Elvis in May, 1977, about three months before his death: Given time, the big hunka love could have sunk even further.
1977 Elvis Presley suffers a massive heart attack in his bathroom at Graceland. He survives, but the drugs in his system give rise to conspiracy theories involving his various prescriptions.
1978 A medical commission clears "Dr. Nick," Presley's pharmacy-friendly physician, of malpractice. It is surmised the heart attack was brought on by commode-based exertion, and that his suppository dosage had been far too low - the so-called single-bullet theory.
1979 Presley, trim and fully recovered from his heart bypass, reprises his Kid Galahad role for a cameo in Sylvester Stallone's Rocky II.
1980 A distant cousin of Jimmy Carter, Presley campaigns for the peanut-farming president. Carter wins.
1981 Hosts Saturday Night Live , with Elvis-impersonating comic Andy Kaufman as his musical guest.
1982 Big sales and poor reviews greet Midnight in Memphis , Presley's first studio album in five years. "As it turns out," Creem magazine rock critic Alan Niester writes, "50 million Elvis fans can be wrong."
1983 Makes his Broadway bow, starring with Ann-Margret in a short-lived Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .
1984 Appears in the final episode of Happy Days (one of his favourite television shows), riotously portraying his domineering former manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
1985 Presley has his biggest hit in years, I'm on Fire , a moody song written by Bruce Springsteen.
1986 Elvis and Merle Haggard perform a series of prison concerts, dubbed the Jailhouse Rock Tour.
1987 Under the ruse that he'd be visiting a former president, Elvis is duped by his handlers into entering the Betty Ford Center, for his raging Demerol addiction.
1988 For the U2 documentary Rattle and Hum , Presley is persuaded to return to Sun Studios to record the Bono-penned When Love Comes to Town .
1989 After developing an addiction to peanuts, Elvis stops eating fried banana-and-peanut-butter sandwiches and drops 50 pounds.
1990 With the gloomy ballad Wicked Game , written by Chris Isaak, Presley has his first No. 1 single in the United States since 1969's Suspicious Minds .
1991 A USO concert for troops in Kuwait marks Presley's first performance outside North America.
1992 Showing off his sweet karate moves, Presley appears in the straight-to-video Jackie Chan film, Viva Chop Socky .
1993 The Million Dollar Quartet, with Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, reunites for a concert that earns $1-million (U.S.).
1994 Michael Jackson begins his improbable courtship of Lisa Marie Presley, but the relationship never blossoms, mostly because of Elvis's stern disapproval. "If Jackson so much as lays one glove on my little Lisa Marie," Presley vows, "I'll be all over him like a hound dog on a jack rabbit."
1995 Rehab stint number two.
1996 With girlfriend Anna Nicole Smith and Jimmy Swaggart at his side, Presley announces his retirement from rock 'n' roll to concentrate on gospel music.
1997 Football fan Presley purchases the Houston Oilers, moves the NFL franchise to Tennessee, and renames it the Memphis Mafia.
1998 Records a duet of In the Ghetto with Lisa Marie.
1999 Elvis and Tony Curtis co-star in Grumpy Old Men 3 . During rehearsal breaks, while comparing notes on past sexual conquests, they arrive at the conclusion that they most likely slept together at one point back in the day.
2000 A collaboration with Eric Clapton and B.B. King yields the blues album Riding with the Kings .
2001 Presley appears as himself on The Simpsons . The episode involves quack physician Dr. Nick, a recurring character.
2002 Rumours persist Elvis died in 1977.
2003 A marriage to Denise Richards ends after three months. The two share custody of Charlie Sheen.
2004 At the Grammys, Elvis ends his feud with Jackson when they perform a medley duet of Teddy Bear / Beat It / Don't Be Cruel .
2005 The irony is lost on no one when the former Elvis the Pelvis has hip-replacement surgery.
2006 Vowing they will be his final concerts, Elvis announces a series of 50 shows at London's O2 arena. "It's now or never," he says.
2007 Rick Rubin produces Elvis's stripped-down Grammy-winning album, The Tupelo Sessions .
2008 Elvis's Hunka Hunka Burning Love herbal aphrodisiac hits stores.
2009 Performs Swing Down, Sweet Chariot at Jackson's funeral.
2010 It is shockingly revealed that it was not baby Jesse Garon Presley, but twin brother Elvis Aron, who arrived in the world stillborn. Jesse is the King.