turkeys this thanksgiving and donated almost 12,000 pounds of turkey to local charities. that's it for today. have a great week and we'll see you next fox news sunday. he was on a 42 years old but while he lived he revolutionized the industry and touch most of . >> we just love him. we love him, that is all. he has to be so happy. >> elvis presley, a and idle to millions of us growing up in the 1950s and '60s. elvis didn't invent

rock 'n roll, but he made it mainstream. the working class hero, dead at 42 years old and many still wonder how and why he died in the bathroom of his dream house in memphis, tennessee. over the course of the next hour you are going to 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 death of elvis, here 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 entourage with concerts, scheduled to play out of memphis, his jet the next day, he is heading to portland, maine, for what would have been his 56 live show of the year. >> we returned to graceland at

1:30. we went upstairs and elvis turned on the television in his room to relax for a little while. >> his live-in girlfriend is a leslast person to see him alive. >> about 6:30, elvis called downstairs for ricky stanley to bring up his pack of medication to hav help him get to sleep. he was always keyed up before starting a tour. ricky brought it up, he took his pack of medication and started reading a book on psychic energy. he thought it would help him fall asleep. and then i fell asleep. so at about 8:00 i woke up because elvis was restless saying he couldn't sleep, so he called down for ricky again who brought up another pack of medication. >> a second packet. >> right. elvis took that and then i went back to sleep.

host: he spends the morning at graceland and it is their ginger discovers him. >> i'm not on the door, no one answered so that is when i saw elvis. >> members of the entourage try frantically to revive him but he is long gone before they even get his body to the hospital where his death is pronounced 3:30 in the afternoon. medical examiner jerry francisco, a prime architect of what i long ago labeled the elvis cover up, the conspiracy to hide the king's drug abuse and overdose death from millions of heartbroken fans. >> results of the autopsy are the cause of death is cardiac arrhythmia due to undetermined cause. >> i have been thinking about that. i hope and pray he didn't do it on purpose. host: board and worried about money, elvis is no longer a slim symbol to change the world.

strained and swollen, also deeply troubled by a tell-all book describing among other things his drug abuse about to be published by an annex bodyguard. >> did that book kill him? >> it is very hard, geraldo, because those guys are my brothers. we lived together. did it hurt him, did it contribute? as hard as i hate to say this, yes. host: exclusive interviews explosive back in the day, ginger claims to know he didn't have a plethora of powerful drugs described by stable of feel-good doctors and defended by members of his entourage including the stepbrother. >> this is very important, you personally witnessed elvis presley abusing drugs on many, many locations almost daily. >> three times a week.

i would workaday, ricky would work a day, two other guys would work so two to three times per week. >> every time you were on duty >> every day. last two years of elvis' life it was every day. host: axle cause of death: too many unbiased experts was an overdose of codeine and quaaludes combined with at least five other depressants already in elvis' system. no one since childhood. elvis was his best man and georgia called getting to graceland after hearing the awful news. >> the gate swung open and mr. presley runs up to me and says george, george, i have lost my son, you lost your best friend. about that time the doctor walks in and says would you please gather around me, folks, elvis presley passed away this afternoon at baptist hospital. very sad and you just could not

believe it, this guy was such a superstar, had a whole world in the palm of his hands. >> did his entourage including you, did you hesitate to tell elvis may be this or that was inappropriate or maybe he should take better care of himself? >> he was prescribed medication. he thought because it came from doctors and a doctors tell it wouldn't hurt him, but lo and behold it did and look at what happened. >> why didn't anybody tell elvis to stop or slow down? >> first of all, elvis was a really proud human being, he thought his job was to help everybody else. very hard for him to take any help. >> why didn't you stop him? >> i try to in several locations locations, saw him take something i thought he should be

taking or took too much of something, on a different time he would say i don't understand, 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, like we were there for like eight weeks. elvis was getting his drugs they got to a point where his doctor wanted to shut him off in vegas. we couldn't reach the doctor anymore. so he jumped up on the table one day and said i will find a drugs for if i have to, i will get what i want, you people better realize you are with me or against me. host: when we come back how elvis became the world's first rockstar

host: november 151956, thousands gather in times where to catch a glimpse of elvis presley as he arrives for the debut of his film outside the paramount theater in new york city. the premier of "love me tender," now the hard rock cafe where we continue this fox news special report on a elvis and what would have been his 80th birthday january 8. my next guest is the author, reality star and kiss front man gene simmons. >> elvis culturally, elvis as a musical hero, what does he mean to you? >> elvis was the atom bomb that went off and started the economy.

the word rockstar didn't exist before elvis presley. >> without elvis that wouldn't have been beatles, there wouldn't have been a lot of folks because he broke ground morally that a lot of people had come if you listen to elvis you are going straight to hell. host: born to gladys presley, elvis learn to sing services with his poor but proud family. in the first assembly of god church. at 10 standing on a chair to reach the microphone he wins fifth prize at the mississippi alabama fair and dairy show. his prize, $5 in rocks. a year later he gets his first guitar often bringing it to school. as they moved to memphis and he attends humes high. try to attention singing the up version of to i walk again with you at the annual show. >> we were the first underground sneaking down illustrate for the black shows that were segregated

and when he went out didn't go out to promote black music, he went out to do what he likes. >> it is a really old black so song. more of a bluesy thing. so obviously the blues of the delta of mississippi, we know that is part of it. ♪ host: in '54, year after he graduates high school, they give the new beat a name. and the first rockstar is born when elvis meets sun record producer phillips. >> sam phillips knew, he always told me if i can get a white guy that sings like a black person has the feeling of a black person, i could make a million dollars and he said i got him when i got elvis. >> elvis covers that's all right

using not-so-subtle appeal that makes elvis the pelvis different from the rest. >> elvis was one of sam's protege as a matter of fact as i am sure you know he and jerry lee lewis all were very simple. johnny cash. elvis showed us what women were looking for in a man. ♪ >> elvis was amazing in that he also bridged the generations, the racial divide the north-cells divide, he was in every sense a crossover superstar. >> james brown had a great line. a great elvis fan. he said man, elvis made it possible for black hands music

to cross. host: although elvis plan to the roots in the state and saying out of show business later in his career across the country in las vegas, in nashville him a most of his best music. 262 records here in music city beginning with that classic you here in background heartbreak hotel. he has sold over a billion records and he continues to be a bestseller. >> the radio stations were in charge at that time. they immediately switched their format. host: at are trying his hand in 1954 at the ground old opry he becomes country's first tennis with crossing over and changing the world. >> the changes overnight, from frank sinatra to elvis presley. >> elvis presley was danger, and

he was passion and he was set and he was controversy and he broke all these barriers. >> looking up with super manager, elvis gets rich when the kernel cells the record deal to rca for 40 grand. with his first $5000 advance, elvis buys a pink cadillac for his mother, gladys. in 1956 he goes hollywood with "love me tender. ♪ host: his dream of acting realize he makes and breaks records. until january 1957, 2 days after his third and final appearance on. sullivan show famously filmed from the waist up, elvis gets his grab moment. >> elvis presley begins his service. >> to even disappear, what would you do?

>> i would probably try acting. >> on emergency leave, elvis is in memphis when she died. a self-professed mama's boy, he is devastated. >> said mama, i give everything i've got in the world and they did just the rest of my life to bring you back for five minutes. host: a toxic seed is planted in elvis' life. he is introduced to amphetamines and in the word of a fellow soldier, he becomes evangelical about the benefits for energy, strength and weight loss. in 1960 utterly discharged returns a more conservative america with radio stations cutting back on his brand of rock 'n roll. >> the generations involved are something that really should

disappear from american life, how do you feel about that? >> the generations you're talking about as far as i'm concerned about something natural. just my way of expressing a song. >> you still express your way on these songs? >> if i stand still i am dead. >> some screaming fans, do you still like screaming girls? >> they wasn't for them out have to restart. host: the 14-year-old daughter of an army colonel he served with in germany. elvis arranges to bring her back to memphis when his pitches up. >> how do you talk her father to let you come over by herself with mark said she was going to stay with my mom and dad, but he was a real gentleman, really a

gentleman. >> to me the time the cherished where the times we were alarming. there were always so many people in the entourage at all times and we lived and breathed together with the entourage traveling together, experience a lot of things at the times we were alone, what he really revealed himself. host: coming up, more from priscilla and those closest to elvis track the decline and fall of the

host: "elvis at 80" continues. from the piano he gave his new

bride priscilla to the lavish limousine driving around here in nashville, remembering the biggest crossover star. many paved the way for everyone from johnny cash taylor swift. the king of rock 'n roll and the king of country music. >> every song he sang he put his heart and soul into it. just when you say this is my favorite, you hear another song, this is my favorite. really special meaning to all of them. >> the british invasion takes the reins of rock 'n roll. elvis surrenders to hollywood's embrace. >> hollywood came calling and he got bit by the film bug which distracted him away from making great music and he almost became a joke in the '60s.

host: is the only sure thing in hollywood. all the stars in so-so films alongside established actors like walter matthau, mary tyler moore and barbara eden. though engaged to priscilla, elvis in tinseltown the most desirable lady, sinatra. and actress and morgan. >> she was hottest thing in hollywood, elvis did >> remembering the hottest couple in hollywood. >> we weren't looking at him too much, we were looking at her. and he sees us and comes running and kicking us, i told you guys to get out of here. get out of here. >> ♪

host: elvis is making a million dollars per movie but the musical handpicked does elvis little goodie. batter first claim the kernel pushed elvis into mediocre movies to cover some of his own gambling debts. >> why pay for a good director, why pay for costars, elvis is going to make money, people are going to come. the only person he didn't believe that philosophy was elvis presley. >> was he taken for a ride, what happened? he was an intelligent person. >> elvis never complained he got 51% and elvis got 49. did elvis have individual counsel for the contract had been nullified? i would say yes, but he was okay with it. if i was elvis, i would have been a son of a. if i'm doing all the work and

doing all that stuff, manager respectfully would have gotten 10, no more than 20%. >> i saw them tell him if you don't do these contracts you won't do anything s to here's wt elvis has, is he going to walk around the rest of his life with a chip on his shoulder or is just going to go through the motions? host: now married to priscilla with a career in tatters, elvis is down but not out. he welcomes the arrival of his only child and rejecting the advice of the kernel the stage is remarkable comeback with a television concert. his first in seven years. elvis is back. >> he's back, man. he is back. >> i will never forget who

introduced me to elvis presley. >> how in the world did you get past the most protective manager in history to get to elvis? >> the colonel said he just gave us a million dollars for elvis to go on tour. said thank you sir, thank you very much. that is there anything at all i can do for you, elvis? the only thing you can do for me is promised me two things. number one we will always be sold out and i want you t the fs will go to my fans, not too big shots. >> in hawaii and lived and died in graceland and memphis, tennessee, but in some ways this is the city most closely associated with the king of rock 'n roll. this is where elvis starred opposite in the iconic movie viva las vegas and he performed more often than anywhere else. his home away from home was the

las vegas hilton. they called the hotel graceland west. where elvis performed almost nightly selling out a record 837 consecutive concerts. now called the westgate las vegas, the memory of the king is very much alive. >> elvis was happy because he would come and there was a party every night after his show. >> he took me here when i was 15 years old. he would always cut the hair for vacation, come here after a movie. >> so who did he love? >> priscilla pressley. host: though elvis one and only true love, neither is faithful. she carries on an affair with karate instructor as elvis stays busy with every scarlet from hollywood to graceland. one point putting life of a 20-year-old coed.

>> he didn't have this rockstar mentality, he was like a southern gentleman who was trying to impress a date. >> they separated in 1972, their divorce finalized in '73, a year he nearly overdoses. once hospitalized in a near co coma. >> did he seem to open up to you? >> he didn't drink alcohol. he only did pills. >> 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 was to win something sinful? or was he just taking medicine? >> he was a drug addict like me. if you use it against what the doctors ordering you to use and the doctors giving it to you in illegally, we make this little jump they were illicit drugs? >> we told elvis why don't you

let us take you down to duke university. spend a month, they will get you back in good health and all that, you will look fantastic. he said well, it would be too embarrassing. host: approaching overweight and touring frantically, still dreams of acting great but misses the chance to save his movie career if not his life. >> opposite a star is born we told elvis this could be yours not drive here to eternity. this is the movie that will bring you back. host: incredibly colonel parker treats barbra streisand offer with contempt. >> before you say anything we want 50% of the picture, top billing. says colonel, i'm a pretty big star too, we will see you later. >> in his heart he was marlon

brando, no doubt about it. host: creative disappointments and enough dope to kill a horse, we get the inside scoop afterprr

>> elvis, you only thing he took was sleeping pills to sleep like

everybody else i guess in his field. never known elvis to take anything else. host: between our special report "elvis at 80". a prominent las vegas doctor under pressure for allegations he's the one prescribing the meds already suspected of killing the king. even in death, the family still tried to clear his name. >> this incredible array of prescription medicines made out to elvis presley is proof of a stark reality in the king of rock 'n roll life and death. like michael jackson after him, elvis dr. going from man to man to ensure steady supply of the perception drugs that ultimately killed him, we have this evidence that stark reality because of the widow of elvis dr. here in las vegas. thank you for being with us, we're joined.

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 with medications from elvis presley and that someday i might need to tell the story and show this medication so people would understand he lived with a stigma all these years he was the one who caused the drug problem to elvis presley. >> he was widely regarded in the 70s as one of those doctors who helped kill elvis by overprescribing prescription medicines. he told you to look in the safe deposit box and what did you see? >> i was amazed at the amount of prescriptions that were given to this man. >> let's go over some of the drugs found. these two bottles are quaaludes. these were both prescribed, 300

primitives each prescribed by the doctor, the infamous doctor. this is a drug also prescribed by the doctor. it has the caption castle three times daily to keep sanity. a sedative, antianxiety, anti-tension, antidepressant. >> i'm sure he prescribed medications to elvis presley, he would never cross the line of jeopardizing the medical license that he worked so hard for the matter what stage is liberty it was. >> what you help comes from tonight? >> the people here the type of story that he wanted to tell for so many years, and that he really wanted to help elvis, looked at him as a family member, more like a brother, and really liked him. >> why didn't anybody tell him to stop or slow down?

>> it was to help. very hard for him. >> the producer childhood friend on the memphis mafia. >> confronts him, came home at 2:00 the morning and elvis was staying at his house and i really thought i could lose my friend. boy, the next day elvis was out again and was mad. >> you can tell my doctors what to do. >> i tell you, we couldn't have done anymore.

host: from the vault, his stepbrother. >> it seemed like he cared. but you know, fell into it like the rest of them, getting him whatever he wants. >> nobody hardly said no to elvis presley. >> especially in the last year of his life prescribed certain medications to elvis presley and quite extraordinarily large amounts. why? >> i can't comment on that and i don't believe it is true. >> the records we have, doctor, indicate that from generally 20th 1977 until august 151977, the day he died, prescribed to august presley prescriptions

over 5000 scheduled to go narcotics and amphetamine amphetamines. something like 25 per day. >> i don't believe that. >> if it is something you would like to refresh your recollection on or something you deny? >> i deny. host: of all th the dr. phil gos in his life, only one charge with criminal misconduct for overprescribing a drug and narcotic to the king of rock 'n roll was a member of elvis' personal entourage and the man who brought the charges against dr. nick joins me now. now if private attorney. how abusive.

amphetamines, you name it. he prescribed 12,000 prescriptions for several months just to elvis presley. 12,000? >> 12,000, that is a mountain of dope. in recognition of elvis' upcoming 80th first day. do you think the drug use tarnishes or diminishes his achievements? >> i don't think so. he is a fabulous entertainer. he had a fault. it could be considered a disease. host: coming up, how after death

host: now continuing our fox news special report, "elvis at 80". when the king pass, summit county had a negative net worth. nothing compared to tens of millions we earned for agents and managers during the life. in death that is a whole different story. >> the parasite, opening 63 page $48 million. >> 37 years gone in some ways elvis is bigger than ever. in november in 1963 andy warhol painting depicting the music icon has a gun toting cowboy was

sold to an anonymous bidder. from the highest price for pop art to the highest form of flattery, elvis imitator, elvis captivates and makes money. according to forms magazine, elvis presley is one of the top grossing dead celebrities second only to michael jackson, but he also spawned an industry of elvis impersonators were elvis tribute acts who have made their own living as elvis. despite selling at least half a billion records in his lifetime, when he died the presley estate is worth less than $10 million. extravagant lifestyle, gifts and huge array of employees families and hanger on, he had a lot to cover. the manager took half his earnings and sold music rights

to rca for a fraction of their worth. presley takes $2.7 million unable to earn more royalties on songs recorded before 1973. lisa marie was nine years old when the king died, her mom took parker to court after 21 months of bitter litigation, he settled the lawsuit in june 1983 by accepting a large fee to turn over most of his interest in the recordings to rca and the family. in generally of 1997 the colonel died from a stroke at age 87 under the firm guidance, elvis presley enterprises was born. and graceland made into a popular tourist destination for the public. >> elvis gave us so much. i don't know if any entertainer in the world who loves his fans like elvis did. host: who gets the money? lisa marie sold the bulk of the estate including rights to her father's name and image for $53 million in cash absolving

the state of $35 million in debt but presley still owns graceland. >> i never realize it was such a big industry and tie got into it, this whole impersonating elvis has created jobs everywhere. bring this to making suits, wigs, festivals and hotel employees, all kinds of stuff. host: australian mark anthony win the ultimate championship for the south pacific and flown to memphis, tennessee, to perform. he and american flight eisenhower, no relation to the late president, arm atop tribute artists in the world, 180,000 attributes, that is quite the deal. >> i do about hundred days per year, i do it full-time, travel all over the world. there is a certain point of

elvis in his life and career you don't want to remember. in his decline. >> 1960s and later '60s. host: they are another part of the global elvis industry. >> great in the middle east, new zealand. >> 's tens of thousands of dollars to the estate just to perform his music. elvis tribute artist in preliminaries sanctioned by elvis enterprises like this one in maryland where the winner goes on to compete in the ultimate competition in memphis, tennessee. hardest thing the feeling he generates in people. >> jack relishes the king's

memory. >> think along has been been since he died and how his popularity has grown. more records now than he ever did. host: winning in 1983 air force talent show. he is now known as the voice of elvis. >> i haven't punch a clock since 1990 myself and write right nowm officially unemployed. host: the 17-year-old is the latest generation of elvis lovers. >> give me a couple of bars. >> i'm so hurt. >> pretty impressive voice. >> he's got the pipes, tell you what. i think he will be a part of this business. >> thank you. >> i think of an industry, you have a, roderick had >> has gotten so big they have these companies have your licenses from elvis enterprises and speaking of elvis presley enterprises, they have taken a firm hand on the industry.

it's this one to be your career forever? >> this will be my career, absolutely, 100%. >> eventually can grow your own sideburns. >> i still can't grow them. host: so not only is elvis worth far more dead than alive, he makes a lot of money for a lot of people. of people. and his music will live forever. hey matt, what's up?

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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 when i feel a cold coming on... (achoo) i hit it hard. new zicam cold remedy nasal spray shortens colds. and it reduces symptom severity by 45%. so when a cold hits, shorten it with zicam.