Elvis Presleys manager Colonel Tom Parker contacts Beatles manager Brian Epstein to let him know that Elvis will agree to meet the Beatles in his Los Angeles mansion on Perugia Way. When the group arrive, stoned on marijuana, The King is in the darkened living room, surrounded by his entourage, sitting on an L-shaped couch, looking at the TV with the sound off, fooling around on a bass guitar. Hi, Elvis, says the group, almost all at once. Hey, you guys want a drink? Elvis offers. The four sit down to watch TV with Elvis and are taken with his early-model remote control, still a novelty. The group is also thrilled by the Kings pool table, and plays a few games with the Mafia, while Presleys jukebox plays Charlie Richs Mohair Sam over and over. Priscilla is presented to the group and then quickly whisked away, dressed, according to Paul, in a purple gingham dress, with a gingham bow in her very beehive hair, with lots of makeup. Awed somewhat by each others presence, conversation does not come easily, but John thinks to ask if Elvis is working on a new movie. I sure am, he replies. I play a country boy with a guitar who meets a few gals along the way, and I sing a few songs. We all looked at one another, remembers John. Finally Presley and Colonel Parker laughed and explained that the only time they departed from that formula - for Wild In The Country - they lost money. Paul offers to give Elvis some lessons on the bass; the group eventually falls into a very informal, brief, and anticlimactic jam session. Everyone seems pleased with the experience, however: John Lennon, upon leaving, tells Jerry Schilling to make sure Elvis knows that if it hadn’t been for him, the Beatles would be nothing.
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 02:29:25 +0000
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