Discovered In Graceland - August 1977

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On the 16th August, 1977, the world was rocked by the news of the death of Elvis Presley. I was still at primary school, but I remember going out and sitting on my favourite branch in one of our willow trees, and being quite sad about it. He was Elvis, and he'd died, and I knew he was real, even though he was in the movies that I'd loved, and it felt as though I knew-him-but-I-didn't-know-him, and I missed him. Ah, beginner's fandom...

Our MS and LC have vague connections with The King:

LC rather looked like young Elvis, in this photo from his Mojo days (well, but you know what I mean *g*)


and of course MS played the older Elvis, the last Elvis, to great acclaim, on stage in Are You Lonesome Tonight?


So what about the lads, what connection might they have had with Elvis? They would have noticed his death, surely - didn't we all? (Memories and thoughts below, please - what was it like in the UK when the news came out?) But would they have recognised a lyric if they'd heard one?

If you'd like to take part in August's challenge, then do comment below and you will be given one of Elvis's song lyrics as your prompt... it's then yours to do with what you will...

Thangyou very much.

*g*