Memphis
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This lively city on the banks of the Mississippi is known as the "home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll". Its most internationally famous resident, the late rock-and-roll singer Elvis Presley, is remembered at his home in Graceland, now a popular tourist sight. Also not to be missed, legendary Beale Street is lined with night clubs, restaurants and music shops issuing continual strains of Mississippi Blues. A more tragic event to have taken place in Memphis is the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968.
