morning inside his dressing room in graceland, and it was there ginger discovered him. i went inside, i opened the door. panicked members of his group try to revive him. the medical examiner, one of the prime architects of what i long ago labelled the elvis cover-up. the conspiracy to hide his drug abuse from his heartbroken fans. the result of the autopsy are the cause of death is a cardiac arrhythmia due to undetermined causes. i have been praying about that. i hope and pray he didn t do it on purpose. more than worried about money near the end, elvis is no longer the slim sex symbol who changed the world. strained and swollen, he is also
you ain t nothing but a hound dog. i wanted to be so much like him. you know what i m saying. i sure do. regardless of the circumstances of his death, elvis presley enriched the cultural life in an american way. and by blending the south, north, and adding just enough sexiness, he energized music and in a small way brought the nation together. as what would have been his 80th birthday approaching, thanks for the memories, from grace land, i m geraldo rivera reporting. thank you very much. good night. and the 45 highway mpg tdi clean diesel. and last but not least, the high performance gti.
sold his music for a fraction of what they were worth. unable to make more royalties on songs recorded before 1973. sole heir, lisa marie, was just nine years old when elvis died. her mom took colonel parker to court. he accepted a large fee to turn over most of his interests in presley s recordings to rca and the presley family. in january of 1997, the colonel died of a stroke. under priscilla s firm guidance, graceland was born, and made into an enterprise for the public. elvis gave us so much. i don t know of any entertainer in the world that loved his fans like he did. in 2004, lisa marie sold the bulk of the estate including the rights to her father s name and
from american life. how do you feel about? well, the generation that you re talking about as far as i m concerned. it is something natural. just my way of expressing my song, i can t help it. and you will still express yourself like that in the future? i put it like this, if i stand still i m dead. screaming fans out there. do you still like screaming girls? if it wasn t for them i would have to re-up in the army, i ll tell you. one girl he can t get enough of is the 14-year-old daughter of an army colonel he served with in germany. elvis brings her back to memphis. elvis, how in the hell did you talk her father, who was a general in the army to letting her come over by herself. he said well, i told her she would have to stay with my mom and dad and then she went to graceland. he was really a 100% southern
bus, maybe i have a shot. it has been a great ride, what a giver he was. elvis gave jerry shilling a house. it is just a home, geraldo, he was a very sensitive guy, he knew i lost my mother when i was a-year-old. i lived in the memphis neighborhood. and one day i was he gave me a check and said jerry, i know you lost your mother. and he said you never had a home. i wanted you to be the one to give it to. then he came up here, spent time. and i ve been here for 40 years. ten years before that, i lived at graceland. elvis shared some of his anxieties about the comeback with hit singer tommy roe. i remember him talking about