Heartbreak Hotel (Full Song)

Elvis Presley’s 1956 lament “Heartbreak Hotel” set new standards for the deep blues in popular music, with a low-down tale of loser-in-love locked in the psychological prison of his solitude. Learn everything from the keening opening chords to the creeping rockabilly bridge and solo to the bluesy refrain which plays over these infamous lines: “I’ve been so lonely/ I could die.”