Elvis Presley at a press conference in Germany before leaving the U.S. Army, March 1960. Click the link to see more from Return of the King: When Elvis Left the Army. (📷 James Whitmore/LIFE Picture Collection) LIFEMagazine ElvisPresley MusicMonday
Sgt. Elvis Presley prepared to leave Germany, March 1960.It’s intriguing to imagine contemporary American music stars serving in the military. How would Kanye West fare in the Air Force? Would Adam Levine cut it in the Army? But when a young man who was, at the time, the biggest musical star on the planet was drafted into the United States Army back in 1958, the uniform seemed to fit.
After his two year hitch, rock and roll idol Elvis Presley wore a sergeant’s chevrons but no sideburns. “If I say the Army made a man of me,” he said, “it would give the impression I was an idiot before I was drafted. I wasn’t exactly that.”
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