Show notes
This is the first ever episode of Famously, a new podcast from The Upshot about famous rogues, rockstars and wrong'uns.
Get part two right now on the Famously feed:
He was the most famous rockstar of the 20th century.
So how did Elvis end up an obese wreck, dead on the toilet at 42, surrounded by sex books and prescription pills?
We're charting the first half of his life - as he turns from a Mississippi mamas boy into an amphetamine-addled music star with a teenage girlfriend.
Links from the show:
Elvis as a child - https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/sites/default/files/imported-images/68.gif
That's Alright - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCP_g7X31nI
Elvis t-shirt - https://www.instagram.com/p/DUTzUUUEpIq/
Elvis and Anita - https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRM_Ty0VEwZrr4QmrlPv0N3AfZ7EOm84RRV7y4L2KAkzyzPZfvis0FcowY&s=10
Hair cut - https://images.imagerenderer.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/elvis-presley-receives-an-army-crew-cut-bettmann.jpg
Priscilla waving goodbye - https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/rockcms/2022-06/priscilla-presley-fashion-young-bn-220627-3a2e78.jpg
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