Celebrities“You were always on my mind,” Elvis Presley sang. Exactly forty-five years after his death – he was barely 42 – The King is still on the mind of millions of fans, a culture icon without equal. But as sweet as that classic, so bitter was the end of the once slender and vital young man, who for years had made countless girls’ hearts beat faster. An account of his last days, in which he struggled with obesity, manic depression and addictions. “He reasoned that there is no problem as long as you don’t have to get your stuff from a street dealer.”
“With his steep climb to fame and success, he faced temptations that we can never understand,” said Pastor Bradley at his funeral in August 1977. “Now that he’s gone, I think it’s better to remember his good qualities.”
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