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July 1977 - Moody Blue album released - Top chart position US #3 UK #3 AU. #3

August 1, 1977 - The "Elvis" book - What happened? "

August 11, 1977
Elvis pays tribute to his mother at Forest Hill Cemetery.

August 15 – The album "Moody Blue" enters the Australian charts.

On August 12, Elvis was unable to get a copy of the film "Star Wars" to watch with his daughter Lisa Marie, so they watched the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" instead. (Star Wars was released theatrically in the United States on May 25, 1977). As they walked home, Lisa sat on the lap of Ginger Alden, tenant of the theater's popcorn bag. The photo below, taken just four days before his death, is the last ever taken with his daughter Lisa Marie.

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I asked Elvis once what he was saying to Priscilla when the picture was taken of them leaving the courthouse.

He said he told her:

"We met as friends, and we part as friends. If you ever need anything, just call me. I'll always love you." ❤️

George Klein
From his book: Elvis My Best Man
(Elvis and Priscilla finalized their divorce on October 9, 1973)

Good morning Elvis friend's; happy Tuesday to all 🌞☕️👑🎼🎶♥️♥️♥️

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Summer 1957
I STOOD IN FRONT OF a custom-built gate decorated with an iron guitar and music notes,peering up the gentle sloping hill of oak trees to the grandest structure I’d ever laid eyes on .The impressive stone facade ,the huge colonial pillars ,the welcoming portico-this was a long way from Lauderdale Courts ,and I was a long way from Leath Street .
After finishing eight grade at Holy Names,I’d ended up at Catholic High School out in Midtown Memphis,not too far from Overton Park . There had been a brief detour at Christian Brothers College—the school my brother had attended—but I felt miserable and out of place there. Billy Ray,again stepping up to his big-brother duties,suggested to my father that I’d be a lot happier and better off at Catholic High.I did have a good first year there ,and I also got used to exploring a wider circle of Memphis,riding the bus,hitchhiking,or,when I could get it,driving Dad’s Pontiac.
So,on a fine summer day,I had decided to head down Highway 51 to check out Graceland.The gates I stood at had clearly gone up for a reason—there was a group of fans ,mostly girls ,clustered around the entrance,chatting away and showing off pictures and autographs to each other . Elvis and his family had been in the house for only a few months,but already these fans seemed like they were very comfortable just spending a day at the edge of the property,hoping they might catch sight of Elvis coming or going . They were inspired by Elvis and wanted some way to get closer to him. I could certainly understand that . At this point Elvis was out of town more than he was in Memphis,but these fans were on top of the Elvis schedule enough to know when he was up at the house .
Through Red West and some of the other football guys,I’d become friendly with George Klein .George was a strong,early ,enthusiastic supporter of Elvis ,and out of their professional contact,a real friendship grew. Through George ,I heard that Elvis was starting to have people up to the house .That’s what had

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THE FOLLOWING MONDAY,July 9,he arrived in Biloxi,unannounced and somewhat unexpected.He showed up in his white El Dorado convertible at June Juanico's house on Fayard Street with Red,his cousin Junior,and his friend Arthur Hooton,whose mother had worked with Gladys at Britling's Cafeteria.
They waited in the driveway while some neighborhood kids went looking for June.When she got back,she and Elvis made a date for that night, and he left to register at the Sun 'N' Sand Hotel, whose courtyard quickly filled with fans as news of his arrival spread.
That night they went out on the town with June's mother,Mae, and her boyfriend,Eddie Bellman.On their own they revisited many of the sights June had shown him on his visit the previous year.They stayed out late,talking excitedly and making plans.Elvis wasn't sure how long he would be staying this time, he told her;he guessed she would just have to wait and see.All he knew was that he was on vacation for three weeks,footloose and fancy-free.He didn't know what he wanted to do exactly,but he wanted to do something.A few days before, he had wheeled into Tupelo on a whim and gone to see both his aunt and his fifth-grade teacher,Mrs. Grimes,who had originally been responsible for his entering the singing contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair.Now,it had just been announced,he was going to be returning to headline the fair in September . He was being written up in all the major newspapers and national magazines,and he was going to star in a movie soon.He could buy his mama and his daddy anything they needed,whatever they might want.
The next day he and June spent the whole day together.That afternoon they heard reports on a New Orleans radio station that Elvis Presley had become engaged to a Miss June Juanico of nearby Biloxi,and on the spur of the moment they jumped in the car and drove to New Orleans to dispel the rumors.Elvis got the address of the station at a pay phone,and they just showed up at WNOE, at the St. Charles Hotel,pressing their noses to the plate glass un

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“Who’s the wise guy that put that goddamn music on ?”It was Elvis .calling loudly from the pool room to the TV room .He kind of sounded like he was joking,but his voice had an angry edge to it -an edge I hadn’t heard ever before .”All Shook Up”was playing on the built-in record player in the corner of the TV room.
“Get that crap off”,yelled Elvis coming through the doorway.There was no doubt that he was really angry . It was a Graceland lesson I wouldn’t forget : Elvis didn’t like hearing his records played at his own parties . He was proud of his work ,but if was just that—his work . He lived with his music outside of the house —he didn’t need to hear it while he was trying to relax in his own basement.
Both rooms went silent and somebody scrambled over to the machine to put on another record . Apologies were mumbled.Elvis didn’t yell again ,but his mood remained darkened. And I quickly learned that when Wlvis was in a dark mood ,it put a chill in the room that everyone felt . He went back to the pool room and stood staring down hard at the table . Voices in the TV room remained subdued ,and there was no more of the easy laughter that had been tumbling around between the urge to chew somebody out and the desire to calm himself down. After a few minutes ,he tossed his cue hard against the wall and headed toward the doorway.
I was feeling a little disappointed that even though I’d made it into his house,I hadn’t spoken a word to him . But as he passed me on the way to the stairs he said ,in a quiet,almost somber voice :”Come up again some time ,Jerry”.
That’s all I needed.I’d be back .
—©️Me and a guy named Elvis ,Jerry Schilling

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THEY ARRIVED in Miami on Friday,August 3,just as Elvis was going on for the first of three daily shows at the Olympia Theatre,a vaudeville redoubt from the 1920s still resplendent with stuffed peacocks and a ceiling twinkling with painted stars in a painted sky. June was immediately ushered backstage,where a Miami News reporting team discovered her and recorded that
‘she reportedly stroked [Elvis'] brow between stage shows. ... Furthermore,June Juanico,18, the Biloxi beauty whom Presley evidently prefers to aspirin, admitted that Elvis is as unsteady in love as he is on the stage.”It would be nice if Elvis loved me as much as I love him,"June sighed.”But right now he's married to his career and he isn't thinking of marriage.”June, whose hair is bobbed Italian-style,said she's going on the Presley tour of six Florida cities and New Orleans. But when he returns to Memphis,she said, "I don't know just what I'll do."Interviewed in the tunnel underneath the Olympia stage,June recounted the story of their meeting and subsequent courtship.
"Well,you know how love is.Eight months went by, and I never heard from him.".. Overhead,while June was talking and posing
for us deep down under the stage,Presley was warming up and she didn't want to miss even one performance...We asked why the girls,especially the younger set,threw such hysterics,and how come she didn't scream.Without missing a knee jerk or bounce June replied:”If you were a member of the opposite s*x you'd appreciate him,too. And I do feel like screaming."They went back to the Robert Clay Hotel after the final performance.
Elvis' two-week-old Lincoln was covered with names and messages and phone numbers.There had been reporters underfoot all day,and Elvis was irritated both with himself and with them.At a press conference that afternoon he had stumbled over a question about the Suez Canal crisis,and he felt like he had made a fool of himself.He told June,”Well, I shouldn't have said anything then.I should have waited and thought about it for a second and no

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OCTOBER,1959
He came in , turned on the radio , and then sat down on his bed . I hardly looked at him , petrified of what he might expect. I imagined him grabbing me , throwing me down on the bed , and making love to me .
“Why don’t you come over here and sit next to me?”I was reluctant, but he assured me that I had nothing to be afraid of.
“ I really like you Priscilla. You’re refreshing. It’s nice to talk to someone from back home . I miss that . It gets a little lonely here . “
I sat next to him , saying nothing , but I was touched by his vulnerable , boyish quality. He went on to say that our relationship was going to be important to him and that he needed me . It was October and he was scheduled to return to the States in six months. He knew a lot of girls , he said , and many had come to visit as I had , but I was the first girl whom he felt a real closeness .
I cuddled into his arms , certain he would not move too fast.He held me closely…
My heart went out to Elvis that night as he confided his problems and worries . He was a world-famous entertainer, a great star , and yet a terrible lonely man .
Again our visit seemed to end too soon.
He kissed me goodbye, my first real kiss . I had never experienced such a mixture of affection and desire . I was speechless but closely tied to the reality of where I was-locked in his arms , my mouth against his . Aware of my response-and my youth-he broke away first , saying ,
“We have plenty of time , Little One.”
©️Elvis and me,Priscilla Presley

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On a whim he plunked down $1o,800 for a white Lincoln Continental just like Buddy's,with his brand-new lipstick-covered Premiere used as a trade-in.A reporter tracked him down as he lingered in the showroom and asked about June. "Now this is the way it is,"Elvis declared nervously. "I got twenty-five girls I date regular.She's just one of the girls." "They show up sometimes eight at a time,"chimed in the Colonel,seemingly restored to good humor, "all claiming they're his steadies.' One girl even claimed she was my daughter,and I don't have a daughter."
Later,when the Colonel came to Elvis' hotel room,he barely gave June a look. "Here, I thought you might want to see this,"he said, handing Gene a copy of the script for the picture they were going to start filming in Hollywood in three weeks.Then he turned on his heel and slammed the doo. Elvis grabbed at the script eagerly,and he and June started reading through it,but he got impatient and couldn't resist turning the pages to find out how it ended.He was keenly disappointed when he discovered that the character he played was going to die. "He said, June, I don't want to die in my first movie.' I said, 'Why not? I think it's a good idea.I always remember the character who dies.Happy endings you forget.Sad endings stay with you longer.' "
For the final show Elvis told everyone to be sure to be in the cars when he started the last song,not when he finished.He told June to stay away from the Colonel, who would be preoccupied with selling his pictures and souvenirs anyway;after all,he had to feel like he was doing something.In the car as they traveled through the night,they held each other.He put an unlighted cigar in his mouth and made fun of the Colonel, bravely declaring, "You're seeing too much of this girl from Biloxi.She's not good for you,son.You can't be linked to any one girl.For God's sake,don't get her pregnant.You do,and you're through in this business,that's for sure." They laughed till the tears streamed down from their eyes,but June knew his bravery in

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In February of 1972, Elvis finished up an engagement at a familiar showroom with a new name-the Las Vegas International was now the Las Vegas Hilton . Priscilla was there for closing night ,and between Elvis's two final shows, she and he spent a long time in his dressing room together. When they were done talking, Elvis asked me to walk Priscilla back up to his suite. I got her to the elevator and up to the room,and I don't think we talked much on the way. Before I left her in the room, l asked if there was anything I could get for her. She turned, looked at me a moment, and said quietly,"Jerry ,you've always been a good friend". This was unusual. As close as we'd become over the years, and for as much time as we'd spent together with Elvis and Sandy, Priscilla didn't normally say things like that .And I couldn't think of anything to answer her with . I just smiled, said good night and left. But I knew something felt very different. It all came out the next night:She was leaving him.—©️Me and a guy named Elvis ,Jerry Schilling

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JUNE ,1973
Elvis and I were standing in the Meditation Garden at Graceland,drinking iced tea to fight off the heat of a June evening.Now we had a few weeks off between strings of concert dates, and were back to spending days at Graceland and nights at the Memphian.
"Colonel got me a deal," Elvis said. "A whole lot of money and I don't have to do a damn thing."
In all the years I knew him, Elvis hardly ever talked about specifics of the business side of his career, but he seemed excited to do so this day. The deal was a big one—the Colonel had brokered a lump-sum, $5.4 million buyout of Elvis's rights to artist royalty payments for all the recordings he had made up to that point. At the time, his excitement was at least partially justified. The payment figure was huge, and in the days before golden oldies and classic rock were hot radio formats, it was hard to imagine how Elvis's back catalogue would ever generate that much money in royalties. Elvis's recordings had already been repackaged and resold so many times already, it didn't seem likely that there was much more profit to be wrung from them.
Standing in the garden, I tried to be happy for Elvis, too. But there was something sad and final about cashing in all that great music. Sure it was a lot of money for Elvis, but I didn't feel like I could possibly put one big price tag on Dewey Phillips playing "That's All Right," and
"Hound Dog" at Ellis Auditorium, and "I Was the One" at the Stand, and watching the performance of "How Great Thou Art," and feeling the goose bumps during "If I Can Dream." His music was a soundtrack to my life, and to lives all over the world. It didn't feel right to total it up in any lump sum, even $5.4 million.
My mist of the mountains was gone, and Elvis's music was gone.
There was no way we could think of ourselves as a couple of North Memphis kids anymore. We were grown men, living lives that were wonderful in so many regards, but lives that were not immune to frustration, disappointment, and pain. In a couple of weeks, we

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HE PLAYED LAKELAND,St. Petersburg,and Orlando, using Tampa as his home base for the first two.When he played Lakeland on Monday,he did an interview backstage with Tampa Tribune reporter Paul Wilder, which was scheduled to run the following month in TV Guide.Wilder had been with the paper for years and in fact had covered Tom Parker on a regular basis in his column "In Our Town" when the Colonel was merely Tampa's inventive animal-control officer.He had reviewed Elvis show in Tampa with relative indifference ,but he began his interview, with unimaginable insensitivity,by reading lengthy excerpts from one of the most vicious write-ups Elvis had ever received.
"'The biggest freak in show business history,'"Wilder read,from Herb Rau's column in the Miami News,in a flat,droning voice. " '
‘Elvis can't sing,can't play the guitar-and can't dance.He has two thousand idiots per show,yet every time he opens his mouth,plucks a guitar string,or shakes his pelvis like any st******se babe in town. .’
Do you,"he asked the startled performer, "shake your pelvis like any st******se babe in town?"
For one of the few times in his career Elvis actually showed anger,not just for himself but for his fans. After first stipulating that Wilder probably knew about st******se babes because that's where he must hang out,he protested the slur on his audience.
“Sir,those kids that come here and pay their money to see this show come to have a good time.I mean,I'm not running Mr. Rau down,but I just don't see that he should call those people idiots.Because they're somebody's kids.They're somebody's decent kids, probably,that was raised in a decent home,and he hasn't got any right to call those kids idiots.If they want to pay their money to come out and jump around and scream and yell,it's their business.They'll grow up someday and grow out of that.While they're young,let them have their fun.Don't let some old man that's so old he can't get around sit around and call them a bunch of idiots.Because they're just human beings like he is."
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From the beginning of his success,Elvis put many family members on salary,and all had titles.Vernon was his business manager;Patsy,his personal secretary;uncles Vester Presley and Johnny and Travis Smith,and cousin Harold Lloyd,gate guards; cousins Billy,Bobby,and Gene,personal aides;and then there was Tracy Smith,who seemed to go from brother to brother for support.Elvis took care of everyone.
I remember one night at Graceland when Elvis came back to the kitchen and saw Tracy pacing the floor.
"Hey, Tracy," he said, "How ya doing, man?”
Tracy, his hands in his pockets,could hardly look Elvis in the eye. "I don't know, Elvis," he sighed. "
“What do ya mean,you don't know? Everyone knows how they're doin', man."
Tracy,shifting back and forth,mumbled, "I got my nerves in the dirt, Elvis." Elvis staggered back, laughing.
"Nerves in the dirt! Hell,I never heard it expressed like that before.You need some money,Tracy?"
Again,Tracy just shifted back and forth,as Elvis called Joe over and told him to give Tracy a bill.A big smile covered Tracy's lined face as he happily took his hundred dollars and walked out the door.
Elvis knew that having his nerves in the dirt was Tracy's way of saying he was down and out—and worried sick about it. He never forgot that phrase. "Poor ol' Tracy," he'd say. "I'll never forget the look on his face that night,poor ol' guy."
That was Elvis always caring,always sensitive to everyone's needs,even while presenting a macho image to his fans and friends.—©️Elvis and me ,Priscilla Presley

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1972 -Editing “Elvis On Tour “
I felt like a slightly overwhelmed kid in a candy shop facing the editing equipment by myself that weekend.I had the same buzzing mix of excitement and nervousness that I’d felt during my first solo plane flight in Memphis. I didn’t think crosswinds could affect a film splice ,but I kept the windows close anyway.
I sweated it out at first ,getting the feel of the process and slowly matching image to music . After a while ,the mechanics of what I was doing started to feel natural ,and I felt free to get creative . In the back of my mind ,I wanted to impress the hell out of Bob and Pierre ,and I wanted to do right by Elvis . But mainly I wanted to create something that I was proud of .There were thousands of feet of film to pull from ,but I concentrated on building something that would work as a coda to the film ,and tell a little story on its own.Here were the moments that tour memories were made of :the moments of anticipation at rehearsals before the show,and the moments of calm on the rolling Greyhound bus afterward.I worked with the flow and rhythm of the music ,and found some nice places to let the lyrics match up literally with the images :over the line about “quiet nights”,I laid in an image of the band slumbering away in their plane .
My sequence ended with what Abel would later say was the most powerful and poignant image the filmmakers had captured : Elvis peering out the window of a limo with thousand-mile stare. An image that almost perfectly duplicated the famous image of him peering out a train window back in 1956. It was striking that whatever the young Elvis been looking ahead for out that window back then ,he was still looking …for now .—©️Me and a guy named Elvis,written by Jerry Schilling
*Elvis On Tour was released on November 1,1972

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After that even Wilder seemed to get it, and he backed off on his questioning, so much so that by the end of the interview he appeared to be totally disarmed. Then, with the show going on in the background, he interviewed his old friend the Colonel, but it was obvious that he never had a chance. Was there a possibility of more frequent television appearances?
"I think one of the main reasons that I don't book Mr. Presley on television more often is that to my way of thinking many of the artists today are overexposed on television... My way of thinking may be wrong on this. However, I'll have plenty of time to find out next year. If it doesn't work this way, we'll try something new." The wiggling, and the criticism it provoked? "I have tried to figure out many angles. First of all, for many months we were touring the country, and Elvis had never appeared on television, and the only way people would know about Elvis was by his records. And I have tried repeatedly to play his records and figure out some way where I could see him wiggle while listening to his records.Which is impossible." Elvis' future as an actor? "Well, Mr. Wilder, when we made the screen test for Mr. Hal Wallis at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, they tested Mr. Presley in a singing role, and also, while he was there, they gave him a short story or some play — whatever you call it — and Mr. Wallis decided after seeing the test that Mr. Presley was capable of starring in a dramatic production.When and how I don't know, but Mr. Presley had no training in acting, and I saw the test, and if I was not his manager, I could not be more excited about a new personality than I am now being Elvis Presley's manager, for his acting ability was the greatest. ... I think Elvis Presley could play any role he makes up his mind to play."—©️THE RISE OF ELVIS PRESLEY

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September ,1977
I remember I went to Grandma Presley's room to check on her. She was very old by then, and looked so small and fragile. She and Elvis had shared a home almost since the day he was born, and Elvis had cared for her so much. On the small night table near her bed, she still had two framed photos: ONE OF ELVIS ,GLADYS AND VERMON AND ONE OF PRISCILLA .
She took my hand, and in a trembling voice asked, "Do you think you could come back and live at the house, son?"—
-©️ Jerry Schilling

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"For the first time in months we could hear ourselves when we played out of tune," said Bill Black plaintively. "After the show our nerves were pretty frayed, and we would get together in pairs and talk about whoever wasn't around to defend himself." "They weren't my kind of audience," said Elvis. "It was strictly an adult audience. The first night especially I was absolutely scared stiff [but] afterwards I got a little more relaxed and I finally got 'em on my side." "We didn't even know we were failures,"said Scotty, but after that night, reported Billboard, they no longer closed the show.
Nonetheless he persisted. He played out the full two weeks, and as hometown reporter Bob Johnson wrote, "Elvis, who has played hard audiences before, kept right in there busting guitar strings and shaking his legs and the rafters. ... And the ice began to break." Bill Randle, who viewed the engagement almost as a social "embarrassment," had arranged to have some of the performances filmed, and Hal Wallis showed up to check out his investment. Judy Spreckels, the attractive twenty-four-year-old divorced sixth wife of sugar king Adolph Spreckels II, whom Elvis had met briefly in California, showed up and served as his "secre-tary" and aide-de-camp. Curiosity-seeking celebrities like Ray Bolger, Phil Silvers, and Liberace were prominent in the audience, and there is even a film of Elvis and Liberace clowning it up for the cameras. Liberace, one of his mother's favorite performers (Elvis made sure to get the flamboyant showman's autograph), is pretending to play Scotty's guitar, while Elvis flings himself into it, throwing his head back and laughing easily as he sings, perhaps, "Blue Suede Shoes." Not about to be upstaged, Liberace draws a square in the air, pointing at his brother George. It is, in many ways, a picture of perfect innocence.—-©️THE RISE OF ELVIS PRESLEY

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FOR HIS MAY 15 APPEARANCE on opening night of Memphis’ twenty-second annual Cotton Carnival, in which a king and queen were crowned and a midway set up on Front Street, both sides of Ellis Auditorium were opened up for a performance for the first time since Liberace had played the hall. The show was scheduled to begin as close to 7:30 as possible but had to await the landing of the Royal Barge at the foot of Monroe, where the reigning monarchs were to take part in opening ceremonies before traveling to the nearby auditorium to signal the start of the show. Bob Neal was master of ceremonies, and Hank Snow and the Jordanaires were featured, while Eddie Fisher appeared on the Royal Barge and the Carter Sisters, George Morgan, and a host of other country stars were headlining an all-star event at the festival tent on the midway. There was little question, though, that the hometown boy was the focus of this "new and open-to-the-public feature of the Carnival season [that] helps add excitement to its opening night." Country comedian Minnie Pearl flew in for the occasion at the urging of her husband, Henry Cannon, a charter pilot who had recently been flying Elvis all around the country and who had flown him in from La Crosse, Wiscon-sin, early that morning. "Henry introduced me to him, and he was such a nice man. I always kidded him that he treated me like an old-maid school-teacher, he was so overly polite — but he always was."
For Elvis, though, this homecoming was a chance to prove himself.
""More than anything else,'" he had told the Press-Scimitar's Bob Johnson earnestly in Las Vegas just two weeks before, " I want the folks back home to think right of me. Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.' He wants almost desperately," added Johnson, perhaps not really needing to,”to be thought well of at home."—©️The Rise of Elvis Presley

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"It was not until August 1959 that I met Elvis .I was with my girlfriend - who also had a camera with her on the occasion - on the way to Elvis' house on Goethestrasse 14. When I got there I saw his white BMW 507. I don't know what got into me but I thought I'd see if I could open the car's door, it actually did open ...
My thought was: "Maybe Elvis sees that in the house, is afraid for his car and comes out.
And in fact, shortly afterwards - whether coincidentally or not, I don't know - Elvis came out of the house. He wasn't wearing any shoes, only socks! We then found out that he was going to play football with friends.
My girlfriend and I followed him to a meadow near Goethestrasse.
We then watched Elvis play for about 1 1/2 hours. Elvis then came and sat down with us on the meadow. On that occasion he clasped my stomach with both his legs so tightly that I couldn't breathe anymore. I pushed Elvis away with both hands. Elvis then had to laugh.”—Ingrid Tesch

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"You could tell right away that there was something special about this girl, because Elvis, I mean, he went ape-if you've ever heard of love at first sight, that had to be that because l've never seen him act like he did toward her. He was just going, 'Oh she's a little angel.That's the most beautiful girl l've ever seen in my life! Oh and she's so young,man !’
He flipped over her, no question about that. He really liked Priscilla."—©️Charlie Hodge

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He arrived accompanied by a police es**rt to find the usual waiting throng in front of the auditorium.One girl said, "I grabbed his hand,and he grinned and he said, 'Cut me loose," so I cut him loose.It was heavenly." Vernon and Gladys were already present, seated in a box above the stage on the north side of the hall, eagerly anticipating their first opportunity in some months to see their son perform.In his role as MC Bob Neal whipped up the crowd with sly references to Elvis upcoming appearance,and one time he even put the spotlight on Elvis' mother and dad,who smiled nervously and took a polite bow.The other acts had a good deal of trouble trying to figure out how to deal with both sides of the auditorium at once, a problem that Hank Snow solved to no one's satisfaction by singing one song to one side, the next to the other.When Elvis came bounding out, however, in black pants, white shirt, and kelly green jacket, he seemed to give the matter no thought at all but, in the words of one thirteen-year-old spectator,simply "staggered all over the stage.Up until he came out I remember thinking,this is a lousy show," recalled Fred Davis,an eighth-grade student at Messick High School where Elvis,Scotty,and Bill had appeared as part of Sonny Neal's student council campaign the previous year. "Then I'd seen him at Ellis with Carl Perkins in November,and he was all over the stage, riding Bill's bass,popping three or four strings,but there was no climax,it didn't seem really practiced, there were just a few screams.This time it was solid noise from start to finish,there were girls in hysterics, I never heard a word he said. No one rushed the stage, no one stood in the aisle, but the flashbulbs were going from start to finish, and I just remember thinking, What have I seen?!'»—©️THE RISE OF ELVIS PRESLEY

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