December 31, 1929
In New York City, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played “Auld Lang Syne” as a New Year’s Eve song for the first time during their first annual New Year’s Eve Party at the Hotel Roosevelt Grill. The show was broadcast on the CBS Radio network and became the longest-running annual special program in radio history.
Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1940
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
1937
Vernon in prison
1938
Vernon in prison
1940
A legal dispute between ASCAP (the American Society of Publishers and Composers) and BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) forced all American radio stations to cease playing music licensed by ASCAP for ten months. While the move strengthened the upstart BMI, it also meant that the only way some radio stations could continue offering music on the air was by playing public domain songs, including classical and kids’ music.
1940-41
Reese Street, where the Presleys stayed with Vester and Clettes Presley and their daughter Patsy,
1942
Kelly Street, a rented, small apartment.
December 31, 1945
Berry Street – “Doll” Smith lived here with the Presleys and then Minnie Mae Presley moved in.
1946
Commerce Street, a rental
510 1/2 Maple Street, South Tupelo -the Presleys lived with Glady’s cousin Frank Richards and his wife, Leona.
Mulbery Alley
1010 North Green Street, in the Shakerag section of Tupelo.
Memphis, Tennessee
Sept. 12, 1948-Sept. 20, 1949
572 Poplar Avenue
Sept 2o 1949 to January 7, 1950
185 Winchester Street, a two- bedroom apartment (number 328)
January 7, 1950 to April 1953
398 Cypress Street
September 21, 1953 to March 19, 1954
Elvis worked at Precision Tool company, operating a drill press for $1.55 a hour.
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
1954
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented end of 1954 to mid-1955
Elvis, Scotty and Bill played the Red River Arsenal, New Boston, TX
RCA Victor’s Atomic Powered Singer
1955
It was announced that General Motors had become the first U.S. corporation with gross earnings in excess of $1 billion.
It’s unusual for an artist’s debut single to be a Christmas song, but on this date, a new group appeared on the chart for the first time with their version of “White Christmas”, the first single for the Drifters.
Based on record sales as well as radio and jukebox plays, Billboard magazine named “Unchained Melody” by Les Baxter And His Orchestra, the number 1 song in the US.
Elvis Presley’s single “I Forgot To Remember” hit #1 on the U.S. Country chart.
The Presleys 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
Elvis performed “Heartbreak Hotel”, “Blue Suede Shoes”, “Peace In The Valley” at the Louisiana Hayride, Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport. Also on the show: Johnny Cash
https://www.scottymoore.net/shreveport.html
1956
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive May 11 1956 to March 1957.
The front page of the Wall Street Journal reports that in the past few months Elvis merchandise has grossed $22 million in sales (in 2016 dollars: $195,211,985.29 inflation: 787.3%).
Elvis ends the pivotal year of his career, when regional popularity gave way to unprecedented national and international fame;
On New Years Eve, Elvis Presley appeared on Wink Martindale’s local TV special in Memphis with Dewey Phillips.
1957
The Presleys lived at Graceland
The Military Service Disruption
1958
Elvis received a book by Konstantin Stanislavsky from Tom Diskin. Much of the book, he said, might not interested Elvis but it supported Elvis’ instinct, that great acting came from “be(ing) natural”.
Military Service in Germany
October 1958 to February 2, 1959: Hotel Grunwald in Bad Nauheim, Germany
1959
Elvis sent a telegram to his manager: ” Please convey my thanks to the various groups in Memphis who have suggested a special homecoming for me when I return to Memphis. However, I wish to return to Memphis the same way that any other serviceman returns to his hometown without ceremony or fanfare, I served as they served and was proud to do it. Seeing the city of Memphis, my family, friends, and fans, will be the most welcome sight in the world to me. I appreciate their kind gesture. I know they will understand and I am glad you are in agreement with me on this. Best wishes to you and Mrs. Parker: From Dad, Grandma and myself.”
Military Service in Germany
Feb 3 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
1960
The album “Elvis’ Christmas Album” re-charted at #33 in the U.S.
Wild in the Country Production Break
1962
Priscilla Visit & There was a big fireworks display at Graceland, followed by a party at the Manhattan Club for over 200 friends, family and fans.
1964
Elvis rented out the Memphian for New Year’s Eve.
1965
Elvis gave a New Year’s Eve party at the Manhattan Club once again for friends, family, and fans.
1966
Elvis Presley’s song “If Every Day Was Christmas” hit #9 in the U.K.
Again there were several horses bought today as an addition to the stable. Elvis Presley, Priscilla Beaulieu and Dee Presley on their way to the annual New Year’s Eve party at the Manhattan Club. Elvis didn’t attend, because there was not a parking place available. His guests however enjoyed the catering by Monte’s again as well as the music: Willie Mitchell and his band.
1967
For the first time the New Year’s Eve party was held at the Thunderbird Lounge on Adams Street, but again catered by Monte’s. Elvis danced several times with Priscilla, including once on his request of Summertime.
1968
For the first time ever, Americans spent more than $1 billion on records. According to Billboard magazine, album sales were 192 million units and singles sold 187 million units.
In the U.K., the TV special “Elvis” aired on BBC2-TV.
For the second year Elvis’ New Year’s Eve party was at the Thunderbird Lounge.
1969
Elvis New Year’s Eve party was held at TJ’s, a new club in Memphis.
https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/1969-d ... sley.shtml
- Photo taken by Elvis fan Margie Thornton. She stood outside when Elvis arrived and asked if she could take his picture. He said she could, and she dropped her flashcube being so nervous. Elvis kindly picked it up for her and she took this shot.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
1970
Elvis and the group went on a special tour at the FBI headquarters. Here Elvis expressed his admiration for J. Edgar Hoover to the FBI agent conducting the tour. Elvis also offered to serve in an undercover capacity in any way he could. On the agent’s recommendation Director Hoover sent Elvis a note on January 4: “your generous comments concerning the Bureau and me are appreciated and you may be sure we will keep in mind your offer to be of assistance.”
The group flew home to Memphis in a leased jet in time for the annual New Year’s Eve party at TJ’s. Entertainment for the evening was provided by TJ’s artist-in-residence, Ronnie Milsap.
https://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pi ... er-31.html
1971
Elvis hosted a small New Year’s Eve party at Graceland, not at a local club like he had done in the past.
1972
Dick Clark’s first Rockin’ New Years Eve airs on ABC-TV, starring Three Dog Night, Al Green and Blood, Sweat & Tears.
1975
Elvis Presley performed a New Year’s Eve concert before 60,000 fans at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. Elvis set a world record for a single show by a solo artist: grossing $816,000 for a single performance in Pontiac, MI.
Elvis ripped his pants and more generally speaking it was not his best show ever.
Afterwards Elvis and the group flew home to celebrate New Year in Elvis bedroom where they watched betamax tapes of old Monty Python shows.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
And I Love You So
Trying To Get To You
All Shook Up
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
Hound Dog
Heartbreak Hotel
One Night
You Gave A Mountain
Polk Salad Annie
[band introductions]
My Way
Love Me Tender
Auld Lang Syne
How Great Thou Art
It’s Now Or Never
America The Beautiful
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Wooden Heart
recordings:
Elvis Still Shakes 'Em Up
by Mike Maza : Detroit News : January 1, 1976
New York City can keep Guy Lombardo and Times Square. with Elvis at Pontiac Stadium, Detroit has the beginning of a really wild New Year's Eve tradition. ask Nancy Fluegge
the time was 10 pm, New Year's Eve, as Lombardo and his Royal Canadians were warming up for their 45th annual New Year's toot at the Waldorf. Nancy Fluegge was waiting for Elvis - and for the other 27 women ahead of her in line outside a ladies room at the stadium.
The 47-year-old West Bloomfield mother of three pulled a lacy shawl tighter around her backless chartreuse dress. She shivered, and said: 'I love it. I love every minute of it. I love Elvis. I love all these people here - how many, 60,000? I just wish they all weren't in line in front of me'.
That's the way it went all night. A generally good-humored crowd waiting to see the son of a banana truck driver from Tupelo, Miss, perform for them - Elvis' biggest live audience ever, he says.
There was, of course, the usual traffic jam coming and going to the stadium. It wasn't as bad as some of the football games, or last month's Who concert, Pontiac police said. But inconvenient just the same.
Inside the stadium, there were some hassles over tickets. a few fans complained of duplicated seat numbers. others, most of them$15 stadium floor seat ticket holders who were unprepared for the booming acoustics of the arena, complained about the sound. Others weren't happy about their distance from the stage, but many Elvis fans seemed content to watch 1976 come in through a pair of binoculars
An unseen announcer said, 'A limited number of Elvis souvenirs are set aside for tonight's show, don't be disappointed'. and every 100 feet people lined up at Elvis-item concession booths. they paid $3 for 12-picture programs. Autographed scarves ('available in baby-blue and Southern mansion white', the announcer points out.) went for $5. But the hottest item seemed to be three-inch Elvis picture buttons at $1. Women pinned them everywhere, including on the front of mink jackets.
Presley will be 41 a week from today. but his appeal still appears to transcend age.
Several white-haired women and a 11 year-old boy were among the Elvis fans who shoved programs at John Mole and begged, 'Elvis, I love you', or 'Please sign this'.
Mole, 26, of Brighton, works as a polisher at the Ford Wixom plant. He looks a little bit like the star. So he copied the Elvis outfit and strolled around the stadium in his white jumpsuit dotted with hundreds of gold doodads (it cost him $500, he said) 'I've been following Elvis for 20 years - he's my idol', Mole explained 'I hope maybe this will get me enough attention so I can get to meet the man'.
Wreatha Shook Of Chesterhill, Ohio, said she and her husband, Claude, drove 'through really bad fog from Columbus' to see Elvis. 'I've been listening to him since I was making mud pies and I'm not about to miss my chance to see him', she said.
George Anson drove in with his wife and two teen-aged children from Evansville, Ind. Randolph Harter and his wife paid $35 each for a bus charter package from London, Ontario. Presley brought his whole Las Vegas crew along. Starting at 8:45 pm, just 15 minutes late, a comic and contingents of bluegrass, rock, gospel jazz and soul musicians took the stage in succession to warm up the audience.
Presley hit the 50-yard line stage - a platform 10 feet off the stadium floor, surrounded by speakers and connected to his dressing room by a 70-yard tunnel - at 11:10 pm. Women in glittery dresses and billowing pantsuits joined kids in a rush toward the stage. Lots of screaming. Everything flickered as a generation of flashcubes meets oblivion. Tossing scarves to the fans between songs. Presley ran through more than a dozen numbers. His oldies got the biggest reaction - 'All Shook Up', 'Don't Be Cruel', 'Heartbreak Hotel', 'Love Me Tender' and of course '(You Ain't Nothing But a ) Hound Dog'.
Almost midnight: A 10-second countdown ends to cheers ... spotlights swirl and balloons float down from the empty upper tier as Elvis and his fans sing, 'Auld Lang Syne'
https://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pi ... er-31.html
Pontiac Silverdome Demolished:
One day after explosive charges failed to bring down part of the Pontiac Silverdome, a repeat attempt did the trick Monday afternoon.
The implosion was the long-awaited beginning of the end for an obsolete landmark that hosted Elvis Presley concert, a Super Bowl, World Cup, plus hundreds of Lions and Pistons games.
Sunday morning’s initial implosion attempt left thousands of eager onlookers feeling deflated. While puffs of smoke emerged around the 400,000-square-foot structure during the nine-second “show,” the Silverdome’s upper columns remained stubbornly intact.
The building opened in 1975 and cost $55.7 million. It featured performances from Elvis on New Year’s Eve 1975 and Pope John Paul II in 1987 and the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event at WrestleMania III 1987.
But the stadium fell into disrepair after the Lions left in 2002 and moved into Ford Field in downtown Detroit.
(2017 News, Source;ElvisInfoNet)
1976
Elvis performed at the Civic Center Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This show was very different from the other New Year’s Eve shows. Elvis was at his best with Lisa Marie and Ginger Alden was backstage.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Fairytale
You Gave Me A Mountain
Jailhouse Rock
O Sole Mio/It’s Now Or Never
My Way
Funny How Time Slips Away
Auld Lang Syne
Blue Suede Shoes
Trying To Get To You
Polk Salad Annie
[band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
Love Letters
School Days
Fever
Hurt
Hound Dog
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Little Sister
Unchained Melody
Rags To Riches
Can’t Help Falling In Love
official release
ein review:
https://www.elvisinfonet.com/cd_dvd_rev ... night.html
https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/review ... seve.shtml
After the show Vernon told Elvis of the death of his cousin Bobbi Mann at 38, after taking an overdose of pills. The whole group returned to Memphis at 6.30 a.m.
The Wake and Aftermath
1985
Rock and Roll legend Rick Nelson was killed while en route to a New Year’s Eve show in Dallas, Texas. His private DC-3 (which was previously owned by Jerry Lee Lewis) crashed in a field near DeKalb, Texas. Early press reports erroneously suggested that drug use, namely freebasing, might have played a role in the crash that killed Rick, his band, and his fiancee Helen Blair (the pilot and co-pilot survived). In fact, the National Transportation Safety Board’s 1987 report determined that the fire began in a malfunctioning gas heater. Rick Nelson died protecting Helen Blair from the on-board fire.
2004
For the first time in the last 32 years, Dick Clark wasn’t in New York’s Time Square to celebrate New Year’s Eve. The 75 year old TV host and producer was forced to watch the show from his hospital bed after suffering a mild stroke on December 6th. A spokesman said that Mr. Clark had been doing some rehab and that doctors were encouraged with his progress.
2009
How Elvis Presley ruled Las Vegas - before it slowly killed him
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... esley.html
How Elvis Presley ruled Las Vegas - before it slowly killed him
By MICHAEL HELLICAR FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Updated: 20:20 EST, 31 December 2009
Elvis would have celebrated his 75th birthday next Friday, but for his death at 42, bloated to 20 stone and addicted to drugs. Now a BBC documentary looks into his final years as a Las Vegas star, when he turned the city from a Mafia-ridden vice-den into the world-famous temple of entertainment it is now.
Over in Las Vegas, it was a sweltering day, with the temperature well over 100 degrees and the humidity so oppressive that our clothes clung to us like limp rags.
Nobody in their right mind would venture out in the desert sun at this time of year, and that's the way the casinos, with their air conditioning and free iced drinks to keep the punters cool - and indoors - liked it.
However, that day, July 26, 1969, was like no other on The Strip, that infamous four-mile stretch of fool's gold otherwise known as the boulevard of broken dreams.
The roulette wheels stopped spinning, the slot machines fell silent, the green baize card tables were covered up, and everyone, from croupiers to cocktail waitresses, tourists to ticket touts, lined the pavement.
Suddenly, a great roar swept through the crowds as a motorcade of 20 limousines loomed towards us, raising clouds of sand and dust.
'Folks, today you are seeing history being made,' blared the loudspeakers. 'Elvis Presley has arrived in town and he's here to stay. Las Vegas will never be the same again.'
It was super-hype, even for a jaded and world-weary place that had seen everything, and was so blasé that even Frank Sinatra could play the tables without causing a stir (unless he was hitting someone, which sometimes happened; then even the veteran gamblers stopped to watch).
It was also more prophetic than anyone could possibly have realised at the time.
Presley's arrival - after almost a decade in the straitjacket of a Hollywood contract where he'd churned out one dire movie after another as his career went into decline - was to have a profound effect both on Vegas itself - and him.
He would attract a new breed of families and younger, more hip couples to a city which had so far been the purlieu of mainly retired people.
It would signal an end to the Mafia's control of everything there, from gambling and entertainment to prostitution, and even their influence on alcohol supplies.
And it would lead directly to Elvis's own premature death, eight years later. That day, though, he was looking forward with hope. 'I've been away from people - real people - too long,' he told me that evening. Dressed in a black mohair suit, tall and muscular with no sign of the weight problem that would blight his life, he drank cola and refused the mini-burgers offered.
His dark eyes sparkled, his skin glowed with good health, and he was happy to talk freely.
'Working for Hollywood was fine, and I've got no complaints about the way I was treated, but they put me on a production line. I was making films back-to-back, sometimes three a year, and although there was plenty of music in them, I had no say in what I sang or how I sang it.
'Whenever I tried to make a point, or change something, some guy in a suit would come over, surrounded by lawyers and accountants, and they'd tell me that I signed my name to a contract and I gotta do what they tell me. Well, I was a good boy and I didn't argue, because my mama always told me to mind my manners.
'But I was bored with movies, bored with the people, and bored with my life. I felt I'd sold my soul to the Devil. I look on today as the day I get back to doing the work that God put me on Earth to do. My big problem, though, is that maybe Vegas won't want to know me.'
Presley need not have worried. He opened at the newly built International, then the biggest hotel in the world, later to become the Hilton, to ten standing ovations, and record box office takings
To celebrate, he summoned the manager of the hotel's jewellery shop up to his penthouse, Suite 3000, and told him to bring 30 diamond-studded Rolex watches - one for each member of his entourage.
Then he called the local Cadillac dealer and bought 14 - one for each of his closest friends from his home town of Memphis, Tennessee.
"I've got my soul back,' he said. But in a classic case of history repeating itself - and Elvis not learning from his mistakes - he then signed a long-term contract tying him to Las Vegas.
He would be paid $100,000 a week, equivalent to almost £2 million in today's money - for two shows a night, four weeks at a time, twice a year - for seven years.
It was to be Presley's downfall. Nobody, least of all Elvis, saw it like that at the time, though. Songwriter Mike Stoller tells Sunday's BBC2 documentary, Elvis In Vegas, that singer and city were 'a match made in heaven'.
He says: 'There was a coolness factor, a hip factor. He brought something to Vegas that it needed.'
Presley had appeared in cabaret there at the start of his career, in 1956, but it had been a disaster.
His drummer, D.J. Fontana, recalls: 'We were a little afraid of going in there in the first place. We were a bunch of hillbillies from Tennessee. What did we know?
'They were 50 and 60-year-old people. They were eating their $100 steaks and drinking their $50 drinks in the main room and they didn't want to hear the racket we were making.' Tom Jones, who knew Presley well, says Vegas simply wasn't prepared for him first time around.
'They weren't ready for rock 'n' roll. Liberace was playing there - he was the big Vegas star of the time.'
While Elvis was away making films, there had been the invasion by British groups like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and the whole music scene had swung towards bands.
'Elvis wanted to prove a point after the movies,' says Jones. 'I was one of the few solo artists around who was still successful, so in 1968 he'd come to Vegas to watch me perform and see my body movements, which he had always been known for, too.
'He wanted to see and hear me firsthand to know whether audiences still wanted that sort of thing.'
When he did triumph, a year later, Elvis savoured every moment.
'He loved being Elvis Presley,' adds Jones. 'There was no doubt about that. He loved it when he was great and who could blame him? But then I think he started to dislike himself. He lost his desire to be Elvis Presley.'
Thanks to him, Vegas quickly became an oasis of indulgence. Thousands of people flocked there who would never normally have been interested in gambling. While they were there to see Elvis, of course, they couldn't resist a flutter at the slot machines or on the tables, and the casinos prospered.
Loanne Parker, widow of Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, says Elvis revitalised the place. 'He was the first entertainer to make a profit in the show room,' she says.
'Before that, the casinos used to subsidise the entertainment because they knew they'd get their money back at the tables. But Elvis changed all that and drew the big players in.
'The women were thrilled because they went to see the shows at night while their men were in the casino. Everyone was happy. When Elvis was in town, everything lit up.'
But Elvis, who had a notoriously low boredom threshold, was restless - and he began over-eating.
During the movie years, his weight was controlled by the studios, conscious of his body image as a box office draw. Just one extra pound of flesh is exaggerated by the camera to look like ten, so he was weighed every day - his low-calorie, high-protein diet was strictly monitored by doctors and chefs - and made to exercise.
In Vegas, though, the hotel management didn't worry about what he looked like, so long as he made it on stage twice a night. Presley is still remembered by veteran staff at the hotel for his love of chocolate dessert. But he was also having trouble sleeping, which was to exacerbate other problems.
'Elvis was an insomniac,' says Loanne Parker. 'When he was in the army he had to be up every morning, physically ready to go. And this created a problem where I think it all started. It was easier if he had something to help him go to sleep at night. But then he had to have something to help him wake up.'
Elvis's frustrations spilled into his private life. He had married Priscilla Beaulieu in 1967 and they had a baby daughter, Lisa Marie.
But he found it hard to switch off from work and relax with them, and for him, family holidays were a nightmare.
Now, Priscilla admits: 'He travelled a lot and I had other needs. I had my daughter. Elvis and I grew apart. I couldn't live like that any more. There were things I wasn't going to put up with. I knew there were one-night-stands, but I didn't say a lot.'
His friend Sam Thompson recalls: 'Elvis was a woman's man. He always had women around him, but he had a duality too in that he wanted someone always at home, like Priscilla. But when he was on the road, he wanted the flexibility and the access to women. That was just who he was.'
Another home-town friend, Jerry Schilling, says: 'Elvis and all of us became Vegas-ised. Nothing he did, was in moderation. If a few sequins looked good on his jumpsuit in the lights, then at the next show there had to be more. If a high collar worked for him, the collars kept getting higher. The belt buckles kept getting bigger.
'As the years went on in Vegas, so did the wardrobe. Elvis was fanatical about his clothes.'
SOON after Elvis opened in Vegas, the city began prospering - and expanding. So did Elvis's waistline. His trademark jumpsuits were having to be re-made every time he appeared there.
It was a problem for costume maker Gene Doucette, but today he prefers to remember Elvis at his best.
'His body made a perfect 'V'. He went from wide shoulders down to perfect hips and you can't ask for more than that when you are trying to design a sexy outfit for a stage presentation.
'His clothes became as integral a part of Elvis as his music, his lighting and his whole show.
'With all the stones on them, the clothes were really heavy, perhaps adding 25-30lbs extra for him to carry. And all the time the costumes were becoming ever more flamboyant.'
Elvis's stage appearances began to cause alarm. He would slur words, ramble incoherently, and forget lyrics.
One of his friends recalls that one night Elvis criticised the hotel on stage for wanting to sack a waiter.
'The Colonel was furious and told him afterwards that he shouldn't tell his employers how to run their business'.
Parker confided to me that Elvis was becoming an embarrassment to him.
The home-town boys were alarmed to discover that Elvis's increasing disorientation was due to his huge intake of medication - FIVE doctors were prescribing for him, but they had no contact with each other so nobody knew exactly what he was taking, or how the drugs were interacting.
One friend saw a comatose Elvis being dunked in an ice bucket by the Colonel. 'The only important thing is that that man goes on stage tonight,' Parker told him. 'Nothing else matters. Nothing.'
Although boredom accelerated his problems, Elvis's long, slow decline into addiction and torpor had begun when he was a teenager. He would steal his mother's medication and once chewed his way through a whole bottle of aspirin with no apparent ill-effects.
But by 1972, he was taking everything from barbiturates to amphetamines and painkillers. He was even hooked on the medication he took for a sinus problem.
After breaking up with Priscilla, he spent four years with Linda Thompson, a former Miss Tennessee, who paints a tragic picture of Presley in deep decline.
'He needed a lot of care, physically and emotionally. There were times he was my baby, other times my brother, my lover, or just my friend. He would shower gifts - cars, diamonds, even houses - on friends and strangers alike. He was so incredibly generous and we would call him either crazy or a fallen angel.'
As he became more dependent on his medication, Elvis became careless about keeping it a secret. Says Linda: 'One night I saw all these prescription bottles on his bedside table. I said, "Elvis, are you sick?" He said, "No, no, honey, I had a little sore throat." '
In December 1976, Elvis notched up his 837th, and final, show in Las Vegas, and then went home to Graceland to prepare for yet another U.S. tour during the following summer.
He was found dead in his bathroom on August 16, 1977, and the coroner's report says the cause was heart failure. However, leaked documents indicate the real reason was an overdose.
Now, as Elvis 75th birthday souvenirs go on sale, the Elvis name is worth billions - far more than he ever earned when he was alive.
Says Tom Jones: 'He definitely believed he had been blessed by God. It wasn't just an accident - he had been picked out. He used to question it, though. "Why me?" he would say.'
• ELVIS In Vegas, BBC2 Sunday, 9pm. Part of the BBC2, BBC4 and Radio 2 Elvis Season, from January 2-8.
2012
https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/elvis- ... 1976.shtml
2013
In London, Buckingham Palace announced that actress Angela Lansbury was among those named to Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year’s honors list. Lansbury, previously a recipient of a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), was awarded a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to drama, her charitable work and philanthropy.
2014
Nielsen Sound Scan reported that while overall album sales were down again in 2014, vinyl album sales grew by 52 percent to 9.2 million copies (up from 6.1 million in 2013). More vinyl albums were sold than in any other year since Nielsen started tracking music sales in 1991.
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