Elvis: The Other Side (2024) FULL DOCUMENTARY | HD

[Music] you know the world has an image of the king and rightly so but behind the image behind the lights and the makeup and the music it was a real human being a real person that had feelings that was entirely different light years away to the image Elvis was a extremely intelligent human [Music] being he just wanted to know about all different kinds of aspects of life he was always searching for something we didn't know what it was but as life went on we realized that he wanted to know why he

was here why was he picked to be this person why did he get all this talent but there were times I looked at him he looked very lonely and he'd be in the middle of a bunch of people and I'd look at him I think he did he's not even where he wants to be right there he's he's not feeling anything right now I thought how was it going to come out of this and Another Part Of Me thought he's going to he will come out of it then the other voice in me said no this is not good he's reaching the end of the

his his [Music] Road in 1950s Memphis Tennessee a star was born Elvis Aaron Presley went from introvert Memphis truck driver to rock and roll superstar in a mere 18 [Music] months the polite Southern boy became the hottest drawn National TV and in 1956 he was the best Rising singer in the entertainment industry his vocal were raw and he sang from the heart his provocative moves and style were unlike anything audiences had ever [Music] seen you can do anything my BL people loved him people went

crazy for him he was a real turn on on stage he looked almost possessed some would say even vulgar some of his performances were even sensored on TV it is safe to say he was controversial but a star nonetheless he was the best looking man many people said they'd ever seen people wanted to look like him he became almost a Greek god for women and men a perfect specimen he had the look he had the attitude it was natural with him too he uh he's the only star I have ever met that looks like acted lik

e a special person a star before he had a hit record before he did a movie I met a lot of those stars that movies and records and adeli and all those things kind of make make you into a star Elvis was born a star Elvis had a tremendous draw to him emotionally and physically where you looked at him and you thought that is probably about the best looking man I've ever seen you know he just had a Charisma about he had a way of pulling you in people call it Southern Charm he had it in Spades in 1954

Larry Geller becomes his personal hair stylist and spiritual guide which many considered an odd combination Larry not only played a big part in shaping Elvis's iconic hairstyle but he also started to change his mentality he put Elvis on a path of self-realization which made it difficult for his Entourage to relate only his close the same path as allowed him to have more intimate conversations with him Larry was a strange bird for our group you know know that probably took a lot of pressure off

of me with Larry coming I look like I look like one of the boys you know Larry was very nice at first we didn't know too much about him I mean he was a Los Angeles guy he was a hairdresser uh he was introduced to us by Elvis Barber before him and uh he was very pleasant and nice but then we didn't realize that Larry was very much into what would you say different kinds of religions U different ideas about life and philosophies Elvis and Larry talked a lot together hours and hours on end uh it wa

s not something I was interested in I wasn't interested in all these different philosophies of life and uh why why we're here and all that stuff I didn't care I was just having a good time uh but they spent a lot of time talking about that and Elvis really got into it and Elvis started reading books about different uh religions he got into all religions he just wanted to know about all different kinds of aspects of life he was always searching for something we didn't know what it was but as life

went on we realized that he wanted to know why he was here why was he picked to be this person why did he get all this Talent Larry was very quiet spoken but then he started introducing his far e and what I call California cult crap I mean I'm not putting any his belief Stone uh but it was a typical spiritual cult deal that people some people in California Love and he started talking to Elvis about it and Elvis was you know was interested because it gave him something new and uh as the years we

nt by I you know I started calling Larry the Swami because I I first of all I don't trust people like that I think they're full of [ __ ] and I think they have enough motive Larry would bring a book or a couple of books and say man you might like this or whatever and then Elvis would kind of try to share that with the rest of us it was a it was a tough turnaround for some of the guys to be playing football all the time and doing karate and to now sit down and read books about Indian philosophy E

lvis Devar the books immediately in fact when we left Southern California to drive back to Memphis every hour hour and a half 2 hours Elvis who used to drive would pull over and start reading and this kind of blew everyone's mind the guys weren't used to this a lot of people close to Elvis didn't understand it and didn't want to understand it they didn't like what Larry brought into his life so even though Larry himself didn't have a problem with the Memphis Mafia his affection for them wasn't r

eciprocated this group around Elvis we were such a such an exclusive group unique was our own little special Elvis Brotherhood we lived with one another philosophically most of them didn't agree with me at all perhaps I don't agree with them below all that putting that aside I have a deep love for all these people I really do you know the world has an image of the king and rightly so but behind the image behind the lights and the makeup and the music there was a real human being a real person th

at had feelings that was entirely different light years away to the image Elvis was a extremely intelligent human being he had great instincts and he was up to the challenge of reading now he just barely got through high school I remember he used to say to me he said man I don't know how I got through high school I used to sit in class and just stare out the window and just Daydream I would dream of myself being on the big screen someday [Music] I can't tell you how much I enjoyed my discussions

with Elvis and what I'm referring to is that every day for years Elvis and I would spend at least an hour sometimes two to three hours discussing life his life religion whatever but we got into these type of philosophical metaphysical conversations every day and I enjoyed it so much because I saw this person who started to just Blossom spiritually he had so many questions about life about the Bible about his career about where he was going in life and this developed and cultivated over the year

s and I just enjoyed it so much and this is basically what I wanted I had a wonderful job I was being paid beautifully by Elvis and at the same time I was able to enable him and provide for him the material and the friendship that he needed because here's a guy that look he was beyond a superstar Elvis was beyond that he was something else wherever he went he was besieged by people so he created his own world his own universe and with within himself he would travel to to China or to India or to

England or to Germany and to the 12 Century or 2,000 years ago and he was able to do this and we had the most magnificent time together over the years until they passed [Music] away Elvis enjoyed being around friends and he was generous but he had a passion for excess he spent money like there was no tomorrow he even gave away 13 Cadillacs including to a lady that was just passing by Elvis was a dynamic personality and I'm not talking about on the stage there was something about him that was spe

cial I mean what do you want to call it a Carisma magnetism or what have you um most times he showed you that he cared just like my brother and my father everything rolled into warrant because he took care of so many problems from me Financial a lot of times spiritually too we'd talk about problems and things we we work together we lived together we cried together we laughed together uh and when he bought me my house in 1974 he said you know why I bought you that house and I said I I I still don

't believe believe the whole process Elvis and he said you never had a home and I wanted to be the one to give it to you before we became that close of friends I thought Elvis Presley had everything you know that was the answer to life is to have a lifestyle like that not true you know in the early 60s he started taking drugs and became obsessed with guns he always had a fness for guns we used to uh as an example even in the very early 60s we used to go snake hunting there was this lake near Gra

celand where he take shot we take shotguns and he' kill the snakes and one time he almost shot joaz bito Ellis took aim and shot the snake's head off I was holding his hand I'm glad it wasn't me but he he always had that fondness but it got even more when he started putting in terms of protection we used to joke because he used to have a gun here and a gun here and a gun here and a gun in his Boot and a gun in his back and he just go out to go to the [Music] movies his addictive personality quic

kly got him hooked on cocaine and prescription drugs in order to go to sleep you need to start taking sleeping pills downers or or um tranquilizers or what have you so it gets to be a vicious circle and where today one will work tomorrow you need two and the next day you need three and then the next day you need four and after 15 years you know it's it gets it gets pretty vicious I had an addictive personality so I think that it' probably but Ian he would walk away from it and I but then he'd go

back to it so it you know it was a magic potion so to speak it really was it kept us going still it put you in a very in in a depressing mood it took you a couple hours to wake up in the morning to get your head clear and everything and these are all the symptoms he had too you when you get up you're grouchy as hell and you don't want anybody to mess with you until you've had coffee until you've your head starts clearing up and this stuff starts to sleep pills and stuff start wearing off becaus

e you can get pretty mean Elvis Presley no longer has that rock and roll beat the tempo is Hut 2 three 4 for private Presley he's at Camp chaffy Arkansas beginning his 2-year Army hitch courtesy of the Memphis draft board like any ex civilian raw recruit the king of rock and roll will be keeping time to nonhip bugle calls involuntarily retired a gyrating guitarist departure from the public eye left his blue jean pant in 1958 Elvis was sent to the Army his mom became very depressed after his iden

tical twin brother died at Birth she couldn't cope with him going away too she said to him don't forget me little she died not long after that same [Music] year it was traumatic and he was unconsolable some say it was an underlying cause for Elvis's so-called descent into hell Elvis's life was not typical GI I mean uh there's always people outside of his house the fans were always out there it was a little tougher for him to be in Army because everybody was watching him and they were keeping an

eye on to make sure he did a good job or make sure he didn't goof off so it was tougher for him than uh a lot of the other GIS the Army was tough although he met his wife Priscilla there Priscilla was the daughter of a US Air Force officer she was very shy and very young but they clicked very pretty young lady but I didn't know how old she was at the time and uh I figured she was about 16 but at the time she was 14 I find out later uh but she was very mature very quiet at first Sometimes things

clicked and they seem to clicked whenever anyone talks about the the Presley marriage and how sad it's divorce and all that stuff I just think you got to look at the good years because the pressure on being married to a guy like that it's just ridiculous and The Temptations A guy like that's offered are just ridiculous and the hours he's away are just ridiculous and you don't know what's going on you're out of the loop so many times in a career decision you know Colonel Tom Parker is not going t

o stop something happening in Las Vegas or a film being filmed because Priscilla puts her foot down it's not going to happen a marriage like that as far as I'm concerned it's pretty much doomed even when there's respect and love thrown in the equation Elvis liked to have his friends and buddies around him he enjoyed their company it made him comfortable and he was basically a very shy person till he got to know you so once he got comfortable around you he'd rather have those people around him in

stead of strangers now you got to remember I met him only about the last seven months of his duty in Army and uh so he was over there for quite a while so he had a lot of other good army buddies too and he had couple of friends from Memphis there red West was there Lamar fik was there and so uh they were always around despite being shy Elvis had a short temper he was jealous and sensitive but he enjoyed surrounding himself with family and friends and he loved the attention he always wanted peopl

e to stay connected with him and loyalty was important to him Elvis had a temper he had a bad his mother had one uh and I think he got that from her but that's about the only quality that he got from her that wasn't good cuz everything else about her was giving and warm and sharing and everything his temper was like a black cloud when it came in full-blown buddy it was a Category 5 tornado okay it just covered all the area around the whole room the whole atmosphere and you didn't know until you

knew who it was about that had got him that way what thoughts who he was thinking about that got him this or who had done something you may have done something the night before it was KN between it was really nicest guy in the world sometimes he would snap and just have a real bad temper and he scared to sometimes there was one instance I remember um during the movie while in the country uh Christina Crawford Joan Crawford's daughter was one of the co-stars in the movie all we became friends and

uh I invited her up to the house one evening U to hang out you know Elvis knew she was so we're sitting there watching little TV and sitting on a couch and this big couch at the house on Perugia away and uh Elvis would smoke cigars once in a while so he picked up a cigar to smoke take a cigar and I reached over and lit his cigar for war and she pulled my hand away from him I went to do it again and she pulled the cigar out of Elvis's mouth she says now you shouldn't have to light his cigar and

I said hey don't do that so Elvis really got mad he got up and he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her across the coffee table which scared the hell out of me and everybody else and they were really in shock and they said get her out of here take her home well I didn't know what to do I mean this is the first time this ever happened to to me uh around Elvis first time saw his temper like that he'd say things that you've never heard before in your life he would string exclusives together and ma

ke words that you've never never heard of and he'd be mad and and but he'd stay mad for maybe 30 minutes and then it'd be over he fired Us in Mass 10 times every one of you guys get the [ __ ] out of here but somehow he was still isolated despite the fans and his Memphis Mafia he was lonely he could be and I saw this but I don't dream about it I don't think about it but there were times I looked at him he looked very lonely and he'd be in the middle of a bunch of people and I'd look at him I thi

nk he he's not even where he wants to be right there he's he's not feeling anything right now he times I'd go over to him I say hey boss hey sunny better ready to go yeah yeah let's go get him out of that what enjoying it he wasn't enjoying it his earnings from records alone total nearly 2 million he was and still is the bestselling single recording artist in history I understand that you want to uh become a dramatic actor is that right well so that that's uh that's my big ambition I takes a lot

of time a lot of experience but uh I uh I hope I'll make it I mean that's what I want to do when he comes back from the Army Presley had been away for 2 years he was unsure about his return so he retired from live performing and guided by Colonel Parker his manager he devotes much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and soundtrack albums most of them critically derided soon after his personal life started becoming unstable he became wild again all of us became uh you know Elvis and the boys

it was uh pretty wild and uh but we were in a bad wild I mean uh we likeed to have a good time it was never like we were out uh uh drinking uh being drunk and falling all over the place and doing terrible things we just love to chase women and uh and it was great and we partied all night as much as we could and we'd be up till 6 7:00 in the morning the sum rise and we go right to sleep get away from the sun we didn't want to see the Sun and we just did this for a week 10 days I was say okay we g

ot to get out here we got to go back to LA and we get in the car start driving I said Elvis what why do we have to go back now he said I don't know I just thought we've been here too long he said ah let's go back we turn around go right back we stay two 3 weeks at a time and just party and one time I for we were going so hard that Elvis started getting bloody nose and uh we went to the doctor and the doctor said you guys need to get some rest his resistance was getting down and it kept getting a

bloody nose so we had rest for a couple days in 1968 he returns to the stage with a comeback on the acclaimed NBC TV special Elvis which leads to a string of Highly profitable concerts in Vegas all in all his come backs a very big success the King was at his Peak as Vegas brought out the best of he's back on the road and unbeatable again or so it seems his obsession for excess had resurfaced I was there seeing concerts in 55 and 56 and 57 the most exciting raw animalistic things I've ever seen

and of course that will always be my lifelong image of Elvis Presley you know the Wild guy on stage the uh you know the sensitive loveable guy on stage he could be all those things um when I went to work for him in ' 64 he had been back from the Army four years and uh he did a two or three you know good movies when he came back but the movies were getting weaker and weaker and the soundtracks were getting in some cases more ridiculous and more ridiculous his Peak was quickly followed by further

complications by the late 60s and into the 70s Elvis started to realize that Hollywood was ripping him off he was at a low point in his career and the crowd was getting tired of the same cheesy movies and songs that were getting more and more ridiculous being in Hollywood is not as glamorous as people think it is sure it's nice if you've never been there and you've never done it and uh you get to go do it once or twice but do it three four five six times and you'll find out it's not as glamorous

as people think it is Elvis has given up on some of his dreams at this particular point every time he really tries to pursue something that he wants to do it is undermined by the exact people who could do it I think he's getting getting tired I think he's getting bored but for us that really knew Elvis most of his life this was not the norm for him there's no way of getting around the fact that the drugs were affecting him not just physically so Colonel Parker would have would have seen the Bob

by Darren and the Frank sinatras and known what to do let's make him an all round Entertainer so that's what deluded Elvis in my opinion he was a brilliant singer and a brilliant performer he was a very uneven actor I mean there's odd things like flaming star that I'll see I think God he's actually pretty good in this you know but most of his films are kind of dismissible he's not challenged for one they're not great scripts so that's what happened to Elvis the reason people talk about he wasn't

as good after he came out of the army it's because they tried to put too much on him [Music] in 1972 another hard blow hits him Priscilla leaves him for a karate teacher Mike Stone when he found out about the affair he wanted to hire a hitman to kill her partner but after some convincing he decided not to in the end he couldn't blame her Priscilla was married Elvis wasn't I think it's a good way to say it and it really you know he didn't consider himself married only she did it wasn't because P

riscilla left for mik stone I think it she had the Arron to leave him and I think that's where it all started from the pressure was really starting to ramp up pretty bad you know and uh uh he was losing and he he always didn't like to lose I don't but I don't think it's Elis more so than the other man uh especially when you find out she's going going out with somebody else it's a blow to any man's psyche I don't think that uh an Especial they is Elvis reached out to Larry and they decide to go t

o Vegas it's the beginning of the next phase of his life one afternoon I get a phone call from John he said Larry Elvis needs you man I said what do you mean he said he broke up with Priscilla she left him he's going through a lot he called me up and he told me he's going through a lot of things and I just know that you've got to be in his life again let's go to Vegas I said okay let's go so Johnny and his girlfriend and a few other people and I we went to Vegas we sat in one of Elvis's booths d

uring the show Elvis introduced Johnny to the audience when the show is over the Mater D came up and said um Elvis would like y all to come backstage I hadn't seen Elvis in a couple of years we went backstage Elvis came out of his dressing room he walked up to me and we just hugged and that was the beginning of the next phase there several years from the end of 1967 until mid 72 that I left and my own reconnaissance and I stepped away from Elvis's world because there was a lot of resentment betw

een the guys who worked for Elvis and especially Colonel Parker who thought that I had an agenda that I was trying to take Elvis away from him and perhaps become his manager or lead him down a path that was contrary to what the colonel had in mind for Elvis nothing could be furthered from the truth I did want Elvis to wake up and if I had an agenda that was it for for Elvis to wake up and to become his own man and to do the things that I know that Elvis really wanted to do now at the end of Elvi

s's life there's no question about it he was on the verge and made plans to fire Colonel Parker to cut down his Entourage to four to five people he won an entire new career a new life a new lifestyle and he was he got to a point with his life where he realized that he was taking medications and poison that was being administered to him by various doctors he wanted to put a halt to his career he didn't want to tour anymore he was going to take one year off go to Hawaii and spend the time rejuvena

ting himself changing his diet entirely exercising charging his batteries then re-entering Hollywood once more as a dramatic actor during a closing night performance on the CBS special in 1973 Elvis was forced to go on by Parker despite him not being in good shape The Story Goes he stormed into Elvis's dressing room to confront him door opened up Colonel Parker walks up to me and stands to and I get up We Stand toe to- toe and he stares coldly into my eyes he says Now you listen to me the only t

hing that's important is that that man is on stage tonight nothing else matters nothing he turned around walked out and after a heated argument Parker is fired but just a few days later he had no choice but to take him back due to Parker quoting him an enormous bill and my heart sank he didn't care he didn't care what about Elvis what about Elvis Elvis is not a a a to Tomato can he's not a k he's a human being Elvis should have gotten rid of him years and years ago Elvis knew it Elvis was a good

guy he was a loyal guy maybe he had a bit to do with his own Maxis kiss him but he should have gotten rid of Colonel Parker and he knew it and he was going to do it and I know without a shadow of a doubt that if Elvis would have lived he would have gotten rid of Colonel Parker he was on tour but he wasn't well despite this Parker wanted the show to go on he became a puppet whose strings were being pulled he rarely got the upper hand on the colonel Parker was always in charge when I saw the CBS

special I was shocked and I was [Music] pissed gave me the mountain but you know you did he gave me Mountain I call Colonel Parker one of the few times I ever did on a negative how could you let him I called him and I went and met with him how could you let him be on camera like that and he said you're a manager cuz I managed the Beach Boys at this time you're a manager you have to give the artist uh uh offers I said how could you he said said I put an offer out there that was ridiculous and CBS

came back with it and I took it to Elvis and he wanted to do it the point is is that he wasn't in great shape when I left but he certainly wasn't when I saw that yeah man looked like he was going to die and of course he did by the mid 70s his health was deteriorating he had gained weight he was depressed and isolated obese on prescription drugs paranoid and a gambling addict Whoever has not seen Elvis live has missed the greatest entertainer of the 20th century the greatest star of the 20th cen

tury but when I saw him I I my heart sank because I knew if something was wrong I can see it in his eyes I saw it in his face and I remember turning to uh Johnny and juwels friend of ours I said he he can't he can't last like this another 5 years why I said that I don't know why I said 5 Years cuz 5 years later we were 1977 the year of was passed away but I could tell that there were physical problems the body doesn't doesn't hide anything you just can't and especially when you know someone thin

gs started happening to him that were not normal and the doctors being around I I look at I watch I'm not I'm not Clairvoyant and I I'm not anything like that I I just look at things and things are not normal I pick up on it he didn't care anymore if he performed well or not he stopped trying he even forgot the lyrics to his own song he became the fat bloated Elvis he even said himself that he got tired of being Elvis I was so scared I couldnot tell you how scared I was I was so I mean like I'm

talking like ring your hands walk the floor scared uh uh he would petrify me the things he would do it would just I mean I would just lose I'd go dare God I would lose my breath I I used to go back and say what the [ __ ] are you doing you can't do what you're doing you can't do it and he just kept on these were prescription drugs in his mind were not illegal drugs now the doctor's writing them for him he's abusing them but they're not illegal drugs in his mind as intelligent as Elvis was in so

many ways he was naive in in thinking that there were separate issues there cuz there really wasn't in 1975 what I had been seeing a little bit of the previous year or so was getting worse and I was very concerned about his health you know so many stories have circul ated over the years about Elvis was a drug taker Elvis was a drugie well there is some truth into that but if you don't have the real story and if you weren't there to see it there's no way you can know what was really going on numb

er one and this is the foundation Elvis had a lot of physical problems that were really eating away at him he had glaucoma he had hypertension do you know that every night after his show his blood pressure would shoot up to 180 200 every night that's a tremendous strain on the heart Elvis had a [ __ ] Twisted colon I can't tell you the problems that that that plagued him because of it how uncomfortable he was and how his body especially the lower part of his body started to blow up and Bloon he

also had his blood sugar that was a little too high he his body would start get bruises on his leg one night we were on tour and when Elvis left the stage he was totally blinded because of all the The Flash cubes going off the glaucoma his sensitive eyes he tripped and fell down the stairs at the back of the stage twisted his ankle and he he had a very difficult time after that moving on stage so the doctor was giving him medications every night to go to sleep and I say medications euphemistical

ly we're talking about poison that's what that really what it was Elvis did not need these anymore and he knew it it's not like Elvis was in the dark Elvis was abusing them he's responsible but he's also a victim he was a victim because doctors were giving medications to him to help his conditions all his various conditions the combinations of these drugs were lethal it only increased his health problems no question about it two major dynamic themes were controlling Elvis's life at the end and t

hey were paralleling one another life the future a new career health death disease Darkness they were both there simultaneously and I saw clearly and it really really tore me up I would go to my room certain nights and just cry I felt helpless I would pray to God I thought that was the only I could really do outside of being Elvis's friend and telling him what I knew to be true about his health about making changes the only thing I can do is pray one night we I thought I got to go tell someone I

got to talk to these guys some of them I knew not to talk to others I thought were open and you know all the people around Elvis they all loved him even the ones that enabled him there were some guys in a group they were terrific they were excellent human beings I remember one guy went to after the after the concert one night I went into his room and I said to to him I said I'm really really nervous he said what's wrong I said what's wrong look at Elvis look what's going on the man is sick he's

got such a problem that I'm afraid something's going to happen guy said wait a minute wait Larry no no no no no no you're the one who has the problem come on you know about negativity if you keep thinking this way you're going to get sick that's Elvis what can help Elvis in 20 years from now he's going to look better than he does today he's a sing singers rejuvenate themselves they live to be really old dad don't don't make yourself sick I left his room I thought I'm going to this is madness th

is is crazy this is insane they understand they're in total denial of what's going on one or two people were quite aware uh Jo bazito for sure knew that Elvis was in a problem here in a problematic state so the other people total denial Vegas was over they were [Music] destroyed he dies at just 42 years old old in 1977 from cardiac arhythmia [Music] alone his death made a lot of people angry anger didn't hit me until 2 weeks later um I literally went berserk I uh there was a marble fireplace and

I I realized I'd never see Elvis Presley again and it's the first time I realized it and I hit this wall so hard I crushed my hand I had to have an operation it's almost like predestination it was like he was it I I've always said that Elvis was like a artillery shell they loaded him up fired him and he he he uh uh fell out of the Ark and just the went into the ground and blew up I think that if it was God's plan or whatever I don't know what the plans were maybe it was God's plan I always said

said my relationship with Elvis Presley is based on friendship the job comes second if I would have known in 75 early 76 that we were going to lose Elvis I would not have left not that I could have saved him but I would have wanted to spend as much time as possible around him even in those circumstances ironically even some of his closest friends were shocked but the warning signs were there I thought how's he going to come out of this and Another Part Of Me thought he's going to he will come o

ut of it then the other voice in me said no this is not good he's reaching the end of the his his Road the end of his rope and then the other voice is say no he's going to be all right he said he's going to we're going to Hawaii he's going to make changes so I would flip-flop and I I couldn't it was very it's very difficult to face the inevitable even though I saw it I had hope he was making changes he had a vision for the future so in this very last conversation with Elvis I'm thinking to mysel

f yeah he sounds okay all right all right all right he said Larry did you bring that book those books for me I said oh yeah I got those books he said well why don't you go and bring them I said Elvis come on man get some sleep get rest we got a whole tour we'll talk every day I said look I'll be here tomorrow I'll come upstairs we'll do your hair we we have to dye it I'll bring you the books he said okay Larry but remember one thing Angels fly because they take themselves so lightly we both laug

hed hung up the phone it's the last time I ever spoke to all this his body was found on the floor in an embryotic position with a book clutched to his chest Elvis died reading about Jesus you know Elvis was into Judaism he was into reading about uh meditation techniques in Hinduism but basically he was a Christian and he read about Jesus dying that says quite a bit oh please don't ask me what the home of memories just started cascading down memories of the first night that I met met ofice tellin

g me how I must have been plucked out of the millions and millions of lives to be this there has to be a reason in things of over the last 13 14 years and having the unique relationship that I did have with him but his death you know the day he died then I went to the merary to do his hair I thought to myself then and there I'll never be the same again and I haven't been it's almost like my soul ruptured so to speak yes you know you come to terms with it but it stays with you and that moment tho

se moments of his death have remained until this very moment and I'm sure they will take I until I take my last breath changed my life entirely I have been speaking about El since he passed away I've written my book and worked on another book and the reason I have done and do what I do is very very simple and that's because Elvis asked me to several months before he passed away we were on tour in Detroit Michigan and Elvis walked up to me weing his his suite and he pointed outside where the fans

were cuz he always knew where the fans were and he pointed he said you know they know Elvis all right but they don't know me they have no idea of what I'm going through about my health problems what I'm aspiring to about the books I read about that Vision I had in the desert and I need to know right now that you're with me and that you're going to tell the truth because if the world doesn't know about where I'm at spiritually they're going to have a distorted picture of me they'll they'll never

have a true basis to understand where I was coming from and what I'm really all about and what I want to give to this planet and how I want to help people and I said alvas am I with you of course I'm with you we shook on it we hugged on it we bonded and I'm telling whatever I know to be true from my point of view and from the intimate relationship that I had with Elvis from the very beginnings of 1964 until he passed away I think I've come to terms with this uh losing him and everything now uh

I still get very pissed off about it like Lamar was saying the other night he you know it took a while I didn't get pissed off right away I was too hurt too confused too frustrated over not being able to do anything to stop it but uh I get pissed off and I get pissed off with the people that helped contribute to it and not just the doctors and not just the guys that got the stuff to him but I get pissed off at Elvis He was a smart man he knew what he was [Music] doing Elvis was the best solo mus

ic artist of all time but he got lost along the way and never had the chance to look back always very quiet life I a never I Ain never let no R now I know that very quiet life has been has been to long too long one night with you he remained the shy Southern boy with a strong personality and a deep Affinity to African-American music and a p rot to his core Elvis is everywhere Elvis is a king he's no longer an American icon he's a world figure and he won't be raised in in 200 years 2,000 years pe

ople will be talking about Elvis and they'll have forgotten a lot of prime ministers of England and of Great Britain and they will have forgotten a lot of presidents of the United States I promise you but they will remember Elvis people want to be rich and famous maybe you don't want to be Elvis Presley you don't want to be one of the Beatles come on that kind of Life the pressure is ridiculous and for each and every beneficial wonderful gift one's given I can tell you from my work as a music jo

urnalist and just as a musician from playing with people much more famous and successful than myself for every beneficial wonderful gift you're given there is an almost equal if not equal or greater than the gift weight that you're given responsibility that you're given you it's very difficult to [Music] Sher he was the most generous the most beautiful inside andout human being you ever want to meet whoever would meet him today would become his friend and he would probably give you a gift someth

ing a ring a watch a car something that was the kind of guy he was but his blind spot was his body what he put into his system he wanted to change it he was going to do it and that now we're down to to the nitty-gritty here this is the Matrix of of Elvis Presley his life no matter how glorious it was he saw more records than any human being that ever lived you can take all the great stars of the 20th century starting with rudol Valentino John Wayne Clark Gable Marilyn Monroe James de Frank Sinat

ra you put them all together more people go visit Elvis at Gracin each year than all the rest combined even though the these are great Stars Elvis was something else but at the same time he was a victim no question about it he was an incredible talent but a complicated man he found Fame but lost himself Elvis was a very complicated human being very unpredictable when you thought you got to know Elvis the next day you'd meet a different guy well he was always the same person but that same person

could be a very physical outgoing gu's guy and this could go on for a couple of years fighter uh tough guy and about the time you buy him a gun for Christmas he was into Bibles in philosophy I never got bored being around Elvis Presley there really wasn't much that Elvis couldn't get if he really went after it whether it was from Southern Charm or just a strong conviction of saying I'm going to do that and that's it and that's what we always admired about him but those things Slipped Away in the

latter years he didn't have the strong convictions nobody wants to die and nobody wants to especially die alone I don't think but uh I mean as it was he fell forward on the floor and died that's horrendous I mean somebody should have got in there to him and I won't say names but I thought that he had so much more to offer I mean this man was so multi-talented and he's a guy never had acting school and was turned into a really good actor I thought and he was just a lot of good songs left in him

could sing his butt off he was just a good person he gave so much to the world but left with so little I mean he was responsible for so much and yet when he died he took so little with it he didn't he didn't have the chance to really enjoy what he could enjoy Clint Eastwood said said in the picture he said you know so when a man dies you take everything away from him everything he's ever going going to get everything he's everything he's had and that's pretty lonely and when you're look back at

what he's done and his body of work and of what he created it's absolutely unbelievable he reached Heights that may never be matched with but he spiraled out of control all I could think of was the good things that's what happens that's weird you can have some problems with someone but boy when they pass away you don't they don't even come into the thought it's all good fun warm good things I thought he had no right to die I thought he had no right to die at that age uh I think that he left too

much on the table if anybody ever left too much on the table Elvis did you know not a day goes by that something doesn't happen in my life that someone doesn't spark something in me thoughts about Elvis you leave these little laughing machines with the gigglers on these little things you PR and they start laughing it's a weird it makes you laugh you're laughing cuz you're hearing a little machine laugh and with him it was so infectious when he laughed you anytime you hear him Elvis That's the Wa

y It Is or any film on him or audio you hear that laughter and it makes you sit there and chuckle right then you start laughing with him and uh that's what was going through our mind and then when red came over we talked about what all had gone wrong so fast and uh tell you what I'm missing today the King's Story had ended and his Destiny became tragedy the things that we too could plan would make my dreams come through [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music]