777: UPDATE No 3: ELVIS, Michael and the FAKE DEATH
In the third UPDATE I want to talk about the obsession with 7 and the strange circumstances of ELVIS death.... with many similarities to Michael's death....
At first I begin with Elivs live.....
Career: • Nominated 14 times for grammy (7+7)
• 151 Gold-Platinum Records (7)
• 14 number one records (7+7)
• Country-Charts 7 number one hits
• Heartbreak Hotel spent 17 weeks at number 1 on Billboards Country Chart.
• His records have spent a total of 79 weeks at the number 1 position in the U.S.
• Many of Elvis’ songs were recorded on 7-inch records.
• On 7 July (7th month) 1954, Elvis debuted on radio.
• "Jailhouse Rock" was the first ever music video. ? Thriller was the first longtime music video
• “Suspicious Minds was another difficult song to sing. The incomplete takes appear here for the first time. The line "would I still see suspicion in your eyes" has Elvis stumbling. At one point, he sings in frustration, "would I still see, see see, **** you, rider". There are seven takes here. Take 8 was the master.
• Elvis did 20 takes of In The Ghetto only 7 are including the almost perfect take one. Clearly, everyone knew how important this song was going to be which explains the many different backing variations and keys that Elvis had to sing. Each take is a joy to listen, whether complete or not. The Roger Miller song From A Jack To A King (Jacko?
?) was recorded to please his father.
• 56: 25(7) April, He signed a 7 year contract:t with Paramount Pictures
• 1956 – 1963 (7 year period) 35 Hits in the Top 20
• At the beginning he wanted 25% of selling
• Last TV show at CBS at 6.1.1957
• 61 he abandoned singing to live audiences and turned exclusively to film making.
• 7 years later in 68 he started his comeback
• ELVIS: ’68 Comeback Special - Deluxe Edition DVD” is a seven-hour, three-disc set featuring all the material shot for Elvis Presley’s 1968 television special
• The time from 1970 till his death at 1977 (7 years period)Elvis spent touring in concerts all over the United States - around 1,000 concerts total.
Other strange things:• His “Hound Dog” jet has “N777EP” in large letters
• The $7 telephone card (shown above) features ELVIS AARON PRESLEY wearing his gold lame' suit-- one of the world's most famous and valuable costumes. (Michael Jackson Gold pants) Officially licensed by Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. in 1994. One gram of 999.9 fine gold encased in plastic. Created by AmeriVox / Luis Vigdor / Powell Associates, Inc. and produced in Japan by Mitsubishi Corporation. Limited to 77 test cards and only 9777 cards in the public release. This glorious, precious metal collectible is one of many officially licensed Elvis Presley phone cards that illustrate the connection between Elvis and 7. (Original face value of calling time was once $7. Over 7 years ago these Elvis gold cards sold for $117. The 77 test cards may be 7x more valuable.)
• The World of Elvis AmeriVox phone card series included 22 telephone calling cards with striking images of the King of Rock n’ Roll. Within the series, 7 telephone cards had a denomination of $7, including a solid gold card produced by Mitsubishi in Japan. A $7.77 Elvis card depicted Elvis teaching his pet chimpanzee Scatter to “read” on a movie set in 1962. Production was limited to 25,777.
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Login• Graceland is about 14 acres ( Neverland??)
• The lightest Elvis ever weighed as an adult was 170 lbs.
• Elvis favourite drink: Pepsi.
• On 21.12.(also Michael related)1970, Presley met President Nixon at the White House
• One of his favorite movies was the Magnificent Seven
• Lived in Germany: Bad Nauheim, street: Goethestraße no 14
• Met his wife at the Goehtestraße: Priscilla Beaulieu, she was 14 years old at this time..
• Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in 1967 after 7 years of courtship
• Elvis owned 18 TVs, including one installed on the ceiling over his bed.
• Elvis adopted a chimpanzee called Scatter.
Michael Jackson/ Elvis/ Lisa Marie• In 1975, seven-year-old Lisa Marie visited her dad, who was performing in Lake Tahoe. He arranged to have her go backstage to meet the lead singer of one of the hottest boy bands of the era: 17-year-old Michael Jackson.
? Long time friendship?!?!?!
• Michael married Lisa Marie
Death:• Elvis died in 1977 on 16 August (1+6=7).
• He had gone to sleep that morning around 7 a.m.
• At the time of his death, he was planning a European tour.
• Elvis died totally unexpectedly in 1977 from heart attack, prescription drug abuse being indicated as a cause.
• The ambulance took Elvis from Graceland at 2147 Elvis Presley Boulevard to Baptist Hospital 7 miles away.
• The Tennessee Historical Marker in front of Elvis’ Graceland is numbered 4E 77.
• In his will, Elvis left everything to Lisa Marie, who would take full control of it when she turned 25.
• Elvis was christened Elvis Aron Presley, but his gravestone reads Elvis Aaron Presley
Towards the end of his life, Elvis sought to add an ‘a’ to his middle name to make it a biblical name.
?Michael Joe Jackson ft. Michael Joseph Jackson
• 1997 Article: He's still dead, but he has a new release. (new four-CD set 'Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music' contains 100 unreleased songs by Presley and some of his favorite music by other artists)(Brief Article) CD : A Life in Music 70 Dollar
• 2008 Incoming 52 (7) Mil US- Dollar
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REPORTAGE ABOUT ELVIS FAKE DEATH
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Pricilla Presley about Elvis and fake death:
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P.S. At first she spokes very very fast… and then look how she changes the way of speaking… also a signal of lying… after this she speaks fluently again
Just a short announcement by
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P.S. They have a extra site with Elvis sightings…. Strange isn’t it? The site is owned by his (former) enterprise…
Ok, their announcement….
THE KING...IS BACK! TO COMPLETE HIS EUROPEAN TOUR!
Elvis Presley In Concert will return for another European tour in 2010. This astounding production reunites some of Elvis' former bandmates live on stage with a state of the art video-projected Elvis. This latest tour will include engagements in England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, and other European
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Click here to buy 2010 Elvis Presley in Concert merchandise online.
And there is a tribute show at CIRQUE DU SOLEIL….. VIVA ELVIS
Some parts of the tribute show remember me of the memorial, This is it: The way you make me feel
And at the end of the show there is the victory sign with the body of the actors…
Have a look:
She also speaks about Michael Jackson in part 2:
Lisa marie and Michael remain friends?!?!?!?!?
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And by the way, why do they show a picture of LUNEBURG in north england after Part 2???
Is Elvis hiding there?
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Are they giving us clues??? Like on this video:
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Maybe Michael and Elvis come back together? ?
An other interesting article…. For those who have time... :mrgreen:
What happened to the hearse used in Elvis's funeral?I have pondered on this issue, and it seems that great minds think alike, as I have been asked this question by more than one visitor to this site. Here is what I've come up with:
"Allan: The car used to remove Elvis' body was a '75 Miller-Meteor Landau. The car used in the funeral service itself was a '77 Miller-Meteor Landau, which was the first of the new downsized Cadillac chassis.
As to someone who collects Elvis memorabilia not snapping that car up, that's fairly easy to figure. When the Cadillac commercial chassis was downsized, sales plummeted in part due to the downsizing itself. With the smaller size, it was the death knell for new ambulances built on the Cadillac commercial chassis, and that cut the demand, and thus the production, of the chassis. The chassis itself was no longer nearly as special a design as it was before, either, which hurt its sales, too. Previous commercial chassis were more specialized in the rear suspension area, with the leaf spring rear suspension, which in turn allowed for a lower rear floor, and thus lower loading height for hearses and ambulances. The height from the ground to the rear floor increased something like 5 or 6 inches in that one model year's change, and that didn't go over well at all.
With the radical (for a Cadillac commercial chassis) change, and the natural plummet in overall sales of same, prices of new hearses and ambulances on this chassis doubled almost overnight. Annual demand for Cadillac commercial chassis went from something like 2000 units or more per year to about 900 units per year. With all the goofiness of the safety and pollution standards at the time, new American car prices were going up constantly at a time when people were used to a moderate consistency from year to year, and people were complaining about the "sticker schock" of new car prices in general; so the price of a new hearse at about $30,000 was outrageous to anyone at the time. At that, downsized hearse prices held up far better on the used vehicle market for a far longer time than the older cars did, so it was a comparatively long time before any downsized hearses found their way out of service with mortuaries.
Other factors to be considered as well include the fact that it was in August of '77 that the first major meet of the Professional Car Society was held in Cincinnati, and since then, hearses have become far more acceptable at car meets here than they were back then. Elvis memorabilia wasn't as hot an item back then, either, as it seems like people won't let Elvis die and rest in peace, as evidenced by all the odd rumors since of people seeing Elvis somewhere. For that matter, presuming the car might have been traded in at a point where it was still worth $25,000 on the used coach market, that kind of money would buy a lot of memorabilia that would hold much more value in future years than that hearse might have. And 25 grand was still a lot of money at such a time when the car was probably traded in, which might have been around 1981".
Thoughts from PCS member Dennis Goethe:
"Elvis' funeral was directed by the Memphis Funeral Home - an SCI (Service Corporation International) Funeral Home. As you may know, SCI is a very large consolidator of funeral home properties, owning literally thousands and thousands of funeral homes and cemeteries across the world.
I have always assumed that the hearse is a Miller-Meteor, based on the style of the draperies, the aluminum trim piece behind the second side door, and the shape of the landau bars.
SCI was notorious in those years for keeping their cars until they fell apart. In St. Louis, where I am, cars of this era were run well into the mid-late 1980s. Memphis Funeral Home is a high-volume firm and had (has) quite a fleet of identical cars. I wonder if, after a few years, anyone remembered which of the hearses actually carried Elvis to his grave (or from the hospital, or from the funeral home to Graceland, for that matter)!
Since this was an SCI location, I wonder if the livery was bought through their home offices in Houston, TX. I believe that is the way they do it now, rather than going though a local hearse dealer.
Well, lots of non-information for you. Maybe more than you knew before, maybe not".
Comments from PCS member Danny Ryder:
I saw your website about Elvis's hearse and thought I would tell you where it went. It got traded to Houston Brothers Hearse Sales (formerly Crain's of Atlanta). The owner's son was taking it to resale in Florida I believe when it caught fire and burned on side of the interstate (Highway 75).
And here is the most definitive answer yet!
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On 18th August 1977, after a private service inside Graceland, Elvis's body was placed in a gleaming white 1977 Miller-Meteor Landau Traditional Cadillac hearse.
Then, a brilliantly shining silver Cadillac limousine led the procession, with the hearse followed by sixteen white Cadillac limousines carrying the mourners to the Memphis Cemetery.
My name is Chuck Houston, President of Houston Brothers, Inc., a funeral car dealer in Marietta, GA. Around 1984, I was the last person to drive the hearse that carried Elvis to his grave. Our Company, then known as Crain S&S Sales which my father owned, bought, sold, leased and traded cars with SCI. He did so for many years. He originally sold the car new to SCI. We came back into possession of Elvis's hearse when Memphis FH updated their rolling stock.
We were loaning the hearse to a funeral home in South Florida until their new vehicle was ready for delivery. My father was reluctant to loan the car out. He wanted to hang on to it, the only car he ever wanted keep in 50 years of business. The funeral home in Florida was one of his biggest customers and needed a white/white loaner desperately. Elvis's hearse happened to be the only white hearse on the lot. Another employee and myself, both of us about 21 at the time (we were going to drop off the car and then spend a few days of spring break in Ft. Lauderdale) took off toward Miami on I-75 around 7:00 pm. Around 10:00 we ran out of gas just north of Valdosta, GA. What was odd is that a tank of gas in those days would carry you from Marietta, GA to the Live Oak exit in Florida with gas left in the tank. That was based on the many, many cars my friend and I delivered to the south Florida area in the early 80's. Therefore we never checked the gas gauge until we were in the vicinity of Live Oak.
After running out of gas, we walked about two miles to the next exit, bought a can and some gas and started back up the north bound return ramp toward Elvis's hearse. Before reaching the highway a Lowndes County Sherriff stopped us, asked where we were going and called us a cab. We got her going again and headed for the gas station to fill her up. Heading south again, we were on our way. Just as the weigh station (the last one on southbound 75) came into sight the engine cut off. I dropped her into neutral while travelling around 65 mph and turned the ignition. When I did, fire shot out from under the hood on both sides. I eased her to the shoulder next to the weigh station return ramp and my friend and I jumped from the hearse as the fire engulfed the front end of the hearse.
My friend and I met at the rear of the car and realized all of our possessions were in the rear of the hearse and the doors were locked. We couldn't get back in the front to retrieve the keys due to the fire having already spread. A truck driver appeared with a fire extinguisher but it was too late. Neither of us wanted to get close for fear the hearse would blow up. So there we stood and watched as Elvis's hearse went up in flames. A fire truck finally arrived and all they could save was the rear quarter panels, the rear door and bumper. Twin Lakes Towing picked the hearse up around 2:00 am and carried it to their lot. The D.O.T. Enforcement Officer carried us to the Ramada Inn.
The next morning we caught a cab over to Twin Lakes Towing and waited for our wrecker to show up from Marietta. While waiting at the towing co. all I could think was that I burned up Elvis's hearse and my dad was going to kill me. The remains sat on our back lot (Hwy. 41 / Cobb Pkwy) until 1989 when it was finally put through a car crusher and hauled off. My friend and I sat there and watched as it was crushed. Other than the VIN, the hearse was identifiable by the number on the lower right hand side of the rear window. I can't remember the number at the moment but I want to say seven. The number is visible on some of the footage of Elvis's funeral. There is one scene where the hearse is turning left when it is plainly visible. The number sticker was still on the vehicle the day it was crushed. Out of the thousands of hearses my father has sold over the years, this one was special. We always say that Elvis didn't want his hearse to end up in south Florida.
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