis in Tennessee, where he attended high school, but he was not a good student.
十几岁时，埃尔维斯从图珀罗斯搬到田纳西州的孟菲斯，在那里读高中，但他并不是一个好学生。
His only real interest was singing. He began to sing in the style that is called "country and western".
他唯一真正感兴趣的是唱歌。他开始以“乡村与西部”的风格演唱。
In 1955 he recorded some songs for his mother's birthday. The people at the recording studio liked his singing and his music.
1955年，他为母亲的生日录制了一些歌曲。录音室的人都很喜欢他的歌声和音乐。
There was something different about it. It was country and western music, but it also sounded a little like the music, which black people used to sing in the American South, music known as "blues".
不一样的是，虽然是乡村与西部风格的音乐，但听起来也有点像美国南部黑人常唱的“蓝调”音乐。
Shortly after that, Elvis met Tom Parker, who became his manager and arranged concerts for him across the United States and new recordings as well.
在那之后不久，埃尔维斯遇见了汤姆·帕克。汤姆成为了他的经纪人，为他安排了全美各地的演唱会和新唱片录制。
Soon Elvis rose to fame all over the country. Later, Elvis went to Hollywood and began to appear in films like Love Me Tender and King Creole.
很快，埃尔维斯在全国声名鹊起。后来，他去了好莱坞，开始出演电影《温柔地爱我》和《硬汉歌王》。
Elvis died at an early age of 42 in 1977, his many millions of fans were shocked. "The King Is Dead!" the newspaper said.
埃尔维斯于1977年去世，年仅42岁，数百万粉丝对此都感到非常震惊。报纸报道说：“王者已逝！”。
But today his memory and his music live on and he will always be remembered as the King of Rock & Roll.
但直至今日，关于他的记忆以及他的音乐仍在，人们将永远铭记他是摇滚之王。
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