Posted on 01/07/2010 11:37:17 PM PST by Elle Bee
Would have been Jesse’s, too.
I can very much appreciate his early work and greatly respect the doors Elvis opened by breaking down racial barriers that existed in the culture and the music industry at the time of his emergence on the scene.
However, he elected to become a drug addict and that cost him his life.
In 1998 on our road trip to Dallas we stopped in Memphis and took the “tour” of Sun Studios. There wasn’t much to it, yet it was unforgettable. The place was very much as it was when Elvis and Jerry Lee and a lot of other famous stars of the ‘50s recorded there.
See 22.
I have great respect for Elvis.
Did He?
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Yes, Elvis was a drug addict.
His stillborn twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley.
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It was the workload and managers need to be aware. It was pure escape from the machine. The machine killed him.
You blame drugs, I blame the machine.
“It was the workload and managers need to be aware. It was pure escape from the machine. The machine killed him.”
So you are saying that junkies have an excuse to escape and kill themselves with drugs?
No, I do not blame the drugs.
Instead, I blame a man who decided to do drugs and in the end could not handle his drugs.
The only difference between Elvis and my brother who killed himself with drugs and alcohol is that my brother did not have millions of dollars.
However, they are equal in that they were both drug addicts.
I have lost family members that need help. Do what you can, that truly is God’s message to you.
I think he died. Do you have any other deep-seated hatred against 1977, (it’s impotent to know)
It’s a pretty classic story. You come off a show and you’re too keyed up to sleep, so you take some sleeping pills. You have to get up early the next morning, but the pills have wiped you out, so you take something to get you going. You know it’s a dangerous thing to do, but it becomes so easy. “Just one more night, I’m going to take something to get some rest.”
Elvis abhorred illegal drugs. He got hooked on prescriptions, which he probably started out thinking were okay since they were prescriptions. He had to know he was doing wrong when he started doctor shopping, but it’s hard to pull yourself out and there weren’t too many around him who would help him do it.
I guess the bottom line for me is that, yes, he was an addict, but the way he got hooked into it is much more understandable to me than someone doing lines of coke just for recreation. Kind of like Rush falling into it when he wanted to stop his back pain. I wish the big E had found the help that Rush had.
And now, one of my favorite Elvis related clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkQcW4L3Wic
I was a kid in 1977, I remember where I was the day Elvis died and 77 was a good year for music as it was the year that NEver Mind the Bollacks was released.
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