Thank you so much for putting it online! I've been wanting to read it but it was almost ninety dollars. This was a relaxed way to read it.

It is the truth fan's are in love with the image but in denial of the realty

I think anyone who is a super Elvis fan in this day and age is probably defensive about it because it’s such a niche thing. Even for most “old” people, he was already washed up and uncool for their generation. I’m a millennial and it would be like Michael Jackson for us, who was seen as a washed up loser when we were kids.

Great points by all of you. Great food for thought. I can see the parallel with Michael Jackson. I was born in 1975, and the big death that I took hard was John Lennon in 1980, as I was already a huge fan. And there's no shortage of nasty stuff about him out there.

I remember that Elvis was finished in the mid 70's. He was like a Liberace. The singer song writers were hot. Unless an established academy award actor or great character actor , age was a problem also. Forty was too old back in that time. Elvis lacked a good financial advisor or business muse. Elvis should have let Priscilla, run a ranch business or open his own record company, recording studio or even an Elvis Land. Elvis did not realize he did the first MTV. Elvis did not have to be anyone's tool but not educated enough to see his mass opportunities.

@@Somee989

I’ve read 3 books and watched several documentaries and Elvis did have awful behavior. out of control tempers and behavior ran in his family. and I’m surprised the guys had to work under such awful conditions it really is crazy of course E would apologize and make it up at times in various ways but overall it never changed. once that I know of E made V increase their pay but that was early on when they worked for nothing later there were also other pay increases but dang - Vernon was known for being mean and tight with money so sad considering these guys sacrificed everything to work for the family, they even sacrificed their own families, some of them. Gladys when she died wanted her family taken care of but Vernon would not honor that wish and I understand because it’s not his immediate family. The Presleys had many good qualities too but E was out of control - a victim of his celebrity and his background- heartbreaking - the guys should not have wrote a book like this they should have been loyal to E no matter what E had done. easier said than done when you’re getting treated bad by someone. but the book is defamation even though the stories are true you can see they are just twerked off from the out of left field angle this is written from, they were angry about the money, if only they had known the right way to talk to elvis, he was their boss and he had to fire them for acting how they were towards him I’d have done the same thing but I would have tried to modify my behavior too if people kept coming to me and saying this or that that they were dissatisfied with something ❤️😢 E was spiraling out towards the end and the drug environment would have made normal smooth relationships in the group basically impossible, and that is what happened it just started to implode towards the end. and the fact that no one acknowledges is that E was not just using, spiraling, having outbursts of emotionally out of control behavior and outbursts of out of control spending, he was dying - dying from everything, he had poor health genetically, a genetic condition that brought on early death that ran through his whole family, and that is why his drug use was exacerbated so much in the end. So that and the crazy career took a toll and he was dying the last three years behavior outburst can be a part of that. if only we as human beings could recognize this about others we only see the effect it has on us and we get mad. pray for grace towards others even for those who mistreat us to the most extreme. It’s only a reflection of the brokenness inside themselves

​@langyd4518 his health was due to his addiction not genetic

@@thomasandersen2938 oh, but haven’t you heard about destiny to die Young? 😅😮

Vernon sabotaged Elvis will too !

There can be a genetic predisposition to addiction.

well, Elvis dished out a lot onto those people too though. I agree that they should not have published this book. they should have told him once told him twice then made arrangements to leave, they were right in that they saw a disaster coming and they died to warn E in their own imperfect way. The disaster hit the family later after all these guys were fired you can read about it fully in the maids story who worked for the family her whole life and she saw everything that happened the day E passed away. The authors of this book were trying to prevent this from happening but the team would not listen to them. V and the C and Elvis himself were all too into the money and fame to slow down so heartbreaking we should have had E for much longer and it would have been so wonderful to have seen him take care of himself ❤️

Sure Elvis said that, but he didn’t write it. 😅

I bought the paperback ( `can`t ever remember it being a hardback ) in early 1978. Read it, lost it over the years and now understand that the book is almost impossible to get a grip on.

Reason was his drug addiction

Sorry too many errors! hope you can understand what l meant ! I am out with Elvis !!! “ not waisting my time on him anymore! and the Smith Family should know also a lot of others knew you don’t condone anyone for using Gods Name in Vain , and being such a sexual pre-vert !

Nobody is perfect not sure why you thought elvis might be but you think god is perfect lol he murdered everybody on the planet in a flood , babies , pregnant women , kids , old people , you might want to re think that one

Oh, but you haven’t you heard about Destiny to die Young? 😅

@@florabraswell8423 good riddance flora!

Nobody's Perfect, Elvis was not a Saint, which is the "False" image. he was the only human being. the so-called fans who believe Elvis is a Saint are all misguided fools

Why ? Love how people talk shit. Nobody knows the facts. Those guys looked after him well they did everything for him. They were always there for him. 24 hours a day. 7 days a week 365 days a year they protected him from assassinations attempts Red broke a drug dealer foot for giving Elvis drugs. They genuinely cared. But it came down to how could you protect a man from himself. You can’t and when they tried they were fired Elvis was his own worst enemy

Oh geez, what planet do you live on? Haven’t you heard of Facebook Instagram Twitter where every day everything is being recorded and filmed? Same case scenario. People do kinds of shit like that all the time I’ve recorded tape conversations of my friends, and they have done the same with me, so what’s the difference? Oh because he was Elvis. 😮😊

@@FrankieLovesElvis wow, you just don't get it but have fun with your odd hobby of recording your convo's.

@@s.t.3181 Hot damn right !!! 😗

The episode of the racist comments stemmed from Vernon, but also Elvis was influenced by that and went after Marty Lacker and his family, for no reason other than being Jewish. There’s no need for that whatever kind of mood he was in pharmaceuticals he was stopped up with and doing that to a guy that you considered to be your close friend? Shame on Elvis for that. 😊

No doubt…. might as well use Stephen Hawkins robot voice

I don't believe they were golddiggers. Priscilla gave 12yrs trying to make him happy and finally had to give up! She still loves him and he still loved her!!! Linda stayed as long as she could. She couldn't stand the drugs and other women either!!!

Oh, wait a second were you there? Try being objective sometimes it helps with your very naive thinking. 😅

Why, can’t handle it? You gotta except good with the bad, bad with the good. Elvis said that. 😊

@@FrankieLovesElvis it's accept, not except. Two different words. Sheesh.

@@s.t.3181 it’s called voice message numbnuts. Sheesh.

This was more fact not Goldman book this book they were there Goldman wasn't

the Goldman book is shill nothing in it is true

screw albert goldman. don't bother.