The closer Presley gets to me, the more I can see that his eyes are slightly clouded, his face is pale and he’s clearly overweight. “Joe Jackson? So are you ‘Lucky’ like the Lucky Jackson name I used in Viva Las Vegas !” he jokes, swirling 180° on the piano stool, before striding across the room with his hand outstretched.
Smith waits until Elvis stops singing the last line of the song before telling him I’ve arrived. With Elvis in the music room now are Billy Smith’s wife Joe and Presley’s latest girlfriend Ginger Aldes. And, as far as I can tell, his eyes are closed – just like they used to be when he was a kid singing gospel songs with his folks in church in Tupelo. His voice sounds rich, resonant and soulful. That essay ended, prematurely, with me being greeted by the King outside his door in Graceland and freezing on the spot, “For months I had planned all the questions I would ask him,” I wrote, “and now I could barely speak my own name.” Now here I am, nearly a decade later, on August 15th 1977, telling Presley’s cousin, Billy Smith, at the door of Graceland, that Joe Jackson, from hotpress in Ireland is here to do the world’s first in-depth interview with Elvis Presley.Įlvis himself is singing at the grand piano in the music room, to the right, as I walk through the ante-bellum doorway. As a boy I’d written a school essay about how ‘My Greatest Experience’ was meeting “my idol” Elvis Presley. It’s hard to believe this is really happening. The quotes in this re-created interview are drawn from a wealth of reliable sources and involved extensive research into many rare articles, magazines and books. They sit down across the table, Jackson pushes the record button - and so begins the final interview with the greatest rock'n'roll star of them all. Elvis is in the music room,seated at the piano and singing 'Blue Eyes Cryin In The Rain'. Joe Jackson of Hot Press arrives at Graceland, to do the ultimate interview with Elvis Presley. Here at Hot Press, Joe Jackson noticed that there wasn't yet an obituary that could fully express the impact of his death, so he took it upon himself to write it- with an imagined two part interview with the King himself. … He opened the door to carefree rock 'n' roll and the attitude." And he wiggled, he had a different style of singing from the time of Frank Sinatra. He was the real example of an out-of-the-box showman. "Even the Beatles were influenced by Elvis," DJ and founder of the Philippine rock 'n' roll radio station DZRJ, Ramon Jacinto, told the Associated Press. In Manila, Philippines, the Elvis Presley Friendship Club hosted their annual gathering of Elvis impersonators and fans. Watch the 2017 Candlelight Vigil, live from starting at 9 pm ET/8 pm CT. In Graceland last night, tens of thousands of Elvis fans joined the rock star's surviving family, including his ex-wife Priscilla and daughter Lisa Marie at a candlelight vigil. This week, to honour the 40th anniversary of his death, fans and family have been coming together to pay tribute. It was 40 years ago today that Elvis Presley, the classic voice of the fifties and sixties rock-and-roll scene, was found dead of heart failure in the bathroom at his home in Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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