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The Navy offered to create a special Elvis Presley Company made up of men from Memphis and Presley's closest friends and offered him the chance to perform in Las Vegas, and have his private quarters. [5] The Army offered Presley the chance to tour the world and visit army bases to boost morale among soldiers and encourage other young men to enlist.
His military service was pushed by the colonel, who wanted Elvis to have a more all-American image, but it came at a time when the singer was at the height of his popularity. Not true, Nash says.
The new “Elvis” film is not based on her book, nor did Luhrmann read it, by his account (although he says researchers presented him with notes from that and many other key Presley-related books).
Scout Platoon, 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32nd Armor, of the 3rd Armored Division, part of the U.S. Seventh Army. Ira Jones and Elvis Presley first met in the autumn of 1958 when Elvis was among the replacement troops arriving aboard the USS General Randall. Elvis drove Jones in a jeep named "HQ 31" for nine months while serving in the Scout ...
The files deal with the moral panic of the time of sexual drives of the American youth being aroused beyond normality by Elvis Presley. In a letter to J. Edgar Hoover dated May 16, 1956, for instance, a purported former member of the Army Intelligence Service states that Presley is a "definite danger to the security of the United States" because he had driven girls and boys mad.
Considered one of the biggest solo icons in music history during the 1950s, Elvis got more into the movie business in the 1960s upon his return from the army. He was still having strong commercial ...
He also recalled the King of Rock and Roll's request to become 'blood brothers.'
While Elvis's drug use (a trait he shared with many famous performers of the era including Johnny Cash and fellow Dr. Nichopoulos patient Jerry Lee Lewis) is common knowledge today, at the time of ...