this is a fox news special report. >> good evening. elvis presley of tupelo, mississippi, memphis, tennessee, las vegas and beverly hills, died today. he was only 42 years old, but while he lived, b he revolutionized the music business. >> we just love him. that's all. he's got to be watching this. got to be so happy. >> elvis presley, an idol to many of us growing up in the 1950s and '60s.

he didn't invent rock 'n' roll, but he made it mainstream and his death shocked the world. the working class hero. the hill billy cat was dead at just 42 years old and then you wonder why and how he died in the bathroom of his dream house in memphis, tennessee. over the course of the next hour, you'll get fresh insight from insiders and experts on the death, but more importantly, on the life and times of the extraordinary man from graceland. ♪ love me tender love me sweet ♪ on the day of his death, he is the fading king of rock 'n' roll. his records and movies are not selling the way they used to and he supports his lavish lifestyle and enter -- scheduled to play out of memphis on the lisa marie, jet the next day, elvis is heading to portland, maine, for what have been his 56th live show of the year. >> we returned back the

graceland at about 1:30 and elvis and i went upstairs and elvis turned on the television in his room to relax for a little while. >> live in girlfriend ginger is the last person to see elvis alive. ricky stanley is elvis's stepbrother. >> about 6:30, elvis called for ricky to bring up his pack of medication to help him get to slope because he was so nervous. he was also kind of keyed up before starting a tour. he brought it up, elvis took his packet of medication and started read i reading a book on psychic energy. he thought that would help him fall asleep, so then i fell asleep. about 8:00, i woke up, elvis was restless, so he called downstairs for ricky again and he came up and brought up another pack of medication. >> a second pack. and then i went back to sleep. >> elvis spent the entire morning inside hir dressing room

and it's there that ginger finally discovered him. i went in, knocked on the door, no one answered. >> panicked members tried to revive him, but he is long gone before they get his body to the hospital. where his death is pronounced at 3:30 in afternoon. then jerry francis, one of the prime argument tects of what i labeled the elvis cover, the conspiracy to hide the king's drug abuse. >> there's the autopsy that the cause of death is a cardiac arrhythmia due to undetermined causes. >> i've been think iing about death. i hope and pray he didn't do it on purpose. ♪ >> bored and worried about about money near the end, elvis is no longer the slim sex symbol who changed the world. fat and 40, the tabloid

headlines. strained and swollen. also deeply troubled by a tell all book describing among other things, his drug abuse, about to be published by his ex bodyguard. >> did they kill him? >> those guys were like brothers. we lived together. did it hurt him? did it contribute? as hard as i hate to say this, yes. >> in exclusive interview, ginger claims not to know elvis was hooked on a plethora of powerful drugs and dispensed by members of his entourage. >> listen, this is very important. you personally witnessed elvis abusing drugs on many, many occasions, almost daily. >> three times a week.

i'd work a day, ricky would work a day. two other guys would work, so about two to three times a week. >> but every time you were on duty. >> every time. every day. every day. last two years of elvis's life, it was every day. >> the actual cause of elvis's death according to many unbiased experts was an overdose of codeine and quaaludes combined with at least five other depr s depressant as in his system. george recalls getting to gra graceland after the news. he runs up to me, george, george, i've lost my son, you've lost your best friend ch about that time, dr. hick walks in and says please gather around me, folks, hate to tell you this, but elvis passed away this afternoon at baptist hospital. very sad and you know, just couldn't believe it.

this guy was such a superstar. had the whole world in the palm of his hands. >> did his enterage forget to tell him this was inappropriate? >> a couple of his guys did. elvis felt he was prescribed medication. he thought because it came from doctors ab it was doctor and it was a doctor's pill, that it wouldn't hurt him, but it did. >> why didn't anyone tell elvis to stop or slow down? >> really glad you asked that. first of all, elvis was a real proud human being. and he thought his job was to help everybody else. very hard for him to take any help. >> why didn't you stop him? zpl i tried on different occasions to stop elvis when i saw him take something i thought

he shouldn't be taken and on a different time, he would say, i don't understand, but he would say i need it, i don't understand. >> what would elvis do if he didn't get the drugs he wanted? >> he would get upset, sometimes. we were in vegas one time and like we were there for like eight weeks. you know, and elvis was getting his drugs, but it got to a point where his doctor wanted to shut him off in vegas and we couldn't reach the doctor anymore. so, he jumped up on the table one day and pulled out his 45 and said i'll buy a damn drugstore if i have to. i'm going to get what i want. you guys better realize you're with me or against me. >> when we come back, how elvis became the world's first rock star. rockstar

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host: november 151956, thousands november 15th, 1966, ousands thousands gather in times square to catch a clims of elvis. it's the premier of "love me tender." now, the host of hard rock cafe, where we continue this fox news special report. honoring elvis on what would have been his 80th birthday january 8th. i'm geraldo rivera and my next guest is the author, reality star and kiss front man, gene simmons. >> elvis culturely, musical hero, what does he mean to you? >> elvis was the at atom bomb that went off.

the word, rock star, didn't exist before elvis presley. >> there wouldn't have been a beatle, a whole lot of folks because he broke ground morally. the sense that a lot of people had, if you listened to elvis, you're going straight to hell. >> board to gladys and vernon, elvis learns to sing in pent kos tall services at the first assembly of god church. at 10, standing on a chair to reach the microphone, he wins this prize at the mississippi alabama fair and dairy show. his prize, $5 in rides. a year later, he gets his first guitar, often bringing it to school as the family moves to memphis. singing a sexed up version of until i walk again with you. >> we were like kind of the first underground sneaking down to beale street and when we he

went out, he didn't go out to promote black music. he went out to do what he wants. >> i think you ain't nothing but a hound dog was an old black song, more of a bluesy thing, so, obviously, the blues and delta of mississippi, we know that was part of it. ♪ one, two, three o'clock rock >> in 1954, he gives the new beat a name. ♪ and the first rock star is born when elvis meets sun records producer, sam phillips. >> he knew, gk, if i can get a white guy that sings like a black person, that has the feeling of a black person, i can make a million dollars. he said, i got him and i got a million dollars. zpl elvis covers that's all right.

using a not so subtle sex appeal that makes elvis the pelvis different from the rest. grammy winner, ray stevens. >> elvis was one of sam's proteges. he and jerry lee lewis, johnny cash. >> elvis showed us what women were looking for in a man. ♪ >> elvis was amazing in that he also bridged the generation, the racial divide, the north south divide. he was in every sense what they call a star. >> precisely and james brown had a great line. james is a big elvis fan. he said, man, he said, elvis

made it possible for the black man's music to really be heard. >> although elvis obviously planted his roots deepest in memphis, tennessee, across the state and sang out of showbiz heart across this country in las vegas, it was right here in nashville that he made most of his best music. in all, elvis presley recorded 262 records here in music city beginning with the classic you hear in the background, heartbreak hotel. since then, he had sold over a million records and continues to be a best seller. >> radio stations who were you know, in charge at that time. they immediately switched their formats. >> every trying his hands in october 1954 at the grand ole opry. elvis becomes the country's first taylor swift, crossing over and changing the world. >> the music went from frank sinatra to elvis presley. ♪ >> elvis presley was danger and

he was passion and he was sex. and he was controverscontrovers. >> elvis gets rich when the koernl sells his sun record deal to rca for 40 grand. with his first 5,000 advance, elvis buys a pink cadillac for his mother, gladys. in 1956, he goes hollywood with "love me tender." ♪ for my darling i love you his dream of acting realizes elvis makes and breaks records, until january 1957, two days after his third and final appearance on the -- elvis gets his draft. >> his career as rock 'n' roll interrupted for a while, elvis begins his military service. >> what would you do?

>> i would probably try acting. >> on emergency leave due to his beloved mother's critical illness, elvis is in memphis when she dies. >> elvis laid over her coffin and said, mama, i'd give everything i got in the world and dig ditches to the rest of my life, just to bring you back for five minutes. >> back in germany, a toxic seed is introduced to his life. he's introduced to amphetamines, in the words of a fellow soldier, elvis becomes evangelical for energy, strength and weight loss. in 1960, honor bly discharged, he returns to a more conservative america with radio stations cutting back on his brand of rock 'n' roll. >> gyrations involved are something that really should disappear from american life. how do you feel about that?

>> well, the gyrations that you're talking about as far as i'm concerned were just something that's natural. it's my way of expressing a song. i can't help it. >> and you'll still express yourself that way in songs in the future? >> i'll put it like this. if i standstill, i'm dead. >> screaming fans out there. do you still like screaming girls? >> if it wasn't for them, i'd rejoin the army. >> scandalously, one girl elvis can't get enough of is the 14-year-old of a colonel he severed with in germany. elvis arranges to bring her back to memphis. >> how in the hell did you talk her father, the general of an army, talk her into coming. i told her she was going to stay with my mama and dad. he was a real gentleman.

real southern gentleman. >> the to me, the times i cherished were the times that we were alone. there was always so many people in the entorage to many times. we lived and breathed together. traveled together and experienced a lot of things, but the times we were alone are when he really reveals himself. >> coming up, more from pri sylla and those closest as elvis at 80 continues. [ male announcer ] are your joints ready for action? osteo bi-flex® with joint shield™ nurtures and helps defend your joints° so you can keep doing what you love. what'd you guys do today? the usual! the usual! [ male announcer ] osteo bi-flex, ready for action. [ male announcer ] osteo bi-flex, because i make the best chicken noodle soup. because i make the best chicken noodle soup. because i make the best chicken noodle soup.

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elvis at 80 continues. how the king left a legacy of music. ♪ from the gold plated piano he

gave priscilla to the lavic limousine he used driving arpd here in nashville, the country music hall of fame remembers its first biggest crossover star, the man who paved the way from everyone from johnny cash to tayl taylor swift. ♪ >> every song he sang, he put his heart and soul into it and it's hard to have a favorite song because just when you say this is my favorite, then you hear another song, and you go, oh, this is my favorite. a special meaning to all of them. >> but as the '60s turned to protest singers like bob dylan and the british innovation takes the reigns, elvis surrenders to hollywood's embrace. >> hollywood came calling and he got sort of bid by the film bug, which distracted him away from making great music and he almost became a joke in the '60s because people weren't really

catching on to the films he was doing. >> hal wallace produces nine elvis films, describes the king as the only sure thing in hollywood. elvis stars in a series of so so films alongside an established actor like walter ma thaw, barbara eden. still engaged in priscilla, elvis is linked to some of the most desirable leading ladies. nancy sinatra, s iribyl sheppar. >> an margaret, she was the hottest thing in hollywood. >> he was slow dancing or kissing her on the neck. we wasn't looking at him too much, but we were looking at her. he sees us and he comes around and starts kicking us and hitting us. i told you guys to get out of here. ♪ and i love you so >> elvis is making a million a

movie, but the assembly line musicals do elvis little good. biographers later claim the colonel pushed elvis into the mediocre movies to cover some of his own gambling debt. ♪ >> elvis' pal, jerry. >> i why pay for a good director, costars. elvis is going to make money. people are going to come. the only person that didn't believe that philosophy was elvis presley. did he get bad advice? was he taken for a ride? what happened? was he, he was an intelligent person. >> elvis never complained that colonel tom parker got 51% and he got 49. did elvis have individual counsel could the contract have been b nullified, i would say yes, but he was okay with it. if i was elvis, i would have been a son of a bitch.

if i'm going all the work and all that stuff, manager, respectfully, would have gotten 10, no more than 20%. ♪ >> i saw him tell that, if you don't do these contracts, you won't do anything. so then here's what elvis has the choice. just walk around the rest of his life with a chip on his shoulder or is she just going to go through the motions. ♪ >> now married to priscilla, but with a career in tatters in 1968, elvis is down, but not out. he welcomes the arrival of lisa marie, his only child. then rejecting the advice of the colonel, he stages a remarkable comeback. the television concert. his first in seven years. clad in black lithuania, elvis is back. >> he's back, if anything can do it, he's back.

>> i'll never forget, he introduced me to elvis presley. >> how in the world did you get past colonel tom parker, the most productive man in history, to get to elvis. >> the colonel said, just gave us a million dollars, elvis go on tour. elvis, oh, thank you, vir, thank you very much. i said, is there anything at all i can do for you, elvis, only thing you can do for me is promise me two things. number one, we'll always be sold out and i want you to promise me that the first 20 rows will go to my fans. not to big shots. >> viva las vegas, also, hawaii and lived and died in graceland in memphis, tennessee, but in some ways, this is the city most closely associated with the king of rock 'n' roll in show business terms. where he performed more often than anywhere else by far. his home away from home here was

the las vegas hilton. he was there so much they called the hotel graceland west. it's also where elvis performed almost nightly, selling out a record 837 consecutive concerts. now called the west gate las vegas, the memory of the king is very much alive. >> elvis was happy, come down from the suite, get on stage and it was a party every night after the show. >> this was his playground. he took me here when i was 16 years old. he would always come here for vacation. after a movie. >> who did he love? >> priscilla presley. >> his first and really true love. >> though elvis' true love, she carries on an affair with karate instrugter, mike stone, as elvis stays busy with every hollywood starlet, at one point, touching

the life of torrey petit. >> he didn't have this rock star mentality. he was like a southern gentleman who was trying to impress his date. >> the presslies separated in february of 1972, finalized in '73. a year elvis nearly overdoses. once hospitalized in a near coma from dem rall abuse. >> he seemed doped up. >> no, he didn't. >> he didn't drink alcohol. the only thing he did was pills that his doctor prescribed him. >> he never did illicit drugs. he went to richard nixon and got a badge for the drug enforcement administration. do you think in his mind, he thought he was doing something sinful? >> i'm sorry, he was a drug addict, just like me. if you use them against what the doctors order you and the doctor's gives they will to you illegally, can't we make that jump that they were illicit? come on. >> we told elvis, look, why don't you let us take you down

to duke university. they'll get you back in good health. get off all that crap, lose your weight and look fantastic. he said, b well, it would be too embarrassing. >> approaching 40, overweight and touring frantically in '74 and '75, he misses the chance to save his movie career, if not his life. >> when streisand came to him, we all told elvis, we says, this could be your sinatras from here to eternity. this could be the movie to bring you back, man. ♪ incredibly, colonel park treats barbra streisand's offer of a star is born with contempt. >> he said, okay, barbara, before you say anything, we want a million up front, 50% of the picture, top billing and we hit the albums of the movie. she said, i'm a pretty big star, too, see you later. >> we look at elvis as the boy next door, but in his heart, he

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like everybody else i guess in his field, but never known elvis to take any hard drugs. >> continuing our special report, elvis at 80, speaking on the night elvis died, a prominent las vegas doctor is under pressure from allegations he's the one prescribing the meds accused of killing the king. this arare of medications all made out to elvis is proof of a stark reality. like michael jackson after him, elvis doctor shopped, going from man-to-man to insure a steady supply of the prescription drugs that killed him. we have this evidence, that stark reality, because of the widow of elvis's doctor here in las vegas. jodi, thank you so much for being with us. we're also joined by eliasii.

as your husband lay dying from stage four cancer, he told you something about a safe deposit box. what was it? >> he told me he took away medication from elvis presley and that some day, i might need to tell a story and show this medication so people would understand. he lived with a stigma all these years that he was the one that caused the drug problems elvis presley. >> dr. gannon was widely regarded in the '70s as one of the doctors who helped kill elvis by overprescribing prescription medicines. he told you to look in this safe deposit box and what did you see? >> i was amazed at the amount of prescriptions that were really given to this man. >> let's go through some of the drugs found in the safe deposit

b b box. these are quaid lewds. these were both prescribed. 300 each by nick, his infamous doctor in memphis. this is a drug called samalure. it has the caption, capsule three times daily to keep sanity. visceral, a sedative, antianxiety, antidepression. >> i am sure he prescribed medications to elvis. he would never cross the line of jeopardizing that medical license that he worked so hard for. >> and what do you hope comes from to be the? >> that people hear the side of the story that my dad wanted to tell people for so many years and that he wanted to help elvis. he looked at him as a family member or like a brother. and he really loved him. >> why didn't anyone tell elvis to stop or slow down?

>> elvis was a real proud human being and he thought his job was to help everybody else. very hard for him to take any help. i tell you, i saw him at the doctor's house in vegas. >> elias? >> yep. i was furious. because i saw elvis almost incapacita incapacitated. >> i waited for the doctor. i confronted him. when he came home at 2:00 in the morning and elvis was staying at his house and i really threatened him. and he goes, i really thought i could lose my friend. boy, the next day, elvis was out and boy, he was mad. when you guys get your medical degree, you know, you can tell my doctors what to do. did we do enough? no, but i tell you, we couldn't have done any more with a strong personality like elvis presley.

>> from the geraldo vault, this is elvis's stepbrother, ricky. >> now, elias seemed to me like he cared for elvis, but after a while, he fell into it like the rest of them and just was giving him whatever he wanted. nobody hardly said no to elvis presley. >> the records indicate that especially in the last year of his life, you prescribed certain medications to elvis in quite extraordinarily large amounts. why? >> i can't comment on that and i don't believe that's true. >> well, the records we have, doctor, and i'll say this as gently as i can, indicate that from january 20th, 1977 until august 16th, 1977, the day he died, you prescribed to elvis

presley, the prescriptions, over 5,000 scheduled two narcotics and or amphetamines. that comes out to something like 25 per day. >> i don't believe that. >> well, is it something you'd like to refresh your recollection on or deny? >> i deny. >> of all the dr. feelgoods in elvis's life, the only one charged with misconduct was nick, a member of elvis's personal entourage and the man who brought the charges against dr. knicks joins me now. joe dugman, now, a private attorney here in nashville. great to see you. it's been 35 years. >> it has. >> give me a since of how abusive these prescriptions were. >> all schedule ii narcotics.

di laud id. he preskrabed 12,000 over several months before we brought charges, just to elvis. >> 12,000 is this that's a mountain of dope. >> it is. >> we are doing this special in recognition of elvis's upcoming 80th birthday. do you think that the drug use in any way tarnishes or diminishes his achievements? >> i don't think so. you have to accept him for who he is. we all have faults. he had a fault. he was an addict, it could be considered a disease. >> coming up, how after death, elvis is bigger than ever. louis, . i had tried to do it in the past. i hadn't been successful. quitting smoking this time was different because i got a prescription for chantix. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. the fact that it reduced the urge to smoke helped me get that confidence that i could do it. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood,

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when the king passed, by some accounts, he had a negative net worth. certainly nothing compared to the tens of millions he earned for agents and managers and hangers on during his life, but in death, that's a whole different story. >> 63 painting, 48 million. >> 37 years gone in some ways, elvis is bigger than ever. >> 65 now. >> in november, a 1963 andy warhol painting depicting the

music icon as a gun toting cowboy was sold to an anonymous bidder. from the highest price for pop art to the higher form of flattery. elvis imitators, elvis captivates and makes money. ♪ >> according to forbes magazine, elvis is one of the top grossing dead celebrities, second only to michael jackson, but he's also spawned an industry of elvis impersonators, or elvis tribute acts who have made their own living as elvis. >> selling at least half a billion records during his lifetime, when he died, the estate was worth less than $10 million. an extravagant lifestyle, gifts and a huge array of employees, elvis had a huge nest to cover. colonel tom parker took half his earnings and sold music rights

to rrk ca for a fraction of their worth. a mere $2.7 million, unable to earn more royalties on songs recorded before 1973. lisa marie was just 9 years old when the king died. her mom took colonel parker to court after 21 months of litigation, he settled the lawsuit in june, 1983, b by accepting a large fee to turn over recordings to rca and the presley family. the colonel died of a stroke at 87 and under priscilla's guidance, elvis presley enterprises was born. >> elvis gave us so much. he loved his fans. i don't know of any entertainer in the world that loved his fans like elvis did. >> but who gets the money? lisa sold the estate including rights to her father's name and

image for 53 million in cash ab solving the estate of 25 a million in debt, but presley still owns graceland. >> quite a little industry. >> i never realized it was such a big industry until i got into it. this whole tributing elvis has created jobs everywhere. from doing this to making suits, to wigs, to festivals and hotel employees. >> australian mark anthony won the ultimate championship for the south pacific and was flown to memphis, tennessee, to perform. he and american dwight eisenhower, no relation to the american president, are among the top tribute artists in the world. >> that's a lot of competition. how good of a living do qulou make? >> i do about 150 to 200 dates a year. i do it full time. travel all over the world.

>> there's a certain point of elvis in his life and career that you don't really want to remember. you know, in his decline. >> got the two different eras. 1960s and later '60s. >> top eetas like ben short man are another part f to industry. >> europe, middle east, new zealand. i'm about to get a flight now to go back to england and back to austral australia. >> he pays to the estate just to perform his music. >> they are sanctioned by elvis presley enterprises like this one in ocean city, maryland, where the winner goes on to compete this the ultimate competition in memphis, tennessee. it's hard to explain the feeling that he generates in people. >> having met elvis in his prime, jack relishes the king's

memory. >> think about how long it's been since he died and how his popularity, if anything, has grown. he sells more records now than he ever did. >> doug church won the 1983 air force talent show. he is now known as the voice of elvis. >> i have a bunch of clocks since 1990, myself. and right now, i am officially unemployable. >> 17-year-old jeffrey crick is the latest generation of elvis. >> give me a couple of bars. ♪ >> pretty impressive voice for a 17-year-old. >> he's got the pipes, man, i tell you what. i think he's going to go far in this business. >> how big of a business is this? >> it's gotten so big now that there are companies that make these costumes that actually have the licensing from elvis presley enterprises and speaking of elvis presley enterprises, they have pretty much taken a

firm hand on the entire industry. >> what about you? is this something that would be yur career forld be my career, absolutely. 100%. >> eventually, you'll be able to grow your own side bars. right now, you're a little peach fuzz. >> i'm a lot older than he is and i still can't grow them. >> first place winner, mr. doug church. >> he still makes a lot of money for a lot of people. >> reminds me of michael jackson and his music will live forever. that story after this. i have the worst cold with this runny nose. i better take something. dayquill cold and flu doesn't treat your runny nose. seriously? alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. oh, what a relief it is.

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80. >> ladies and gentlemen, elvis is in the building. host: every kid growing up in the 50s and 60s wanted to be elvis and he entertained us to this day. including chubby checker. >> i'm always doing something about elvis in all my shows. i met him in las vegas once and we had a great time. two months later my road manager said chubby, elvis died. and i was so sad because he is such a nice man and he was very pleasant, very nice to look at. >> he was terrific and invited us backstage, he gave my wife a scarf because it matched her outfit and she still has it to this day. and i sat at the pno at the dressing room and we sang some gospel songs together and i had

the thrill of my life when he recorded one of my songs. host: brenda lee. >> the first time i met elvis we both did the grand old opry in 1957 and december the 13th. even though he was a bit older than i was, we had an immediate connection and we stayed friends until he passed away. in the interim, he would come to my shows, i would go to his shows, he would call my office one day and wanted a copy of sweet nothing autograph. host: his generosity was legendary. he gave a tour bus. >> i gave him the bus, gave me the confidence to march forward in my own career. i kept thinking well, if elvis believed him enough to give me a bus, may be a a shot in the business so it hav had been a gt

ride, but what a great friend, what a giver he was. >> i have been here for years. >> this home like a museum to your friends, to your benefactor. >> it is just a home. he was very sensitive guy, he knew i lost my mother, i lived in north memphis, and one day he gave me a check and said i know you lost your mother as an infant and never had a home, i want you to give it to me. and then he spends time and i have been here for four years. 10 years before that i liv livet graceland. host: elvis uris' anxieties of the 1960s come back with hit singer. >> he talked about being nervo nervous, back into the business

and i said elvis, you have nothing to be nervous about, open your show with hound dog and don't be cruel, you will be fine, believe me. host: he remembers when they met. >> the doors open to the rehearsal hall, elvis walked in with his entourage in a look at him and went wow. i think i now realized why this guy is the biggest star in the world, and he was back then. you could feel his presence in the room. he has such magnetism, such charisma. >> they did a big cancer at the stadium, you can bring whoever you wanted. johnny cash, you can bring barbra streisand, you can bring friends not true, the rolling stones, you can bring the beatles. elvis is closing the show because nobody wants to follow you eight nothing but a hound dog.

it's impossible. >> i want to be so much like him. host: regardless of the circumstances on his death, elvis presley enriched hope for life in an incredible and enduring way by blending and honoring america's different musical traditions south, north, black, white and just enough appeal to make it interesting, he energized popular music and in a strong way even brings the nation together. what would have been his 80th birthday approach elvis, thanks for the memories. thank you very much for watching. good night

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