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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".
Esposito is best known for his association with Elvis Presley (see Memphis Mafia). He first met Presley while serving in the military in 1958 at an Army base in Friedberg , West Germany. [ 1 ] They both went through basic training at Fort Hood, Texas , but did not meet face to face until a year later when they were both stationed in West ...
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.
Just over 55 years ago, Elvis Presley pulled off a rocking purchase for his parents: He bought them a 14-acre Memphis mansion known as "Graceland." The pop-culture icon, who had already bought one ...
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]
They'll gather June 9-13 for the annual Tupelo Elvis Festival. "I feel like it's a long-time-coming family reunion," said Brown, the festival's ... Tupelo Elvis Festival announces schedule
The mansion would be Elvis' Memphis home for 20 years, until his death at 42 on Aug. 16, 1977. ... and jumped the wall after he saw a light on inside the mansion. Springsteen told the guards who ...