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Lamar Fike handled Elvis' stage lighting. Red and Sonny West were Elvis' bodyguards and security at Presley concerts.(although Red West also had a talent for writing songs, including some recorded by Elvis such as "If Everyday Was Like Christmas" and then "Separate Ways"). Marty Lacker was a brutally honest "sounding board" advisor [18]
Delbert Bryant West Jr. (July 5, 1938 [1] [2] – May 24, 2017), known professionally as Sonny West, was a friend and bodyguard of the singer Elvis Presley along with his cousin Red West for sixteen years, as part of the Elvis entourage at Elvis' Memphis home Graceland, which became known as "The Memphis Mafia".
Nicolas Cage plays Tiny Elvis. Rob Schneider plays Sonny, Kevin Nealon plays Red, and Chris Farley plays Joe Esposito, in stereotypical "Memphis Mafia" roles. The sketch would be about a tiny Elvis Presley, with sycophantic characters laughing at any jokes he made while drawing attention to the relative hugeness of ordinary objects.
From Beale Street to Graceland, Russwood Park to Lauderdale Courts, here are 10 Memphis moments in Baz Luhrmann's new "Elvis" biopic.
Elvis died in 1977 at the age of 42, but he very nearly made his mark on the NFL anyway; Memphis made a 1993 bid to join the NFL under the team name “Hound Dogs.”
Schilling in 2019 Schilling and Presley with President Richard Nixon and Sonny West at the White House in December 1970. Jerry Schilling (born February 6, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American talent manager, who was associated with Elvis Presley and was a member of Presley's Memphis Mafia from the latter part of the 1960s.
The magic of Elvis and The Memphis Boys. Following his historic Sun sessions with producer Sam Phillips in the mid-‘50s, it would be another 15 years before Elvis recorded in Memphis again.
Robert Gene "Red" West (March 8, 1936 – July 18, 2017) was an American actor, film stuntman and songwriter. [1] He was known for being a close confidant and bodyguard for rock and roll singer Elvis Presley.