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588 “leeches”: Life magazine, June 1990.
588 “He felt that [Ginger] was just using him”: David Stanley, quoted in Life magazine, June 1990.
589 “Elvis made dreams come true”: e-mail, Shirley Dieu to author, 2009.
589 “Baby, they wrote a book”: Sherry Williams quoting Elvis Presley, “Elvis’s Secret Love,” Essential Elvis magazine, #33, 2004.
589 “You didn’t think I’d make it, did you?” Billy Smith quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1994.
590 “The singer’s new girlfriend:” Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst: Elvis Day By Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
590 “For the last six months”: George C. Nichopoulos to Peter Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
590 “He said, ‘That damn girl’ ”: Shirley Dieu to author, 2009.
590 “Why the hell do you put up with her?” Billy Smith to author, 1994.
590 “If Elvis had ever known that”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
591 “They were fixin’ ”: Alicia Kerwin, quoted in Cole, James P., and Thompson, Charles C. II. The Death of Elvis. All Alicia Kerwin quotes come from this source.
591 “It scared me real bad”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
592 “multiple drug toxicity”: Cole, James P., and Thompson, Charles C. II. The Death of Elvis. Alicia’s marriage to Anthony Albert Cassel was tempestuous, and she began abusing alcohol and the very prescription drugs that had so frightened her when she was in Elvis’s presence. On March 12, 1991, ten days after shooting her husband in the leg, a case that was going to trial, she went to sleep on large doses of Valium, Placydil, and Elavil, and never woke up. The coroner listed the cause of death as “multiple drug toxicity.” She was 33 years old.
593 “he was pale, swollen—he had no stamina”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst: Elvis Day By Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
593 “I can’t wait for 1977 to be over”: Jerry Schilling quoting Elvis to Jerry Hopkins, the Jerry Hopkins Collection, Special Collections, the University of Memphis.
593 “You could look at Elvis”: Larry Geller to author, 1998.
594 “People who ask that”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
594 “God went to the toilet!”: Jackie Kahane to Peter Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
594 “At the finale”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst: Elvis Day By Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
595 “He said, ‘I’ve got to teach her’ ”: Larry Geller to author, 2009.
595 “whole damn family”: Geller, Larry and Spector, Joel, with Romanowski, Patricia. If I Can Dream. New York: Avon Books, 1989.
595 “a long-lost soul”: Kathy Westmoreland, quoted in People magazine, August 18, 1997.
595 “I’m going to look fat”: Kathy Westmoreland quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1997.
595 “I knew that it was inevitable”: Kathy Westmoreland to author, 1997.
595 “At the beginning”: Todd Slaughter, as quoted in the Irish Times, January 24, 1997.
596 “almost anorexic”: Shirley Dieu to author, 2009.
596 “We were on the airplane”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
596 “I did say to him”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Ladies’ Home Journal, July 2003.
597 “He told me”: “Priscilla Presley: Surviving Elvis,” by Sheila Weller, McCall’s magazine, May 1979.
597 “and some of the old songs”: Jo Alden to author, 1977.
597 “When I stayed at Graceland”: Lisa Marie Presley, quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
597 “I’m so tired”: Kathy Westmoreland quoting Elvis Presley in People magazine, August 18, 1997.
597 “The Colonel owes”: Kathy Westmoreland quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1997.
598 “in a very good mood”: Larry Geller to author, 1998.
598 “He had earlier”: Ginger Alden Leyser, “Elvis Presley’s Death: Anniversary Spotlights Similarities with Michael Jackson,” by Russell Goldman, on the ABC News Web site, August 16, 2009.
598 “He and Ginger had wonderful plans”: Jo Alden to author, 1977.
598 “He found me”: Lisa Marie Presley, quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
598 “Ain’t no problem”: Billy Smith, quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1994.
599 “How is Lisa Marie”: Rick Stanley, quoting Elvis Presley in Life magazine, June 1990.
600 “the core problem”: Ginger Alden Leyser, “Elvis Presley’s Death: Anniversary Spotlights Similarities with Michael Jackson,” by Russell Goldman, on the ABC News Web site, August 16, 2009.
600 “didn’t know Elvis”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
600 “Precious, I’m going to go in the bathroom”: Billy Smith quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1994. A similar exchange appears in Life magazine, June 1990.
601 “No, if they ain’t heard from him”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
601 “That’s when I saw him in there”: Ginger Alden, “World’s at Standstill for Elvis’s Fiancee,” by Lawrence Buser, The Commercial Appeal, August 19, 1977.
602 “Who’s on duty?” Ginger Alden, as quoted in Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena. Good Rockin’ Tonight.
602 “Don’t go, son!”: Billy Smith quoting Vernon Presley to author, 1994.
602 “Get her out of here, quick!” Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena. Good Rockin’ Tonight.
602 “What happened to him?”: Ulysses Jones, as quoted by Marty Lacker to author, 1994.
602 “He’s gone”: Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, quoted in Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena. Good Rockin’ Tonight.
603 “was at a standstill”: Jo Smith, quoted in “World’s at Standstill for Elvis’s Fiancee,” by Lawrence Buser, Commercial Appeal, August 19, 1977.
603 “an overwhelming sense”: Ginger Alden Leyser, “Elvis Presley’s Death: Anniversary Spotlights Similarities with Michael Jackson,” by Russell Goldman, on the ABC News Web site, August 16, 2009.
603 “My son is dead”: Vernon Presley, quoted in “Elvis Presley’s Death: Anniversary Spotlights Similarities with Michael Jackson,” by Russell Goldman, on the ABC News Web site, August 16, 2009.
603 “She stood there”: Larry Geller to author, 2009.
603 “It’s Lisa”: Lisa Marie Presley, as quoted by Linda Thompson, Life magazine, February 10, 1995.
603 “I have something terrible to tell you”: Joe Esposito to Colonel Tom Parker. Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena. Good Rockin’ Tonight.
603 “I left the house”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
603 “A call came in from Memphis”: Priscilla Presley, quoting her sister in “Priscilla Presley: Surviving Elvis,” by Sheila Weller, McCall’s magazine, May 1979.
604 “The sun went out”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Ladies’ Home Journal, July 2003.
604 “He just said”: Shirley Dieu to author, 2009.
604 “I turned the world off”: Sheila Ryan Caan to author, 2009.
604 “The first thing I heard”: Joyce Bova, e-mail to author, 2009.
604 “I was absolutely devastated”: Ann Ellington Wagner, in the documentary, The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
604 “everybody went numb”: Raquel Welch to author, 2007.
605 “When I came out of my bedroom”: June Juanico, 2007.
EPILOGUE
608 “Simply put”: Dr. M. Katherine Shear, quoted in “After a Death, the Pain That Doesn’t Go Away,” by Fran Schumer, The New York Times, September 29, 2009.
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INDEX
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Aberbach, Jean, 178, 293, 321
actor: Elvis as, 81, 133, 229–30, 331–32, 561–62. See also specific film
Acuff, Roy, 36, 100, 101
Adams, Joan, 146–47, 471
Adams, Nick, 176, 180, 184, 185, 187–88, 192–93, 195, 196, 197, 251, 265, 449, 469
Albuquerque, New Mexico; Elvis’s performances in, 143
Alden, Ginger, 252, 579, 581–82, 584–93, 594–95, 597–603
Alden, Jo LaVern, 581, 587, 598, 603
Alden, Rosemary, 579, 581, 585, 588, 591, 593
All-Night Gospel Singings (Memphis, Tennessee), 59, 60, 67, 70
Allen, Steve, 153, 156, 457, 458
Allen, Valerie, 215–16
Allied Artists, 389, 404
“Aloha from Hawaii” concert, 528–29, 530–32
American Studio; Elvis’s recordings with, 472–74, 490
Amos, Betty, 84–85, 88, 90–91, 92, 144, 145, 402
Andress, Ursula, 380
Anka, Paul, 478, 480–81
Ann-Margret, 372, 384–89, 398, 400–401, 405, 422–23, 428, 441–42, 455, 478, 480, 497, 509–10, 530, 604
Ansara, Michael, 332, 409
Anton, Susan, 555
Apacheland Movie Ranch, 468
Armed Forces Radio, 316, 317
Armed Forces Television, 317
Army, U.S.: certificate of honor for Elvis from, 317; drafting of Elvis by, 244–45; Elvis’s advanced training in, 257; Elvis’s discharge from, 317–19, 321–22, 341; and Elvis’s draft status, 208; and Elvis’s eating habits, 28; and Elvis’s hair color, 211; Elvis in basic training in, 251, 253–56, 259, 268; and Elvis in Germany, 247, 268, 269–71, 273–83, 285–95, 297–319; Elvis’s induction into, 251–52; Elvis’s last performances before entering, 244; Elvis’s promotions in, 282, 317; Elvis’s views about, 254, 257, 317; and Gladys-Elvis relationship, 251; influence on Elvis of, 255, 347–48, 370