Heartbreak Hotel about a man who had destroyed all his identity papers and jumped to his death from a hotel window, leaving a suicide note with the single line, "I walk a lonely street". In 2016, an article in "Rolling Stone" magazine suggested that the story in reality originated from a report about a painter and petty criminal, Alvin Krolik, whose marriage had failed and who wrote a partial autobiography including the line "This is the story of a person who walked a lonely street." Krolik's story was published in news media, and received further publicity after he was shot and killed
Heartbreak Hotel recalled hearing it for the first time when he was 8 years old: Critic Robert Cantwell wrote in his unpublished memoir "Twigs of Folly": President Bill Clinton performed the song on saxophone during his appearance on "The Arsenio Hall Show" on June 3, 1992. In 2004, it was ranked number 45 on "Rolling Stone"s list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included it in its unranked list 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and in 2005, "Uncut" magazine ranked the first performance of "Heartbreak Hotel" in 1956 by Presley as