ELVIS PRESLEY Released His Self-Named Debut LP This Day 70 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
23 March 2026
The mighty King released his rock-game-changing, self-named debut LP
on March 23, 1956, today 70 years ago. OMG, 70! This sounds so unreal.
The album spent ten weeks at Number One on the Billboard Top Pop Albums Chart,
the first rock and roll album ever to make it to the top of the charts, and the first
million-selling album of that genre. It also topped the UK Charts.
41 more LPs (compilations not included) would follow.
Back sleeve
The photograph of Elvis on the front cover was taken
at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida
in 1955.
The LP’s graphic styling and photo were also used on
an EP and a double-EP comprising songs from this LP,
also released in March 1956.
The design was echoed by several other artists such
as The Clash for their 1979 double masterpiece album
London Calling.
Pop-ular music would never be the same again.
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