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Article: The Building Has Left Elvis.(Review)
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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In a signal moment during the jam sessions that highlighted Elvis Presley's 1968 TV comeback special-the most explosive music of his life--he told a funny story. It was 1956, he remembered, in the midst of the national scandal over his celebration of his own body: "The police filmed a show one time in Florida, `cause, uh, the PTA, the YMCA, or somebody thought I was ... something. They said, `Man, he's gotta be crazy.' So, the police came out and filmed the show, so I couldn't move. I had to stand still. The only thing I moved was my little finger."
There's an awful match for this moment early on in Peter Guralnick's Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, ...