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Elvis Presley birthday kicks off big year for fans

MEMPHIS: On what would have been Elvis Presley's 77th birthday on Sunday, hundreds of fans from around the world made the annual pilgrimage to the Graceland mansion where the "King of Rock and Roll" lived.

This year, the birthday celebration also served as the kick off to what is expected to be a year of global Elvis mania marking the 35th anniversary of the beloved icon's death.

Memphis officials expect record numbers of visitors all year, leading to the August 16 anniversary commemoration of his death at Graceland, where Presley is also buried.

In Dusseldorf, Germany a new Elvis Presley museum opened its doors in December; an "Elvis Cruise" departs from Florida to the Bahamas next week; and in Sao Paulo, Brazilian officials are planning one of the largest exhibits of Elvis memorabilia outside of the United States to open in September.

"Every five years, we see history repeat itself and we expect that to happen again this year as fans remember Elvis Presley," said Kevin Kane, president and CEO of the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, who added that the city is preparing for a wave of visitors to exceed the typical 600,000 to 700,000 fans who visit Graceland each year.

Georgina Trejo, 55, from Mexico City is among the singer's diehard fans who flew to Memphis to attend Presley's birthday celebration, and plans to return with friends - all members of the Mexico City "Forever For Elvis Fan Club" - in August to observe his memorial ceremony.

Elvis Presley died of constipation

American Rock 'n' Roll star Elvis Presley died in a toilet in 1977 of constipation and not heart attack, a report reveals.

It is now said that the singer could have lived for more years if he had not refused to get a surgery done for his persistent constipation problem.

Doctor George Nick Nichopoulos was with the singer when he died and believes his refusal to deal with the problem killed him.

"We didn't realise until the autopsy that his constipation was as bad. We found stool in his colon which had been there for four or five months because of the poor mobility of the bowel," femalefirst.co.uk quoted a doctor as saying.

"He would get embarrassed. He'd have accidents onstage. He'd have to change clothes and come back because of the way we were trying to treat his constipation," he added.

According to Nichopoulos, Elvis suffered from a hereditary condition called bowel paralysis. His autopsy revealed his colon was five to six inches in diameter, compared to the usual two to three inches.

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