Elvis Presley’s first million-seller,Heartbreak Hotel, reached number one on the Billboard Top 100, or dominating the charts for 7 weeks. The eight-bar blues tune,co-written by Tommy Durden and Mae Boren Axton—with a credit also going to Presleywas inspired by a newspaper article about the suicide of a lonely man jumping from a hotel window. []The post well-behaved News in History, April 21 appeared first on well-behaved News Network.
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