{"id":181948,"date":"2023-11-28T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=181948"},"modified":"2023-11-28T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T17:48:04","slug":"elvis-final-years-last-time-i-saw-twinkle-in-kings-eye-shared-by-close-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/music\/elvis-final-years-last-time-i-saw-twinkle-in-kings-eye-shared-by-close-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis final years \u2013 \u2018Last time I saw twinkle in King\u2019s eye\u2019 shared by close pal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback teased in trailer<\/h3>\n

Towards the end of his short 42 years, Elvis Presley was struggling with health problems, prescription drug addiction and weight gain.<\/p>\n

The world was shocked when on August 16, 1977 he suddenly died of a heart attack on the toilet, in his ensuite bathroom upstairs at Graceland.<\/p>\n

A tragic ending to the incredible life of the best-selling solo artist in the history of music.<\/p>\n

Yet his close friend and confidant, Memphis Mafia member Jerry Schilling, believes that had he lived, The King would have got himself together and given the world more amazing music, Oscar-worthy Hollywood movies and world tours.<\/p>\n

He also shared the last time he ever saw a twinkle in Elvis\u2019 eye with an infectious optimism for the future.<\/p>\n

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Speaking exclusively with Express.co.uk, Schilling said: \u201cI think he could have. If he would have had the opportunity to fulfil his creativity. I lost my friend at an early age with creative disappointment which caused other problems, there\u2019s no doubt about that. But Elvis was a guy of the future. He was always 10-20 years ahead of everybody, whether it was English humour with Monty Python or acting or certainly, we know, music.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t have a genius like Elvis Presley and expect him to do three movies a year with basically the same script. If he didn\u2019t know better or if he wasn\u2019t that great artist then that would have been ok. And some of the movies were excellent and most of them entertaining. But I sat with him in a walk-in closet in Vegas, with Barbra Streisand and another of our other Memphis Mafia guys Joe Esposito and Jon Peters when she offered him A Star Is Born.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elvis hadn\u2019t made a movie since 1969\u2019s Change of Habit and this was a chance for him to star opposite her in the musical remake of the Judy Garland classic, which eventually had Kris Kristofferson cast in the role.<\/p>\n

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