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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".
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.
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.
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Klein had a long and successful career as a Memphis radio DJ and TV personality, hitting the airwaves in 1957 [6] and hosted Talent Party on WHBQ-TV from 1964 to 1973. He also was a member of the famed Memphis Mafia, consisting of Elvis Presley's closest friends and associates, and appeared in cameo roles in eight of Presley's movies. [7]
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.
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.