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    Hello,

    Ok goofy thread.

    DO YOU BELIEVE ELVIS IS STILL ALIVE?

    Me --- NO! He died from a drug overdose.

    What do you think?

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    Yes, I think he went into a witness protection program, but still can't leave the notoriety alone.
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    Originally Posted by pacmania_2001
    Why do you think I won't post my photo?
    I thought it was because the FBI monitors the Internet, too.
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    Originally Posted by Tommyknocker
    Originally Posted by pacmania_2001
    Why do you think I won't post my photo?
    I thought it was because the FBI monitors the Internet, too.
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    Elvis is only alive for those who are so pathetic, they can't face up to the fact that Elvis was human, had weaknesses like the rest of us, and he died as a result of those weaknesses. They thought he was perfect ...almost god-like.

    Which tells me psychiatrists will never go hungry in this country
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    Why do you think I won't post my photo?
    I thought it was because the FBI monitors the Internet, too.
    It's the CIA you have to worry about. Thats why I wear my al-foil hat so they can't trace me.
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    If you wear it in the next thunderstorm, you won't have to worry about it anymore, as there won't be a trace left of you.
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    Originally Posted by pacmania_2001
    Thunderstorms are NASAs way of controlling people through fear.
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    Back on topic:

    Elvis is Dead... The end

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    NO! He died from a drug overdose.
    I always thought he died from a heart attack while on the toilet.

    From VH1.com:

    On August 16, 1977, Presley was found dead in Graceland. The cause of death remains a subject of widespread speculation, although it seems likely that drugs played a part.
    I don't know if that refers to an overdose or to his health being worsened by drugs leading to a heart attack or something like that.
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    Originally Posted by 88888
    I always thought he died from a heart attack while on the toilet
    The drug use weakened his heart. Same thing killed Jim Morrison ...the apparent cause was a heart attack, but the root cause was his excessive drug use ...and the stress didn't help either.
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    "...drugs played a part" duh !!

    he was taking about 100 precription pills a day .. or more .

    his pharmacy bill i think was 75grand a year .... back then (when you couldnt buy cheaper drugs in canada)

    really they should have charged his 'doctors'
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    Originally Posted by pacmania_2001
    Thunderstorms are NASAs way of controlling people through fear.
    If you wear your foil hat in a thunderstorm, you will face your fear. In a way you cannot imagine.

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    sorry - not that many:

    But the quantity and variety Dr. Nick prescribed challenged all
    credibility. Two years after Elvis' death, a computer check of prescriptions
    issued in the Memphis area showed that in the final seven months of Elvis'
    life, George Nichopoulos prescribed 5300 uppers, downers and painkillers for
    Elvis. That's an average of about twenty-five pills or injectable vials a
    day.
    Elvis checked himself out of the hospital after five days and went home,
    where he resumed his routine of being given a packet of eight or nine pills
    to go to sleep and another packet upon waking up.
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    "Elvis: The Final Years"

    by Jerry Hopkins

    Elvis Presley's final years were full of paradox. He was the rebellious
    king of rock & roll who returned again and again in the Seventies to play
    Las Vegas, home to such "establishment" entertainers as Sammy Davis Jr. and
    Frank Sinatra. He crisscrossed the nation on grueling tours, setting box-
    office records for performances that became increasingly sloppy and
    listless. He was often unprepared at recording sessions, and even when it
    was apparent on disc, everything RCA released scaled the charts. With the
    help of manager Colonel Tom Parker's finely tuned Presley machine, Elvis
    projected an image of the courteous Southern gentleman -- always answering
    reporters' questions with a "yes, sir" or "no, ma'am," and lavishing
    expensive gifts of cars and cash on strangers -- but often abusing his aides
    and bodyguards and friends.
    Most telling of all, Elvis was the most popular entertainer in the world,
    a figure of constant attention who came off as the boy next door while his
    life grew increasingly bizarre. He was fascinated by guns, and in his last
    years rarely went anywhere without carrying one. He became a nocturnal
    creature who would rent an amusement park outside Memphis so he could ride
    the roller coaster at night -- alone except for his entourage. He covered
    hotel-room windows with aluminum foil to keep daylight out. His appetite for
    -- and dependence on -- uppers and downers and painkillers was incredible.
    Elvis didn't play out his final years alone. There were other actors in
    the drama. The Colonel. His father, Vernon, and his daughter, Lisa Marie.
    The women -- his former wife, Priscilla, and his girlfriends Linda Thompson
    and Ginger Alden. His bodyguards, Red and Sonny West, and his aides, Joe
    Esposito and Charlie Hodge. And his doctor, George Nichopoulos.
    But by 1974, Elvis was a very sick man. And it seemed that none of the
    people he gathered around him could do anything to stop him from slipping
    away.
    What follows is excerpted from "Elvis: the Final Years" by Jerry Hopkins,
    published in 1980 by St. Martin's Press. - The Ed.

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    September 1974 - January 1975
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    It was a bad time for Elvis. Everything seemed to be coming apart. His
    father and his stepmother, Dee, separated after ten years. "Vernon treated
    me like a child; he kept me in a cage," Dee said.
    It was a familiar theme. Priscilla had felt suffocated and restricted,
    too. Now, as Dee was packing up and leaving Vernon's house nearby, Elvis
    watched as his friend Linda Thompson moved her things out of Graceland.
    Their relationship was an emotional one, and there would be flare-ups for
    years to come.
    Elvis had also lost his longtime piano player, David Briggs, who was being
    paid $3000 a week by Elvis but wanted to return to Nashville's recording
    studios.
    Elvis' health plummeted as his weight ballooned. Just how much weight he
    had put on, and how quickly, became apparent when he arrived at the
    University of Maryland on September 27th. So great was the change, some of
    the boys in the band had trouble recognizing him.
    Tony Brown, who had taken Briggs' place in the backup band, remembered
    watching Elvis arrive. "He fell out of the limousine to his knees," said
    Brown. "People jumped to help and he pushed them away, like, 'Don't help
    me!' He always did that when he fell. He walked onstage and held onto the
    mike for the first thirty minutes like it was a post. Everybody was scared."
    Guitarist John Wilkinson was standing a few feet away from Elvis. "The
    lights went down," he recalled, "and Elvis came up the stairs. He was all
    gut. He was slurring. He was so fucked up. It was obvious he was drugged,
    that there was something terribly wrong with his body. It was so bad, the
    words to the songs were barely intelligible. He could barely get through the
    introductions. We were in a state of shock. I remember crying. He cut the
    show short, yet it seemed like it went on forever."
    The rest of the tour was, as Brown put it, "uphill." For three nights, in
    Detroit, South Bend and St. Paul, Elvis seemed in control. His eyes were
    bright and the shows were energetic, giving hope to those around him. Back
    in Detroit for another show, he slipped again.
    "I watched him in his dressing room, just draped over a chair, unable to
    move," said Wilkinson. "So often I thought, 'Boss, why don't you just cancel
    this tour and take a year off?' I mentioned something once in a guarded
    moment. He patted me on the back and said, 'It'll be alright. Don't worry
    about it.'"
    The cities rolled by, all of them very much alike, all noisy and somewhat
    numbing. Dayton, Wichita, San Antonio, Abilene... Limousines, hotel rooms,
    huge auditoriums and the chartered Playboy jet that took him from town to
    town became the only environments he knew.
    After that, Elvis didn't work for five months.

    It didn't get any better in 1975. On January 8th, Elvis celebrated his
    fortieth birthday. He worried that he was "getting up there," and that hurt.
    Twenty days later, Elvis entered the hospital for, among other problems,
    an enlarged colon. At least that's what the press was told. And it was true.
    But it was also true that Elvis was there for another detoxification. This,
    too, would be confirmed years later by Dr. Nick [George Nichopoulos]. At the
    time, however, Nichopoulos merely stated that Elvis had been sick for
    several days but was reluctant to go to the hospital. He said it had
    required several more days of talking before Elvis submitted to the
    physician's wishes, during which time a suite was held for him on the
    Baptist Hospital's eighteenth floor.
    Finally, on January 28th at five a.m., the telephone rang at the nurse's
    station. Dr. Nick said he was leaving Graceland with Elvis and would be
    arriving in fifteen minutes. Elvis, wearing navy blue pajamas and a few
    days' beard, showed up with his father, Joe Esposito, Linda Thompson and a
    few bodyguards.
    The enlarged colon and drug detoxification were two serious problems
    treated during his three-week stay. Another more serious problem -- one
    never discussed publicly -- showed up in a liver biopsy. Later, Elvis would
    joke about the long needle that was stuck into his side to extract a sample
    of liver tissue, but the findings weren't at all amusing. There was severe
    damage to the organ, and it was clear to attending physicians that the
    probable cause was drug abuse.
    The colon problem was caused by Elvis' poor eating habits, Dr. Nick said.
    Elvis loved fried foods and sugar, and needed an almost complete change in
    diet.
    As usual, Elvis was cheerful and obedient, promising to mend his ways. Of
    course, he didn't.

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    December 1975 - January 1976
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    This was the first time Elvis ever worked during the winter holidays. In
    the 1960s, it was always written into his contract that he was not available
    until after January 8th, his birthday. Why did he break tradition? And why
    did he agree to perform on New Year's Eve in the huge Silver Dome in
    Pontiac, Michigan, which seated 80,000, when he knew it would be too big to
    give his fans the show they paid to see? The answer, of course, was money.
    Elvis needed money, desperately. His bank accounts were empty, and he had
    borrowed money against future earnings, using Graceland for collateral. As
    difficult as it was to believe, Elvis was broke.
    Every way except economically, the show was a disaster. The sounds of
    "Thus Spake Zarathustra" echoed through the gigantic hall. As Elvis entered,
    he looked confused. Where were his sidemen? Where were his singers? Finally,
    he spotted them below him, on another level. He was surprised, then angry.
    Why hadn't anyone told him he'd have to sing alone?
    In the middle of the show, his pants ripped, splitting at the seams
    because of his extra poundage.
    The temperature made it worse. It was so cold, the members of the band
    were playing in their overcoats. "The trumpet players' lips were so cold
    they could barely blow their horns," said John Wilkinson. "It was so cold
    our strings kept changing key. Oh, we were glad to get out of there."
    On the way home, Elvis exploded, cursing and blaming everyone he could
    think of for the show. So black was his mood, Linda Thompson just sat there
    and let it happen. Normally, she would have made a face at him or fed him
    some gooey sweet and cooed him back to serenity with baby talk.
    A few days later, a story in the entertainment trade papers reported that
    the concert grossed $800,000, believed to be a world's record for a single
    night by a single artist, beating out the Beatles' take at Shea Stadium in
    1964. Elvis kept about half of it.
    The Colonel pulled off another coup at about the same time, selling to RCA
    Records the rights to all material recorded by Elvis through 1972.
    Obviously, this represented a huge body of product -- more than 350 songs,
    nearly fifty albums' worth, almost all of it still in the catalog and
    selling slowly but steadily. One RCA executive claimed that the Colonel's
    motivation for the deal was "greed, pure and simple," and said the record
    company went for it only because it figured it'd get the money back, and the
    big price tag was worth paying to keep Elvis and the Colonel happy.
    The price? A nice, round $6 million.

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    February 1976 - May 1976
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    Elvis was losing control.
    He hadn't recorded any new material in almost nine months, and with RCA
    wishing to maintain its three-album-per-year release schedule, new songs
    were sorely needed. Elvis ignored pleas to go to Nashville or Hollywood to
    record and didn't want to go back to Stax in Memphis, either. So, in the
    first week of February 1976, RCA began moving $200,000 worth of recording
    equipment into Elvis' Graceland mansion. If Mohammed wouldn't go to the
    mountain, then the mountain would go to Mohammed.
    Elvis' road band was flown in from Los Angeles, and several top Nashville
    studio men -- David Briggs piano, Bobby Emmons on electric piano and Norbert
    Putnam on bass -- were called. Everyone was waiting for Elvis to come
    downstairs and sing.
    Felton Jarvis was producing the sessions as usual, and he kept moving
    nervously back and forth between the den and the big RCA mobile truck parked
    outside. The jokes never stopped, but by midnight, everyone was getting
    anxious. Elvis sent word that he was sick and had a doctor in attendance.
    Red and Sonny West and Dave Hebler explained Elvis' behavior another way. In
    their book, "Elvis: What Happened?," they tell of a sinister story about a
    plan Elvis had to kill the city's top narcotics dealers. They contend this
    is what kept Elvis holed up in his bedroom.
    Red said Elvis summoned him to his room, where he had a huge arsenal of
    automatic weapons, pistols, rifles and rockets strewn all over the floor.
    Elvis handed Red a list of names and a packet of photographs and implied
    that they'd been given to him by the Memphis police. "Elvis had it all
    planned," Red wrote. "He wanted myself and Dave Hebler and Dick Grob, the
    former cop [who had gone to work for Elvis some years earlier], to go out
    and lure them, and he said he was going to kill them."
    Elvis told Red and Dave that he would use the recording sessions as his
    cover. They'd set up the target, he'd sneak out of the house the back way,
    make the hit and return swiftly to Graceland, where he would then go
    downstairs and sing. Red shook his head and said it was pretty heavy.
    "Hell," said Elvis, "the cops want them."
    Somehow, Elvis was diverted, chemically or conversationally. His fantasy
    was set aside. And the recording session finally began.
    In seven days, Elvis sang a dozen songs. It wasn't easy getting even that
    much out of him. Ten of the songs appeared on the album FROM ELVIS PRESLEY
    BOULEVARD. The lyrics, as a lot, were sad, and Elvis' performance, though
    adequate, clearly showed his failing strength and health.
    Elvis' moods continued to swing wildly. When he first saw the recording
    setup in his den, he said, "Let's leave it, I like it better this way than
    with furniture." A few days later, he stood in the den facing the huge
    playback speakers, his eyes glazed, pointing a shotgun. "The sound's no
    fuckin' good in those things!" he croaked. "I'm gonna kill the *************
    and put 'em out of my misery." He cocked the shotgun and took unsteady aim.
    Some of the musicians got the gun away from him, and a few minutes later the
    session was cancelled. Some nights, he seemed remote, disconnected. Other
    nights he failed to show up at all. Finally, on February 9th, RCA packed up
    its gear and returned to Nashville, happy to have what it had.

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    March 1977 - April 1977
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    Elvis' small fleet of jets was aimed at many of the cities where his
    oldest and most loyal constituency lived -- Phoenix, Amarillo, Norman,
    Abilene and Austin. This was the territory he traveled in the Fifties when
    he drove from city to city with Scotty Moore and Bill Black ("the Blue Moon
    Boys") to appear in noisy, crowded honky-tonks and on the backs of flatbed
    trucks. This is where he was a young star on the "Louisiana Hayride" radio
    show. It was this region -- the panhandle of West Texas, Arkansas, north
    Louisiana -- that gave little Sun Records an entire galaxy of stars besides
    Elvis: Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Conway Twitty, Charlie Rich, Jerry Lee
    Lewis and Johnny Cash.
    That was 1955. Now it was 1977. More than twenty years had passed and, to
    the people who lived in the region, Elvis had come to epitomize the American
    dream. They, too, were -- or had been -- poor. Generally, they were working-
    class people, and they wished to get out of their box, to live the fantasy
    life that Elvis had come to represent. He was what every woman wanted and
    what every man wished to be. It didn't even matter that he had grown fat.
    At first, the tour was just like the others. Some shows were good, some
    were fair and some were miserable. Elvis did his best, but nowadays his best
    was much less than it was when he was younger. At some concerts, Elvis
    performed like an old man. At times it seemed he had only the loosest
    control of his voice and muscle coordination. He dropped lyrics, mumbled
    introductions and very nearly *stumbled* around the stage.
    On March 31st, following a so-so show in Alexandria, Louisiana, Elvis'
    private plane took him to Baton Rouge for a concert at Louisiana State
    University. As was customary, the show started before he left the hotel for
    the coliseum. All the usual acts performed: the Sweet Inspirations first,
    then J.D. Sumner and his youthful Stamps, and finally Jackie Kahane, with
    the predictable jokes. Elvis usually arrived during the intermission that
    followed the comedian's monologue. Tonight he didn't.
    There was chaos backstage. Elvis' hotel room was called.
    A half-hour passed. There were more calls. Finally, it was decided to
    cancel the rest of the show, to say that Elvis was too sick to go on, that
    he was under a doctor's care and was being flown back to Memphis to be
    hospitalized.
    It wasn't untrue. Dr. Nick returned with Elvis to Memphis on the "Lisa
    Marie." Within hours of arriving, Elvis checked himself into a two-room
    suite on the sixteenth floor of the Baptist Hospital. This time, Maurice
    Elliott announced to the press that Elvis was being treated for
    "exhaustion."
    That wasn't entirely untrue, either. Elvis had been taking so many uppers
    he hadn't slept much. He ate poorly, exercised not at all, and the live
    performances, however listless, took what little he had.
    Dr. Nick watched Elvis closely. For a long, long time -- more than two
    years -- Elvis had been using drugs daily rather than periodically. His use
    of them was now, in fact, rampant -- a runaway pattern that could lead to a
    fatal overdose.
    Elvis *had* nearly overdosed on several occasions. Linda Thompson recalls
    times she found him unconscious or unable to get his breath. Red and Sonny
    West tell of a time when a girl Elvis took to Palm Springs was hospitalized
    after they'd spent an evening swilling Hycadan, a codiene cough syrup.
    Elvis was an experimenter. Just as he wanted the newest automotive
    extravagance, he wanted the latest drug. The best and newest on the
    marketplace. Valium. Ethinamate. Dilaudid. Demerol. Percodan. Placidyl.
    Dexedrine. Biphetamine. Amytal. Quaalude. Carbrital. Cocaine hydrochloride.
    Ritalin.
    He had once turned to Red West's wife and said, "Pat, I've tried them all,
    honey, and believe me, Dilaudid is the best." Dilaudid is a painkiller
    usually given to terminal cancer patients.
    Elvis regarded his many prescriptions as medicine. He had real problems --
    pain, insomnia, a tendency toward obesity -- and he was taking real medicine
    to take care of those problems. And that was it.
    Except that wasn't it. Not all of it. He also knew that those drugs made
    him feel good. Dilaudid was best. That one brought on the cushiony surfboard
    ride, that friendly blotto that wiped out all the psychic injuries and
    brought on a dreamy somnolence.
    It was from a very peculiar position that Dr. Nick watched Elvis dry out
    in the hospital, because he knew that the pills Elvis was so strung out on
    had come from him. As early as January, Dr. Nick had become Elvis' primary
    supplier. It wasn't greed or ego that put his small, white-haired physician
    in that place. Up until January, Elvis had solicited his prescriptions from
    dozens of doctors, stretching from Beverly Hills and Palm Springs to Elvis'
    Graceland neighborhood. Dr. Nick, who had been one of them, figured that if
    he could become his patient's only source, he could gain control and, with
    time, wean Elvis off drugs completely.
    But the quantity and variety Dr. Nick prescribed challenged all
    credibility. Two years after Elvis' death, a computer check of prescriptions
    issued in the Memphis area showed that in the final seven months of Elvis'
    life, George Nichopoulos prescribed 5300 uppers, downers and painkillers for
    Elvis. That's an average of about twenty-five pills or injectable vials a
    day.
    Elvis checked himself out of the hospital after five days and went home,
    where he resumed his routine of being given a packet of eight or nine pills
    to go to sleep and another packet upon waking up.

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    August 1977
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    If Elvis reflected on his recent years, he had much to be proud of. In
    1968, after years spent hidden away in Hollywood making lightweight
    musicals, he had climbed into a black leather suit and, in a single
    television special, launched a comeback that really never stopped peaking.
    His return to public performing in 1969 in Las Vegas and the following year
    on the road were significant musical events. In 1971, he won the prestigious
    Bing Crosby Award. In 1972, he filled Madison Square Garden for four shows
    in a row, breaking all attendance and box-office records. In 1973, he gave
    his ALOHA FROM HAWAII satellite show, which reached a billion people; he won
    a Golden Globe award for the documentary ELVIS ON TOUR; and he won his first
    Grammy (after nearly fifty albums and ninety singles) for his gospel LP, HE
    TOUCHED ME.
    The awards and events came less frequently after that, but they came
    nonetheless. And still the records sold and sold. Every year, it was his
    name that appeared in "The Guinness Book of World Records" for selling more
    records than any other artist in the history of recorded music.
    If Elvis was in a reflective mood, he might also have looked back on more
    than a thousand personal appearances in eight years. Where hadn't he been in
    America during that time? Surely he must have visited everyone's hometown.
    Perhaps that was what had made Elvis such a superstar.
    The final week in Elvis' life was memorable only because it was the final
    week. Elvis saw friends occasionally or talked on the telephone when they
    called. He played racquetball in the court behind his house. He watched
    gospel shows on television. He talked about the tour that was to begin on
    June 17th in Maine. Ginger Alden [his last girlfriend] said they continued
    to make wedding plans, claiming that he was going to make an announcement at
    a concert in Memphis at the end of the tour. He read his Bible and his
    numbers book. He ate his cheeseburgers and took his pills.
    On August 14th, he started a fast, something he often did to lose weight
    quickly before going on tour. Oddly, he didn't take any Ionamin, the
    appetite suppressant he'd favored for so long. Perhaps he believed that
    racquetball and fasting were enough. Besides, what difference did it really
    make? At 250 pounds, he was grossly overweight, and how much could he lose
    in two days?
    On August 15th, he awoke at four p.m., and after breakfast played with his
    daughter, Lisa, on the grounds, laughing as she ran around and around in her
    electric cart.
    In the early evening, Elvis called his dentist at home and asked if he and
    Ginger could see him. Dr. Lester Hofman had been the recipient of Elvis'
    generosity many times; he drove a Cadillac that Elvis had given him. He told
    Elvis that 10:30 p.m. at his office would be fine.
    Elvis arrived in his customized Stutz Bearcat with Ginger. Dr. Hofman had
    never met Ginger. Elvis introduced her, using his pet nickname
    "Gingerbread." After the dentist X-rayed her teeth, he filled two of Elvis'
    teeth. As was the custom, the fillings were porcelain. Elvis had many
    fillings and he didn't want a flash of gold when he opened his mouth to
    sing.
    Three hours passed. Back at Graceland, Elvis called Dick Grob, one of his
    security men, and handed him a list of songs he decided to add to his
    concert repertoire. He told Grob to locate the words and music and chord
    changes for the new material so that he could brief the band before they
    went on (and so he'd have the lyrics onstage in case he needed them). Grob
    said that as he left the room, Elvis said, "We'll make this tour the best
    ever."
    By two or 2:30 a.m., Elvis had changed into a striped workout suit and was
    on his racquetball court. Ginger hoped that playing would help Elvis relax
    enough to fall asleep easily. Elvis called it quits about four a.m., and
    after leisurely working out for a few minutes on an exercise cycle, he and
    Ginger retreated to his bedroom.
    Ginger soon fell asleep, leaving Elvis alone, reading a book on the bed
    beside her. At nine, Ginger awoke to find Elvis still reading. He told her
    he couldn't sleep and was going into the bathroom to read. Ginger knew that
    meant he was going to take some of his medication. Elvis' syringes were in
    the bathroom, and so was some of his personal pharmacy.
    "Okay," Ginger said, "just don't fall asleep." With that, she rolled over
    on the big bed and went back to sleep herself.
    Elvis carried the book with him, his finger stuck into it as a marker. He
    might have glanced at himself in the bathroom mirror. Blue pajamas. Puffy
    eyes and face. Bad color. No one knows, but it's likely he helped himself to
    something from his pharmacy, because as the autopsy would later show, he had
    as many as ten different drugs coursing through his body, taking control of
    his brain, his heart. Four of the drugs were in what the medical examiner
    would describe as "significant amounts." These were codeine, ethinamate,
    methaqualone and unidentifiable barbiturates. He had also taken a number of
    Placidyl and Valium capsules, both tranquilizers, and unknown quantities of
    Demerol and Meperidine, both painkillers. Bringing the amazing total to ten
    were morphine and chloropheniramine, an antihistimine that by itself would
    make its user sleepy.
    Elvis sat staring at the open book in his lap, his eyes glassy, his body
    motionless. His chin dropped to his chest, the big body slumped
    imperceptibly then shifted and toppled out of the big cushiony chair, the
    noise of the fall muffled by the brown shag carpeting.
    The room was silent except for the sound of his final breath.


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    I thought that one Memphis doctor lost his license over it? Oh, I get what you're saying ...criminal charges. No kidding. The doc was a parasite and a joke of a physician :P
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    Originally Posted by capmaster
    The doc was a parasite and a joke of a physician
    Hello,
    Like THIS Quack????



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    elvis is alive and well, living in a nursing home with president John F Kennedy

    reference
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  20. A dangerous cult is after his name and his money. He refuses to join.
    After his death wife and daughter become their puppet.

    You stop me again whilst I'm walking and I'll cut your fv<king Jacob's off.
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    He took a dirt-nap years ago and people should leave him alone.
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    Is Elvis still alive?


    Hell no.
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    Nobody likes a bunch of yackity-yack.
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    Yes! He just went Home :P
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    Anyone else seen Bubba Ho-Tep?

    Elvis is dead. Not only is he dead, but he was not frozen to be brought back by some later civilization. His body has been exhumed twice. The second for DNA sampling. If he were alive, I'm sure he would have been trying to make more money with his image and music today and doing it right here in sunny Vegas for all the Baby-Boomers that are actually rotting away alive.
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    Originally Posted by parsonsj
    Yes! He just went Home :P
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    I was just re-reading David Lee Roth's autobiography the other day, and it had a statement that was on point:

    Originally Posted by David Lee Roth
    How do I know that Elvis is dead? If he wasn't, Michael Jackson would be.
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    What drives people to those extremes? (no answer needed)
    Too too sad.
    To the man and artist, (not the star)....
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    Originally Posted by pac
    Why do you think I won't post my photo?
    defininately take a van next time, the limo gives you away

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    Originally Posted by enstg8er
    Originally Posted by pac
    Why do you think I won't post my photo?
    defininately take a van next time, the limo gives you away

    Just like a woodchuck. Easy pickings. That view is better than JFKs.
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