Discovered In Graceland - August 1977

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

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*

Comments

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

I was camping in the Sequoias at the time - it was the bear episode camp out, when we returned (my sis, and my boyfriend) we were met by his best friend with a black arm band on and openly crying. . . .

hit me with a lyric. . .

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

"the bear episode camp out"? I have no idea what that was, although it doesn't sound good... (I was only little, and on the other side of the world...) Black armbands though - wow... I remember one of my classmates being in floods of tears, cos Elvis really had been her hero - I remember how much she'd talk about him too, and save posters and pictures of him and so on...

Right - your lyric is:

Well, since my baby left me,
I found a new place to dwell...
(Heartbreak Hotel)

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

"the bear episode camp out"?

The National Park had signs posted that all food must be contained or hung. My boyfriend and I slept out under the stars and my sister slept in the tent. In the middle of the night my sis wakes up by yelling there was a bear in her tent. We replied that she was dreaming. She answered, that no there was a bear. So I got up and she was wrong, there were 2 bears in her tent. I threw a couple of rocks in their general direction and they grabbed her back pack and ambled off.

I asked what was in the backpack and she said some apples. She didn't think bears would smell a few apples. She wanted to go home. My boyfriend and I checked for additional food. Finding none we still slept outside. Saw a few deer and weren't worried about bears.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ah, no wonder I'd never heard of it! *g*

Oh dear... Bears can smell chocolate through the wrapper, lucky escape for your sister..!