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
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT PRESLEY HAD 199
DIFFERENT PRESCRIPTIONS WHICH TOTALLED TO
ABOUT TEN THOUSAND PILLS THE YEAR HE DIED (1977)
PRESLEY, HIS PARENTS, HIS GRANDMOTHER AND
HIS GOLDEN PALOMINO QUARTER HORSE,
RISING SUN, ARE ALL BURIED AT 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
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.”
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
ELVIS WAS A HUGE FAN OF THE TONIGHT SHOW
UNTIL JOHNNY CARSON JOKED ABOUT HIM BEING
“FAT AND FORTY.”
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
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