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ENTRANCING FACTS ABOUT ELVIS PRESLEY

Added on: 19th Nov 2016

 

ELVIS USED TO TELL HIS FRIENDS AND PEOPLE

CLOSE TO HIM THAT HE WOULD DIE IN HIS

FORTIES, JUST LIKE HIS MOTHER. IRONICALLY,

ON AUGUST 16, 1977, THE DATE OF HIS DEATH,

ELVIS WAS ONLY FORTY TWO

Elvis and his mother

 

 

IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT PRESLEY HAD 199

DIFFERENT PRESCRIPTIONS WHICH TOTALLED TO

ABOUT TEN THOUSAND PILLS THE YEAR HE DIED (1977)

pills

 

 

PRESLEY, HIS PARENTS, HIS GRANDMOTHER AND

HIS GOLDEN PALOMINO QUARTER HORSE,

RISING SUN, ARE ALL BURIED AT GRACELAND

Graceland

 

 

IN THE EARLY 1970’S PRESLEY WOULD IMPERSONATE

A POLICE OFFICER, DRIVING AROUND WITH A

BLUE LIGHT, A LONG FLASHLIGHT, A BILLY CLUB

AND GUNS, PULLING PEOPLE OVER. INSTEAD OF

GIVING OUT TICKETS, HE WOULD HAND OUT

HIS AUTOGRAPH

Elvis police

 

 

WHEN ELVIS MET BOXING ICON MUHAMMAD ALI,

HE GAVE HIM ONE OF HIS ROBES DECLARING

THE BOXER, “THE PEOPLE’S CHAMPION.” ALI IN

RETURN GAVE ELVIS A PAIR OF BOXING GLOVES

THAT SAID, “YOU’RE THE GREATEST.”

Muhammed Ali

 

 

DURING THE 1970’S ELVIS STARTED EVERY

CONCERT WITH “ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA,”

A NINETEENTH CENTURY RICHARD STRAUSS TONE

POEM AND THE THEME TO 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY,

BECAUSE HE LIKED ITS RHYTHM AND MOVEMENTS

2001: A Space Odyssey

 

 

ELVIS WAS A HUGE FAN OF THE TONIGHT SHOW

UNTIL JOHNNY CARSON JOKED ABOUT HIM BEING

“FAT AND FORTY.”

The Tonight Show by Johnny Carson

 

 

WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, ELVIS WOULD LOSE SEVERAL

POUNDS DURING A CONCERT TOUR. LATER IN LIFE,

HIS METABOLISM WASN’T SO KIND TO HIM AND HE

REPORTEDLY REACHED 250 POUNDS

Jailhouse Rock

 


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