Do you remember where and what you were doing when it was announced that The King passed on?
I remember that day like yesterday. I was baby-sitting my little cousin at the time at my uncle's house in Montreal. It was a sad news for a lot of fans because he was still very popular.
And by the look of it a lot of fans still misses him very much. But the legend is very much alive though.
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"Few men are brave:many become so through training and discipline." Flavius Vegetius Renatus
"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strenght to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." Christopher Reeve
I have and always will be a BIG Elvis fan! I had come home from work and was lying down, listening to my radio, when they announced it. I still recall the shock I felt then. I saw Elvis in concert in 1973, showing how old I am!
Any one been to Graceland? I have. It was worth it.
I wasn't born until 1981, but I feel I probably should've been born a couple decades earlier. I was watching the '68 Comeback Special a little last night...it's amazing how much Elvis still resonates to this day. I really dig the little 'unplugged' part at the end where Elvis jams along with his crew...really impressive!
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Haldr, Traveller of the Great Forest
"After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done."
I was 5 1/2 and I don't recall that anyone said anything about it but I remember that I saw his funeral procession and so on television. I didn't quite understand who this was. Now I do.
I became a big Elvis Fan when I was about 14. It all started when I saw his movie "Change of Habit". I always liked the older Elvis more than the younger one.
I was born where Elvis was stationed in Germany - the beautiful Friedberg. I lived in between the towns of Friedberg and Bad Nauheim (that's where he lived) and my grandfather, who owned a cap company in Friedberg at the time Elvis was there, drove him around. We even had one of our Business Cards signed by him. I don't know what happened to that one - unfortunatly.
Okay - I will tell you the truth - it was between my sophomore and junior year in college. I was studying music as a voice major. Atlanta had a fledgling little opera group and they were doing a production of "Die Fledermaus". I was in the chorus because my voice teacher was one of the leads. Well, I had to wear this green velvet, victorian, off the shoulder, show lots of cleavage dress! So, I had to get some underthings to make the dress "look right". Now the part of where I was when I heard about Elvis - I was in Fredericks of Hollywood! Woohoo!!! Everyone in the place froze when they heard the news over the radio in the store.
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"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."" Psalm 91:1-2
"Be what you would seem to be--or, if you'd like it put more simply--Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." from "Alice in Wonderland"
I was a rural mail carrier delivering mailing out in the county. I remember the house that I was at delivering mail when I heard on the radio that Elvis had died.
i was just starting cegep...i used to love watching his movies with all the music, he was better than cpt.kirk when it came to getting the girls!!!hehehe
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non nobis domine,non nobis sed nomini tua da gloriam.
I was at Paradise Ski Lodge in Washington State and one of the guys rushed in and said,"Elvis is dead". Of course we did not believe him. His voice was a real gift to us all, sad how he left us. Loved his gospel songs.