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Article: THE MANY REMEMBER ELVIS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 17, 1987
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MEMPHIS - Out of the roughly 50,000 Elvis Presley fans who came
here last week to pay their respects to the most successful rock
star of them all, a weary core of several thousand crammed into an
auditorium yesterday afternoon to hear from the King's friends and
relatives.
Some cried and others dozed, worn out from a nightlong
candlelight procession past Elvis' grave at Graceland, the suburban
mansion where he lived for 20 years until his fatal heart attack on
Aug. 16, 1977.
The dozen speakers in Memphis State University's theater
thanked the overflow crowd for its devotion and told stories about
the man who introduced rock 'n' roll to much of the world.
Perhaps a little unnerved by ...