The Truth About 1950s Elvis Fandom

Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, has been a pop culture icon for so long that it can be hard to remember his more humble origins. Just in the same way that people get swept up in the movie stars and musicians of today, so too did the youth of decades past catch a serious case of Elvis mania.

Few individual artists have had the kind of cultural impact that Elvis Presley did. At the time that he was coming up, he was seen as a threat to the nation's morality at the same time that screaming fans were literally tearing the clothes off of his back. Here's what it was really like to be an Elvis Presley fan in the 1950s.

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High school performer | 0:15
The screaming fans | 1:28
Clothes off his back | 2:47
TV made him a star | 3:45
Rebels with a cause | 5:04
Corrupted by Elvis | 6:34
Toeing the racial divide | 7:26
Money to spend | 8:46
A style icon | 9:51
Encouraged to organize | 10:58
Exploitation of fans | 12:05
Future stars in the club | 12:50

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