"THAT SWINGIN' LITTLE GUITAR MAN!"

As a new biopic celebrates the life of the King of Rock 'N' Roll, TG presents 10 key tracks in which Elvis Presley and his killer guitarists rocked the world...

- Neville Marten

HOUND DOG (1956)

Elvis's treatment of Hound Dog is very unlike the 1952 original by Big Mama Thornton, written for her by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller. The lyrics were altered to reflect Elvis's gender and to clean up the original's sexual innuendo. Elvis chose 'take 28' of the 31 attempts, but by this time his trusted guitarist Scotty Moore was getting frustrated, so on his second solo - the first is a brilliant spontaneous outing - made a few weird percussive noises and knocked out a couple of random licks. Keith Richards said it sounded like Scotty had thrown the guitar on the floor, picked it up and got the perfect sound.

TOO MUCH (1956)

This track contains one of Scotty Moore's most outlandish solos. We'll let Scotty explain, as he did to Guitarist magazine in 1992. "There's a boy on this tour we just finished, plays every note I ever played - even the bad ones," he jokes. "Too Much was in an unusual key for us at the time. It was in Ab, and we'd done two or three takes, but on this particular cut I just got absolutely bonkers, just got lost, but somehow I came out of it and that's the one Elvis picked. But anyway, this young guitarist would play that sucker note for note!"

LOVE ME TENDER (1956)