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In 1963, Elvis managed to talk the reluctant Beaulieus into allowing their teenage daughter to live with his father, Vernon, and stepmother, Dee Presley, at a home Elvis purchased on Hermitage Drive in Memphis located at the back of Graceland. According to Anita Wood, [51] it's Priscilla who begged Elvis to let her see him in United States.
Elvis: What Happened? is a 1977 sensationalist book about the American singer Elvis Presley. The book, which is based on the personal accounts of three of Elvis' former bodyguards, went into detail on Presley's prescription drug addiction. His death, only two weeks after the book's US publication in July 1977 (its publication in UK was May 77 ...
Elvis' father Vernon increasingly distrusted and disliked many members of the Memphis Mafia as Elvis' financial condition deteriorated in 1972. Presley's rapid financial deterioration was partly a result of his divorce from Priscilla , which was finalized on October 9, 1973, as well as Colonel Tom Parker 's exorbitant percentage of Presley's ...
Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous memoir shares new insight into the day her father, Elvis Presley, died at Graceland. In From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie looks back on Aug. 16, 1977, the ...
In the memoir, Lisa Marie covers her love for Elvis and how much she struggled after his death, her romantic relationships, motherhood, the devastating death of her son Benjamin in 2020 and the ...
Lisa Marie, the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, ... Usually with [Elvis' father] Vernon," she writes. "Electrifying is such a generic word, but it really is what it felt like. I ...
The files deal with the moral panic of the time of sexual drives of the American youth being aroused beyond normality by Elvis Presley. In a letter to J. Edgar Hoover dated May 16, 1956, for instance, a purported former member of the Army Intelligence Service states that Presley is a "definite danger to the security of the United States" because he had driven girls and boys mad.
While Elvis's drug use (a trait he shared with many famous performers of the era including Johnny Cash and fellow Dr. Nichopoulos patient Jerry Lee Lewis) is common knowledge today, at the time of ...