How I wished the queue were longer! She looked up, smiled gratefully and managed a few words between sobs, which, it seemed to me, grew increasingly intimate as we approached the barrier. Young and newly single myself, I concluded that she had split up with her boyfriend, and to my surprise, found myself placing a reassuring arm around her shoulder and saying: 'I know just how you feel', placing the necessary emphasis on 'just', which, according to my ex, is guaranteed to work in these circumstances. Having just landed at Heathrow, I was in the unusually long queue at immigration, when the pretty blonde in front suddenly burst out sobbing: 'He was all that mattered to me'. I never met that man again, and have always wondered what he felt when he heard the news of Elvis' death just the following day. I did not realise at the time that he was joking, and I replied in all seriousness. The man in the shop teased me by asking how to spell the name, and asked who this Elvis was. The shop also printed wording on T-shirts, so I asked for ELVIS to be printed above the photo. On Monday August 15th, I went into a shop to get a T-shirt printed with Elvis' photo on it. Like many others, I was on holiday at the time. I was 12 when Elvis Presley died, and had been a fan since 1969. Like all great figures in history the legend will never die and his legacy will be there for generations to come. There is and will always be only one Elvis.

To be so close to the man and his music cannot be bettered. In 2003 my sister and I went on a pilgrimage to Graceland. All night vigils and movie shows followed then and now, and our love for the man has grown every day since.

We spent the rest of the day glued to the radio and television. It was around 0600 when I turned the radio on to hear Elvis on Radio Luxemburg the DJ was in tears as he re-stated the news that Elvis had died.Īs soon as I got home I awoke my sister to tell her. My sister and I are Elvis fans, I was returning from a night-fishing trip on August 16th 1977, in my dad's car.

Most people love a conspiracy theory, and the undisputed king of rock'n'roll has been the subject of more than a few, many of them variations on the theme of his faked death and continuing incognito existence.īut even if the music legend is not actually with us in the flesh and blood, his spirit still lives in his music - and the lucrative impersonation industry. The iconic status he achieved in his lifetime coupled with a sudden and relatively early death cemented his position as one of the most famous rock stars ever. Elvis Presley died in his Memphis mansion on 16 August 1977, at the age of 42.

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