All language subtitles for Famous Families The Presleys

L EPISODE

OF FAMOUS FAMILIES,

THE ESLEYS.

AME

FEATURING THE KI--
ELVIPRESLEY.

HE M
GLADYS AND VERNON.

HIS PARENTS,Y

HIS WIFE, PRISCILLA.

TH IS WEART ALL STARTED.

THIS IS HIS ROOTS.

AND HIS DAUGHTER LISA MARIE.

THERE WILL BE RARE INTERVIEWS
WITH HIS STEPBROTHER

WE THOUGHT HE WAS
SOME KIND OF KING

BECAUSE HE HAD BIG CASTLE.

YOU'LL HEAR NEVER BEFORE TOL
ACCOUNTS OF LIFE WITH ELVIS,

TOLD BY HIS CLOSEST RELATIVES
AND FRIENDS.

HE W VERY LONELYAN,

BUT HE WANTED PEOPLE WITH HIM.

HE NEEDED NURTURING FROM WOMEN.

MEMPHIS LEGES REMEMBER

ELVIS IN HIS EARLY YEARS.

THE RULE WAS,

YOU CAN'T GROOVEO RA MUSIC.

STATUS QUOTE SAYS
YOU JUST CAN'T DO THAT.

YOU'EET THE WON

WHO INTRODUCED LISA MARIE
PRESLEY TO MICHAEL JACKSON.

I BLAME MYSELF FOR THE
OLE THING.

YOU'LL DISCOVER THE PRESLEYS'
GREATEST JOYS,

AS WELL AS THEIR
SADDEST MOMENT.

WHEN I WALKED IN AND
LISA SAID DADDY'S DE

W WHAT T.

ALL THIS AND MORE TO COME ON-
FAMOUS FAMILIES.

ILILIE

♪ HEY,
HEY ♪

♪ IN THE FAMILY ♪

♪ OOOOOH, YEAH ♪

S:

ELS AARON PRESLEHAS BECOME
SUCH A CULTURAL ICON,

THAT IT IS EASY TO FORGET
THAT HE HAD A FAMILY
JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.

IF YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW
EVERYTHING ABOUT THE KING,

HIM LIKE HIS FAMILY.

ONE W

WE'LL HEAR FROM ELS'

RS,

FRIENDS AND RETIVES ABOU
WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO LIVE WITH

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL
FIGURES

IN AMERICAN MUSICAL HISTORY.

WE WILL HEAR HOW PRISCILLA AND
LISA MARIE ARE KEEPING HIS

MEMORY AND LEGACY ALIVE.

YOU'LL DISCOVER THAT THERE IS
MORE TO THE PRESLEYS

THAN A CURLING LIP,
A WIGGLING HIP

AND A MANSION CALLED GRACE.

♪ WELL SINCE MY BABY LEFT ME ♪

STILL TODAY, AMERICA'S
ROCK ROYALTY REMAINS--

HIS QUEEN, PRISCILLA PRESLEY.

HI HIS CALE, ACAN

U,

THE MEMPHIS MAFIA.

WAS TAME COMPARED WHAT
THEY DO NOW.

I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING
EXCEPT JIGGLE.

nouncer:
As farthe eye can see

ers
are on hand for the return of

Elvis Presley toississippi,

He is gaining popularity

u

y.

WAING ARTIST,

A MESMERIZING PEORMER.

EVENTUALLY, A ROCK 'N RO
MO

I LIKE TO LIVE
DNGERSLY.

HONEY, I'M GOING TO
LEAVE THE DRIVING TO YOU.

THE MAN WHO WOULD MAKE
HIS FIRST MILLION BY AGE 2

S:

CAME FROM POOR AND
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS.

KNOWN AS A SHOTGUN HOUSE.
SMALL SO

HIS PARENTS, GDYS AND VERNON,
WERE FARM WORKS.

AR

WHO ED DURG CHILDBIRTH.

ELVIS WAS EN RAISED
AS AN ONLY CHILD.

ALL OF HER HOPES AND DREAMS
BWERE EMBODIED IN ELVIS.

SHE , FYOU'RE SCIAL.

YOU'RE GOING TO BE SOMEBODY.

THAT MOTIVATED ELVIS AND POINTED
HIM IN THE RIGHT DECTI.

CENTEREDD UNCLE VERNON
LOV

LYY

AROUND HIM.EL

HIS FATHER WAS FOUND
GUILTY OFORGERY.

FARMS STATE PENITENTIARY. YET

VERNON SOLD A HOTO HIS BOSS,
ORVILLE BEAN,

■

O .

HEAVE VERN A CHECK FOR
FOUR DOLLARS.

BUT VERNON THOUGHT HE SHLD
T.

HE GOT TOGETHER WITH GLADYS'
BROTHER, TRAVIS,

AND THEY DECIDED TO
RGE E CHECK

TO STE FOURTEEN DOLLARS
FORTY DOLLA.

TOASH THCHK,

LYTHE NEXT W

THEY WERE ARRESTED.

MR. PRESLEY WAS AS STRAIGHT
AS AN ARROW.

HE COUN'T STAND NOT TO
HAVE SOME FOOD.

THERE'S NO JOBS.

THSTRUGGLES OFLVIS
ANHIS FALY,

AS WAS THE CASE WITH MANY PEOPLE

HE TLY WANTED TO DO SOMETHING

W.

Narrator:
VERNON'S TIME IN PRISON,

STRENGTHED THE BOND BETWN
ELVIS AND HIS MOTHER.

I THK THE BOND BETWEEN
ELVIS AND GLADYS

WAA C

THEY HAD A BEAUTIFUL
RELATIONSHIP, SWEET, SINCERE.

Narrator:
BEUSE THERE CLOSENESS

TOTECT ELVIS

AM

SHE WOULD FOLLOW HIM TO SCHOOL
EN HE WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD

TO MAKE SURE HE WAS OK.

IT'S ROUGH HAVING YOUR MOTHER
WALK YOU TO SCHOOL

HE WAS A MHER'S BOY.

Narrator:
ELVIS SUFFERED FROM NIGHTMARES
AND SLEEP WALKING.

A PROBLEM THAT CONTINUED
THROUGHOUT HIS LE.

THIS WENT ON FOR MANY YEARS AND
INTO HIS ADUHOOD.M.MOUS

ELVIS REQUESTED THE SAME FROM
OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS AND

TRUSTED IENDS WHO
WORKED FOR HIM.

C C

THE FIT TI IT HAPPED,

I WAS ASLEEP AND HE
JUMPED UP INTO BED

AND PULL THE COVER OFF.

OVER HEAD.

HCHC

HG

HIS MOTHER SAID THAT WHENEVER
HE DOES THIS,

GET TO A LIGHT. TURN IT ON,
AND HE WILL WAKE UP.

AS I WAS TRYING TO GET
TO THE LIGHT,

HE HIT ME IN THEAW.

I FINALLY GOT THE LIGHT ON

AND SAID THAT I DON'T
NEED TO DO THIS.

HE WAS LAUGHING HARD,
HE WAS ON THE FLOOR.

A STRONGELIGIO UPBRINGING
HELPED SHAPE ELVIS.

R TOOK HIM TO
CHURCH A REVIVAL MEETINGS

ON A REGULAR BASIS.

ELVIS SANG WITH ENTHUSIASM.

ELVIS BELIEVED IN GOD.
HE BELIEVED STRONGLY IN PRAYER.

IN LIVING HIS LIFE AS THE RD
WANTED HIM T

THE PRESLEY FAMILY MOVED
FROM PCE TO PLACE

REREIN SEAR.

ELVIS MOVED AROUND
A LOT AS A CHILD.

THE MAIN REASON WAS BECAUSE OF
THEIR FINANCIAL TUATION.

THE PRESLEYS WERE VERY POOR.

AS A YOUTH, ELVIS LIVED
IN OVER A DOZEN PLACES.

ONE HOME WAS NEAR AN
L BLK NEIGHBORHOOD,

KNOWN AS SHAKE-RAG.

INISSISSIPPI

SHAKE-RE

AT ELVIS
GREW UP CLOSE TO.

I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING
ABOUT SHAKE-RAG,

ANTHERE WERE A LOT OF
THEM IN THE SOUTH,

IS THAT AN IMPRESSIONABLE
ELVIS PRESLE...

LEARNED NOT ONLY ABO
HIS FAMI,...

WE GREW UP IN A
SEGREGATED SOCIETY-- FAMIL:

ESCIALLYT THAT TIME.

YOU DIDN REALLY GET TO
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS.

ELVIS WAS EXPOSED TO THE
BLACK COMMUNITY-

TO THEIR MUSIC,
WHICH HE LOVED.

MAN

TO BE THERE FOR THEEATREE
GOSPEL SINGI.
AMAMIL

ELVIS LIKED THEIR STYLE BECAUSE
THEY WERE SO UNINHIBITED.

YOU COULD TELL THEY REALLY PUT
FEELING INTO IT.

I THINK ONE THE FIRST
INFLUENCES ON ELVIS

TO INCORPORATE THE BLACK STYLE

OFXPRESSING ESWHEN THEY SING,

A.

Narrator:
WHEN ELVIS WASN HIGH SCHOOL,

HE WOULD OFTEN VISIT SHAKE-RAG

AND LOCAL GOSPEL CHURCHES

HE BEGAN IMITATING THE MUSIC
D DRESS STYLES

OF POPULAR
BLACK MUSICIANS.

SUCH AS:
LITTLEICHARD,

MUDDY WATERS

ANBB KELEL

ELS VES
Y,

HEHE P

HOW WE DRESSED,
HOW WE WORE OUR HAIR.

HE HAD THE NERVE TO WEAR
A PINK SHIRT IN 1954.

1954 ALSO SAW THE RELEASE OF
ELVIS' FIRST PROFESSION RECORD.

"THAT'S ALL RIGHT"

THE SONG'S MIX OF SULTRY BLUES
AND COUNTRY RHYTHM,

WAS ANNS T T HIT
WITH TEENS EVERYWHERE.

ELVIS CREPT DOWN ON IS THING
WITH HIS MARTIN GUITAR,

UNAMPLIFIED, ACOUSTIC, AND
I HEARD THIS UNIQUE CUT

OF ARTHUR

"THAT'S ALL RIGHT .

THAT TNG HAD BEEN OUT
SEVEN, EIGHT YEARS BEFORE.

T

VEEEN LOOKING FOR.

I MEAN THIS IS WHAT
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR,

IS AEEL LIKET.

SAM MADE A NICE TAPE
OF "THAT'S ALL RIGHT"

AND TOOK IT TO A D.J.
IN MEMPHIS, DEWEY PHILLIPS.

DEWEY LOVED THE SONG,
ANELELNE NIGHT.

THPHONE ARD RINGING
OFF THE WALL.

HE PLAYED O.

A LOT OF THE PEOPLE CALLING IN,

WERE TRYING TO FIND OUT
IF ELVIS WAS A WHITE MAN

OR AN AFRICAN-AMERIC.

THERE WAS STILL SEGREGATION
AT THIS TIME.

YOU HAD WHITE RADIO STATIONS

AND AFRO-AMERICAN
RADIO STATIONS.

THE RULE W,

YOU N GROOVE TO RACE MUSIC.

AND IT STIRS UP ALL KINDSLY S
OF EMOONS IN YOU.

WHITGIRLS COULD NOT DANCE
TO RACE MUC

IF A BLACK PERFOER
WAS ON STAGE.

THAT WAS THE BOOT.

SO WHEN ELVIS CAME, THEY HAD
THE GUTS TO DO THIS.

I THINK THAT IONE OF THEFOX FL
REASONS HE WASUCA BIG HIT.

WHEN WE RETURN...

W
COULERTROLIM.

T

I'M NOT GOING TO BRAG
ABOUT WHAT I DO.

ALL THIS ANDUCH MORE
WHEN FAMOUS FAMILIES RETURNS.

Narrator:
THE YEAR WAS 1954.

MO

ELS PRESLEY INTRODUCED
A W STYLE OF MUSIC

TH HISST RECORD

"THAT'S ALL RIGHT"

IT WAS A HFOFOFAFAMO SS
MADE HIM A STA

THENIS FANS COULD SEE
THE PRESLEY'S MOVES.

HIS FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE
WAS ON THE LISIANA HAYRIDE,

IC
OWCASED LIVE PERFORMANCES.

WH ELVIS CAME

TH THEY WERE CONCERNED IT

FOR THE

C SCENE.

ONE NIGHT WHEN ELVIS GOT
ON WITH ANPPEARANCE,

THE FANS AND YOUNG KIDS
WENT WILD.

Announcer:
He'snly nineteen years old.
He has a new distitive style.

Elvis Presley.

Elvis, how are you
this evening?

Elvis:
ne, how are you, Sir.

Announcer:
You all geared up
th your ba

to let us hear your ngs?

Elvis:
I'd like to say how happy we a
to bdown here.

We're going to do song for you
that goes something like this.

Elvis:
♪ Oh Baby, Baby, Baby Baby..♪

♪ Come back baby, I wanna play
♪

house with you ♪

♪ou may go to parties ♪
♪ Youay go tschool ♪

♪ Y may have a pink Cillac ♪

AFTHAT HAPPENED,

HOW.

AIW

ELVIS'EXT JOR APPEAR

FAFAMISS

WAS AT NASHVILLE'S
GRAND OLE OPRY.

BUT THIS TIME, HE WAS MET
WITH A FAR DIFFERENT REPTION.

HE WAS SCARED TOEATH
HE WAS NINETEEYEARS OLD.

THE GRANOLRY WAS PROBABLY
E MO PRESTIGIOUS PLACE

THAT A COUNTRY MUSICIAN OR A
ROCK-A-BIL SINGER COD PLAY.

HE WENT OUT THERE AND AYED
"BE MO OF NTUCKY".

FAFA.

♪..OF KENTUCKY KEEP ON SHINING ♪

♪

♪ IT WAS ON ONE MOONLIGHT NIGHT,
STARS INING BRIGHT ♪

♪ WHISPER OHI, LOVE SAID
GOODBYE ♪

KE ON SHINING ♪

♪LUE

♪

COME , AND E

IT ONLY GOT MODERATE APPLAE.
IT WASN'T WHAT ELVIS EXPECTED.

HE WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED.

MIT WA TO

E

GO BACK DRIVING A TRUCK.

LU

ELVIS IGNORED THIS ADVIC.

THERWAS NO DBT THAT HIS
ER.

NNNNL

Anuncer:
As far as the eye can see

a press of eited youngsters
are on hand for the return of

Elvis Presley to Misssippi,
where he was bor

A phenomenon recalling Mar
Mooe's debut ishow business,

UE

. Teenager
theater history.lel in

IT WASN'T EASY BEING A RK 'N
RO REL IN 1950'S AMERICA.

ELVIS TOOK SOME S FROM

FROM THE GUYS ACROSS THE STREET
THE H

AND OTHER PEOPLE?

NO, THEY'RE JUST JEALOUS.

THON'TAVE
WH H

F

THEYALL CRAZYON CARE.

MIMILY C TOWNSANNED ELVIS' .

ROCK 'N ROLL INNK
JERSEY CITY?

THE GOVERNMENTELELD
I THINK 'SUST GREA TO S.

WHAT DO YOINK ABOUT
THE MAR OF JERSEY CITY

I SQUARE.

WH DYOU THINK?

ROCK 'N ROLLS COOL
AND YOU KN IT.

AMA?

AGAINST ROCKN ROLL

FAMO

RERE

.

THAT'S

CONFRO WITH..

.

MI

WHITE AND BLACK YOUNG PELE
LAHED ONTO I

REGARDLESS OCRITICISM.

L

D HIS FA WERNO
PREPARED TO NAGE HUCSS.

VERNON W BARELY LITETE.

AUST 1955, AN EX-CARNIVAL
PROMOTER, COLOL TOM PARKER,

LKED VERNON IN SIGNI HIM
ON AS A SPECIAL ADVISOR.

PARE

BUSINESS MANAGER.

USUS

MRS. PREEYIDN'T WA
HESON HU BY SOMEONE

WHO DIDN'T CARE FOR HIM.

PARKER WAS A CLEVEAND
RUTHLESS NEGOTIATOR.

HE BECAMA COROVERSIAL
FIN ELS'

ELVIS RESPECTED HI

ELVIS GR UP DIRT PR AND
MILLIOLLS WORTH OF TALENT

AND THAT HE COULD KEIM
A MILLION LLARS.

AND HE DID.

COLONEL PARKER W A
THAT WAS FINE WITH ELVIS.

WHEN YOU AYOU ARE GOINFIGHTS,

BUNE
GREATEST MANERS EVER.

AS ONE OTHEO

I'M NOT HC

ALL DO IS A GO.

Narrator:
NOT EVERYONE AGREED WITH
THE COLONEL'S WAY

OF DOING BUSINESS.

OF ELVIS' EARNINGS.

TY-FPET

THE LAST TEN YEAHCELVI
LIFE, PARKER HAD FIFTY PERCENT

E

CELFAMOUS FAMS: PRESHCANDS

THERE A TENDENCY TO GIVE
COLONEL PARKER TOO MUCH EDIT.

ELVIS WAS THE ONE.

O

HE WAS IT, OA STIC

HE WAS THE CST THING.

D FOX FA CELFAMOUS FAMS:

AY FOFO

THAT THE COLONEL MADE ELVIS.

MY RESPONSE IS, TELL HIM
TO MAKE ANOTHER ONE.

rrat:
SINCE THE COLONEL PTHE

F
D TA

S

TO HISAREER AND HAPPINESS.
FOFO WOULCOME AT GREAT EXE

ELVIS ED TPL ORSEAS.

GER.

HE WANTETO PLAY ENGLAND.

HE WANTED TO PLAY JAPA

HE NEVER PLAYED OVERSEAS, EXCEPT
FOR THREE GIGS IN CANADA.

ELVIS DIDN'T KNOW THAT PARKER
WAS AN ILLEG ALIEN.

THE COUNTRY,

E

FA

BECT

SO PARKER TOLD ELVIS THAT THESE
FOREIGRS WL RIP OFF

ELVIS BOUGHT IT BECAUSE HE
DIDN'TNOW ANY BETTER.

HE MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY THAT
HE DESPERATELY WTED TO DO.

IT'S SAD.

PREY

WAS ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST AND
MOST POPULAR MEN IN AMERICA.

ANS:S:NG HE WAED.

T

BUT HE VALUED THCOMFORT D
STABILITY OF FAMILY THE MOST.

FAMILY WAS EVERYTHING TO ELVIS.

THEY KEPT HIM GROUNDED.

HE SOUGHT ADVICE
FROM THE FAMILY.

HE WANTED THEM AROUND
ALL THE ME.

ELVIS TAD FAMILY VALUES COME .

EY A THE ONEYOU CAN
TRFAFATHE MOST.THE P P S

THEY WILL HELP YOU WITH YOUR
PROBLEMS A C CHAPORT YOU,

AND ALWAYS BELIEVE
WT YOU DO.

FAMILY WAS VY
IMPORTANT TO ELVIS,

AS HE DEMONSTRATED
WITH H

AND THE WAY THAT HE
PTIS DAD AROUND.

HIS FRIENDS AS W

S MOTH
AS PL

VERY
TIVE.DS

HE WANTED TO BE LOVED.EOR
EVERHING HE DID.USUS

COMING UP...

ELVIS' FAME TAKES IT'S TOLL
ON HIS MOTHER GLYS.

SHE WOULD GET VERY UPSET.

WHEN "FAUS FAMILIES"Y'RE
BY 17 THE SOVIETHE PREUNIK

SFU

SPACE SATELLITE.

O

AND ELVIS PRESLEY'S CARE
WAS IN HIGH GEAR.

WITH RORD SAS MOY, H
BOND

A SOHERN COLONEL MANSION
BUILT IN 1939 AND NAMED AFTER

THE PREVIOUS OWNER'S GAT
AUNT GRACE.

ELGRANDMOTHER,
MINN MAY PRE,

AUNTASH,

UNCLE EARL,

AND SOME OF THIS CLOSE FRIENDS
TO MOVE IN WITH HIM.

Report:
E YOU GOING TO
KEEP GRACELAND?

DO YOU PLAN TO
MOVE FROM MEMPHIS?

NO SIR, I HA NO PLS
TO LEAVEEMPH.

GRAND ASG IAN.

LIFE LON

WE WAS SURROUNDED ANOTECTED
IM.

WHENLVIS BOUGHT GRACELAND,
I JU STARTED HIGH SCOL

METIMETER FOOTBALL GAMES
S:

PAY AN CHANN PEOPLE COME UP.OULA

IT WAS USUAL T

BUT IT BECAME THE "I THING

S... IT WAS GRELN

THE LEY FALY WERE
PRACTICAL JOKERS.

S HAD A MYNER BIRD THAT
LT

R

TALKED QUITE WELL.

ONE NIGHT WHEN ELVIS CAME
IN THE BACK DOOR,

AND METHIN "TURN TSE
LITS O".

AN

X NNNN I

WHEN HE LAUGHED, WE WOULD FALL
DOWN ON THE FLOOR UGHING.

ED HAVING A GOOD TIM

IT W A FAMILY TYPE ATMPHED WITH.
AROUND G

AT AE

HE LOVEDAVING
GRACELAN

IT W HIS FAVORITE.

IT WASIS
FAVORITE RETREAT.

HE WOULD GO UPSTAI

AND

S.

ELHAD CAMERAS
ALL OVERHE HSE

HE COULD SEE ERYONE.

LIFE WAS TROUBLE FE FOR THOS
WHO LIVED WITHLV.

HE WOUATCH WHAT
EVER

ELVIWAKIND OF LI
IT NER RNED ON YOU,

FA

YOU VER GOT COLD

YONEFOX T HUNGRY...

THE GATES OF GRACELA,YOU ULD

HE WAS ALSO LAUNCHING
HIVIE CAREER.

CT.X E.

HIS DAD VETO HIS VERY FIRSM,

TT AND COSTELLO
MEET FRANKENEIN.

G
VEF OV OF THAT,

BUT RNON TOOHIM,

AND THINK ELVIS
GOT THE G THERE.

HOVER, HE S IMMEDIATELY
LOANED OUTFOX STUDIO
A VE

VE ME TEN,

A CIVIL WAR WESTERN
ABOUT FAMILY CONFLICTS.

Elvis:
♪ Tell me you areine ♪

Movirrat:
Out of the Great Southwest
comes the sensational adventure

ELe girl they ught over.

loved s brother, b also
lovehis her's girl.FA

I KNOW YOU AND KATHY USED TO BE
KIND OF FO OF EACH OTHER,

AGAINST EITHER ONE OF US
NOW, HAVE YOU?

S

WHICH IMPRSED HA

TO AONTRACT

FOR LOVE ME NDER.

CLEARLY SHOWED THAT ELVIS
D ANCTING ABILITY.

X MI VIS D NOT WANTTO PROVE,
TOING IN HLYAMO INTEIEW IN1

AFR HE HAD DE
SCREENSTTEWER SA

IN YOUR MOVIES?"

I JUST D A SEENTEST
WITH BURT NCRUEAY DON'T

FO

AND TH PDUCERSANAGER,
LONEL PARKERHC

THMI C"

INSI THAT HIS MOVIE FANS
EXPECTED HIM TO SING,

ELVIS RELUCTANTLY COMPLIED.

MI me ♪

♪ H-honey, let me ♪

to a better ho ♪

ABOUT NGININOVIES.EALLYES: T
WAS THATLEAS

I THINK THAT WAS
COLONEL'S IDEA.

HIS FIRSTHREE MOVIES
WERE BOX OFFICE HITS.

ONLY ADDING TO HIS
SKYROCKETING POPULARY.O

ICALLYELS' FAME
TOOK A HEAVY TOLL

FAMO

FAMI MOTHER ADYS

GLADYS WAS A TERRIBLE

IT W RLLY AN APPROPRIATE
RESPONSE FOR HER.

NVIRONME,

ANSHE SAW HER SON

SHE S TERRIBLY FRIGHTENED
SHE COULD RE EVEN IMAGINE.

EVERY TIME HE TOOK A TRIP,
EVERY TIME HE WENT ON A PLANE.

WHEN HE DIED IN THE MOVIES,
SHE CRIED UNCONTROLLLY.

AND E FA WERE TEARING:
S CLOTHES OFF,EN
S WA

IT WORRIEDERPERATELY.
GET A

SHE WOULD GET VERY UPSET.

S

NNE'D SAY,
OFOSG ELVIS,

H, T

AND SHE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW
HOW COPE WITH I

SO SHE TURNED TO DRINKING.

Narrator:
GLADYS PRESLEY'S DRINKING

EVENTUALLY LEAD TO HER
CONTRAING ACUTHEPATITIS.

MOUF

FA F

YET HE RUSHED HO FROM
CHANNNCED TRAINING T

SHE DIE,

ON AUGUST 14, 1958,
AT THE AGE OF 46.

ELVIS AND S WERE DEVASTATED.

FAAFR THE FUNERAWAS OVER,

EVYONE HAD GONE OUT
OF T FUNERAL PARLOR,

EXCEPTLVIS AND
OUR QUTETET.

THE CASKET,

REMER

KISSED H E

HE SD,

"MAMA, I'D GIVE
EVY DIME HAVE,

AND GO BACK TO DIGGING
JUSTLY CHAVE YOU BACK."

FAMORES

IT'S BEEN SA THAELVILT
TOHANNELR A BETTER LIFE,SN'T E

FOR LONGER.

FOR ELVI THE DEATH OF S
MOTHER HAPPED

WHEN HE WAS FACED WITH
THE LONELINESS

OF BEING AWAY FROM HOME
FOR THE FIRST TIME.

HEOU CONTINUEOS

FOR E RESTS LIFE.

NEXT...

RES

AND RETURNS WITHKINGCAL
THREE NEW BROTHE.

HE KNEELS DOWN,
AND HE SS,

'VE ALWAYSANTED
LITTROTHERS,

AND NOW I HAVE THREE."

THISND MORE,
WHEN "FAMOUS FAMIES" RETURNS.

rror:
ON DECEMBER 19, 1957,

USAMHL

RYWHERE,

ELPRESLEWAS DRAFTE
INTO THE U.S. ARMY

Radio annocer:
His lucrative career
interrupted foa while,

ElviPresley begi his
military serce

and those celeated sidebns,

which weisrademark,

mita unirmity.

HE FALOF 1958,

MO

ELVID

SHORTLY AFTER
HIS MOTHER'S DEATH.

DEDED GHT OFFT

THAT ELVIS WAS GOING TO
GO IN AS A SOLDIER,

AND THAT HE DI'T WANT
ANY SPECIAL TRTMENT.

BUT ELVIS DIDN'T WANT
PERFOR

TO DTHAT.T

WANTETO GO IN
AN A STRGHT G.I.

JUS

rrINTORMFOE TIME.OYS.
ELEL

T ONLY DID HE THINK
HIREER WOULD BE OVER,

BUT, MORE IMRTANTLY,
HIS MOTH HAD JUST PASSED AWAY.

Lamar Fike:
THE GRIEVING PROCESS, IN ITSELF,

NEVER GOT TOAKE PLACE.

HIS MOTHER DIED,

AND SIX SHIPPED TO GERMA.

SO HE TOOKNNNNFAMOUS FIE

THE.

SO, IT W HIS MHER,
IT W HIS CARR,

F

HAHANN
ELVIS' CUP OF TEA.

AND THE ARMY WN'T

DESPITE ELVIS' UAPPINESS
WITHRMY LIFE,

HIS DID HAVE THE CFORT

OF HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY
LIVING WITH HIM OFF-BASE

IN A RENTED HOUSE.

HE AHAE FREEDOM
MEET DOZENS OGIRLS.

USUF

E MOST SCIAL OF ALL

NAMED ISCILLA.

HE SAID,
"GO OVER TO WEISBATEAND
CHECK HER OUT FOR ,

AND SEE HOW SHE LOOKS."

SO I WENT OVER TO THE SWIMMING
PON WEISBATEN,

WHICH IS UP ON A HILL,

AND I SSR.

SHE CAME IWI
HEHAIR IN NGLETS,

I INTRODUCED THEM
SH TTTO EACH OTHER,SE.HANN

AND THEY SORT OF HIT IOFF
D STARTED TALKING.

ELVIS WASN'T THE ONLY
PRESLEY DANG.

WHENIS FATHER VERNON WAS
LIVING WITH ELVIS IN GERMA,

DEE STANLEY,HE M, AND,

A MARRIED WOMAN
WITH THREE YOUONS.

WHILE WEERE LIVI IN GERMANY,

ELVIS WAS INERMA,

MY MOM WANTED TO
MEET

AND SHE WAS NOT ABLE
TH

TO MEET HIM.

SHE MET VERNON.

WAS SMITTEN...

BYHIS BEAUTIFUL,
BLOND-HEADED GIRL

FROM CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE.

WAS AN ALCOHOLIC,

AND THE WE OCCH...

START KNOCKING
THKIDS AROUND.

SHE MET VERNON,
TH FELL IN LOVE,

MOM PUT ME, BILLY, AND DAVID,
AND HERSELF ON A PLANE,

AND WE CAME BACK TTHE STATES.

MY.

Narrator:
IN959, ELVIS AND VERNON
RETURNED HOME

.

FAFA

dianunr:

FAt m of the wie

fails toaunt tse hearty
rock-n-roll enthussts

S

as Sergeant Elvis Presley

arrives at New Jersey's
McGuire Air Force Base.

Homecoming, after serving
hiuntry

for 18 months in Germany.

TV spokesman:
I'D LIKE TO WELCE U HO

FROM ERYBODY IN MEMPHIS
ANTHE SOUTH.

WELL, THANK YOU.

YOU'LL NEV KNOW
HOHAPPY AM TO BE HERE.

SOMEBODY ASKED ME
WHAT I MISSED ABOUT MEMPHIS,

HEHE PS TE
ELELFA E STANLEY WAS DIVORCED,

AND READY TO BEGIN A NEW LIFE
WITH ELVIS' FATHER.

IN 1960,
VERNON AND DEE MARRIED.

AT FIRST, VIS FOUND IT HARD

TO AEPT THE IDEA
OF ANYONE REPLACING HIS MOTHER.

BECAUSE HE WAS LITTLE
RECTANT ABOUT MY MOTHER.
TO D AND V

BUT OVER THE YEARS,

THEY DEVOPED A
GOOD, SOLID RELATIONSHIP.

X X

TO THE POINT THAT WHEN WE WERE
LIVING AT GRACELAND,

SHE REQUESTED THAT WE HAVE A
HOUSE BUILT BEHIND GRACELAND.

SHE RESPECTED ELS' SPACE.
NNNN

IN SPITE OF HIS RESERVATIONS
ABOUT HIS EPMOTH,

ELVIS WENT OUTF HIS WAY

TO MAKE HIS NEW LITTLE BROTHERS

IKE PART OF
THE PRESLEY FAMILY.

MY BROTHERS AND MYSELF
GOT TO GRACELAND IN 1960.

WE WENT THROUGH THE GATES,

THROUGH THERE,

P

WE THOUGHT "OH, MY GOD,"

BECAUSE VERNON AND MY MOM
HAD BEEN TALKING ABO

YOUR NEW BIG BROTHER,

AND SOOUT THIS GUY WAS
SOME KD OF KING SOMETHING,

USE HE

Re R
HE CES RIGHT OVE
TO WHERE I'M STANDG,

D HE KNEELS WN, AND, UH...

HE SAYS,
"I'VE ALWAYS WANTED
LITTLE BROTHS,

viStanley:
THE NEXT DAY WHEN WE GOT UP,
ELVIS ITING FOR US,

TOOK US OUT IN THE BACKYARD,ES

AND THERE RE THREEATS,
THREE OF EVERY TOY ANY KIDY .

ITAS A VULLTH,

D I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT.

SO, FROM THAT MOMENT ON,

ALI WANTM.

STANLEY BROTHE DCOVERED
THERE WEY ADVANTAGES

TO BEINGBERS
THEREEY FIL

WE DID GET A LOT OF ATTEION

ING DRIV TO SC,

I.

Billy anley:
I NOTICED THAT A LOT
OFUSUS FCHERD THE KIDS

STARTED PAYING A LOT OF
ATTENTION TO ME

BECAUSE THEY SD,
"THIS IS ELVIS' BROTHER."

THEY STARTED ASKING
FOR TOGRAPHS.

Rev. Rick Stley:
EVERYBODY WOULD USYOU
TO GET TO ELVIS,

AND NOBODY USING ME,
HC

I'VE BEEN SELLING ELVIS'
AUTOGRAPH FOR FIVE BUCKS PIECE

A SPECIAL PLACE IN H HEA

YET HE STILL HADX

FOR THE GIRL HE MET IN GERMANY,

PRISCILLLIEU.

HC

AS SOON AS SHEURNED 16,

ELVIS ASKED HER TO MOVE
TO HIS HOMETOWN MEMPHIS.

SINCE D WOULD LIVEP P
SHE

HE PS

IN A SEPARATH

WITH HIS FATHER AND MOTHER.

VIS WAS REAL GENTLEMAN,

AND HE WENT TO HER FATHER

AND SAID,
"I'LL TAKE CARE OF HER.

I LOVE HER DEEPLY,

AND WHEN SHE'S OLD ENOUGH,
THEN WE'LL BECOME A COUPLE."

New speaker:
WE WERE HAVING ALL THE PARTIES
THE HOUSE.

THERE WAGIRLS EVERHERE.

HEE NIGHT,L,

TTLE GL

IN GERNY,

D SHE'S MI HE,

ARE GOINTO STOP.LTHE PARTS

ABOUT EACH O"

AND THE PARTIES DID STOP.

SHE WATHE RST WOMAN,

THAT ELVISOOKED AT
THE REST OF THE GROUP, AND...

LYLYSENTD
IT'S GOI TO BE DIFFERENT NOW.

PRCILLA QUICKLY BECAMEKNEW AD
PART OF EVERYDAY FAMILY LIFE

AT

HEE

I WAAT GRACELAND
JUST ABOUT EVERYDAY,

WHEN ELVIS AINHE SUN.
WHEN ELVIS WAS HOME, P PRE

THEY WOULDL,
THEY WERE GOING POOL.

AMAMIL
IT WAS VERY FAMILY,

ANBEING AROU ELVIS
WAS COOL.

WHEN ,

ELVIS WAS AT T CENTER
OF THE ACTION.

Rev. Rick Stanle
ELVIS WAS A BIG KID.

WHEN WE'D PLAY FOOTBALL,

"RICK, GO OUT FOR A PA"

AND WHEN YOUE GOING OUT
FOR A PASS, YOU' LOOKINGACK,

.

HE.

SLAM INTTHE TR,

AND HET OUGHT
THAT WAS HYSRICAL.

I

ELVIS T METARTED IN CING
USUS

EN WAS SIX OR SEVEN,

CING GS,

ADHESE

OUND
K.HEP

CEL

WHEN I TURD ,

I GOT A CHANCE TO GOO THE SET
OF THE MOVIE SPEEDWAY

CY SINATRA

HE ALWAYS TO ME,
FELLHAHAHCHC

"ONE DAYBILLY, Y'RE GOG

T

TIMES
RESY FAMILY.

VIS HARETUED FROM GERMANY
WITH THREE NEW BROTHERS,

AND THGIRL OF HIS DREAMS.

FONOW

COMING UP...K P PRE

VIS RETURNS TO HOLLYWO.

ELVIS MAKIA MILLIODOLLS .

E HAIN?

IT'S NOT TRUE!

( crowd laughing )

WHILE ELVIS EASILY FACED
HIS COMPETITION

IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY,

HIS FILM CAREER
DID NOT FARE SO WELL.

AFTER ELVIS RETURNED
FROM GERMANY,

THE SCRIPTS, SONGS, AND
PRODUCTION VALUES OF HIS MOVIES

STEADILY DECLINED IN QUALITY.

Movie narrator:
Yes, America's
most talked-about,

written-about, ex-G.I.

is here to show the world
there's been some changes made

by that rugged tour of duty
with the battling tankers.

See him swing out
with his buddies

to take st Germany by storm.

It's Elvis Presley,
with his co-star, Juliet Prouse,

the can-can girl who proves that
she certainly can.

Juliet:
Elvis is back.

■

RIGHT PRIOR TO HIM GOING
TO GERMANY,

COLONEL PARKER MADE
A BRILLIANT MOVE.

HE MADE LONG-TERM NTRACTS
WITH A COUPLE OF THE STUDIOS,

PARAMOUNT AND MGM.

S:S: T

WHILE THESE CONTIND

FI

ELVIS WOULD CONTINUE
TO WORK

FOFO

WHEN HE RETURNED FROM THE ARMY,

THAT ELVIS WOULD BE GIVEN.

Movie narrator:
Elvis Presley as Pacer,
who became a legend in the West.

♪ ho-si-do ♪

♪ stay single and
save a dollar ♪

Movie narratgeance,
( gunshot )

of the land being challenged by
White man and Red.AHA

THE SI
ALL THESE COOKIE-CUTTER DEALS

WITH MGM AND PARAMOUNT
AND HAL WALLIS,

AND THE IN FORMAT.

I THINK ELVIS THOUGHT
WHEN HE CAME BACK,

THAT HE WOULD CONTINUEOING
OD QUALITY FILMS SUCH AS:

CE.

THHAHAHETRACTS
WENT DN LI,

THE SHORTER
THE LESS THE CO-STARS,

THE WEAKER THE SCRIPTS,

UNTIL ELVIS WAS JUST
BORED SILLY.

Hours and hours of Heaven that
just slide on down to Hell,X X A

or wheit is!

how

You're wiljust like me.

I THINK IN THE LE FIFTIES,
EARLY SIXTIES,

S:S:

ELVIS REALLY ENJOYED
MAKING THE MOVIES.

IT WAS EXCITING,

HE GOT TO MEET
OTHER ENTERTAINERS.

A LOT OF THE BIG STARS
THATERE IN AWE OF HIM

WOULCLARK GABLE WASLVIS
ON THE SOME OF THE SETS,

AND HE'D COME SEE

AND VARIOUS ARTISTS
OF THAT NATURE,

FLRING
ABOUT ETING SOME OF THEM.UST D

X MI

USUS FAM

Jerry Schilling:
I THINK HE ENJOYED
BEING ON THE SETS,

AND THERE WERE SOME MOVIES
HENJOYED

BECAUSE HE LIKED THE CO-STARS,

AND, OF COURSE, THERE WAS
KING CREOLE,

ICH HE LIKED
ALL THE WAY AROUND.

BUT, I THINK A LOT OF THE
JOKING AROUND WE DID

THAT WAS SPURRED BY ELVIS, MI

AND THE PRACTICAL JOKES
AND STUFF,

WAS BECAUSE G

TO GET HIS MIND WORKING
IN THOSE SCRIPTS.

LATER ON, WHEN HE STARTED DOING
RES

WHERE HE WOULD BEAT UR A GUY
THEN SING TO HIM,

■qI THINK ELVIS GOT BORED WITH .

♪ With one burning glance ♪EH

♪ From her eye? ♪

AT ONE POINT AROUND 1966
HE SAID,

"THEAST RIPT,
I WAS A RACE CAR DRIVER,

NNNNRI

I'M NOT DOG
ANYME OF THIS."M

NOW

OR HE COULDN'T
HAVE WORKED AT ALL.FAFA

Narrator:
MANY CLOSEST TO ELVIS SAID THAT

ELVIS PLACED TOO MUCH TRUST
IN COLONEL PARKER,

AND THAT COLONEL PARKER,
IN TURN,

PLACED MONEY ABO QUALITY.

I THINK ITMOUSLY IMPORE

WHER FROM,

HCHC

HIS PARENTS WERE COTTON PICKERS
IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.FO

HE CAME FROM
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING,

AND THAT FEELING STAYED WITH HIM
HIS WHOLE LIFE

AND MOTIVATED HIM TO MAKE
A LOT OF CHOICES

FROM AN ARTISTIC POINT OF VIEW.
MIMILY

THEY WERE UNFORTE MONEY,

AND THDavid Stley:
PEOPLE TALK ABOUELVIS
AND HIS MOVIE CAREER,

AND THEY WONDER WHY
HE KEPT MAKING FILMS

INSTEAD OF DOING CONCERTS,

THROUGHOUT THE SIXTIES.

LAT COL

",

COLONEL NEVER DID THAT."

UNDERSTAND THIS:

ELVIS WAS MAKING
A MILLION DOLLARS A PICTURE...

IN THE SIXTIES,

AND HE WAS DOING
THREE A YEAR.

ALTHOUGH THEY WERE
THE SAME SCENARIO EACH TIME,

THEY WERE SILLY,
BUT HIGHLYUCCESSFUL.S:

I BELIEVE

Pa:

HEY HG

IN ALL THESE STUPID MOVIES,

CLAMBAKE?
COME ON.

vie narrator:
It's Elvis, cooking up a storm
of entertainment in...

CC

Clamke.

FO

Elvis throws the wildest
beach party

since they invented
the bikini and the beat.

IT'S SAD, HE WAS FRUSTRATED,
HE KNEW ABOUT IT,

AND STILL HE WAS ON
IS TREADMILL...

A TREADMILL THAT,
I THINK, CHARACTERIZED

THE LAST TEN OR FTEEN
YEARS OF HIS CAREER...

A TREADMILL OF MEDNEY.

New speaker:
I THINK HE REACHED A POINT, FA
IN ALL THE MOVIES,

OF WANTING TO MOVE ON,

HAHA
BUT BETTER PROJECTS
DID NOT COME ALONG.

Narrator:

AFTER 13 YEARS, D 31 FILMS,

ELVIS ESLEY'S MOVIE CAREER
S ON THE WANE.

FO

FANN

OF HIS ACTING CAREER,

ELVIS PRESLEY CONTINUED
TO BE

IEIEHE

A POPULAR AND SUCCESSFUL
PERFORMER.

RETURNS...EN "FAMOUS"

NG TAKES AN

PRISCILLA AND ELVIS
DATE FOR A LONG TIME,

,

IT'S A DIFFICULT LIFE.

LATER, THE QUEEN
INHERITS THE THRONE...

AND BUILDS AN EMPIRE.

IEIE

MOSTR

TAKES HIS ONE AND ONLY
TRIP TO THE ALTAR.

ELVIS PRESLEY HAD CERTAINLY COME
A LONG WAY

BY THE TIME HE AND PRISCILLA
WERE MARRIED,

BUT STARTING A FAMILY OF HIS OWN

SEEMED TO BE MORE
THAN ELVIS COULD HANDLE.

TRUE, HIS WIFE PRISCILLA'S
STRENGTH AND DETERMINATION

MADE THE BEST
OF A VERY DEMANDING SITUATION.

BUT HOW LONG COULD SHE
KEEP UP THE PACE

OF HIS DIFFICULT LIFESTYLE?

ESPECIALLY WITH A
YOUNG DAUGHTER TO CONSIDER.

AND HOW LONG COULD
ELVIS' KINGDOM LAST

DURING A DECADE OF DRUGS.
DECADENCE AND DISCO?

US FAMILIES" CONTINUES,

MOMO

ELVIS EMBARKS
IN A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY.

Patti Parry:
HE ALWAYS WORE A JEWISH STAR
AND A CROSS

BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO GET
SHUT OUT OF HEAVEN

ON A TECHNICALITY.

YOU'LL ALSO LEARN ABOUT
HIS DOWNWARD SPIRAL...

AND A TRAGIC OUTCOME.

IF ELVIS WOULD HAVE
TAKEN CARE OF HIMSELF

LIKE HE TOOK CARE OF
HIS FANS...

HE'D BE HERE TAY.

SO THAT THE PRINCESS
COULD CLAIM HER INHERITANCE.AA

IT'S REMARKABLE TO REALIZE
HOW CLOSE

THE PRESLEY FAMILY WAS
TO SELLING GRACELAND.

EVEN 20 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH,

ELVIS LIVES ON.

Jerry Schilling:
IF YOU JUST TAKE HIM
FOR HIS BODY OF WORK,

HE'S THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSON
OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

THE VIETNAM WAR WAS RAGING.

T THE

US FAMTS, FREE LOVE,
AND WILD FASHIONS

WERE SWEEPING THE COUNTRY.

FOR ELVIS PRESLEY,
ALMOST ANYTHING WAS POSSIBLE...

EVEN MARRIAGE.

Radio announcer:
In Las Vegas, it's wedding bells

for the man who pr■ctically
invented rock-n-roll...

Elvis Presley and
Priscilla Beaulieu,

a friend of eight years
standing.

The 32-year-old Mississippi boy

who started a new style
of singing, gives his bride

a 20-karat diamond ring.

Now more a movie than
a recording star,

Elvis met Priscilla when he
was a G.I. in Germany,

and she, the daughter
of a lieutenant colonel,

was a high school girl.

It's the first marriage
for both.

David Stanley:
IT WAS A PUBLIC RELATIONS MOVE.

I MEAN, IN 1967,

AN ELVIS PRESLEY WHO DIDN'T
CUSS, SMOKE, DRINK OR LUST,

HAD AN UNTARNISHED IMAGE,

AND IT WASN'T REAL COOL TO HAVE
A "LIVE-IN" GIRLFRIEND...

FOR ANYBODY, IN '67,
ESPECIALLY ELVIS.

SO COLONEL PARKER SAID TO ELVIS,

"YOU EITHER NEED TO MARRY HER,

Patti Parry:
PRISCILLA AND ELVIS
DID DATE FOR A LONG TIME.

BUT, BEING IN SHOW BUSINESS,
IT'S A DIFFICULTIFE.

I THINK THAT THEY BOTH
WANTED TO MAKE SURE

THAT THIS WAS
WHAT THEY BOTH WANTED.

THE FAMILY WAS VERY HAPPY
FOR ELVIS

BECAUSE WE WANTED
HIM TO BE HAPPY,

AND HE LOVED PRISCILLA,
SHE LOVED HIM,

AND WE JUST WANTED
HIM TO BE HAPPY,

LIKE ANYBODY ELSE.

New speaker:
I THK PRISCILLA WAS, SIMPLY,
VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH ELVIS.

AND THE ELVIS PRESLEY THAT SHE
WAS IN LOVE WITH WAS THE PERSON,

NOT THE PERFORMER.

PRISCILLA HAS ALWAYS SAID
THAT THE ICON ON THE STAGE

WAS A PERSON
SHE REAL DIDN'T KNOW.

VERY INTROSPECVE MAN

ET,

THAT ELVIS PRESLEY WAS,

AND SHE LOVED HIM VERY MUCH.

Narrator:
FOR ELVIS AND PRISCILLA,

THE YEARS OF WAITING
WERE FINALLY OVER.

AND NINE MONTHS LATER,

THE COUPLE EAGERLY AWAITED THE
ARRIVAL OF THEIR FIRST CHILD.

ELVIS CALLED ME
ON THE IERCOM,

AND HE SAID,
"JERRY, DON'T GET EXCITED..."

HE WAS SO CALM...
HE SAID,

"DON'T GET EXCITED,
ST MEET US IN THE KITCHEN,

BUT IT'S TIMFOR PRISCILLA
TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL."

I GO IN THE KITCHEN,

ELVIS IS IN THERE--
HE'S STILL REAL CALM--

AND I HEAR SOMEBODY
OUTSIDE SAYING,

"ELVIS, I'VE GOTTA GO!"

AND PRISCILLA'S AT THE CAR.

AND OF COURSE,
HISTORY HAS LISA MARIE NOW.

ON FEBRUARY 1, 1968,

THEIR ONLY CHILD, LISA MIE,
WAS BORN.

Donna Presley Early:
WHEN ELVIS AND PSCILLA
D LISA MARIE,

HE WAS ABSOLUTELY...

THAT WAS HIS GREATEST
CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT.

WHEN SHE FIRST CAME HOME,

HE CARRIED HER AROUND
ON A PILLOW.

Rev. Rick Stanle
HE LOVED LISA.

SO MANY TIMES,
HE WOULD HAVE ME

GO AND GET HER OUT OF HER CRIB
WHEN SHE WAS ASLEEP,

AND I WOULD BRING HER DOWN,

AND SET HER ON A COUCH
AND PUT A BLANKET ON HER.

HE JUST WANTED
TO WATCH HER SLEEP.

HE LOVED THAT CHILD.

HE REALLY, REA
CARED ABOUT HER.

FOX

HE SAW HIMSELF...

IN HER.

THAT FREAKED HIM OUT SOMETIMES.

Narrator:
ALTHOUGH ELVIS WAS
LOVING, KIND AND GENOUS,

HE WAS NOT AN IDEAL FATHER.

David Stley:
DIFFERENT PEOPLE RAISED LISA,

BECAUSE ELVIS DIDN'T
TAKE HER TO MOVIES,

TO THE PARK DANCE LESSONS.

HCIDN'T SPEND THAT KIND
OF QUALITY TIME WITH HER.

I DON'T THINK ELVIS' LIFESTYLE
WAS CONDUCIVE TO CHILDREN.

HE WAS NOCTURNAL.

HE'D SEE LISA MARIE
AT THREE IN THE MORNING.

BEFORE HE'D GO TO SLEEP
TEN IN THE MORNING,

HE'D SEE HER.

I THINK ELVIS
MADE A REAL EFFORT...

THE BEST HE KNEW HOW...

TO BE A GOOD FATHER.

Donna Presley Early:
HE SPOILED HER,

THEP

QUITE ROTTEN,
AS A MATTER OF FACT,

MOUS F

AND PRISCILLA WOULD HAVE TO
PUT THE BRAKES ON A LITTLE.

HE WOULD SHOWER HER
WITH VERY EXPENSIVE GIFTS.

WHEN LISA WAS FIVE-YEARS-OLD,

HE BOUGHT HER
A FULL-LENGTH MINK COAT.

I ASKED HIM,

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING,
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD?"

New speaker:
ELVIS WAOVERLY GENEROUS.

HE GAVE GIFTS FOR SOME KIND OF
APPROVAL THAT HE NEEDED,

BECAUSE IF HE HAD
AN ARGUMENWITH YOU,

HE'S COME UP TO YOU AND SAY,

"HERE, MYRNA, HERE'S A DIAMOND."

THAT WAS HIS WAY OF
SAYING "I'M SORRY,"

AND IF YOU DIDN'T
UNDERSTAND THAT,

THEN YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HIM.

AND FAMILY MEMBERS.
ELVIS' LEGENDARY GENEROSITY
EXTENDED BEYHANNEL

David Stanley:
ELVIS WAS BUYING A NEW CADILLAC,

AND AS HE WAS LOOKING
AT THE CARS,

HE LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW,

AND THERE

LOOKING THROUGH THE .

IN HER EYES, YOU COULD SEE
THAT SHE WAS DREAMING,

"GOSH, I WISH I HAD
SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

I COULD NEVER BE
SUCCESSFUL ENOUGH

TO GET SOMETHING LIKE THIS."

ELVIS SAW HER,
AND WE ALL LOOKED AT HER,

AND HE SAID,

"GO GET HER."

SO I WENT OUT AND GOT HER,

AND I BROUGHT HER INSIDE,

AND ELVIS GAVE HER THE KEYS
TO A BRAND NEW CADILLAC.

WELL, HER HUSBAND
WAS THERE AS WELL,

AND HE GAVE HIM
A CADILLAC.

LL, THE SON WAS THERE, TOO.

HE GAVE HIM
A CADILLAC,

PUT HIM IN COLLEGE,

BOUGHT THE GUY A HOME,

AND GAVE HIM A J.

HC

BUT ALTHOUGH ELVIS WAS GENEROUS
WITH HIS MONEY,

PRISCILLA SOON FOUND

THAT HIS AFFECTION WAS
MORE DIFFICULT TO HOLD ON TO.

Rev. Rick Stanley:
THE FIRST TRIP
THAT I MADE WITH HIM,

WE WENT TO WASHINGTON D.C.,

AND WHEN I WALKED IN THE SUITE,

A GIRL WAS THERE.

I JUST KIND OF LOOKED AT HIM,
AND, UH...

HE JUST KIND OF SAID,

"OH, OH, OH, YEAH..."

AND HE PULLS ME OVER TO THSIDE
AND SAYS,

"I GOTTA TELL YOU
A FEW THINGS."

IT WAS A SHOCK.

IT DIDN'T DIMINISH
MY LOVE FOR HIM,

THE ADVERSE AFFECTF IT WAS, DI.

BEUSE OF SEEING THAT
SO MUCH,

I WAS CONVINCED THAT
THERE NEVEWAS SUCH THING

AS A HAPPY MARRIAGE.

PRISCILLA ALSO HAD TO COMPETE
WITH ELVIS' ENTOURAGE,

AN ALMOST EXCLUSIVE BOYS' CLUB
KNOWN AS...

"THE MEMPHIS MAFIA."

PATTI PARRY WAS
THE ONLY FEMALE MEMBER.

Patti Parry:
CAN YOIMAGINE
LOOKING AFTER EIGHT ME

D BE MOTHER,
SISTER, CONFIDANTE...

LISTEN TO THE GRUESOMEALES
OF THEIR SOCIAL AND SEX LIVES.

THEY WOULDN'T LET
GUYS NEAR ME,

WHICH WAS
NOT SO GREAT.

THEY WERE
MY B BROTHS.

THE CONSTANT PARTIES,
TRIPS AND DISTRACTIONS

EVENTUALLY CREATED A STRAIN
ON ELVIS' FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

AND MOST OF ALL...

ON HIS MARRIAGE.

AS FAR AS ELVIS WAS CONCERNED,

PRISCILLA WAS MARRIED,
HE WASN'T.

WE WOULD TOUR
WITHOUT OUR WIVES.

AND HE WOULD FLY THE WIVES OUT
ON ONE OF OUR ANES.

AFTER A WHILE,
THAT GETS OLD,

AND IT'S REALLY
NOT FAIR TO THEM.

SO AS A CONSEQUENCE,
THINGS HAPPENED.

THEY SORT OF BREAK APART
AT THE EDGES.

Donna Presley Early:
PRISCILLA AND I
OFTEN TALKED ABOUT THE LIFE

THAT SHE HAD WITH ELVIS.

OF COURSE THERE WAS ALWAYS WOMEN
THWING THEMSELVES AT ELVIS,

AND I THINK THAT
DE HER FEEL INSECURE,

BUT SHE HANDLED IT VERY WELL.

THE CAREFREE PARTY ATMOSPHERE
OF LIFE ON THE ROAD

SEEMED TO BE REFLECTED
IN SOME OF ELVIS' MOVIE ROLES.

Movie narrator:
The salty story of
a two-fisted guy

who wanted to own
his own boat

in the world...

more tg

while every gi on the shore

was trying to own him.

Woman:
A Don Juan and Casanova
rolled into one.

Put him in a boat,
it's girls.

Girls, girls, girls.

I couldn't stand
being fooled again.

It's me
and it is real,

isn't it?

( thunder )

Movie narrator:
Girls, girls, girls.

It's a storm of entertainment
that brings down the house.

the ElviPresley musicalsSl

with a whole album full
of bra new songs.

Narrator:
ELVID PRISCILLA'S MARRIAGE
ALSO SUFFERED

FROM THE PRESSURES OF HIS FAME.

IN OCTOBER OF 1973,

THEIR MARRIAGE CAME TO AN END.

THE DIVORCE, AND PRISCILLA'S
MANY REASONS FOR LEAVING

WERE SOMETHING ELVIS
NEITHER EXPECT

NOR WAS WELL-PREPARED
TO HANDLE.

HA NOTHING BAD TO SAY
ABOUT PRISCILLA.

I DON'T THINK THAT ANYTHING
THAT HAPPENED WAS HER FAULT.

SHE HAD TO PUT UP
WITH A LOT OF NONSENSE.

CAN YOU IMAGINE
BEING WITH A MAN,

AND HAVING EIGHT GUYS
LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSE

WITH THEIR WIVES, THEIR
CHILDREN, AND THEIR FRIENDS?

THEY RARELY HAD TIME
FOR THEMSELVES.

IT WAS A VERY HARD EXISTENCE
FOR ANYBODY,

AND I THINK SHE HANDLED IT
VERY WELL.

IT WAS JUST
THE WRONG TIME FOR HIM.

I DON'T THINK
THE DIVORCE DID A NUMBER.

IT REALLY, REALLY, UM...

IT WOUED HIS SPIRIT.

FROM THEN ON,
HE SEEMED TO LIMP THROUGH LIFE.

Narrator:
WHEN "FAMOUS FAMILIES" RETURNS,

AMERICA MOURNS THE LOSS

OF EIS AARON PRESLEY.

I WALKED IN,
AND LISA SAID,

"DADDY'S DEAD."

SHE WAS NINE-YEARS-OLD.

MY WORLD CAVED IN.

WHAT DO YOU DO
WHEN YOUR DREAM DIES

O?

AS FOR ALL OF AMERICA,R TH,

THE MID-SEVENTIES WERE A TIME
OF SOCIAL UNREST,

CHANGE, AND UPHEAVAL.

■

THE ROCK-N-ROLL REBEL,OR E,

IT WAS THE YEAR
HE TURNED FORTY.

Jerry Schilling:
ELVIS' SUCCESS, SOMETIMES,
WAS HIS DOWNFALL AS WELL,

BECAUSE INTRODUCING THE MUSIC TO
HIS MOVI WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL,

AND THERE WERE SE
VERY GOOD FILMS LIKE THAT.

THEN WHEN IT BECAME DUPLICATION
OF ONE AFTER THE OTHER,

IF YOU HAVE A GREAT ARTIST,

HE'S GONNA GET BORED.

AND ELVIS REALLY WANTED TO DO
BETTER THINGS

LATEIN HIS CAREER.

Narrator:
ELVIS WAS STRUGGLING
FOR DIRECTION HIS CAREER,

AS WELL AS HIS PRIVA LIFE,

BUT IN 1975, A GLIMMER OF HOPE
APPEARED ON ELVIS' HORIZON.

Jerry Schilling:
I WAS THERE THE NIGHT THAT
BARBARA STREISAND

AND JOHN PETERS CAME TO ASK HIM
TO DO A STAR IS BORN.

BARBARA STREISAND
WANTED TO COME BACK STAGE,

PEOPLE BACK THERE,

D THEW

AND SO WE WENT INTO
A WALK-IN CLOSET,

AND THAT'S WHERE SHE OFFERED HIM
A STAR IS BORN,

AND TOLD HIM
ABOUT THE CHARACTER,

AND HE KNEW EXACTLY
WHAT IT MEANT,

AND HE ACCEPTED
RIGHT ON THE SPO

HE WAS SO EXCITED...

AND THE NEXT NIGHT
WHEN HE CAME DOWNSTAIRS,

HE WAS IN A ROTTEN MOOD,

BECAUSE THE COLONEL HAD TOLD HIM
HE COULDN'T DO THE MOVIE.

NOT TO TAKE THE PART,

COLS

BECAUSE ELVIS WOULD HAVE
TO TAKE SECOND BILLING

TO BARBARA STREISAND.

Myrna Smith:
ELS REALLY WANTED
TO DO THAT FILM,

AND WHEN I SAW THE FILM,

I COULD SEE ELVIS
PLAYING THAT PART.

BUT HE NEVER GOT A CHANCE
TO PROVE THAT HE COULD ACT.

THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN NEAT TO A ,

BUT IT JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN.

Narrator:
IN THE END, THE STARRING ROLE
OFFERED TO ELVIS

WAS PLAYED BY
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON,

WHO WENT ON TO WIN A GOLDEN
GLOBE FOR HIS PERFORMANCE.

WITH HIS FILM CAREER
AND HIS MARRIAGE BOTH OVER,

IT BECAME INCREASINGLY OBVIOUS,
TO EVEN CASUAL OBSERVERS,

THAT ELVIS PRESLEY
WAS A TRBLED MAN.

TO COMBAT HIS GROWING BOREDOM
AND DEPRESSION,

FA FRELIS

AND BELIEF SYSTEMS.

Patti Parry:
HE LOVED RELIGION.

HE ALWAYS WORE A JEWISH STAR
AND A CROSS,

BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT
TO GET SHUT OUT OF HEAVEN

ON A TECHNICALITY.

ELVIS RECOGNIZED THAT HIS VOICE,
AND HIS ABILITY TO SING,

WAS A GIFT FROM GOD.

ELVIS HAD A RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE LORD.

HE CERTAINLY HAD
A OF QUESTIO.

I THINK WE ALL DO.

HE WAS A CHRISTIAN,

AND HE LOVED TO GIVE
ORY TO GOD.

Larry Geller:
ELVIS WAS Y

A CHRISTIAN.

HE WAS RAISED
IN THAT FAITH.

YET HIS MIND WAS
SO INQUISITIVE.

HCHE WANTED TO LEARN ABOUT
OTHER CULTURES, FAMI

HOW OTHER PEOPLE THOUGHT,

HOW OTHER PEOPLE
APPROACHED GOD.

I BROUGHT HIM BOOKS ON BUDDHISM,
ON HINDUISM, ON JUDAISM.

ONE DAY I WOKE UP,
AND I HEARD THE RADIO UPSTAIRS,

AND I WENT UP THE STEPS,
IN TOWARD THE PIANO ROOM,

AND I REALIZED
IT WASN'T THE RADIO.

F

ELVIS WASITTING AT THE PIANO,
BY HIMSELF,

AND HE WAS SINGING
"YOU'LL NEVER WALKLONE,"

AND IT WAS SUCH A GREAT
PERFORMANCE AT...

IT SCARED ME,
AND I STOPPED

BECAUSE I WAS INTERRUPTING
SOMETHING.

HE JUST LOOKED UP AND SMILED
AND KEPT PLAYING.

ELVIS WAS THE KIND OF GUY
WHEN YOU'D CALL HIM "KING,"

HE WOULD POINT UP AND SAY
THERE WAS ONLY ONE KING.

THAT'S SAD, BECAUSE
TOWARDS THE END OF HIS LIFE,

HE WAS REALLY
REACHING OUT FOR WISDOM.

I WOULD SEE ELVIS PRAYING,
ON HIS KNEES, CRYING OUT,

"GOD, HELP ME,
GOD, GIVE ME WISDOM."

Narrator:
DURING THIS SAME
DIFFICULT TIME,

RICK AND DAVID STANLEY
WERE WORKING FOR ELVIS.

RICK AS A AND DAVID AS A BO.

THEY WITNESSED, FIRST-HAND,
DISTURBING CHANGES

IN ELVIS' PERSONAL HABITS
ELVIS STARTED OUT
WITH HIS PRESCRIBED MEDICATION,

A COUPLE OF SLEEPING PILLS
TO GO TO SLEEP,

A COUPLE OF THINGS TWAKE UP...

WELL, TWO WENT TO FOUR,
FOUR TO SIX, SIX TO EIGHT,

AND NOW IN '75, '76, 77,

ELVIS WAS RIDDLED
THGS.

Rev. Rick Stanley:
I REALLY BELIEVE, WHEN HE WAS
MARRIED TO PRISCILLA,

THERE WAS A REALM
OF ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE WAS SOME
AUTHORITY THERE.

AFTER THE DIVORCE, HE STARTED
TO TAKE CONTROL OF HIS LIFE.

HE GOT TO THE POINT
WHERE HE WAS CONVINCED

THAT HE COULD NOT BE HAPPY
WITHOUT IT.

Narrator:
IN SPITE OF HIS OWN ADDICTION
TO PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS,

ELVIS STRONGLY DISAPPROVED
OF T HIPPIE AND DRUG CULTURE,

AND WAS A STRONG SUPPORTER

OF PRESIDENT NIXON'S
ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN.

ELVIS WAS FURIOUS WHEN
HE'D CATCH ME SMOKING MARIJUANA,

ALTHOUGH HERE'S A GUY WHO'S
TAKING SERIOUS MEDICATIONS.

HE WAS ADDICTED,

AND HE KEPT JUSTIFYING IT BY THE
FACT THAT THEY WERE PRESCRIBED.

HE WAS LIVING IN DENIAL,
LIKE MOST ADDICTS DO.

WHEN YOU'D TRY TO DISCUSS THESE
THINGS WITH ELVIS, HE'D SAY,

THAT UNLESS
HE MADE RADICAL CHANGES,
ELVIS' FRIEN

"DAVID, MY NAME'S
ON T

HE COULD LOSE EVERYTHING.

HOWEVER, MOST OF HIS
INNER CIRCLE WOULD NOT DARE

TO CONFRONT HIM.

NOBODY GRABBED THOSE
TWO-INCH WHITE COLLARS AND SAID,

"BUDDY, THIS IS GOING
TO KILL YOU."

BUT A FEW CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS
DID TRY TO HELP.

MY MOTHER DID GO TO ELVIS
AND SHE SAID,

"ELVIS, YOU NEED TO STAY HOME,

RELAX, CHECK INTO A HOSPITAL,

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF,"

BECAUSE HE WAS NOT WELL.

Rev. Rick Stanley:
PRISCILLA WAS REALLY CONCERNED.

SHE DIDN'T WANT
HIM DOING THAT...

I SAW HER
ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION...

EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT HIM.

Lamar Fike:
BACK THEN, THERE WAS NO
BETTY FORD CLINIC.

WHEN A PERSON DOESN'T WANT TO
STOP DOING ANYTHING,

THEY'RE NOT GOING TOO IT
UNLESS THEY STOP FIRST.

EITHER LOSING WEIGHT,
QUIT DRINKING, WHATEVER.

YOU HAVE TO DO IT.

HE DIDN'T WANT TO.

New speaker:
HIS BLIND SPOT WAS HIS BODY.

IF ELVIS WOULD HAVE TAKEN CARE
OF HIMSELF, AND HIS BODY,

LIKE HE TOOK CARE
OF HIS FANS

AND THE PEOPLE
WHO WORKED FOR HIM,

HE'D BE HERE TODAY.

Narrator:
LATE ONE EVENING,

THE NIGHT BEFORE
ELVIS WAS SCHEDULED

TO LEAVE ON YET ANOTHER TOUR,

HIS STEP-BROTHER, RICK,
HAD A PREMONITIO

SOMETHING WAS WRONG,

AND FELT COMPELLED
TO RETURN TO GRACELAND.

Rev. Rick Stanley:
WHEN I WENT THROUGH THOSE GATES,

AND WENT TO THE TOP
OF THAT HILL,

I SAW THE AMBULANCE...

MY WORLD CAV IN.

BECAUSE ELVIS PRESLEY,
BIG BROTHER,OSS, BEST FRIEND,

THE MAN THAT I LOOKED TO,
ADMIRED...

ELELFAMOUP

AND I WALKED IN
AND LISA SAID,

"DADDY'S DEAD."

SHE WAS NINE-YEARS-OLD.

I WENT IN
ANFOFOX W MY DAD,

WONDERFUGUY,
VERNON PRESLEY.

HE WAS LYING ON THE FLOO
BESIDE HIS MOTHER,

AND HIS MOTHER
WAS JUST SITTING THERE

TRYING, PATTING HIM,
TRYING TO CONSOLE HIM,

AND THAT SOUND...

AT WAS COMING OUT
OF MY FATHER...

IT W...TRAVAIL.

"RICKY, HE'S DEAD, HE'S DEAD."

AND IT JUST...CRACKING

IT WAS THE MOST
HAUNTING THING.

ON AUGUST 16, 1977,

ELVIS AARON PRESLEY,

THE MAN WHO HAD GIVEN
SO MUCH TO SO MANY,

DIED AT GRACELAND,

OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA.

HE WAS ONLY 42-YEARS-OLD.

Myrna Smith:
THE DAY THAT ELVIS DIED,
WE LEFT BURBANK AIRPORT,

AND I DON'T THINK WE WERE
IN THE AIR EVEN AN HOUR,

MAYBE AN HOUR OR SO, AND...

THE PILOT SAID THAT WE HAD A
CALL TO TURN THE PLANE AROUND.

WE STOFAFAMON A TOWN CALLED
PUEBLO, COLORADO

TO REFUEL
AND RETURN TO VEGAS,

AND WE WERE STANDING
OUTSIDE THE PLANE,

WALKING AROUND AND WAITING,

AND A FRIEND OF MINE
PUT HIS ARMS AROUND ME AND SAID,

"ACT LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED,
BUT ELVIS PASSED AWAY."

...

I, FOR ONE, DID...

I BECAME HYSTERICAL,

BECAUSE IT WAS
JUST UNBELIEVABLE.

WE WERE SUPPOSED TO SEE HIM
THAT NEXT DAY,

AND THEN...

HE'S GONE.

♪( singing "Amazing Grace" )♪

Narrator:FOFOS:S: THE
WORLDWIDE, FANS GREETED THE
NEWS WITH STUNNED DISBELIEF.

ELVIS PRESLEY'S FUNERAL
WAS MODEST AND PRIVATE,

S:S:
HIS CLOSEST FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
RE

ATTEND ONLY BY

WHILE FLAGS FLEW AT HALF-MAST
THROUGHOUT TENNESSEE,

THOUSANDS OF FANS
PAID THEIR LAST RESPECTS.

Rev. Rick Stanley:
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN
YOUR DREAM DIES BEFORE YOU DO?

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN...

WHAT YOU'VE LOOKED TO,
AND LOVED,ND...

OYAL TO...

IT GOES DOWN BEFORE YOU?
ILILIE

I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

Narrator:
THE KING WAS DEAD.

THE QUESTI NOW WAS...

WHO WOULD CLAIM THE THRONE?

AND CARRY ON HIS LEGACY?

IT'S REMARKABLE, HISTORICALLY, L

TO REALIZE HOW CLOSE THE PRESLEY
FAMILY WAS TO SELLING GRACELAND.

LIFE, AFTER ELVIS,

WHEN "FAMOUS FAMILIES" RETURNS.

Narrator:
WHEN ELVIS DIED IN 1977,

HE LEFT HIS ESTATE
TO HIS FATHER, VERNON.

HIS EX-WIFE PRISCILLA
WAS 34-YEARS-OLD,

WITH NO JOB EXPERIENCE
TO SPEAK OF,

AND A NINE-YEAR-D
DAUGHTER TO SUPPORT.

Jack Soden:
AS THEY SAY,
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU,

AND ELVIS MUST HAVE

LY BE,

BECAUSE HE THOROUGHLY
ENJOYED HIS MONEY.

HE SPE MONEY
AS QUICKLY AS HE MADE IT.

HE WASERY GENEROUS
TO HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY,

BUT THE FACT IS,
WHEN HE DIED,

DID NOT LEAVE
A LARGE ESTATE.

MONTHS AND SEVERAL YEARSAMILG

FOLLOWING HIS DEATH,

T

BECAUSE OF TAXES,ION
DETERIOR

BECAUSE OF UPKEEP
AND MAINTENANCE OF GRACELAND.

Narrator:
TWO YEARS AFTER ELVIS DIED,

HIS FATHER VERNON PRESLEY
PASSED AWAY,

MOMOUSG PRISCILLA
AS THE EXECUTOR

OF ELVIS'
NOW-MINISHED ESTATE.

BUT MANAGING
THE PRESLEY ESTATE SS

WAS NOT PRISCILLA'S
ONLY CHALLENGE.

EVEN BEFORE ELVIS' DEATH,

SHE HAD TO ME THE TRANSITION

INTO A NEW AND INDEPENDENT
LIFESTYLE.

DURING THE TIME SHE DATED ELVIS
AND WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM,

SHE WAS ALMOST LIKE
IN A CAGE.

HER WHOLE WORLD WAS JUST ELVIS,
AND THAT WAS IT.

SO, AFTEPRISCILLA
AND ELVIS DIVORCED,

SHE WENT OUT AND STARTED DATING
A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

Narrator:
THE MAIN MEN
IN PRISCILLA'S LIFE

WERE DARK AND HANDSOME,
LIKE ELVIS.

HER FIRST ROMANCE,
AFTER ELVIS,

WAS WITH KARATE CHAMPION
MIKE STONE.

IN 1978, PRISCILLA BEGAN DATING
MIKE EDWAR,

AN ACTOR,
AND ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR

INTERNATIONAL MALE MODELS
IN THE BUSINESS.

PRISCILLA AND MIKE WERE
TOGETHER FOR SIX YEARS.

THEN, IN 1984,

A BUDDING SCREENWRITER
LYL

FROM BRAZIL.

BUT WHILE PRISCILLA WAS FINDING
SOME RESOLUTN

IN HER PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS,

RAISING LISA MARIE REMAINED
AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MATTER.

David Stanley:
PRISCILLA ALWAYS LED HER,

AND HER MOTHER
WAS VERY PROTECTIVE,

AND I ADMIRE HER FOR THAT,

BUT YOU COULD SEE THAT SHE WOULD
DO TNGS TO GET ATTENTION...

REBELLIOUS,

AMAT

KIND OF LIKE ELVIS WAS
WHEN HE WAS YOUNGE P P

SHE'S GOT HER FATHER'S TEMPER.

SHE'S GOT HER FATHER'S LOOKS.

WHEN SHE GETS REALLY MAD,

IF I WAS HER MOTHER,
I'D DU.

Rev. Rick Stanley:
LISA MARIE IS
A LOT LIKE HER DADDY.

SH

THAT I WAS MEAN."

AND LISA WAS NEVER MEAN...

LISA IS T THEITED CHILD.

Narror:
BY T EARLY 1980'S,

SA MARIE HAD BEGUN
TO EXPERIMENT WITH DRUGS,

AND WAS DOING POORLY
IN HER CLASSES.

SHE DROPPED OUT
OF THE EXCLUSIVE

APPLE HIGH SCHOOL
IN LOS ANGELES

DURING HER JUNIOR YEAR.

TO HELP HER DAUGHTER OVERCOME
VOENT WITH DRUGS,

NNNND

TO THE ORGANIZATION

IN WHICH SHE, HERSELF,
HAD FOUND SO MUCH SUPPORT:

THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY.

Isaac Hayes:
SCIENTOLOGY HEED THEM
IN A LOT OF WAYS

BECAUSE BEING THE DAUGHTER
OF ELVIS PRESLEY

HAS ITS BURDENS,

FANTOLOGY IS SO KEY
IN HELPING YOU OE

THE BARRIERS AND THE UPSETS,
AND THE CHALLENGES OF

Rev. Rick Stanley:
PRISCILLA IS
A VERY SPIRITUAL PERSON.

I'M THRILLED ABOUT THAT.

SHE'S ENTLED
TO WHAT SHE THINKS,

AND IF IT'S HELPED HER,
THAT,

MIMIE

AND FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND,AM

NG TIME

WHEN SHE WENT THROUGH
THIS PHASE OF ADDICTION.

rrator:
DESPITE OTHER PEOPLE'S
SKEPTICISM ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY,

PRISCILLA ENROLLED LISA MARIE

THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY'S
PURIFICATION PROGRAM.

THIS WAS A MAJOR TURNING POINT
FOR LISA MARIE,

IN TERMS OF CLEANING UP,

ANHEHE PING A HEALTHY,
MORE FOCUSEDIFESTYLE.

IN GRATITUDE, LISA MARIE,
ALONWITH ISAAC HAYES,

OPENED THE CHURCH OF
SCIENTOLOGY MISSION OF MEMPHIS,

A LITERACY CENTER
IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

SCIENTOLOGY AND THE LITERACY
PROGRAM BOTH ENTERED AND SAVED

MY LIFE AND MY SANITY,
MANY TIMES,

FROM MY HEART MEMPHIS,

,

THAT I WANTED
TO CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING

THAT MEANS SOMETHING TO ME,

AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT.

( applause and cheering )

Narrator:
IT WAS ALSO AT
URCH OF SCIENTOLOGY

THAT LISA MARIE MET DANNY KIO,
IEIE ANSPIRING MUSICIAN.

IN 1988, TO THE SURPRISE OF
EVERYONE, INCLUDING HER MOTHER,

LISA MARIE MARRIED DANNY,

AND WITHIN FOUR YEAR
THE COUPLE HAD TWO CHILDREN,

DANIELLE AND BENJAMIN.

Rev. Rick P P
LISA MARIE PRESLEY
IS AN INCREDIBLE MOTHER,

AND I COMMEN F FR FOR THAT,LYC

AND HER GREAT LOVE
FOR THOSE CHILDREN,

AND DANNY'S GREAT LOVE...

FOR THOSE CHILDREN.

DANNY IS A VERY NICE,
YOUNG MAN.

HE'S GOT A FULL PLATE, THERE,

WITH WHO HE WAS MARRIED TO.

Narrat:
UNFORTUNATELRERES LISA,

LIKE THAT OF HER PARENTS,

HAN

ENDED IN DIVORCE.

BUT, ALSO LIKE HER PARENTS,

LISA MARIE AND DANNY
REMAINED ON GOOD TERMS,

FOR THE KE OF THE CHILDREN.

LISA MAR'S DIVORCE
WAS FINALIZED IN MAY OF 1994.

JUST A FEW DAYS LATER,
HER FAMILY, FRIENDS,

AND ELVIS FANS AROUND THE WORLD
WERE SHOCKED BY E NEWS...

THAT S ED.

THIS TIME, TO NONE OTHERFA ,

MICHAEL JACKSON.

Donna Presley Early:
THE FAMILY WAS SHOCKED,
I THINK, BASICALLY,

AT LISA
AND MICHAEL JACKSON MARRIED,

BUT ALHE,
THE FAMIT NDEROOD IT

BE

BOTH GREW UP

IN A FISHBOWL ATMOSPHERE.
USUS F

Myrna Smith:
I ALWAYS KIND OF REGRET THIS,

BUT I TOOK HER TO SEE
HER FIRST JACKSON FIVE CONCERT.

AND SHE WENT BACKSTAGE,
AND SHE MET THE JACKSONS.

SO I BLAME MYSELF
FOFOTHHOLE THING.

S

David Stanley:
IF ELVX X HBEEN ALIVE

NNNN

GOT MARRIED,MOMOUS

WHEA

HE WOULD HAVE
HAD A PROBM WITH IT,

BECAUSE, ELVIS WAS NOT
A PREJUDICED MAN,

BUT HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN
INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS.

WOULD HAVE BEEN
A PROBLEM FOR HIM.

AND THE THINGS THAT
HAVE BEEN ID ABOUT MICHAEL,

THE ALLEGATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN
HUOW HIM,

LYLY

ELVIS WOULD HAVE HAD
A REAL PROBLEM WH THAT.

Narrator:
BUT AS MUCH AS LISA MARIE
WANTED TSUPPORT MICHAEL,

SHE DEVELOERNS ABOUT
HOW ALL THE NEGATIVE ATTENTION

WAS AFFECTING HER FAMILY.

RERES

Rev. RicStanley:

TO THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN.

YOU NEED TO THINK ABOU
UE OR NOT,

HAVING THE STIGMA
PLACED OVER THEM.

FF

AND TH DONFAD IT,
AND YOU DON'T REALLY NEED IT,

AND THE NEXT DAY
SHE FILED FOR DIVORCE.

Rev. Rick Stanley:
PRISCILLA WAS...
GLAD IT WAS OVER.

SS

PRISCILLA WAS IN A TOUGH SPOT
BEUSE IT WAS HER KID.

@ P PE

X X FA

BUT SHE PRACTICED
THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT:

"THOU SHALL BE COOL,"

THE WHOLE TIME.

Narrator:
COMI UP...

A NEW GENERATION OF PRESLEYS
TAKES THE WORLD BY STORM.

Jerry Schilling:
LISA MARIE IS A TALENT
ON HER OWN.

SHE'AMAMILIERAL PRODUCER,
KNWHATSHE'S A WRITER,

AND SHE'S GOT IT.

THE LEGACY LIVES ON,

WHEN "FAMOUS FAMILIES" RETURNS.

RERE
WHEN IT COMES TO FAMILY,

:

PRISCILLA PRESLEY HAS PROVEN
HERSELF TO BE A DEVOTED MOTHER,

BUT SHE PLAYS
MANY OTHER ROLES AS WELL.

IN 1980, PRISCILLA CO-HOSTED
THE TV SERIES

"THOSE AMANG ANIMALS."

HC

AND FROM 1983 TO988,
SHE STARRED JENNA WADE

ON THE HIT DRAMA SERIES
"DALLAS."

PRISCILLA'S FIRST AND FOREMOST
AN ARTIST,

AND SHE BRINGS CREATIVITY
INTO EVERYTHING SHE DOES.

AND SHE BECAME VERY
WELL-ESTABLISHED AS AN ACTSS.,

SHE COMPETED IN AN AUDITION
FOR "DALLAS,"

AND SHE WON THE ROLE,

AND THE REST IS HISTORY.

IT WENT ON TO BECOME
ONE THE MOST WATCHED SEES

IN THE WORLD.

Narrator:
PRISCILLA HAS APPEARED
ON THE BIG SCREEN AS WELL,

OPPOSITE LESLIE NEILSON

IN THE THREE "NAKED GUN"
POLICE SATIRES.

I WANTED YOU TO KNOW, NOW,
I'VE LOVED YOU

HANN

SINCE THE FIRST DAY
I MET YOU,

AND I'LL
NEVER STOP.

I'M A VERY
LUCKY WOMAN.

PRISCILLA HAS
A REMARKABLE SENSE OF HUMOR.

C

SHE ACTUALLY HAS A GREAT SENSE
OF SPIRIT OF PLAY.

Rev. Rick Stanley:
PRISCILLA IS VERY FUNNY,

SHE'S AN "UP" PERSON.

FAMI

SHE LAUGHS AND HAS A GOOD TIME,

D VE ENJOYED
THE LESLIE NEILSON MOVIES

S: T

BECAUSE THAT'S HER.

Narrator:
BUT WITH ALL HER SUCCESS
AS AN ACTRESS,

PRISCILLA HAS ALSO BECOME
A RESPECTED BUSINESSWOMAN.

IN 1973, SHE OPENED
A WOMAN'S CLOTHING BOUTIQUE

AND LAUNCHFAMO OWN LINE
OF PERHC

PRISCILLA'S MOST IMPRESSIVE
ACHIEVEMENT, BY FAR, HOWEVER

HAS BELDING
VIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISES

IN THE MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR
SINESS IT IS TODAY.

MY FATHER WAS EXECUTOR
OF THE ESTATE,

WITH SERAL OTHERUSINESSMEN,

AND THE DEAL WAS
TO LEAVE THE ESTATE TO LISA,

WHEN MY FATHER PASSED AWAY,C

BUT, THROUX FAMIUTUAL
LOVE FOR LISA,

MY DADDY AND PRISCILLA FOUND
SOME COMMON GROUND,

AND MY FATHER MADE PRISCILT

THE EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE
WHEN HE PASSED AWAY.S

PRISLLA STEPD IN,
AND HAD SOME BUSINESS SAVVY.

SHE REALLY DID
A GOOD JOB THERE,

AND TURNED THE PLACE AROUND.

ank Coffey:
IRONICALLY, WHEN ELVIS DIED,

HIS ESTATE WAS WORTH
THREE MILLION DOLLARS,

■

AND LE THAN HALF OF THAT
WAS LIQUID.

SO, THIS ENORMOUS
EARNING MACHINE

DIDN'T HAVE MUCH MONEY.

SO PRISCILLA DESERVES
A LOT OF CREDIT

FOR HIRING SMART PEOPLE,

AND GETTING THE ESTATE
ONTO A SOLID GROUND.

Narrator:
TO THIS DAY,
ELVIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISES

FIRMLY.

PRISCILLA'S SISTER
IS HER PERSONAL ASSISTANT,

AND HER SISTER'S HUSBAND

IS DIRECTOR OF ENTERTAINMENT
AND MUSIC PUBLISHING.

NOW THAT LISA MARIE
HAS TURNED THIRTY,

SHE OWNS THE COMPANY.

BUT HER MOTHER
STILL RUNS THE BUSINESS.

ELVIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISES

OVERHE USE
OF ELVIS' VOICE AND IMAGE,

INCLUDING HIS PORTRAYAL
IN MOTION PICTURES,

■

STILL PHOTOGRAPHS,

MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS,

ERT FO,

AND ELVIS MEMORABILIA.

EVERY STEP OF THE WAY,

IN THE GROWTH OF GRACELAND,

AND THE GROWTH OF ALL
OF THE ELVIS PRESLEY COMPANIES.

WE HAVE, OVER THE YEARS,

ADDED AUTOMOBILE MUSEUMS,

THE AIRPLANE EXHIBITS...

THAT WILL BE RESTORED AND
RE-THEMED IN THE COMING YEAR.

WE HAVE PLANS TO BUILD A MAJOR
NEW MUSEUM EXHIBIT FACILITY,

AND PRISCILLA STAYS
VERY, VERY INVOLVED IN THAT,

EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

THIS IS WHERE
IT ALL STARTED.

AND, IN CT,
IN THIS BUILDING

IS WHERE HE USED TO
BUY HIS CLOTHES,

SO, IT WAS
JUST A NATURAL.

Narrator:
YET EVEN WHILE
PRISCILLA MANAGES

THE THRIVING PRESLEY EMPIRE,

SHE AND HER PARTNER
OF THIRTEEN YEARS,

MARCO GIRABALDI,

ARE RAISING
THEIR SON, NAVARONE.

NO MATR WHERE SHE IS
ALL OVER THE WORLD,

THE FAMILY COMES FIRST,

AND
D AD

RESPECT
.ES

TO BE INVOLVED,
SHE IS,

VENTURES AND ACTIVITIES.ITH T

SHE ALWAYS MANAGES
TO PUT THE PRIORITIES RIGHT,

AND THAT FAMILY IS
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO HER.

Narrator:
BY ALL ACCOUNTS, PRISCILLA'S
DAUGHTER, LISA MARIE,

IN HER FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS.

W

SHE SIGNED A RECORDING CONTRACT
WITH CAPITOL RECORDS

IN JUNE OF 1998.

HER MUSIC CAREER CAREFULLY,SAG

DEVELOPING AND GUARDING
HER TALENT

WITH AN ANXIOUS PUBC.

FEE

Frank Coffey:
I WAS IN MEMPHIS
FOR LISA MARIE'S DEBUT,

WITH HER FATHER,

WHEN T

AND I CAN TELL YOU
THAT THE FANS REACTION

TO THAT DUET
WAS UNBELIEVABLE.

THERE WASN'T A DRY EYE
IN THE HOUSE,

AND LISA MARIE LOOKED BEAUTIFUL
AND SANG BEAUTIFULLY.

I THINK SHE HAS
A CHFO STAR.

David Foster:
I THINK LISA MARIE PROBABLY WOKE
UP ONE DAY AND THOUGHT,

NOW I'M IN
MY LATE TWENTIES,

I CAN SING,
I'VE GOT A LOT OF TALENT,

I CAN WRITE SONGS...

X

?

THE STUFF THAT SHE
HAS BEENRITING

IS VERY, VERY EARTHY...

SLIGHTLY DARK...

BUT ALLY
POWEFOX FAYRICALLY,

AND MOODY...

HC

AND, KIN

D PICTURE

THE DAUGHTER OF ELVIS TO BE.

I THINK ELVIS HAD A LOT
OF THAT CHARACTER IN HIS VOICE,

A LOT OF PATHOS
IN HIS VOICE, TOO.

FA

Jerry Schilling:
I'D BEEN IN THE STUDIO
WITH LISA,

I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY
ABOUT FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO

TO BE HER MANAGER.

NO MATTER WHO
HER PARENTS ARE,

LISA MARIE IS
TALENT ON HER OWN.

LYE'S GOT
THAT CREATIVITY,

SHE KNFOX
WHAT SHE WANTS.

SHE'S A NATURAL PRODUCER;
SHE'S A WRITER...

AND SHE'S GOT IT.

Narrator:
BUT LISA MARIE ISN'T
THE ONLY PRESLEY FAMILY MEMBER

WHO'S LAUNCHING
A SINGING CAREER.

ELVIS' FIRST COUSIN,
DONNA PRESLEY EARLY,

IS ALSO KEEPING THE
PRESLEY MUSICAL LEGA...ALIVE.

WILL NOT GROW OLD 'CAUSE ♪ILIG

♪ HE'S JUST SINGIN'
ROCK-N-ROLL ♪

♪ DEVOTION TO ♪

♪ THE FAMILY ♪

♪ PEOPLE LIKE YOU ♪

♪ HE LOVED TO SEE ♪

I WOULD LOVE
FOR MY SINGING CAREER

TO GO AS FAR
AS IT POSSIBLY CAN.

I'VERY EXCITED
ABOUT IT,

FAMO

AND I HAVE A LOT
OF PRAYERS AND HOPES

RE

THAT THINGS WILL
JUST CONTINUE,

AND JUST GET
BIGGER AND BIGGER.

♪ REMEMBER THOSE
PRECIOUS MEMORIES ♪

( applause )

Narrator:
ELVIS' STEP-BROTHERS HAVE
OVERCOME PERSONAL CHALLENGES

FOLLOWING HIS DEATH,

AND NOW LEAD
HAPPY, PRODUCTIVE LIVES.

David Stanley:
AFTER ELVIS' DEATH I WAS FACED
WITH SOME PROBLEMS OF MY OWN...

MY DRUG ADDICTION, ALCOHOLISM

THAT I HAD TO OVERCOME,

AND WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH
TO DO THAT.

AS A RESULT
OF DOING THAT,

I HAVE BECOME A
TIVATIONAL SPEAKER,

TRAVELING THROUGHOUT
THE UNTRY

COMMUNICATING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
IN HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES,

AND CORPORATIONS,

ON HOW THEY CAN TURN ADVERSITY
INTO PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT.

MY BROTHER BLY
IS A RACE CAR DRER.

Billy Stanley:
MY WIFE IS THE GREATEST THING
THAT EVER TOUCHED THIS EARTH,

AND MY DAUGHTER
THE SAME Y.

THEY ARE
SO SUPPORTIVE OF ME,

AND NOT A DAY GOES BY
I DON'T THANK GOD FOR THEM.

David Stanley:
MY BROTHER RIC
IS A TRUE MIRACLE.

THIS GUY WAS A WILD CHILD.

THEY USED TO CALL HIM
"THE WHITE HAVEN RAVEN,"

AND NOW HE'S A
SOHERN BAPTIST EVANGELIST,

TRAVELS ALL OVER.

MY FAMILY IS SO MUCH
MORE IMPORTANT THAWHAT I DO.

THEY ARE
THE PRIORITY.

I SAY IT LIKE THIS:

IF MAMA AIN'T HAPPY,
AIN'T NOBODY HAPPY

IF DADDY AIN'T HAPPY,
DON'T NOBODY CARE.

SO, I KEEP ROBIN
AND THOSE CHILDREN HAPPY.

Narrator:
UP NEXT...

THE LEGACY LIVES ON

IN THE HEARTS
OF PRESLEY FANS EVERYWHERE.

ELVIS IS STILL
VERY MUCH LOVED BY HIS FANS.

THERE'S SOME 500 FAN CLUBS
THAT ARE STILL ACTIVE

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TODAY
HERE IN 1998.

Narrator:
ELVIS, TODAY...

WHEN "FAMOUS FAMILIES" RETURNS.

Narrator:
TODAY, MORE THANHC
TWENTY YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH,

THE KING OF ROCK-N-ROLL
CONTINUES TO REIGN

IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS
OF HIS MANY FANS.

( screaming )

THEFOXA

IES: TDN

SINCE HE FIRST APPEARED
ON OUR HORIZON IN 1955.

( screaming and cheering )

I THINK ELVIS
IS THE BEST.

ELVIS ROCKS.

LVIS.

Iris Pau-Upp:
SOME PEOPLE SAY "FANATICS."

WE'RE NOT FANATICS,
WE JUST LOVED THE MAN.

John Dawson:
ELVIS IS STILL
VERY MUCH LOVED BY HIS FANS.

WE LOVED

THERE'S SOME 500 FAN CLUBS
THAT ARE STILL ACTIVE

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TODAY.

Narrator:
FOR DECADES, ELVIS FAN CHA ALL
BACKGROUNDS AND NATIONALITIES

HAVE BEEN SHOWING THE KING
E EATEST FORM OF FLATTERY,

BY KEEPING THE MEMORY
OF HIS PERFORMANCES ALIVE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANYOU VERY MUCH.

THE RELT OF ELVIS PRESLEY'S
CONTINUED POPULARITY

IS THAT ANNUAL REVENUES
GENERATED BY ELVIS MERCHANDISE,

MOVIES,

RECORD SALES,

AND VISITORS TO GRACELAND,

CURRENTLY EXCEED
100 MILLION DOLLARS.

GRACELAND IS THE SECOND
MOST-VISITED HOME IN AMERICA,

AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE.

D THE PEOPLE COME FROM
ALL OVER THE WORLD...

FROM EVERY COUNTRY.

THEY'VE MADE MORE MONEY
OFF OF ELVIS

NCE HE'S BEEN GONE,

THAN THEY DID
WHEN HE WAS ALIVE.

Narrator:
IN THE END,

T OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.S
IS VERY MUCH THE S

Isaac Hayes:
WHEN YOU SEE PRES
US FAM

A GUY LIKE THAT,

WHO CAME FROM
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS,

AND MAKE IT...

THAT'S THE AMERICAN DREAM.

AND I SAY DREAM
OF ANYWHERE.

WE SAY "AMERICAN DREAM,"

BUT IT'S THE
HUMAN DREAM.

THE STRUGGLE...
THE TRIUMPH...

AND TO MAKE IT.

AND ELVIS DID THAT,

AND HE NEVER FORGOT
HIS BEGINNINGS.

Narrator:
IT'S THE STORY
OF GLADYS AND VERNON PRESLEY,

TWO POOR DAY-LABORERS
WHO RAISE THEIR ONLY CHILD

TO BELIEVE
HE WAS SOMEONE SPECIAL.

AND HE WAS.

Elvis:
♪ SINCE MY BABY LEFT ME ♪

AMILIES: T

♪ I FOUND A NEW PLACE TO L ♪

♪ IT'S DOWN AT THE END
OF LONELY STREET... ♪

New speaker:
I THINK ELVIS,
AS A PERSONALITY...

HE WAS JUST DIFFERENT.

THERE'S NEVER BEEN
ANOTHER PERSON LIKE HI

HE'S JUST ONE AND ONLY.O

OCCASIONALLY SOMEBODY
COMES ALONG LIKE THAT,

IN MAYBE SOME OTHER FIELD,

BUT THERE'S NEVER BEEN
ANOTHER PERSON

IN THE SINGING/MUSIC FIELD
LIKE ELVIS PRESLEY.

Narrator:
IT'S THE STORY OF A CHILD
OF THE DEPRESSION,

WHO BECAME
E KINGS: THE-N-N-ROLL,C

AND WHO USED
HIS NEW-FOUND WEALTH
THE

TO BUY A MANSION FOR HIS FAMILY
AND FRIENDS.

Elvis:
♪ ...SO LONELY,
I COULD DIE ♪

IT'S ALSO THE STORY

OF PRISCILLA
AND LISA MARIE PRESLEY,

TWO STRONG AND TALENTED WOMEN

WHO TOOK
WHAT ELVIS LEFT BEHIND,

AND BUILT AN EMPIRE.

New speaker:
PRISCILLA KNEW HOW IMPFO
FAMILY WAS TO ELVIS.

AND IT WAS IMPORTANT TO HER...

PRESERVING
THAT FAMILY FOCUS,

JUST WAS
THE RIGHT THING TO DO,

AND IT WAS
THE NATURAL THING TO DO.

AND ISCILLA AND SA
HAVE VERY MUCH CONTIED

THAT FAMILY TRADITION
IN ALL THE YEARS.

Narrator:
ULTIMATELY,
THE STORY OF THE PSLEYS

IS THE STORY OF A FAMILY THAT
HAS EXPERIENCED BOTH TRIUMPH...

AND TRAGEDY,

YET SHOWS EVERY SIGN OF
CARRYING ITS UNIQUE LEGACY

INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM.

THE BEST OF ADVICE
THAT ELVIS EVER GAVE ME WAS:

"NEVER FORGET
WHERE YOU CAME FROM.

NO MATTER HOW SUCCESSFUL YOU
BECOME AT WHATEVER YOU MAY DO,

NEVER FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM
AND WHO YOU ARE."

ELVIS HAD DEEP ROOTS
AND FAMILY VALUES,

AND THAT'S WHAT MADE HIM
WHO HE WAS.

Narrator:
WHAT IS THIS PRESLEY LEGACY?

ALL AGREE:

IT'S THEIR OWN UNIQUE BLEND
OF LOVE,

LOYALTY,

DEVOTION,

CUNPARALLELED SHOWMANSHIP,

AND, OF COURSE,

ROCK-N-RL.

♪ ...WELL IS DOWN AT THE END
OF LONELY STREET ♪

CHANNFOX

♪ AT HEARTBREAK HOTEL ♪

THE REAL ELVIS PRESLEY
WAS A GOOD AND DECENT MAN,

BUT, MORE IMPORTANTLY,

HE WAS
AN AMERICAN MUSICAL GENIUS,

THE GREATEST STAR,
ARGUABLY,

IN TERMS OF MUSICAL INFLNCE
OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY;

THE PROGENITOR,
THE CREATOR OF THE REVOLUTION

THAT

W

T

BUT A CULTURAL REVOLUTION.

THAT'S HIS LEGACY.

Elvis:
♪ I'LL BE SO LONELY, BABY ♪

FOX

♪ I'LL BE SO LONELY ♪

♪ I'LL BE SO LONELY ♪

♪ I COULD DIE ♪

Announcer:
Elvis has left the building.

FOMIeft ,

and went out the bk
with the policemen,

and he is now gone
from the buildin

THE LOSS OF ELVIS PRESLEY,
AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE,

WAS A TRAGEDY.

I REMEMBER THE SADNESS I FELT
WHEN I FOUND OUT

THAT ACA HAD LOST
ONE OF ITS LIVING LEGENDS.

BUT IT'S ELVIS' MUSIC
THAT CONTINUES

MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS
AFTER HIS DEATH,

F

HIS MEMORY
IS VERY MUCH ALIVE,

IN GRACELAND,
HIS MUSIC, MOVIES,MILIE

AND IN HIS DAUGHTER,
LISA MARIE.

ELVIS PROVED THAT
THERE WAS MORE TO ROCK-N-ROLL

THAN JUST MOY,
POWER AND FAME.

FOR HIM, IT WAS A MEANS
OF EXPRESSING HIS DEEP FEELINGS

ABOUFAMIVE, RELIGION,
AND, OF COURSE, FAMILY.