Following his split from girlfriend of four years Linda Thompson, Elvis Presley dated his final lover Ginger Alden, who he proposed to and who would tragically find him dead on August 16, 1977, after a heart attack on the toilet. Physically out of shape and doped up on too much prescription medication, The King, who
ELVIS PRESLEY S daughter Lisa Marie opened up about her favourite songs by her father, admitting she loves little-known tracks that never made it on the radio as well as one of The King s most treacherously painful and autobiographical songs, which was written all about her.
Elvis Presley with Lisa Marie at Graceland (Image: GETTY )
He fury drove her to write the doing Nobody Noticed It for her 2003 debut album, To Whom It May Concern.
In another interview, she said: “I wrote that to relieve myself of something I saw on TV about him, on the E! True Hollywood Story. It actually did me in, emotionally, for days.
“What made me angry was the interviews with the mother ers who hung around him. These idiots were so disgusting they helped him go down and were actually worse than he was.
“It infuriated me. They were trying to take away his dignity, the one thing that was most important to him. And I needed to strike back at that. I happened to be going to the studio, and I got the melody in my head and started to cry.”