Elvis Presley school yearbook sells for a big hunk o’ cash…more than $2,500
IT’S ALL ABOUT the Money, Honey. A high school yearbook containing a rare photo of Elvis Presley sold for over $2,500 in an auction Wednesday. The King of Rock’s signature graces the yearbook next to his photo, showing the king’s boyish good looks just years before he broke into the music industry. “Best of luck […]
IT’S ALL ABOUT the Money, Honey.
A high school yearbook containing a rare photo of Elvis Presley sold for over $2,500 in an auction Wednesday.
The King of Rock’s signature graces the yearbook next to his photo, showing the king’s boyish good looks just years before he broke into the music industry.
“Best of luck to a swell pal, Elvis” the “Jailhouse Rock” singer wrote in the yearbook. Presley graduated from Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee in 1953.
Enamored with songwriting and hoping to make it big, Presley spent the subsequent next three years writing and recording his songs before he was finally picked up for “Heartbreak Hotel” in 1956.
The yearbook offers a personal look at the heartthrob before he made it big.
Presley majored in shop, history, and English during his time in high school.
The “Blue Suede Shoes” singer also was an active student on campus. He was a member of the biology, English, history and speech clubs.
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He also was a member of the ROTC. Presley famously was drafted at 21 and shipped overseas to Germany between March 1958 and March 1960.
The singer refused to accept a “Special Services” position that would allow him to serve six weeks special training and tour army camps to boost morale.
The school yearbook was sold by a British collector with Chiswick Auctions in west London for over £2,000, or over $2,600.