Music Beale street Memphis United States of America Tennessee Elvis Presley
Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" or simply "The King", was an American singer and actor. Beale Street is a street in Memphis, Tennessee and a significant location in African-American history and the history of the blues. Today, the blues clubs and restaurants that line Beale Street are major tourist attractions in Memphis. Festivals and outdoor concerts periodically bring large crowds to the street and its surrounding areas. Beale Street was created in 1841, to create an alternate road perpendicular to Front Street (then known as Main Street). The original name of the street was Beale Avenue, which was named after a soldier from the Mexican-American War. It primarily housed shops of trade merchants, who traded goods with ships along the Mississippi River. In the 1860s, many black traveling musicians began performing on Beale. The first of these to call Beale Street home were the Young Men's Brass Band, who were formed by Sam Thomas in 1867. In the next 15 years, Beale Street quickly became a black mecca, bringing in African-Americans from throughout the South. In the early 1900s, Beale Street was filled with clubs, restaurants and shops, many of them owned by African-Americans. NAACP co-founder Ida B. Wells was a co-owner and editor of a paper based on Beale. Beale Street Baptist Church was also important in the early civil rights movement in Memphis. In 1909, Handy wrote "Mr. Crump" as a campaign song for political machine leader E. H. Crump. The song was later renamed "Memphis Blues". Handy also wrote a song called "Beale Street Blues" in 1916 which influenced the change of the street's name from Beale Avenue to Beale Street. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Memphis Minnie, King, Rufus Thomas, Rosco Gordon and other blues and jazz legends played on Beale Street and helped develop the style known as Memphis Blues.
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