It is the one thing, the last thing , regarding Elvis Presley that has yet to be revealed. It was Elvis' secluded sanctuary where he lived and loved. Upstairs at Graceland is a puzzle and a temptation, a fascinating locked-room mystery that draws in the imagination of millions.
After 30 years of being held from view, fan curiousity has been brought to a full boil. The desire to know has reached a breaking point.
By far the most-asked question on Elvis' Mansion tour is The 2nd floor of Graceland has been locked up like a vault since August Today's employees at Graceland, many of whom have served over 20 years, have never stepped foot or breathed in the rarefied air of Elvis' private sanctuary. Millions of visitors to Graceland pass by the staircase to the 2nd floor during their tour of the mansion.
Everyone sees the guard posted at the bottom of the stairs, another guard is posted at the top of the stairs as a sentinel, barricading the ominous locked door. Why indeed? Actor Nicholas Cage, a lifelong Elvis fanatic, managed the impossible by using the unique approach of marrying Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis' daughter.
His secret visit took place during the week of the 25th Anniversary of Elvis' death, at which time it is said he sat on the King's "throne", assumed the prone posture in which Elvis died, laid on the singer's bed and tried on a leather jacket. Many celebrities have requested private tours but all have been declined. Even President Clinton was refused. Your friend's e-mail address: Your E-mail address:. Nothing has been touched. Loving somebody doesn't grant them eternal physical life.
And, not to be nit-picky, but am I the only person here who can actually spell and type English correctly? By raul on September 23, in Died Here , Elvis. Comments Ann Mckay says:. October 1, at pm. February 16, at am. April 2, at am. June 19, at am. Poop says:. Parker's control over Elvis' love life was never more evident than in , when Elvis's girlfriend, June Juanico , told reporters she was his steady. Immediately, Parker sought to squash the news, having Elvis "confess" to a reporter from the Miami Daily News , "I got about 25 girls I date regular.
You too can be one of the 25, but you have to buy a ticket to his show if you want a shot! We're guessing Elvis' fetish for illegal barely-teen sex didn't exactly tickle Parker's fancy, but if it meant his charge wasn't destroying his career with monogamy, he was likely willing to look the other way. After all, the more money he made, the easier it would be to bail the King out if the law ever decided to treat him like a regular person.
We all want to shed this mortal coil in a sweet and dignified way. After telling our gathered loved ones how much they mean to us, we'll say something profound about the nature of life, take our final breath, and leave a serene corpse. Elvis Presley changed music forever, but fate didn't allow him a death worthy of his stature.
In August , the King of Rock 'n' Roll, at the very young age of 42, died alone in the middle of the night at his Graceland estate His heart stopped while he sat on the toilet, and he keeled over with his pants around his ankles.
Not exactly a hero's death. Did the King "push" too hard? Not necessarily. According to the New York Times , the local county medical examiner attributed Presley's death to an irregular heartbeat related to hypertension and high blood pressure. A toxicology report also found a Valley of the Dolls- meets- Studio 54 variety and volume of drugs in Presley's bloodstream, including codeine, quaaludes, a couple of prescription sedatives, a barbiturate, morphine, and the painkiller Demerol.
Nick Nichopoulos," faced a count indictment for overprescribing drugs to Presley and other celebrities. He was ultimately acquitted, but later lost his license to practice medicine in Tennessee. Elvis Presley had huge appetites — for women, sure, but also for food. In , James Gregory wrote The Elvis Presley Story via the Independent which details the Southern boy's penchant for gigantic, heart-stopping Southern-style breakfasts.
In the BBC special The Burger and the King , longtime Graceland cook Mary Jenkins discussed Presley's eating habits, particularly his fondness for butter-fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and how she once snuck Presley a bag of forbidden hot dogs when he was hospitalized.
But back to peanut butter sandwiches because probably nobody loved them more than Elvis. In the '70s, he discovered Denver restaurant the Colorado Mining Company and their ridiculously over-the-top food challenge: the Fool's Gold.
It consisted of a loaf of bread slathered with a jar of jam, a jar of peanut butter, and a pound of bacon.
Elvis took the challenge twice. As Elvis did everything to the extreme — womanizing, pill-taking, gunning, eating — he also dieted with little to no concern for his personal well-being.
As much as the King binge-ate, he felt guilty and upset about packing on the pounds he so famously added to his sparkly jumpsuit-covered frame in the s. And so, he engaged in some of the era's many ill-advised weight loss schemes. According to the Independent , Presley once became convinced he could quickly shed some extra weight by eating nothing but a jelly made out of bananas and black cherry soda his favorite beverage.
He tried it for weeks, but it didn't bring long-term weight loss. He also tried something called "the sleeping beauty diet," in which people have a doctor place them in a medically induced coma. How it works: While they sleep, the body wastes away, living off itself to stay alive. Presley's pursuit reportedly ended when he fell out of a hospital bed and roused himself from his coma.
While Elvis Presley played pretty fast and loose with what he was willing to consume — if it had peanut butter on it or was fried in butter, he was down — he was quite terrified of getting sick or dying from ingesting things he couldn't see.
The King was a big time germaphobe. This wasn't widely known until his former wife, Priscilla Presley, revealed it on an episode of the U. Presley hated eating outside his home — particularly at other's people's houses — because he didn't know where the host's cutlery had been. So when he drank, he would drink where the handle was, knowing that no one would ever drink at that side. While the former Mrs. King said people "didn't really pick up on" her husband's behaviors, they'd gone on for years, even before he became a huge celebrity.
Why even be rich and famous at all if you don't blow your money on something preposterous that would never even occur to someone of lesser means or stature?
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