Impact Songs That Changed the World Elvis PresleyHeartbreak Hotel (2007)

Heartbreak Hotel was not Elvis Presleys first singlesongs like Thats Alright Mama Mystery Train and I Forgot To Remember To Forget his first national charttopping hit predated it by a yearbut it was destined in many ways to define the Elvis persona and arguably become the first rock n roll record It was a song of teenage angst Not the puppy love handwringing of later songs of the era but the real endoftheline solonelyIcoulddie variety that in those early days only Elvis and his rebel stance could make ring with authenticity It established rock n roll as an attitude brash rebellious and sexually charged as much as a musical style and gave it life as the soundtrack for alienated youth even during American boom times in the 50s John Lennon once commented that if there had been no Elvis there would have been no Beatles