Elvis in Las Vegas Page #7

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seemed to echo the low point their relationship had reached

by 1976.

# If I could be you

# If you could be me

# For just one hour

# If we could find a way

# To get inside

# Each other's minds

# Uh-huh

# If you could see you

# Through my eyes

# Instead of your ego

# I believe you'd be, I believe you'd be, surprised to see

# That you've been blind

# Uh-huh

# Walk a mile in my shoes

# Walk a mile in my shoes

# Yeah, before you abuse

# Criticise and accuse

# Just walk a mile in my shoes... #

Elvis was becoming increasingly remote from the manager and the city

he had once loved.

Here we're talking about Las Vegas and money,

the very epitome of materialism.

Here's Elvis Presley, upstairs, after his show,

meditating.

Before his show, saying a prayer.

Reading spiritual books of depth and substance.

The contrast was amazing.

Quite amazing.

He definitely believed that he was blessed by God.

It wasn't just an accident, he felt he'd been picked out.

But he used to question it.

"Why me?"

# Sweet spirit

# In this place

# And I know

# That it's the spirit... #

I would sit in his dressing room when I'd go see him

and he'd be there fidgeting.

Waiting for his second show.

He felt he should have stayed in the church and not become an entertainer.

Elvis would wear, on almost every occasion, three necklaces.

He would wear the Christian crucifix, the cross,

he would wear the Egyptian ankh and he would wear a Jewish star.

And he would tell me, he said, "I don't want to miss out on heaven on a technicality."

# I see my light I see my light come shining

# From the West down to the East... #

Elvis never returned to Las Vegas after the winter of '76.

He would die in Graceland six months later, aged 42.

# I shall be released

I think we could really say that Elvis and the Colonel revitalised Las Vegas.

They brought in people from all over the world.

And not only the International Hotel benefitted,

but every hotel in Las Vegas.

I think he had this wonderful opportunity where the city

really needed a pick me up, somebody to come in and shake up the entertainment scene

and make it cool again for name entertainers to appear in Las Vegas.

So he brought that to the table but Vegas brought to the table the opportunity

for Elvis to showcase himself.

So I think it was a marriage made in heaven.

After 837 shows,

the Hilton's curtains finally closed on an exhausted Elvis

who had given his all for the love and loyalty of his audience.

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