Elvis Presley

The hillbilly cat who walked into a recording studio and accidentally invented the modern teenager. With a sneer and a swivel of the hips, he tore down the white picket fences of the 1950s, becoming the high priest of Rock and Roll. "Before Elvis, there was nothing," John Lennon once noted. He is the gold-sequined tragedy of the American Dream, a king who built a palace of excess and died a prisoner of his own legend.