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This programme contains
references to drug misuse,
addiction and organised crime

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Elvis Presley. An American icon.

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A hip-shaking rebel with
a golden voice.

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Cameras love him.
Crowds worship him.

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The world has never seen
anything like him.

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Yet by the late '60s,
his world is shifting...

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..and so is Las Vegas,

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the gambling paradise that has
become a second home to Elvis.

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Elvis loved the
freedom of Las Vegas.

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He loved it as an adult playground.

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And his enigmatic manager,
Colonel Tom Parker.

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Colonel Parker is
a compulsive gambler,

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and this is his
favourite place to be.

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Organised Crime helped
shape Las Vegas,

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turning gambling and vice
into a criminal empire.

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But if the town had once
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it is now being reshaped
by corporate giants.

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Las Vegas transformed dramatically.

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Plans are under way
to build the largest hotel

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the world has ever seen,

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an audacious symbol of
Las Vegas' new era.

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And to fill it, the city needs
the biggest star on earth...

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..Elvis.

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You had to go see
Elvis Presley perform.

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It was an event.

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But it's been almost a decade since
Elvis last stepped onto a stage.

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The world has changed.

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So has he.

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Can the King reclaim his crown

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in a city built on spectacle,
seduction, and danger?

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The mob's tentacles in
Las Vegas were into

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all different facets
of the industry.

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Parker wants Elvis back in Vegas,

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but the mob still lurks
in the shadows,

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and the Colonel knows
exactly who holds the strings.

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There is no other place where
there are so many entrepreneurs

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who are connected to
organised crime.

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For Elvis, it starts a descent
into a world of drugs,

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death threats,
and unlimited firepower.

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He's collecting
a whole host of guns.

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He gets a Tommy gun.

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And this time, the odds are
in nobody's favour.

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1968.

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America is in upheaval.

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The Youth rebellion that Elvis
Presley once symbolised

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has erupted into a
full-blown counterculture.

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The Vietnam War rages.

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Protests fill the streets...

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..and the fight for civil rights

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and sexual liberation
dominates headlines.

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In the wake of the Summer of Love,

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young Americans are
questioning everything,

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from the government
to rock-and-roll itself.

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Elvis Presley, once the face
of teenage rebellion,

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feels like a relic.

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And his manager, Colonel Tom Parker,

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has trapped him in a carousel of
forgettable Hollywood films.

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Creatively stifled
and losing relevance,

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Elvis is desperate to remind
the world who he really is.

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In a bold move, Parker arranges
a television special

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to showcase Elvis at his best,

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and reintroduce him
to the American public.

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Airing on December 3rd, 1968,

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the show reminds America what made
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charisma, swagger...

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..and pure rock-and-roll energy.

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That special was
a big success in the ratings.

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It's an incredible piece of TV.

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It's got a bit of him
playing in a round.

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It's also got him doing these
big song and dance numbers.

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It's really dynamic.

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It was really, really good,

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and suddenly, Elvis is back.

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That special really reminded
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a terrific performer.
The Colonel decided, OK,

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now it's time to get Elvis
back to live performing.

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The world is at his feet.
Now what he should be doing,

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I don't know, touring the world.

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But instead, what does he do?

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He goes to Las Vegas.

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Elvis's manager,
the shady Colonel Tom Parker,

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has long been a fan of
mob-built Las Vegas.

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He thrives on its energy and
its unwritten rules.

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Over the years, he's grown close
to the city's power players -

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including Milton Prell,

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the influential boss behind
the Sahara and Aladdin hotels.

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But new money is moving in.

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Businessman Kirk Kerkorian
is leading the charge,

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with plans for the largest hotel
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Kurt Kerkorian was opening
the New International Hotel

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that's set to open
in the summer of 1969.

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They need a big name.
They need the biggest name.

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So, the entertainment director
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is Bill Miller.

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Bill Miller ran Bill Miller's
Riviera nightclub in New Jersey,

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famous mobster hang-out.

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He came to Vegas,
he was working for Milton Prell.

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He's been there for decades.

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He knows everything
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and he knows what Vegas wants,

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and he knows that middle
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to come to Vegas to see Elvis.

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Alex Shoofey was the general manager
of the New International,

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and he had been the general manager
of the Sahara for Milton Prell.

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There had been rumours
that Milton Prell was a gangster.

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He was the front man
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And Alex Shoofey,

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he'd first worked for Milton
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Shoofey had the nickname of
"The Cleaver" in Las Vegas,

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and he was really more of

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the Colonel's contact there
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Milton Prell and Alex Shoofey
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if Elvis would want to
open the hotel.

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And it was the Colonel
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to make the biggest splash
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to live performing was Las Vegas.

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The Colonel loved Las Vegas.
That was his playground.

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That was his carnival.
That was his fair.

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He felt important there.

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He knew all these top guys
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gave him anything he wanted,
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but mostly, he could gamble
and rack up massive debts.

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When the international came
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they offered him $100,000 a week,

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and under the table,

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basically agreed to cover
the Colonel's gambling debts.

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The Colonel was game, but he said,
"The hotel is still being finished."

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They were racing
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"We're not sure if the technical
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"the lighting and the electricity."

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He said, "Let somebody else be
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"come in first. We'll be second."

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And so, the International,
they went to their second choice.

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And it was Barbra Streisand

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who opened the
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followed by Elvis Presley for
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Kerkorian's team and
the Colonel seal this new deal,

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and it's for a month-long residency
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This is an entirely new concept,

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and it's going to change Vegas.

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Las Vegas once thrived
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low-lit, smoky shows made famous
by Frank Sinatra and his pals

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in mob-affiliated venues
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But the new International is vast.

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Its 2,000-seat showroom
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marking a new era
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Colonel Parker had done an amazing
job of promoting the event.

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He had blanketed the area with
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on top of taxi cabs at bus stops,

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radio ads just blaring
Elvis, Elvis, Elvis.

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There was probably more
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than any show in Vegas history.

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Although he hasn't set foot
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the prospect of a Las Vegas comeback

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ignites a sense of purpose in Elvis.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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July 31, 1969, backstage at
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Elvis is preparing to take the stage
for the first time in eight years.

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Cary Grant's there, Sammy Davis Jr.

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And I think a lot of people are
curious as what's going to happen.

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I mean, is it going to be
a car crash?

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He's not the comeback special,
but you know, what's going to go on?

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This showroom at
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where Elvis was performing,

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was twice as large as any showroom
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Elvis filled it up,

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and the anticipation
was unbelievable.

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Elvis is nervous,
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the crowd goes wild.

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Elvis opens with Blue Suede Shoes,

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one of his great old hits.

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The minute he finishes
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he kind of turns around to his band,

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relaxes, and he really gets going.

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BAND PLAYS

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He's full of energy, I mean,
he is just in constant motion,

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doing Karate kicks,
dancing around the stage.

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The whole show, it's an hour
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and it's just a spectacular success.

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It turns out the show is
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Everybody loves him.

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Magazines marvel at
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and Elvis is celebrated again.

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It is a triumph.

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BAND FINISHES PLAYING
CHEERING

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The very next day, Alex Shoofey,
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got together Colonel Parker
and basically tried to sign up Elvis

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for regular gigs at the hotel.

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He just wrote up the contract,
apparently on a tablecloth.

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It was all done very quickly.

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$125,000 a week,
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that makes $1 million a year,

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which was Colonel Parker's
favourite number.

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But many people believe that
it was actually a very bad deal,

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locking Elvis into five years,
essentially no raise -

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in that Prell was
negotiating that deal,

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and there is no way that Elvis

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and Colonel could have
come out on top.

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To this day, rumours continue
to swirl that the hurried deal

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to keep Elvis in Vegas
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because of Colonel Parker's
historic gambling debts,

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vast sums of money owed
to the city's casino bosses,

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putting him at a distinct
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the likes of Alex Shoofey.

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Tom Parker was an obsessive
compulsive gambler,

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and he made a deal with the hotel
that he would have carte blanche

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to gamble as much as he wanted,

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and he wouldn't have to pay
any gambling debts.

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He would get to keep all
of his winnings.

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And they gave him all sorts
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and they did this in exchange
for being able to pay Elvis

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only $150,000 a week,

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instead of maybe two or
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Alex Shoofey was loose with the lips

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when it came to talking about
Colonel's gambling.

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He said initially he was good
for $1 million a year,

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but eventually, he became good
for $1 million a month.

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Elvis performed hundreds of shows

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that he never knew were to cancel
the Colonel's gambling debts.

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This is another instance in which

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Colonel's decisions benefit
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more than they do Elvis.

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It's a five-year deal.

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It's going to require
an incredible output of energy,

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or an incredible input
of amphetamines.

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As Elvis' residency at
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the summer of 1969,

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Las Vegas is - on the surface -
cleaning up its act.

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Although mobsters still control
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a new wave of corporate ownership
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keen to legitimise the
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its ties to organised crime.

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The first of these corporate giants

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had been the reclusive
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whose arrival in 1966
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in the city's power dynamics.

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But the transition was
anything but smooth.

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The Mob's tentacles
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all different facets
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and it was very hard
to extricate the mob from them.

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All the people who had
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now became the managers of
the hotels that Howard Hughes owned.

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And they were skimming the money,

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and they were cheating
Howard Hughes,

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and he didn't know what was
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the owner of these hotel casinos.

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So, there were so many instances of
people owning things in Las Vegas,

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but not realising that they were
really working for the mob.

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It is a slow transformation,

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but gradually business
starts to change.

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The lavish budgets of the mob era,

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fuelled by skimmed profits
and backroom favours,

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begins to shrink.

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Performers who had grown used
to envelopes stuffed with cash

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and extravagant perks
now find themselves negotiating

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with corporate managers,
not wise guys.

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The corporate players were coming in

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and changing the rules in Las Vegas.

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The mob people were willing
to spend tons of money

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on big-name entertainment,

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knowing that they could make it
back from the gambling.

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The new corporate players became

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much more careful about how
they spent money.

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They really put a cap on
the salaries they were paying.

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This kind of pissed off some of
the old-line entertainers

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who were used to being
lavishly feted and paid.

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To them, the corporate people
who were coming in were kind of

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spoiling Vegas a little bit,

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and some of them
started avoiding it.

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This was all beginning to shift
Vegas away from the mob people

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who were also seeing a lot more
aggressive law enforcement.

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With Elvis' residency at
the International under way,

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federal authorities are launching
sweeping investigations into

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the criminal control of
the city's casinos.

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In 1970, the RICO Act is passed.

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This is a law that allows for
the prosecution of people

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involved in organised crime -

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whether you can prove
individual criminal acts or not,

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if you're associated, you're busted.

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And so, this gave the federal
government a great deal of power

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to crack down on the mob.

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So, the way this manifested in
Las Vegas was in what they called

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Operation Straw Man.

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Gary Jenkins, who was head of
police intelligence in Kansas City,

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was able to bug all these gangsters
and get them talking about

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how much money they were skimming
from the casinos,

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and how it was being distributed,
and where it was going,

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and why they're not paying taxes.

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They admitted all of this on tape,

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and so, when the FBI arrested them

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and the prosecutor got
a hold of the tape,

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indictments just flowed freely.

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The federal investigations are yet
another factor in the shift of power

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that is taking place in Las Vegas.

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And, as the mob starts to lose
its vice-like grip on the city,

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Elvis continues to dazzle onstage
at the International...

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..yet the pressure on the King
is relentless.

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Behind the curtain, the physical
and emotional toll begins to mount,

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and cracks begin to show.

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When Elvis went into Las Vegas,

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it was at a punishing schedule.

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He was the first performer
to play shows seven days a week,

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and he played two shows a night.

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And if the Colonel wasn't
keeping him on a terrible

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punishing schedule in Las Vegas,

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then he was doing
one-nighters on the road.

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And so, that meant that,
to keep this schedule,

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he was on an unbelievable regimen
of drugs that were prescribed to him

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by his personal physician.

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As Elvis, continued to perform
in Vegas every six months

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for four weeks at a time,

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it was gruelling for him -
and to relax, he would do his show,

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and he would stay up
almost all night,

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he would invite people to
his suite at the top of

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the International Hotel.

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He would have jam sessions.

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They would sing,
and they would take drugs.

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It was Elvis' way of unwinding.

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Elvis would convince himself
he wasn't doing drugs,

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because they were being given
to him by a doctor,

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a guy called Dr Nick.

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Dr Nick and his team are
prescribing Elvis everything.

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There's opioids, uppers, downers,

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Quaaludes, Valium, Demerol -

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you name it, it's all there.

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And just being there for
four weeks straight,

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doing the same show every night,

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that was when the drug use and
the real sort of burn-out

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began to take hold.

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Elvis has struggled with addiction
for much of his life -

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but in Las Vegas,
it starts to consume him.

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Amidst the bright lights and
relentless schedule,

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his private battles deepen.

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This isn't just a rough patch,

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it's the beginning of
a tragic descent.

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The usual thought is that
Elvis indulged himself in pills,

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or became dependent on pills
in the Army,

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when he had to stay up
all night for guard duty.

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The fact of the matter is that he
began taking pills in the early days

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on the road so he could drive
for long hours and perform.

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He stole his mother's Dexedrine,
or diet pills - the uppers.

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But later, as anxiety set in,

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he really preferred downers -

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drugs that would take
the edge off of things.

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Growing increasingly
anxious and paranoid,

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Elvis indulges in a lifelong
fascination with firearms.

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And back in Memphis, he's collecting
a whole host of guns.

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He's got a Luger,
getting a Walther PPK.

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He's got so many guns.

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One of the more fascinating guns
is the Tommy gun,

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one of the old-school guns
that the Chicago mob used to use,

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like Al Capone.

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Chaotic tales about Elvis'
erratic behaviour emerge

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with alarming frequency.

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His inner circle - jokingly known
as the "Memphis Mafia" -

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are often drawn into
his manic episodes.

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There are some wild stories
at this time.

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They're stories about
Elvis pulling a gun on a car

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that's going past him
a bit too fast.

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00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,200
There are stories of him trying
to rally the Memphis Mafia together

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00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,920
to go and beat up some local
drug dealers in Memphis -

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which is kind of crazy,

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because he's also one of the most
famous men in the world.

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As the spotlight intensifies,

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threats appear in the shadows.

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Elvis was starting to get paranoid.

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But with Elvis' huge popularity,

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there also came dangers.

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In 1970, Elvis caught wind of a plan

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to kidnap him off the stage
at Las Vegas.

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He was pretty nervous about it.

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It seemed real.

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This galvanised the whole group,
the Elvis entourage.

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They planted themselves
around the stage,

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getting ready to protect him.

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Elvis goes onstage with a gun.

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Into his performance, some man
stood up and yelled, "Elvis!"

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"ELVIS" ECHOES

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Elvis freaked, and he crouched
down on the stage,

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reached into his boot,
and pulled out a derringer.

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Turned out he was just requesting
Don't Be Cruel.

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It showed that
there was some danger.

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Elvis was a huge star,

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and he was worried about what
could happen to him.

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Threats against Elvis
continue to swirl,

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and members of the Memphis Mafia

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are dragged further into
the confusion.

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The day after the kidnapping threat,

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00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,720
Joe Esposito,
who's one of the Memphis Mafia,

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00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,120
receives a call that Elvis is
going to be shot that night.

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The caller demands $50,000
to reveal the name of

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the would-be assassin.

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A menu that's promoting Elvis' show

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is delivered to the hotel that day,

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00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,760
and it's got a picture
of Elvis on it,

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00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,800
and the picture is defaced with
a gun pointed to Elvis' head,

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and the words "guess who,
and where" on it.

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The Colonel calls Elvis' lawyer,

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00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,160
and the lawyer arranges
extra protection to be sent over,

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00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,160
and these guys are from the FBI.

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00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,400
Once again, the show goes off
without a hitch.

402
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,000
It's another hoax.

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00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,960
But the question lingers,
who's behind it?

404
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,720
Could the threat have come from
somewhere, or someone,

405
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:26,680
no-one had expected?

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00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,240
Elvis was never really sure
if it was for real,

407
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,640
or if Colonel had orchestrated
this to keep him in line,

408
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,080
or if Colonel himself was
really the target -

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00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:41,600
if it was a message sent
by the mob that it was time

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00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,040
for Colonel Parker
to pay his gambling debts.

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00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,880
Just a year into
his Vegas residency,

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00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,440
Elvis' dependence
on prescription drugs

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is spiralling out of control.

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00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,680
At the same time, he becomes
fixated on what he sees

415
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as a new national threat -
hippie culture.

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00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:11,920
Convinced the country is
at risk from left-wing radicals,

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00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,120
Elvis decides law enforcement
needs his help.

418
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,720
He begins obsessively collecting
police and federal badges -

419
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:24,920
seeing them as symbols
of authority and protection.

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00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,200
But there is one badge
above all others

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that he is determined to own -

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the badge of the Federal Bureau of
Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

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00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,920
He wants to crack down on drugs,
which is kind of crazy,

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00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,240
because he's addicted to drugs.

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00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,200
But I guess he thinks that the drugs
he's addicted to are legal,

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00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:44,560
they're prescription drugs,

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00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,040
so it's not the same as
the street drugs,

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00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,880
and he's going to go
after those guys.

429
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,480
He really figured himself to be

430
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,800
a crime-fighting superhero
over this time.

431
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,400
He wanted to be a federal agent,

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00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,600
so he had one of his people
contact President Nixon.

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00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,600
Somehow finagled a trip
to the White House.

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He said, "Don't tell anybody.
Let's go to Washington."

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00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,240
He disappeared.
His wife didn't know where he was.

436
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:10,560
No-one knew where he was.

437
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,480
He actually just turned up
at the White House.

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00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,480
When he met Nixon,
it seemed so absurd that

439
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,120
a rock-and-roll star would suddenly
knock on the White House front door

440
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,480
and get invited in,
and sit with the President.

441
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,840
He gave Nixon a gun -
a mad thing to do.

442
00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:32,880
And was presented with a badge

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00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,800
and a kind of phoney title,

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00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,120
in terms of drug enforcement
or something.

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00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,320
He believes this badge gives him
the authority to go undercover

446
00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:42,680
and fight crime.

447
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,800
When we heard we thought,
"He's crackers,

448
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,280
"but, you know, he's Elvis."

449
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,520
It was part of Elvis' craziness,

450
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:52,280
the beginning of his going off
the rails a little bit in the '70s.

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00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,840
He was actually stoned out
of his head all the time.

452
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,600
So the question is, why is he
so obsessed with law enforcement

453
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:02,720
at this time?

454
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,920
Is it because he's paranoid,
because of all the drugs?

455
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,080
Is he going a bit crazy?

456
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,560
Or is it the way to keep
his nose clean in a city

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00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,200
of organised crime?

458
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,680
Elvis tries to badger
the Memphis Mafia into joining him

459
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,480
to go after local drug dealers.

460
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:22,960
And apparently, he even told Red,

461
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,280
one of the members of
the Memphis Mafia, that,

462
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,520
"These sons of bitches need
to be wiped out."

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00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,600
He invites them into his bedroom,

464
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,600
where there are a whole bunch of
guns laid out in the bed,

465
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,560
and tells them to each
pick up a weapon,

466
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,040
and they're going to go
out to local bars,

467
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,760
and they're going to beat up
organised crime figures,

468
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,080
they're going to shoot them.

469
00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:41,960
I mean, who knows what
he's thinking.

470
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,760
The tragic contradiction
is striking.

471
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,680
While Elvis publicly pledges to help
fight America's growing drug crisis,

472
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,000
he's quietly sinking deeper
into his own,

473
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,840
trapped in a fog of prescription
medication and dependency.

474
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:03,960
It's clearly affecting
his personal life -

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00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,920
so much so that he grows distant,
from his wife, Priscilla,

476
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,880
and she starts having an affair.

477
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,240
As Elvis Presley's drug use
grows ever bigger,

478
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,960
his relationship with
his wife, Priscilla, falters,

479
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,920
and she seeks comfort
in the arms of another man.

480
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,120
Now, the person she has an affair
with is a guy called Mike Stone.

481
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,600
That's a karate instructor.

482
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,400
Elvis got very upset.

483
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,120
He told his mates,
"I want to kill the guy.

484
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,760
"Let's kill him."

485
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,360
He asks members of the Memphis Mafia
to see if they can hire a hit man

486
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,640
to have him killed.

487
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,080
He's deadly serious,
and they actually go to the extent

488
00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:45,120
of tracking down a mob man who is
going to kill Priscilla's lover.

489
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,400
Luckily, Elvis steps back -
this time.

490
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,800
But episodes like this are
becoming routine.

491
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,200
Sudden fits of rage,
bizarre ultimatums,

492
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,720
and a dangerous drift from reality.

493
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:10,160
In February 1972, after less
than five years of marriage,

494
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,960
Elvis and Priscilla
officially separate.

495
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,160
For Elvis, it's a
crushing emotional blow,

496
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,240
one that pushes him deeper into
loneliness, drugs and dependency.

497
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,200
As his personal life unravels,

498
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,000
so too does his grip
on the world around him.

499
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,560
One of the reasons that Elvis was
so self-destructive...

500
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,320
..is that he realised Vegas
was a treadmill

501
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,360
that he could never get off,

502
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,960
because Las Vegas owned the Colonel,

503
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,520
and the Colonel owned him.

504
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,200
And so, he numbed himself out
with pills and guns,

505
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,320
and whatever diversion
he could think of.

506
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,880
Perhaps it's the amount of time
he has spent in Las Vegas,

507
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,600
or the countless rumours,

508
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,400
but Elvis has finally realised
that he isn't trapped in the city

509
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,080
by fame or the stage lights.

510
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:13,480
He's trapped by Colonel Parker's
mounting gambling debts.

511
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,280
Those debts tie him to the casinos,

512
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,960
chaining him to a contract
he can't escape.

513
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,080
With the pressure building,
he pulls aside one of

514
00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:26,760
the most trusted members
of the Memphis Mafia

515
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,440
to share the weight of
the burden he's been carrying.

516
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,840
And one of them was a portly guy
named Lamar Fike.

517
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,920
And, of all the guys, really,

518
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,080
only Lamar Fike would get in
his face and talk turkey with him.

519
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,000
And one night, early,
early in the morning, really,

520
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,360
they had a heart-to-heart,
and he said, "Lamar,

521
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,520
"I'll play this town till I die.

522
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:57,720
"That old son of a bitch owes
so much money that they own him,

523
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,960
"and they're trying to own me.

524
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,520
"I'm talking all the way back to
the Sahara Hotel and Milton Prell."

525
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,800
But it isn't just the lure of
the casinos that keeps

526
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,320
the Colonel tethered to Vegas.

527
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,040
Although Elvis is offered
lucrative deals to perform

528
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:24,640
outside of the United States,
the Colonel turns them down

529
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,800
for reasons that
very few people know.

530
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,960
For years, rumours have swirled
within Elvis' inner circle

531
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,160
that Parker isn't from
the South at all,

532
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,400
and that if he ever leaves
the country,

533
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,480
he might not be able to return.

534
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,760
The fellows at RCA really
began to suspect this when,

535
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,920
A, Colonel did not go to Germany
when Elvis was in the Army,

536
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:53,200
and especially when, B,
he never took Elvis overseas.

537
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,120
I said to the Colonel,
"Why can't Elvis come to Britain?"

538
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,040
He was huge in England.

539
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,800
And he said, "Well, Mrs Parker
isn't very well right now,"

540
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,200
but that was just an excuse.

541
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,200
The real reason was because
the Colonel had no passport,

542
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,920
and couldn't let Elvis
out of his sight,

543
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,560
and wasn't going to risk some
other guy coming along and saying,

544
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,080
"I can do a better job for you."

545
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:21,360
Parker's real name was
Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk.

546
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,160
Born in 1909 in the Netherlands,

547
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,080
he had stowed away on a ship
to America as a young man,

548
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:32,400
building his career in
show business under a new identity.

549
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,000
But he was meticulous in concealing
the truth of his past

550
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:37,400
from everyone around him.

551
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,320
His wife, his first wife,

552
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,560
didn't even know
he was from Holland.

553
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,120
But he could've cleared up
his illegal status

554
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,960
with one phone call.

555
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,320
It would have been
very easy for him,

556
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,640
as he had lots of friends
in the US government,

557
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,960
including Lyndon Johnson,
who was his pal.

558
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,880
So, you have to ask, why didn't
the Colonel become a US citizen,

559
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:04,080
particularly when he was being
offered millions of dollars

560
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,520
for one performance for
Elvis overseas?

561
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,200
Well, the Colonel got into
some kind of trouble in Holland.

562
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,560
Exactly what, we don't know.

563
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,480
What I can tell you for certain,
is two things.

564
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,240
He was implicated in a murder.

565
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,360
Only privately, by a letter,
an anonymous letter -

566
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:34,800
which I have seen.

567
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,800
But I can tell you
with certainty that, also,

568
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:43,080
he had a file in the central
police records in The Hague.

569
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,320
And when a reporter went
to find it in the '80s,

570
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,040
there was a note there that said
the file had been removed

571
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,160
by the Dutch state consulate.

572
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,920
Whatever it was,
there was something in Holland

573
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,000
that he was frightened about
coming to light,

574
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,240
and he wanted no background checks.

575
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,720
And his grand title of Colonel?

576
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,840
It was a gimmick,
designed to mask the truth

577
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,560
and give him an air of
charm and authority.

578
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,520
The Colonel wanted to be important.

579
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,800
He had been in the US Army,

580
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,000
he had been a private first class,

581
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,000
but he ran away to join the circus.

582
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,040
He had a carny friend who worked
for the governor of Louisiana,

583
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:33,400
Jimmie Davis,

584
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,320
and so, he arranged to be
an honorary colonel.

585
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,240
After the war, if you announced
yourself as a colonel,

586
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:42,600
you got all kinds of perks.

587
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,680
You got lots of things put
in your lap for such a title.

588
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,280
He thought that was hilarious.

589
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,040
And so, he said, after he got
this honorary colonelship,

590
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,000
"From now on, you will
address me as Colonel."

591
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,560
The mid-1970s,
after two decades together,

592
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,640
the bond between Elvis and
the Colonel is fractured.

593
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,960
Elvis, once lean and electric,
is now a wreck.

594
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,120
Exhausted, overweight,
and barely holding it together.

595
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,680
People who were close
to Elvis were concerned.

596
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,440
One of Elvis' old pals from
Memphis, Jerry Schilling,

597
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,320
he came to see Elvis in around '76,

598
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,760
saw his show, and was just appalled

599
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,200
at how he looked and how he sounded,

600
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,760
and he could tell that
there was such deterioration.

601
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,440
He was bloated from all these drugs.

602
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,880
He had legitimate medical problems.

603
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,360
His diet was terrible -
he ate like a teenager.

604
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,800
He was living a life that would
have killed most people

605
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,200
long before it killed him.

606
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,360
And it was clear to people,
something was really wrong.

607
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,320
And I think the Colonel just
purposely looked away,

608
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,120
and just went for
the regular pay days,

609
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,600
and didn't look out for his artist.

610
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:09,440
In the midst of this decline,
Hollywood throws Elvis a lifeline.

611
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,080
For the first time in years,

612
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,920
a prestigious leading role playing

613
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,360
a fading superstar comes Elvis' way.

614
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,600
But to his bewilderment,
the Colonel kills the deal.

615
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,920
Sometime in the mid '70s,

616
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,480
Barbra Streisand actually came
to Elvis and offered him

617
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,640
the co-starring role in
the remake of A Star Is Born.

618
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:35,000
Elvis, looking for something
different to do besides

619
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,320
Las Vegas and touring,
really jumped at the chance.

620
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,280
But the Colonel made the deal
so difficult,

621
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,200
demanded so much money,

622
00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:47,400
and I think probably felt it wasn't
really the right thing for Elvis.

623
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,840
I mean, perhaps one of
the reasons Colonel Tom vetoed him

624
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,440
from doing A Star Is Born is
the fact that he realised

625
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,400
his client shouldn't be starring
as a washed-up rock star,

626
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,160
especially when he's trying
to claw back his own career.

627
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,320
The other reason was,
he maybe thought,

628
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,680
Elvis is in such
a bad state with drugs,

629
00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:07,440
he won't be able to do it.

630
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,960
I think the Colonel
just manipulated the deal,

631
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,040
made the deal so difficult,

632
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,240
that Streisand and her team
finally just opted out.

633
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,760
After the collapse of
A Star Is Born,

634
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,280
Elvis' downward spiral accelerates.

635
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,520
Perhaps due to his paranoia
and distrust,

636
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,120
Elvis fires three
long-time bodyguards.

637
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:36,880
They retaliate with a tell-all
memoir published in 1977

638
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:41,400
that exposes Elvis' drug use
to the public for the first time,

639
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,920
igniting a scandal.

640
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:59,720
Early summer 1977.

641
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,800
Elvis drifts between
the dazzle of the stage

642
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:07,000
and the quiet shadows of
his Memphis mansion, Graceland.

643
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,040
He's swollen, exhausted,

644
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,120
and drowning in prescription drugs.

645
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,880
But the show goes on...
because it has to.

646
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,720
By 1977,
it's clear Elvis is not well.

647
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,440
You can see it in concert footage.

648
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:22,680
He's a beast.

649
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:25,880
Visibly larger, sweatier,
his performances are more erratic.

650
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,520
He was just getting
too loose and lazy,

651
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:34,320
and he was going off on tangents
in the middle of sets.

652
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,640
Sometimes you couldn't
even understand him.

653
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,720
But he keeps turning up,
he keeps performing.

654
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,720
He keeps bringing
the people his shows.

655
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,840
He's giving them what they want.

656
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,600
It's a hot, August night in Memphis,

657
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:51,240
and Elvis is enjoying a brief
moment of calm -

658
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:56,360
a rare pause from the relentless
demands of life on the stage.

659
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,080
Elvis was due for another
stint in Vegas.

660
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:05,120
He was in Memphis, getting ready
to fly on his next tour date.

661
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,200
Before, he was seeing friends,

662
00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:10,200
they played racquetball
in the middle of the night.

663
00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:13,120
At some point in
the early morning hours,

664
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,800
Elvis' girlfriend at the time,
Ginger Alden,

665
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,080
found him in the bathroom,
keeled over.

666
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,160
The King is dead.

667
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:39,320
Elvis Presley is officially
pronounced dead at 3.30pm

668
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,440
on August 16th, 1977,

669
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,920
at Baptist Memorial Hospital
in Memphis, Tennessee.

670
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,840
He is just 42 years old.

671
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:55,320
It came as a huge shock not just
to Elvis' entourage, but,

672
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,120
as we know, to the whole nation.

673
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,920
His death, in some ways,
seemed to be the end of an era.

674
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,120
The death of Elvis was really
one of the most traumatic events

675
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,520
in rock-and-roll history.

676
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,320
People don't want
to accept that God is dead.

677
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,600
They don't want to accept
that it's over.

678
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:25,160
After Elvis' death, rumours and
conspiracies spread like wildfire,

679
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,480
fuelled by mystery and grief.

680
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,160
Despite a public autopsy that says
he died of heart failure,

681
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,560
the speculation is endless.

682
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,640
People are saying he was murdered,

683
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,760
different ways he died.

684
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,200
There's also speculation that
Elvis was murdered by the mob.

685
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:45,160
Maybe the Colonel owed
too much money to the mob.

686
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,800
Maybe the mafia wanted
to control his career,

687
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,120
and Colonel Tom wouldn't
sign him over.

688
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,520
The theories around the mafia
involved with his death are endless.

689
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,080
Probably none of it is true,

690
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,760
but it doesn't stop
the rumour mill from carrying on.

691
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,560
Despite all the wild theories,

692
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,000
Elvis Presley is truly gone.

693
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,200
Yet the Colonel remains,

694
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,480
strangely composed,
untouched by grief,

695
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,080
as if the loss of the world's
most famous musician is just

696
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:20,960
another business transaction.

697
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:26,760
He attended the funeral
wearing a Hawaiian shirt -

698
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,280
which some people thought
was disrespectful,

699
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:33,080
but he told Elvis' guys
not to wear suits,

700
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,040
but to dress the way
Elvis knew them.

701
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,440
That's the way he would want
to remember them.

702
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,960
With his client gone,
the Colonel's focus doesn't waver,

703
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,920
relying on earlier agreements

704
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,840
that entitle him to half of
Elvis Presley's earnings.

705
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,840
Parker keeps himself tied
to the King's income

706
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,560
even after Elvis' death.

707
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,920
On the day that
Elvis' body was laid out,

708
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:01,040
the Colonel went to Vernon Presley,
his father, and said,

709
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:02,320
"This changes nothing"...

710
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,800
..and had Vernon sign
a piece of paper

711
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,920
to keep the 50% in play.

712
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:16,280
What the Colonel said publicly
is that Elvis wasn't dead,

713
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,240
just the body was gone.

714
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,120
So, for Colonel,
it was business as usual.

715
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,960
It didn't take him long
before he was trying to see

716
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,120
what he could do with
the Elvis brand.

717
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:35,040
He went to work immediately
after finding out Elvis had died,

718
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,200
to make sure that RCA pressing
plants were at full speed.

719
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:43,000
He had meetings regarding
the merchandising.

720
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,320
And this sounds
really cold on the surface,

721
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,960
but you could also argue that he was
indeed taking care of business.

722
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,560
A year after Elvis' death,

723
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,800
the Colonel organised a kind of
Elvis celebration in Las Vegas,

724
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,280
to kind of mark the one-year
anniversary of his death,

725
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,120
and attracted a lot of people.

726
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,920
And I think it was
the start of Elvis becoming

727
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,120
this kind of symbol for Las Vegas.

728
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,280
After Elvis' death,

729
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,040
Colonel Tom Parker becomes
even more focused on profiting

730
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,160
from his late client's legacy,

731
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,600
but questions begin to surface.

732
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:41,120
In the early 1980s,
Elvis Presley's estate sues Parker,

733
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:46,040
accusing him of syphoning off vast
sums of money for himself.

734
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,320
In the ensuing legal battles,

735
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:53,680
Parker finally reveals the truth
about his real identity.

736
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:57,240
Colonel answered that he could
not be sued in federal court

737
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,440
because he was not
an American citizen.

738
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,040
The news that Colonel Tom Parker
is actually Dutch

739
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,080
reverberates around the world.

740
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,920
But the scrutiny
of this investigation

741
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,760
takes its toll on Parker.

742
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:16,400
In 1983, he is forced to relinquish
all rights and control

743
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,120
over Elvis' estate.

744
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:23,240
Stripped of his power,
Parker retreats to Las Vegas,

745
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,440
moving into a suite at
the Las Vegas Hilton -

746
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,560
formerly known as the International,

747
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,080
where Elvis once reigned.

748
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,640
The Colonel was always
not particularly popular among

749
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,000
the general rock-and-roll
music community,

750
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,880
because they felt that he
kind of stymied Elvis' career

751
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,760
after his initial rise to fame.

752
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:50,240
So, when they found out that
he wasn't what he made out to be,

753
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,960
I think that went along with
people's distrust of the Colonel,

754
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,840
who was this huckster and con man.

755
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,120
The Colonel actually ended up
staying in Las Vegas,

756
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,800
becoming a consultant with
the Hilton Hotel.

757
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,880
But he becomes a shadow
of his former self.

758
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,920
People begin to see him
as a pathetic figure.

759
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:18,320
Everyone knows he has become
this notorious compulsive gambler.

760
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,640
The addiction was so harsh
that it got to where

761
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,360
the Colonel wouldn't
even go down on the floor.

762
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,960
He'd have the roulette wheel
brought up to his room.

763
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,400
Vegas was the place
that he ended up with.

764
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:39,240
It's the place he brought Elvis to
at the beginning, in '56,

765
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,040
and it was the place he ended.

766
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:54,360
Colonel Tom Parker dies
in Las Vegas in 1997,

767
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,520
aged 87.

768
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,680
To some, he was a brilliant showman.

769
00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:03,000
To others, a manipulative fraud
who exploited Elvis for decades.

770
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:08,320
Built on falsehoods,
Parker's life was a long con.

771
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:09,920
And in protecting his lies,

772
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,400
he made decisions
that would define -

773
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,840
and ultimately derail -
Elvis Presley,

774
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,200
including the choice to bring
the King of Rock and Roll

775
00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:21,280
into a city built by crime.

776
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,880
When Colonel Tom Parker
dies in 1997,

777
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,280
the Las Vegas that tourists
saw in that year

778
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,320
was so dramatically different
than the Las Vegas

779
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,440
that Colonel Parker saw
in the late 1940s.

780
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:46,240
Went from being the mob town,
the Rat Pack environment,

781
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,800
to a place that was very corporate.

782
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,440
The casinos were ten times
bigger than the ones he saw

783
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:54,680
when he first got here.

784
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,600
Colonel Tom is a fascinating figure,

785
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,760
and there have been recent attempts
to reappraise his career.

786
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,560
That the Colonel really was
a good force in Elvis' life,

787
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,360
and that he really was doing
his best to look after Elvis

788
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,000
as a client.

789
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,120
I'm not sure I entirely believe it.

790
00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:15,600
The Colonel always used
his client as a human shield

791
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:19,800
to conceal his secrets -
of his illegal status,

792
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,160
of his shady dealings,

793
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,600
of his financial overreaching,

794
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,160
and his associations with
the criminal underground.

795
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:29,720
He was definitely a shady figure

796
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,760
with some very nefarious sides
to his life.

797
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,600
I think he knew the mob.

798
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,880
I think he knew how to use the mob
to steer Elvis' career -

799
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:40,600
and keep them away from him,
as well, and at the end of the day,

800
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:44,640
he is a really, really
interesting, multifaceted figure.

801
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,240
Someone who knew both
the light and the dark,

802
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,840
and someone who was able
to look after Elvis,

803
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,240
but also control him.

804
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:59,960
Elvis Presley came from nothing
and became everything.

805
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,000
Vegas was both his kingdom
and his undoing.

806
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,160
The stage gave him new life,

807
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,240
but also helped drain it away.

808
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,240
And yet, his presence
changed the city,

809
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,680
helping to sweep aside
the old crime-riddled Vegas,

810
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:18,920
transforming it into the
capital of spectacle.

811
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,800
I think Elvis may have contributed
to the diminishment of

812
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,000
the mob influence in Las Vegas,

813
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,680
because it was Elvis -
and nobody else -

814
00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:31,400
who drew those crowds.

815
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:36,640
That did contribute to the gradual
disappearance of the mob.

816
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,800
Half a century after his death,

817
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,120
Elvis is still everywhere
in Las Vegas,

818
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,720
from street names
and wedding chapels,

819
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,880
to the endless parade of
rhinestone-studded impersonators.

820
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,560
His show was the blueprint
for everything that followed -

821
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:58,400
the mega residencies,
the arena-scale productions,

822
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,960
the billion-dollar strip.

823
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,640
A new kind of Vegas -
bigger, brighter,

824
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,960
and far beyond the reach of
the famous and infamous figures

825
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,240
who once ruled it.

826
00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:39,200
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