{"id":13826,"date":"2020-01-07T15:54:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=13826"},"modified":"2020-01-07T15:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:54:48","slug":"celebrating-the-birthday-of-elvis-the-king-of-rock-and-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2020\/01\/celebrating-the-birthday-of-elvis-the-king-of-rock-and-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Birthday of Elvis \u2013 The King of Rock and Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Elvis-Birthday-1024x444.png\" alt=\"Speedyreg - Happy 85th Birthday Elvis\" class=\"wp-image-13827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Elvis-Birthday-1024x444.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Elvis-Birthday-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Elvis-Birthday-768x333.png 768w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Elvis-Birthday-1200x520.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Elvis-Birthday.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Speedyreg &#8211; Happy 85th Birthday Elvis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 8<sup>th<\/sup>, back in 1935, Vernon and Gladys\nPresley sadly delivered a baby boy that was stillborn. This baby was named\nJesse Garon Presley. However this tragedy was followed 35 minutes later by the\nbirth of Jesse\u2019s twin brother, Elvis Aaron. The miracle of his birth was just\nthe start of a life that was going to be forever in the spotlight. Despite\npassing away in 1977, the legend that is The King, lives on, with some people\neven believing that Elvis is still alive. So, wherever you may be\u2026 Happy\nBirthday Elvis!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elvis \u2013 Some Facts you may just not know\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Elvis styled his look on a comic book superhero\ncalled Captain Marvel Jr. Look him up, you\u2019ll spot the resemblance!<\/li><li>The King was a black belt in karate.<\/li><li>The scientific name for the gall wasp is\nPreseucoila Imallshookupis \u2013 named as a tribute of course, to Elvis. <\/li><li>As a child his teacher told him he couldn\u2019t\nsing.<\/li><li>He owned more than 40 guns.<\/li><li>Aged 19 he auditioned for a gospel choir. They\nturned him down!<\/li><li>Until his teens Elvis had blonde hair, it faded\nto brown and then he dyed it his signature black.<\/li><li>Elvis was famous for his jewelled jumpsuits,\nsome of which were so covered in jewels that they weighed over 2 stone!<\/li><li>He once bought his mother a pink Cadillac, even\nthough she didn\u2019t drive. Visitors to Graceland can see the car there today.<\/li><li>Elvis really loved to eat burnt bacon.<\/li><li>He was famous for his love of fast food and once\ntold a reporter that he could eat 8 cheeseburgers and 3 milkshakes at once. <\/li><li>Despite recording more than 600 songs, Elvis\ndidn\u2019t write any of them himself.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rock n Roll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/search\/ELVIS\">Elvis plates<\/a> for Elvis fans <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elvis still has a huge following and a massive fan base. Luckily we have some absolutely amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/ELV-15S\">ELV 15 plates<\/a> if you\u2019d like to share your love of Elvis with the world through your next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/personalised-number-plates\">personalised number plate<\/a>! You could have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/ELV-15S\">ELV 15S<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/ELV-15F\">ELV 15F<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/ELV-150Y\">ELV 150Y.<\/a> We\u2019ve also got a great Presley plate \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/PRE-513Y\">PRE 513Y<\/a>. Ideal for an Elvis fan of course, but also fantastic if your surname also happens to be Presley. Or for something a little different, we\u2019ve also got a wide range of truly stunning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/search\/EP\">EP plates<\/a>, including the highly desirable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/1-EP\">1 EP<\/a>. How about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/25-EP\">25 EP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/222-EP\">222 EP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/800-EP\">800 EP<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/75-EP\">75 EP<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 8th, back in 1935, Vernon and Gladys Presley sadly delivered a baby boy that was stillborn. This baby was named Jesse Garon Presley. However this tragedy was followed 35 minutes later by the birth of Jesse\u2019s twin brother, Elvis Aaron. The miracle of his birth was just the start of a life that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1260,7],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13828,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826\/revisions\/13828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}