Joe Car wrote:Elvis was the "master of the celebrity interview," without a doubt!
It is also said Elvis was master of his domain.
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Joe Car wrote:Elvis was the "master of the celebrity interview," without a doubt!
Are you suggesting that Elvis was a wanker.drjohncarpenter wrote:Joe Car wrote:Elvis was the "master of the celebrity interview," without a doubt!
It is also said Elvis was master of his domain.
Elvisfan10 wrote:She kind of rubbed salt on the wound every time she attended an Elvis concert.
So Priscilla has an affair with the man Elvis introduced her to and hired to train her, which leads to divorce. Elvis had a major blow to the ego and the only way to fix that was to continuously invite Priscilla to his shows. Now it could go either way depending on how you look at it. He invites a random girl to the same shows as Priscilla, seats them together, introduces the new girl to everyone and maybe even Priscilla if he's feeling the need to publicly throw stones as a way of revenge to show he's still in control. Or he invited her just to make her jealous and show her that he could have any girl he wants at the drop of a hat and that she made a huge mistake in order to get her to run back to him.[/quote]Elvisfan10 wrote:Elvisfan10 wrote:She kind of rubbed salt on the wound every time she attended an Elvis concert.
Nope. Post-divorce, every evening Priscilla attended at was at Elvis' invitation. Speaking of salt, she was often at shows where Presley also invited and introduced his current girlfriend.
Joe Car wrote:From all accounts, they remained friends after the divorce, so maybe he had no ulterior motive when inviting her to a show, other then perhaps his being able to see his daughter if Priscilla had brought her along on the trip.
drjohncarpenter wrote:Interesting tangents.
One of the things that is striking about this press conference is where it falls in the Elvis timeline.
On February 25, 1961, Elvis had:
- released 30 singles in 7 years (Sun [5] and RCA [25])
- released 12 LPs in 5 years
- debuted 6 films in 5 years
- made 13 national TV appearances
- performed concerts between July 1954 and November 1957
- had sold approximately 75 million records
All of his films to date were decent or better:
Excellent
Jailhouse Rock
King Creole
Very Good
Loving You
Flaming Star
Decent
Love Me Tender
G.I. Blues
The shows he would give in Memphis that day and Honolulu in March would be a stunning overview of his entire career, delivered with all the fire of the 50s, coupled with the maturity of his return from the army.
In other words, he was sitting on top of the world.
kevinstevenage wrote:was he sitting on top of the world or being dumped on by his management?
kevinstevenage wrote:I was unaware there was no more TV and no more concerts. Thank you for enlightening me.
answer to - was he sitting on top of the world or being dumped on by his management? is "both"... thank you for your honest answer.
kevinstevenage wrote:So where should the management have steered Elvis? and how would this direction have been better for Elvis? concerts were for a single audience and tv for a single country (at best) but movies could shipped.
Well the movies certainly went from to decent to poor to awful after 1961 and it would be a while till he was king of the celebrity interview again only really showing his true personality in Singer Presents Elvis ,TTWII and again in press conferences for Maddison Square Garden and later Alohadrjohncarpenter wrote:Joe Car wrote:From all accounts, they remained friends after the divorce, so maybe he had no ulterior motive when inviting her to a show, other then perhaps his being able to see his daughter if Priscilla had brought her along on the trip.
Spot-on, Joe.
Back on topic, I am surprised no one has made comment on these observations:
drjohncarpenter wrote:Interesting tangents.
One of the things that is striking about this press conference is where it falls in the Elvis timeline.
On February 25, 1961, Elvis had:
- released 30 singles in 7 years (Sun [5] and RCA [25])
- released 12 LPs in 5 years
- debuted 6 films in 5 years
- made 13 national TV appearances
- performed concerts between July 1954 and November 1957
- had sold approximately 75 million records
All of his films to date were decent or better:
Excellent
Jailhouse Rock
King Creole
Very Good
Loving You
Flaming Star
Decent
Love Me Tender
G.I. Blues
The shows he would give in Memphis that day and Honolulu in March would be a stunning overview of his entire career, delivered with all the fire of the 50s, coupled with the maturity of his return from the army.
In other words, he was sitting on top of the world.
KiwiAlan wrote:Are you suggesting that Elvis was a wanker.drjohncarpenter wrote:Joe Car wrote:Elvis was the "master of the celebrity interview," without a doubt!
It is also said Elvis was master of his domain.
That's a bit on the nose.
I know right?Dan_T wrote:KiwiAlan wrote:Are you suggesting that Elvis was a wanker.drjohncarpenter wrote:Joe Car wrote:Elvis was the "master of the celebrity interview," without a doubt!
It is also said Elvis was master of his domain.
That's a bit on the nose.
LOL...That word may be lost on DJC.
Why is this thread a sticky ?
Well, to some it maybe...Nevertheless do not concern yourself with this.KiwiAlan wrote:Why is this a sticky?
Nothing new here.
That's fine but it would be nice if when you decide arbitrarily to delete some posts you delete ALL the offendingPEP wrote:Well, to some it maybe...Nevertheless do not concern yourself with this.KiwiAlan wrote:Why is this a sticky?
Nothing new here.
Move on...
Fine something better to do with your time, in a positive fashion.
That goes for any of you wanting to derail the thread.
Thank you.
PEP
KiwiAlan the reason is a simple one.KiwiAlan wrote:Sill no reason why this should be a sticky
TCB TED wrote:Nice post, Doc.
The transcript may not be new, but its poignant to note the time frame of
Feb. '61. Elvis was, as stated, the king of all media, with a bulletproof career which had actually grown through the army years.
Poignant, in that he was staring at the abyss to follow, the quickie movies and
mostly wasted Hollywood soundtracks.
On a side note, I'm always amazed that the Hotel Claridge dragged out a
beaten, chipped wooden lectern for the world's biggest entertainer.
Little did they know we would be viewing pictures of this event 50 years later.