38 years ago tomorrow, BEAUTIFUL young man.

[Tonyko]

Date of Birth: 01/08/1935

Date of Death: 08/16/1977

Age at Death: 42

 

What he BECAME aside, you can't look at these and deny his beauty.

(again I tried to pick ones we don't see often )

http://s27.postimg.org/lla0m6pc3/image.jpg

 

http://s23.postimg.org/5o1glztsb/image.jpg

http://s23.postimg.org/j8wtyuyyz/image.jpg

http://s13.postimg.org/oabksc1gn/image.jpg

[maninsoma]

Elvis Presley not only had a great voice and stage presence but he was one of the most handsome men to ever record pop-rock music.

[bigvalboy]

Date of Birth: 01/08/1935

Date of Death: 08/16/1977

Age at Death: 42

 

What he BECAME aside, you can't look at these and deny his beauty.

(again I tried to pick ones we don't see often )

http://s27.postimg.org/lla0m6pc3/image.jpg

 

http://s23.postimg.org/5o1glztsb/image.jpg

http://s23.postimg.org/j8wtyuyyz/image.jpg

http://s13.postimg.org/oabksc1gn/image.jpg

 

Nice post....

[tyro]

Christ, was he pretty.

T

[Tonyko]

Christ, was he pretty.

T

An older actress who's a rare EGOT (anyone lol?) told me she had one date with him maybe around 1960, and said he was driving and in the car at night looking at him she said he was SO beautiful he was almost like a woman.

[caliguy]

..and then..

http://egotvonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/elvis-1.jpg

[+ WmClarke]

An older actress who's a rare EGOT (anyone lol?) told me she had one date with him maybe around 1960, and said he was driving and in the car at night looking at him she said he was SO beautiful he was almost like a woman.

Rita Moreno?

[Tonyko]

..and then..

http://egotvonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/elvis-1.jpg

When I started this with "What he BECAME aside..." was kinda hoping no one would go here

[Tonyko]

Rita Moreno?

Uh huh. (for anyone not famil with the nomenclature, Emmy Grammy Oscar Tony:rolleyes:)

[caliguy]

Damn though. 38 years. That's amazing. Another event in history where you probably know exactly were when you heard the news.

[maninsoma]

..and then..

http://egotvonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/elvis-1.jpg

 

But that isn't a real representation of how Elvis ever looked, is it? I remember him getting heavier towards the end of his life, but he never got anywhere near THAT big, did he? I don't see how anyone can honestly claim to be an Elvis impersonator and go out looking like that. It's more of a parody (like Debra Wilson's Oprah on MadTV) than an homage.

[Tonyko]

But that isn't a real representation of how Elvis ever looked, is it? I remember him getting heavier towards the end of his life, but he never got anywhere near THAT big, did he? I don't see how anyone can honestly claim to be an Elvis impersonator and go out looking like that. It's more of a parody (like Debra Wilson's Oprah on MadTV) than an homage.

No this bad impersonator pic is NOT a true rep of what he was like towards the end . Actually he was making an effort to diet and exsercise more and HAD slimmed down a little from his heaviest self at the time he passed. (he was however plagued with chronic colon issues no doubt due to years of a bad diet ie the fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and had terrible bloating issues) Another factoid ala being born a twin but his brother did not survive etc, is that he was a natural sandy blonde, and began darkening his hair as early as HS. (you can see hints of it in some of these early pix) , and of course in later years went to that blue-black dye.

[+ WmClarke]

Uh huh. (for anyone not famil with the nomenclature, Emmy Grammy Oscar Tony:rolleyes:)

Well, I figured it wasn't Barbra Stresisand, because her Tony is not real (not a competitive one--she got an honorary "star of the decade" award). So I guess Babs is not an EGOT, just an EGO.....

 

To get back on topic, the early pictures are really cool. He certainly had some charisma!

[actor61]

Damn though. 38 years. That's amazing. Another event in history where you probably know exactly were when you heard the news.

I remember EXACTLY where I was! I was working as a temp and had an assignment in a collection agency in a really lousy part of Los Angeles but it paid the - for then - whopping sum of $6 an hour. It was before computers, so I sat at an IBM Selectric typing "pay up or die" letters. They had the radio playing over the loudspeaker in the typing pool room and that's how we heard the news. I was the only male typist in there and felt weird because I was the only one who didn't burst into tears when Elvis's death was announced. I think I would have felt even weirder if I had! A lot of the ladies were Hispanic so there were cries of Dios mio (did I get that right?) and que lastima! It was a strange day.

 

I was at that assignment for 3 weeks and it was soul destroying. One afternoon, I actually went to sleep while typing and fell onto my typewriter. I had to have 3 stitches in my forehead. At least I got the fuck out of there, and the agency paid me 4 days of sick time, which was almost unheard of in those days. I think they were afraid I'd sue.