Heartbreak Hotel
Despair's fictional inn
Heartbreak Hotel is a landmark 1956 Elvis Presley song, his first number-one hit, establishing the template for rock and roll heartache.
The phrase has become shorthand for a state of romantic devastation: After the divorce, he's been living at Heartbreak Hotel.
The name has been borrowed for hotels, bars, and other establishments trading on its melancholy glamour.
- breakupRomantic relationship's termination
- bellhopHotel luggage attendant
- checked inConfirmed arrival officially
- despairTotal absence of hope
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
Elvis Presley · refuge · loneliness · vacancy · no vacancy · torch · melancholy · broken heart · unrequited love · Memphis · love · rock 'n' roll · sadness · blues · poetic imagery · 1956 · isolation · sanctuary
- ElvisGraceland, jumpsuit, Hound Dog, the King, Jailhouse Rock
- oldiesElvis, golden oldies, Hound Dog, oldies, Johnny B. Goode
- 1956Suez Crisis, Hungarian Revolution, My Fair Lady, bus boycott, transatlantic cable
- whitney houston songsI Will Always Love You
Heartbreak Hotelhoneymoon suite
Deluxe room for newlyweds
Love Me Tender · paradise · bliss · ecstasy · cloud nine
Heartbreak HotelEndless Love
Perpetual romantic attachment
I Will Always Love You · Love Me Tender · At Last · happily ever after · Unchained Melody
Heartbreak Hotelparadise
Ideal, blissful place
heaven · Garden of Eden · nirvana · Shangri-La · happy home
hotel, heartache, heartbreak, heartbroken, hearth, heartbreaker