Everything Marilyn Monroe is to film, Elvis Presley is to music. The King was the first true rock and roll star, taking music out the safe swing sound of the 1950s and changing the tone; making the new genre acceptable to the masses and providing a stage that the Beatles would storm onto ten years later. He remains almost unrivaled even decades after his death; his albums are never far from the charts, and it seems every time someone puts a new spin onto one of his old songs, it's a guaranteed #1 single.
It's therefore completely unsurprising that he's a popular choice for tattoos. There are a million Elvis tattoos out there, but this is a particularly fine representation of Presley in his youthful prime, before years of excess took their toll and moved him to Las Vegas.