Posted on 08/14/2021 9:02:11 AM PDT by sodpoodle
August 16, 1977: A Tragic Loss Presley was found dead in 1977, after suffering heart failure at the age of 42. His untimely death was linked to his years of prescription drug use.
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I was on my second day on station at Clark AB, Philippines when I heard about it. I still have the Stars and Stripes edition that reported his death.
I need to learn how to post. Dagnabbit. The slides are going backwards 41 to 1 - just fast backwards for continuity:)
God bless
Try this:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/elvis-presleys-life-in-photos/ss-AAKBTq1?li=BBnb7Kz#image=1
i’m an old man and love Elvis’ music, too!
in fact, listening to Where No One Stands Alone as i write. Side 1, I’ve Got Confidence on vinyl. man what great gospel music on this record.
Bump
It seemed to be the end of a carefree period - my mother died a year later - almost to the day.
I was cutting and bucking tall doug fir timber between two less strenuous careers.
I was lucky enough to see him in person twice.
Another dead drug addict.
Not the first. Won’t be the last.
BFD.
I love the duet he sang with Frank Sinatra - when he had finished his Army tour of duty.
I remember where I was when I heard he had died. I was browsing in a store attached to the old Maple Leaf Gardens and the radio was on and the news dropped. The Gardens was an actual venue Elvis had played in 20 years earlier.
While he was a drug addict (pills), apparently he didnt die of a drug overdose. Amazingly enough, according to the autopsy, the only drugs in his system at the time of his death were legitimate amounts of legitimate prescription pills. None of which couldve contributed to his death. Part of his bad health was genetically inherited.
Ironic that you had to use Bing to find Frankie and Elvis ;-)
As it turns out, my uncle was in Elvis’ tank crew in Germany for a while and hung out with him a lot.
He hinted to me (I was 14 at the time) that he got a lot of Elvis’ “leftovers, hand-me-downs, and cast-offs.”
Believe that visit to MLG would have been part of the same tour that brought him to my hometown. I recall reading a story about how local schools sent notes to parents to sign pledges in that they would not permit their kids to go to the concert he gave (at the old Ottawa Auditorium).
thx! never seen that clip before and i’m just as much a fan of Ol’ Blue Eyes.
Yes. 1957 was the year that I was born so it wasn’t in my plans to see him either.
I had just graduated college at my first fulltime job. Could NOTunderstand all these other women CRYING at work over Elvis.
Clever.
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