Elvis has Left the White House

Elvis, the “King of Rock and Roll,” was one interesting man. His life was scattered with numerous oddities and fascinating facts. One of the most amazing was his desire to meet with the President of the United States. The King had some important things to discuss.

To describe Elvis’s life as “interesting” would be an understatement. He had a pet monkey named Scatter, he dyed his hair black from his natural blonde (to appear edgier), his crew was known as the “Memphis Mafia” and had gold and diamond rings with the letters “TCB” scrolled on top (for “Taking care of Business”).

Elvis made 31 movies, two music documentaries and recorded over 600 songs, none of which he wrote. But he made 149 of these songs appear in the top 100, 114 in the top 40, 40 in the top 10, and 18 became number one hits. Despite a huge worldwide following, Elvis only performed five shows outside of the U.S., and all of those shows were in Canada. The only time he was in Great Britain was during a layover after a plane flight. And the list goes on, and on, and on.

Elvis struggled with drug addiction, and there is no doubt he took vast quantities of narcotics later in his career. His personal physician testified that Elvis had been prescribed, by him, over 5,000 narcotic capsules and pills in the seven months before he died in 1977. The autopsy later revealed that he had…