1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:06,381 --> 00:00:08,383 [tense music playing] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:35,744 --> 00:00:40,707 [man 1] Everything for his future depended on this special. 5 00:00:43,793 --> 00:00:46,421 Elvis was at the low point of his career, 6 00:00:46,504 --> 00:00:49,215 doing movies he didn't wanna do. 7 00:00:52,510 --> 00:00:55,638 He hadn't been onstage in seven years. 8 00:00:55,722 --> 00:00:59,559 [man 2] You all know what we're here for, right? The Elvis Presley Special. 9 00:01:01,186 --> 00:01:05,774 [man 1] The '68 Comeback Special would let him know 10 00:01:05,857 --> 00:01:09,611 if there was still an audience for him as a performer. 11 00:01:09,694 --> 00:01:11,696 [tense music continues] 12 00:01:13,990 --> 00:01:18,870 [Schilling] If Elvis did not give the greatest performance of his career, 13 00:01:19,496 --> 00:01:20,789 it was the end. 14 00:01:21,790 --> 00:01:25,043 [man 3] When Elvis first came on the scene, 15 00:01:25,126 --> 00:01:27,087 it was a revelation. 16 00:01:27,170 --> 00:01:29,714 [cheering and screaming] 17 00:01:31,382 --> 00:01:32,550 [camera shutter clicking] 18 00:01:32,634 --> 00:01:37,597 The way he looked in the early days, it was as cool as it possibly gets. 19 00:01:42,727 --> 00:01:45,188 But it evolved to a thing in the '60s. 20 00:01:45,271 --> 00:01:49,359 He was doing music that wasn't as great as the music he did in the very beginning. 21 00:01:49,442 --> 00:01:52,570 He was doing movies that nobody believed in. 22 00:01:52,654 --> 00:01:54,614 I'll buy you the biggest steak you ever had. 23 00:01:54,697 --> 00:01:55,865 [barking] 24 00:01:55,949 --> 00:01:58,493 [Robertson] He was walking a fine line 25 00:01:58,576 --> 00:02:00,912 between, "I'm the real thing," 26 00:02:01,621 --> 00:02:03,665 or, "I've lost it." 27 00:02:06,751 --> 00:02:11,214 We are now gonna see whether he's really back or not. 28 00:02:11,297 --> 00:02:13,758 We're gonna see really what he's made of. 29 00:02:13,842 --> 00:02:14,843 [music fades out] 30 00:02:18,930 --> 00:02:21,474 [man 4] Just before they come onstage, 31 00:02:21,558 --> 00:02:24,727 Elvis calls the director into the dressing room 32 00:02:24,811 --> 00:02:27,438 and said, "I can't go out there. I can't do it." 33 00:02:28,648 --> 00:02:30,275 And the audience were coming in. 34 00:02:32,026 --> 00:02:32,986 Glenn? 35 00:02:34,154 --> 00:02:35,155 Go? 36 00:02:35,238 --> 00:02:38,158 Okay. Now, y'all know what we're here for, right? 37 00:02:38,241 --> 00:02:40,702 And the director says, "Look, Elvis." 38 00:02:41,536 --> 00:02:44,289 "You've got to go out there." Elvis is in the leather jacket. 39 00:02:44,372 --> 00:02:46,374 [somber music playing] 40 00:02:47,917 --> 00:02:50,420 [Luhrmann] And the director says, "I'll tell you what." 41 00:02:50,503 --> 00:02:52,046 "You go out there, 42 00:02:52,130 --> 00:02:55,049 and if you don't like it, I'll pretend the tapes were destroyed." 43 00:02:55,133 --> 00:02:57,135 And he makes him this crazy promise. 44 00:02:59,012 --> 00:03:00,555 And so, Elvis goes out. 45 00:03:01,181 --> 00:03:03,183 [fans cheering in distance] 46 00:03:05,268 --> 00:03:07,312 [woman] He was definitely aware of the stakes, yes. 47 00:03:09,022 --> 00:03:11,482 [announcer in distance] And here's Elvis Presley! 48 00:03:11,566 --> 00:03:14,360 And he knew that this could be a failure and that would be it. 49 00:03:14,444 --> 00:03:17,530 It could ruin his career. And he was very aware of that. 50 00:03:18,615 --> 00:03:22,994 [man 2] Uh, welcome to NBC and the Elvis Presley Special. 51 00:03:23,077 --> 00:03:25,121 [audience applauding] 52 00:03:27,999 --> 00:03:30,084 You can do better. I'm gonna say it all over again. 53 00:03:30,168 --> 00:03:31,794 I wanna really hear something. 54 00:03:31,878 --> 00:03:35,006 Welcome to NBC and the Elvis Presley Special! 55 00:03:35,089 --> 00:03:38,301 -[audience cheering loudly] -[drummer drumming] 56 00:03:42,805 --> 00:03:45,642 And here's Elvis Presley. 57 00:03:45,725 --> 00:03:47,727 [women screaming] 58 00:03:47,810 --> 00:03:49,812 [band playing rock 'n' roll tune] 59 00:04:04,327 --> 00:04:05,995 [music stops] 60 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:07,914 Well, I'm gonna have to do it sooner or later, 61 00:04:07,997 --> 00:04:10,708 so I might as well get on with it, baby. Let's go. 62 00:04:10,792 --> 00:04:12,877 [opening of "Heartbreak Hotel" playing] 63 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:24,555 Better get on with it again. I missed it that time. 64 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:26,140 [audience laughing] 65 00:04:26,224 --> 00:04:29,644 Elvis kind of fumbles the first entry. And they have to start again. 66 00:04:30,144 --> 00:04:33,439 And he's really nervous. He's sweating nerves. 67 00:04:33,523 --> 00:04:35,066 [scattered applause] 68 00:04:36,234 --> 00:04:38,486 -[director] Okay, we're ready. -My boy, my boy. 69 00:04:39,487 --> 00:04:41,572 They're gonna put me away for a while. 70 00:04:42,824 --> 00:04:45,243 [man 5] It's just hard to remember when you see him 71 00:04:45,326 --> 00:04:48,037 that once he had been the King. 72 00:04:48,121 --> 00:04:50,623 [Elvis] How long am I gonna be standing here? Are we ready? 73 00:04:51,624 --> 00:04:55,003 It's getting embarrassing standing out here, Steve. I gotta do something. 74 00:04:56,129 --> 00:04:58,548 [Thompson] It's shocking, because he's very nervous. 75 00:04:58,631 --> 00:05:01,009 He's so visibly insecure. 76 00:05:02,343 --> 00:05:05,305 So overwhelmed by the size of the moment. 77 00:05:06,097 --> 00:05:09,309 -[Steve] Okay, are you ready? -[Elvis] No, but we'll try anyway. 78 00:05:09,392 --> 00:05:12,270 [Thompson] Whoever this person was standing on this stage 79 00:05:12,353 --> 00:05:16,482 was a shell of the rock star who just a decade earlier 80 00:05:16,566 --> 00:05:19,444 terrified all of mainstream America. 81 00:05:19,527 --> 00:05:21,487 [drum beat hammering] 82 00:05:23,865 --> 00:05:25,867 [bass line playing] 83 00:05:25,950 --> 00:05:27,827 ["My Baby Left Me" playing] 84 00:05:29,037 --> 00:05:33,624 ♪ Yes, my baby left me Never said a word ♪ 85 00:05:34,417 --> 00:05:36,753 [Elvis] We got a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. 86 00:05:37,503 --> 00:05:40,340 And overnight, it was all gone. It was like a dream. 87 00:05:42,342 --> 00:05:43,885 [reporter] Say something to your fans. 88 00:05:43,968 --> 00:05:46,971 Do you have any particular message you'd like to pass on to them? 89 00:05:51,059 --> 00:05:52,935 [Elvis] And so, I became 90 00:05:53,644 --> 00:05:54,896 very discouraged. 91 00:05:54,979 --> 00:05:56,481 [song continues] 92 00:06:02,653 --> 00:06:03,905 [song ends] 93 00:06:03,988 --> 00:06:05,615 [man] And here is Elvis Presley! 94 00:06:05,698 --> 00:06:07,700 [audience cheering] 95 00:06:12,538 --> 00:06:14,040 [cheering fades out] 96 00:06:14,123 --> 00:06:17,210 [host] Just a few weeks ago, a young man from Memphis, Tennessee, 97 00:06:17,293 --> 00:06:19,253 recorded a song on the Sun label. 98 00:06:19,337 --> 00:06:23,716 He's only 19 years old. Elvis Presley, let's give him a nice hand. 99 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,802 [audience applauding] 100 00:06:25,885 --> 00:06:27,887 ["That's All Right" playing] 101 00:06:28,888 --> 00:06:31,349 ♪ Well, that's all right, Mama ♪ 102 00:06:31,432 --> 00:06:33,142 ♪ That's all right for you ♪ 103 00:06:33,726 --> 00:06:35,520 ♪ That's all right, Mama ♪ 104 00:06:35,603 --> 00:06:38,398 ♪ Just anyway you do That's all right ♪ 105 00:06:38,481 --> 00:06:40,274 [Elvis] I've always liked music. 106 00:06:40,358 --> 00:06:42,235 My mother and dad both loved to sing. 107 00:06:43,277 --> 00:06:45,154 They'd tell me that when I was 3 or 4 years old, 108 00:06:45,238 --> 00:06:47,782 I got away from them in church and walked up in front of the choir 109 00:06:47,865 --> 00:06:49,283 and started beating time. 110 00:06:49,784 --> 00:06:53,121 You have to remember, back in those days, music is very segregated. 111 00:06:53,204 --> 00:06:55,665 Most music that we heard was all Black. 112 00:06:55,748 --> 00:06:57,125 And it was rhythm and blues, 113 00:06:57,208 --> 00:06:59,293 B.B. King, Little Richard. 114 00:06:59,377 --> 00:07:03,589 White people was playing Pat Boone, the McGuire Sisters… [chuckling] 115 00:07:03,673 --> 00:07:06,467 …and we really wasn't interested in that kind of music. 116 00:07:07,635 --> 00:07:13,683 [Thompson] America was deeply scared of Black culture infecting 117 00:07:14,434 --> 00:07:15,393 white children. 118 00:07:17,103 --> 00:07:22,108 And here comes Elvis, who took the music and the moves 119 00:07:22,191 --> 00:07:27,238 that he saw in the juke joints of the Mississippi and Memphis of his youth, 120 00:07:28,030 --> 00:07:31,075 the music he grew up loving, and put that onstage. 121 00:07:33,369 --> 00:07:38,124 [Schilling] This gave us our own music that was not our parents' music. 122 00:07:38,207 --> 00:07:42,170 It was dangerous music, 'cause it was not our society's music, 123 00:07:42,253 --> 00:07:44,130 especially down South. 124 00:07:44,213 --> 00:07:45,923 That was just taboo. 125 00:07:46,007 --> 00:07:49,510 Elvis mostly back then did covers of Black artists. 126 00:07:49,594 --> 00:07:51,345 ["That's All Right" by Arthur Crudup playing] 127 00:07:51,429 --> 00:07:52,847 ♪ Yeah, now that's all right, Mama ♪ 128 00:07:52,930 --> 00:07:54,599 ♪ That's all right for you ♪ 129 00:07:54,682 --> 00:08:00,438 [Love] Elvis was from the Deep South, so he wanted to be around Black people. 130 00:08:01,147 --> 00:08:05,193 I asked him, "How did you come about really loving Black people's music?" 131 00:08:06,652 --> 00:08:09,655 He said he would go around to Black churches 132 00:08:09,739 --> 00:08:13,034 and just stand at the windows and listen to their music. 133 00:08:13,659 --> 00:08:16,204 [congregation singing indistinctly] 134 00:08:16,287 --> 00:08:18,623 [Robertson] He was a prime example 135 00:08:18,706 --> 00:08:21,292 of showing what happens 136 00:08:21,375 --> 00:08:25,755 when you put together music coming down from the mountains 137 00:08:25,838 --> 00:08:28,841 and music coming up the Mississippi River, 138 00:08:28,925 --> 00:08:30,551 and where that meets. 139 00:08:30,635 --> 00:08:33,888 And they explode, and that became rock and roll. 140 00:08:33,971 --> 00:08:37,141 [Big Joe Turner singing] ♪ I said, "Shake, rattle and roll" ♪ 141 00:08:37,225 --> 00:08:41,562 [Love] Nobody white was singing like that, or wasn't even acting like that onstage. 142 00:08:41,646 --> 00:08:43,773 [Elvis] ♪ I said "Shake, rattle and roll" ♪ 143 00:08:43,856 --> 00:08:46,984 [Love] We thought it was funny because we would say things like, 144 00:08:47,068 --> 00:08:49,779 "Oh, he's just trying to be Black." [laughs] 145 00:08:49,862 --> 00:08:52,532 But he really wasn't. That was just how he was. 146 00:08:53,115 --> 00:08:56,410 That was the controversy that everybody was having at that time. 147 00:08:56,494 --> 00:08:59,956 'Cause his fans didn't want him to be Black, 148 00:09:00,540 --> 00:09:04,210 and I don't even think they realized that's the kind of singing he was doing. 149 00:09:04,293 --> 00:09:07,713 But we, as Black artists and Black singers, 150 00:09:07,797 --> 00:09:10,800 we could tell the difference between Elvis 151 00:09:10,883 --> 00:09:13,928 and the other white singers that were coming along at that time. 152 00:09:15,179 --> 00:09:19,350 The world was trying to fight us not to do that, to keep separated. 153 00:09:19,433 --> 00:09:23,813 But music is not gonna separate you. Music is going to bring you together. 154 00:09:25,231 --> 00:09:27,692 [Thompson] Elvis was an ambitious artist. 155 00:09:29,110 --> 00:09:32,363 He was also a child who grew up in poverty, 156 00:09:32,446 --> 00:09:35,908 whose greatest fear was being poor again. 157 00:09:35,992 --> 00:09:40,621 His two greatest urges are to make the most of his talent 158 00:09:41,247 --> 00:09:44,417 and to never ever be poor again. 159 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:46,961 And those things would fight each other his whole life. 160 00:09:47,044 --> 00:09:49,046 [contemplative music playing] 161 00:09:50,131 --> 00:09:52,967 [man 1] Most of Elvis Presley's early music contemporaries 162 00:09:53,050 --> 00:09:56,304 are now merely footnotes in the history of rock and roll. 163 00:09:56,387 --> 00:10:00,057 That's because they didn't have the one thing that Elvis Presley had. 164 00:10:00,641 --> 00:10:04,687 Colonel Tom Parker, the shrewdest manager in the business. 165 00:10:06,606 --> 00:10:08,441 [Thompson] When the Colonel looked at Elvis, 166 00:10:08,524 --> 00:10:12,528 he saw a big, shiny idol that America would worship. 167 00:10:13,237 --> 00:10:17,033 And when Elvis looked in the mirror, he saw B.B. King. 168 00:10:17,742 --> 00:10:22,413 Those two versions of the same person could never coexist, 169 00:10:22,496 --> 00:10:25,041 and the Colonel's Elvis 170 00:10:26,250 --> 00:10:27,585 killed the other Elvis. 171 00:10:28,628 --> 00:10:32,089 [man 2] Elvis and the Colonel started working together in 1955 172 00:10:32,173 --> 00:10:37,428 when Elvis was out on the road doing tours promoting his Sun singles, 173 00:10:37,511 --> 00:10:40,181 and the Colonel was managing Hank Snow. 174 00:10:40,848 --> 00:10:43,726 And basically, they got on the same package tour together, 175 00:10:43,809 --> 00:10:45,603 and the Colonel was able to see 176 00:10:46,145 --> 00:10:48,731 what Elvis was about, and the audience reaction, 177 00:10:48,814 --> 00:10:50,941 and how talented he really was. 178 00:10:51,942 --> 00:10:53,444 Almost immediately, he starts 179 00:10:53,527 --> 00:10:59,033 to maneuver of how he's going to take over the management of Elvis. 180 00:11:00,451 --> 00:11:02,703 [Thompson] Colonel Parker came up as a carnival barker. 181 00:11:02,787 --> 00:11:04,497 He thought Elvis was merch. 182 00:11:04,580 --> 00:11:07,416 He thought Elvis was a widget he could sell to America. 183 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:09,502 [contemplative music continues] 184 00:11:10,127 --> 00:11:13,297 [Luhrmann] In Elvis's mind, the Colonel was some kind of genius. 185 00:11:14,924 --> 00:11:17,134 He was a kind of genius of selling. 186 00:11:17,218 --> 00:11:21,555 He was a genius showman, he was a genius carny, really. 187 00:11:22,473 --> 00:11:26,435 And he had absolutely brilliant entertainment ideas. 188 00:11:28,854 --> 00:11:32,733 [Schilling] When Colonel met with Elvis and talked to him about 189 00:11:32,817 --> 00:11:35,736 TV exposure, about film, 190 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:38,155 that's how the Colonel took over. 191 00:11:38,239 --> 00:11:39,907 Elvis wasn't 21 yet. 192 00:11:40,574 --> 00:11:44,370 [Elvis] I wasn't known at all until Col. Parker started managing me, you see. 193 00:11:44,453 --> 00:11:47,790 And then I got on television, and then I started being known. 194 00:11:47,873 --> 00:11:49,750 Elvis Presley, and here he is. 195 00:11:49,834 --> 00:11:52,503 -[band playing exciting tune] -[audience applauding] 196 00:11:53,421 --> 00:11:55,047 [strums guitar] 197 00:11:55,131 --> 00:11:58,467 ♪ Well, get out of that kitchen And rattle those pots and pans ♪ 198 00:12:00,261 --> 00:12:02,972 ♪ Get out of that kitchen And rattle those pots and pans ♪ 199 00:12:04,348 --> 00:12:05,891 ♪ Well, roll my breakfast… ♪ 200 00:12:05,975 --> 00:12:09,270 [Springsteen] Colonel is summed up in one sentence. 201 00:12:09,353 --> 00:12:13,274 "Last year, my boy had a million dollars' worth of talent." 202 00:12:13,357 --> 00:12:16,485 "This year, he has a million dollars." 203 00:12:17,236 --> 00:12:20,072 [laughing] That's Colonel Tom Parker in a nutshell. 204 00:12:20,906 --> 00:12:23,701 [Luhrmann] He kind of invented the merch we know today. 205 00:12:23,784 --> 00:12:26,203 It was the Colonel's idea to put Elvis's face on everything. 206 00:12:26,287 --> 00:12:30,374 The only kind of merch that really existed up till then was sort of for Mickey Mouse. 207 00:12:30,458 --> 00:12:32,209 He just took it to another level. 208 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:37,006 [Parker] No one can deny that this artist, whether they like it or not, 209 00:12:37,089 --> 00:12:39,759 has a tremendous amount of energy and talent. 210 00:12:39,842 --> 00:12:44,430 The name Elvis Presley is becoming a household word one way or the other. 211 00:12:45,890 --> 00:12:48,893 [Springsteen] The night Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, 212 00:12:48,976 --> 00:12:51,228 I knew I was seeing something 213 00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:54,231 that possibly hadn't been seen before, 214 00:12:54,315 --> 00:12:56,984 which was a new type of human being. 215 00:12:57,067 --> 00:12:58,652 A 20th century man. 216 00:12:59,904 --> 00:13:02,656 -[audience applauding] -[women screaming excitedly] 217 00:13:03,616 --> 00:13:07,203 I was a child, and I was excited by the music. 218 00:13:08,454 --> 00:13:11,332 -♪ Ready, set, go, man, go ♪ -[drum beating in time to lyrics] 219 00:13:11,415 --> 00:13:13,292 ♪ I got a gal that I love so ♪ 220 00:13:13,375 --> 00:13:15,085 -[rest of band joins in] -♪ I'm ready ♪ 221 00:13:15,169 --> 00:13:17,421 ♪ Ready, ready, ready, I'm ready ♪ 222 00:13:17,505 --> 00:13:19,840 ♪ Ready, ready, ready, I'm ready ♪ 223 00:13:19,924 --> 00:13:23,552 ♪ Ready, ready, ready I'm ready, ready, ready to rock and roll ♪ 224 00:13:23,636 --> 00:13:26,430 [Springsteen] It struck me deeply even at that young age, 225 00:13:26,514 --> 00:13:30,351 the open sexuality of his appearance, 226 00:13:30,434 --> 00:13:33,103 the way he combed his hair, or the makeup he put… 227 00:13:33,187 --> 00:13:36,273 He wore makeup, you know, in 1956. 228 00:13:36,357 --> 00:13:37,817 ♪ Ready, ready to rock and roll ♪ 229 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:40,402 ♪ Now, the flat-top cats And the dungaree dolls ♪ 230 00:13:40,486 --> 00:13:42,947 ♪ Are headed to the gym To the sock-hop ball ♪ 231 00:13:43,030 --> 00:13:45,324 ♪The joint is really jumping The cats are going wild ♪ 232 00:13:45,407 --> 00:13:48,077 ♪ The music really sends me I dig that crazy style ♪ 233 00:13:50,538 --> 00:13:53,123 [Springsteen] And so the first thing I did after I saw Elvis was 234 00:13:53,207 --> 00:13:56,502 got my mother, we got to Mike Diehl's music shop. 235 00:13:56,585 --> 00:13:59,255 And I rented that guitar, came home, 236 00:13:59,338 --> 00:14:02,258 and I just smelled it, touched it, and felt it. 237 00:14:02,341 --> 00:14:04,343 Made some noise on it. I couldn't play it. 238 00:14:05,386 --> 00:14:09,598 There were just all these things that hadn't dawned on you before 239 00:14:09,682 --> 00:14:15,020 that he sort of opened the door for and gave you an allowance to 240 00:14:15,604 --> 00:14:17,314 be who you actually are. 241 00:14:18,607 --> 00:14:20,776 You didn't have to follow the rules. 242 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:22,987 [laughing] You could break the rules. 243 00:14:23,070 --> 00:14:24,321 ♪ Rock and roll ♪ 244 00:14:24,405 --> 00:14:27,074 -[guitar solo playing] -[screaming continues] 245 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:37,877 [rapid drumbeat plays] 246 00:14:39,128 --> 00:14:40,045 [man] I asked my mom. 247 00:14:40,629 --> 00:14:43,090 I said, "Do you remember when Elvis Presley came on?" 248 00:14:43,173 --> 00:14:46,051 And she comes from this very good Irish Catholic family. 249 00:14:46,135 --> 00:14:48,304 She said, "I thought it was disgusting." 250 00:14:49,054 --> 00:14:52,433 I was really disappointed. I was like, "Mom, it's Elvis." 251 00:14:52,516 --> 00:14:54,143 "Well, I don't like it." 252 00:14:54,935 --> 00:14:58,355 His leg moving like that was not 253 00:14:59,148 --> 00:15:00,733 an affectation. 254 00:15:00,816 --> 00:15:03,485 That was not a cool stage move he came up with. 255 00:15:03,569 --> 00:15:04,653 He couldn't help it. 256 00:15:04,737 --> 00:15:06,947 ♪ Gonna rock and roll Till the end of the night ♪ 257 00:15:08,115 --> 00:15:10,409 ♪ Ready, ready, ready, I'm ready ♪ 258 00:15:10,492 --> 00:15:12,786 ♪ Ready, ready, ready, I'm ready ♪ 259 00:15:12,870 --> 00:15:14,038 ♪ Ready, ready, ready ♪ 260 00:15:14,121 --> 00:15:16,624 ♪ I'm ready, ready, ready To rock and roll ♪ 261 00:15:16,707 --> 00:15:17,791 -Yeah. -[music ends] 262 00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:19,293 [screaming continues] 263 00:15:20,085 --> 00:15:21,712 [Elvis] The first thing people want to know 264 00:15:21,795 --> 00:15:23,881 is why I can't stand still when I'm singing. 265 00:15:23,964 --> 00:15:25,758 I watch my audience and listen to them. 266 00:15:25,841 --> 00:15:28,385 And I know we're all getting something out of our system. 267 00:15:28,469 --> 00:15:30,012 None of us knows what it is. 268 00:15:30,095 --> 00:15:33,307 The important thing is getting rid of it and nobody's getting hurt. 269 00:15:34,350 --> 00:15:38,896 By the time he's on The Ed Sullivan Show in September of '56, 270 00:15:38,979 --> 00:15:43,025 he's already been on national television ten times and… 271 00:15:44,401 --> 00:15:48,822 And it's really the Milton Berle shows that provide the controversy. 272 00:15:48,906 --> 00:15:49,865 ["Hound Dog" playing] 273 00:15:49,949 --> 00:15:52,785 [preacher] My reasons on rock and roll music and why I preach against it, 274 00:15:52,868 --> 00:15:54,244 I know what it does to you. 275 00:15:54,995 --> 00:15:59,625 And I know the evil… feeling that you feel when you sing it. 276 00:15:59,708 --> 00:16:01,585 ["Hound Dog" continues] 277 00:16:01,669 --> 00:16:04,046 [Elvis] I don't like to be called "Elvis the Pelvis," 278 00:16:04,129 --> 00:16:06,340 but it's one of the most childish expressions 279 00:16:06,423 --> 00:16:09,343 I've ever heard coming from an adult, "Elvis the Pelvis," 280 00:16:09,426 --> 00:16:12,388 but if they wanna call me that, there's nothing I can do about it, 281 00:16:12,471 --> 00:16:14,098 so I just have to accept it. 282 00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:17,810 [reporter] Now the chief reason for all the criticism of Elvis Presley 283 00:16:17,893 --> 00:16:21,313 is that he's become a sort of a sex symbol to teenage girls. 284 00:16:21,397 --> 00:16:23,148 They go wild over him. 285 00:16:23,232 --> 00:16:25,359 ["Hound Dog" continues] 286 00:16:26,568 --> 00:16:31,448 His confidence, which is the fuel of all of his sexual charisma, 287 00:16:31,532 --> 00:16:33,367 was the thing that scared America. 288 00:16:33,450 --> 00:16:35,244 ♪ You ain't no friend of mine ♪ 289 00:16:36,245 --> 00:16:37,746 [music ends] 290 00:16:37,830 --> 00:16:41,500 -♪ You ain't nothing but a hound dog ♪ -[music restarts] 291 00:16:41,583 --> 00:16:43,043 [all cheering excitedly] 292 00:16:43,127 --> 00:16:45,254 ♪ Crying all the time ♪ 293 00:16:46,797 --> 00:16:49,508 [man] One secret of Presley's popularity with teenagers 294 00:16:49,591 --> 00:16:52,344 has been his lack of popularity with their parents. 295 00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:56,432 So if parents quit criticizing his singing, I predict 296 00:16:56,515 --> 00:16:59,018 Elvis Presley's star will fall 297 00:16:59,643 --> 00:17:01,645 as rapidly as it rose. 298 00:17:01,729 --> 00:17:02,730 Elvis was… 299 00:17:03,439 --> 00:17:05,566 was very unique because 300 00:17:05,649 --> 00:17:09,069 he wasn't a guy that just hearing his music 301 00:17:09,153 --> 00:17:10,946 gave you the full picture. 302 00:17:11,030 --> 00:17:12,489 You had to see him. 303 00:17:12,573 --> 00:17:14,199 Elvis Presley! 304 00:17:14,283 --> 00:17:16,368 How about my boy? I love him. 305 00:17:16,452 --> 00:17:17,578 Wonderful. Hit it up. 306 00:17:17,661 --> 00:17:20,164 -♪ He ain't nothin' but a hound dog ♪ -[band starts playing] 307 00:17:20,247 --> 00:17:22,708 Hollywood was the ultimate destination at that point 308 00:17:22,791 --> 00:17:24,626 if you wanted to be a famous person. 309 00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:28,047 It had worked for Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby and Dean Martin. 310 00:17:28,130 --> 00:17:31,091 So it was natural for them to look towards 311 00:17:31,842 --> 00:17:33,927 what… when is that going to happen? 312 00:17:34,011 --> 00:17:36,680 It wasn't if it was gonna happen, but when it was gonna happen. 313 00:17:36,764 --> 00:17:38,724 Take your hand off my arm, Mr. Fields. 314 00:17:39,224 --> 00:17:41,643 How come you're so friendly with the lady, boy? 315 00:17:41,727 --> 00:17:44,772 We met in Paris last year. The King of France introduced us. 316 00:17:44,855 --> 00:17:47,524 [horn music playing] 317 00:17:47,608 --> 00:17:49,109 ♪ If you're looking for trouble ♪ 318 00:17:50,235 --> 00:17:52,071 ♪ You came to the right place ♪ 319 00:17:52,154 --> 00:17:54,907 [Luhrmann] Elvis was obsessed with doing serious acting. 320 00:17:54,990 --> 00:17:57,910 He idolized James Dean, 321 00:17:57,993 --> 00:18:02,122 and he really wanted to be like Dean and Brando, 322 00:18:02,206 --> 00:18:07,169 and, in fact, King Creole was first offered to James Dean. 323 00:18:07,252 --> 00:18:09,379 And so, that's why he jumped at it. 324 00:18:09,463 --> 00:18:14,593 ♪ My daddy was A green-eyed mountain jack ♪ 325 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:18,806 [Springsteen] For my money, Elvis is simply fun to watch. 326 00:18:18,889 --> 00:18:21,183 There were places for him to go in films. 327 00:18:21,266 --> 00:18:22,935 [intriguing music playing] 328 00:18:24,061 --> 00:18:26,105 [Elvis] I came to Hollywood and I did four movies. 329 00:18:26,188 --> 00:18:29,483 So everything was happening, really, in a short period of time. 330 00:18:34,571 --> 00:18:35,405 And then, 331 00:18:36,448 --> 00:18:38,575 right when I was going good, I got drafted. 332 00:18:40,202 --> 00:18:42,871 And overnight, it was all gone. It was like a dream. 333 00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:43,956 [snaps fingers] Pop. 334 00:18:47,417 --> 00:18:49,419 [music fades out] 335 00:18:50,170 --> 00:18:52,131 [man] I do solemnly swear… 336 00:18:52,214 --> 00:18:53,632 [men repeating] 337 00:18:53,715 --> 00:18:57,386 [man] …true faith and allegiance to the United States of America. 338 00:18:57,469 --> 00:18:59,638 To the United States of America. 339 00:18:59,721 --> 00:19:03,058 [man] Congratulations, you are now in the Army. You are all privates. 340 00:19:03,934 --> 00:19:05,394 [big band music playing] 341 00:19:05,477 --> 00:19:09,815 [reporter 1] His lucrative career as rock and roll king interrupted for a while, 342 00:19:09,898 --> 00:19:14,611 Elvis Presley begins his military service at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. 343 00:19:14,695 --> 00:19:17,990 Uncle Sam doesn't play favorites, and those celebrated sideburns, 344 00:19:18,073 --> 00:19:22,578 which were his trademark, are sacrificed to military uniformity. 345 00:19:23,787 --> 00:19:24,872 [reporter 2] Elvis Presley, 346 00:19:24,955 --> 00:19:29,084 Private Elvis Presley of the United States Army, 347 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,505 is due to embark for Germany today. 348 00:19:36,717 --> 00:19:38,594 [tense music playing] 349 00:19:38,677 --> 00:19:41,096 [Schilling] He was at the top of his career. 350 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:43,807 The last thing he wanted to do was go to the Army. 351 00:19:45,225 --> 00:19:46,310 It was a sad thing. 352 00:19:46,393 --> 00:19:50,063 I remember Elvis as he's walking up on the ship 353 00:19:50,147 --> 00:19:52,107 with a duffel bag on his back 354 00:19:52,191 --> 00:19:56,111 and saying goodbye to all the fans as he's going to Germany. 355 00:20:02,659 --> 00:20:04,536 Even though there wasn't a war, 356 00:20:05,454 --> 00:20:07,748 when you think of Germany back in the '50s, 357 00:20:07,831 --> 00:20:09,958 that's like going to… 358 00:20:10,042 --> 00:20:11,919 [chuckles] …the worst place ever. 359 00:20:12,002 --> 00:20:14,296 [triumphant music playing] 360 00:20:15,631 --> 00:20:19,009 [reporter 3] This is the story of the role played by the United States Army. 361 00:20:19,092 --> 00:20:24,556 Their job? Hold back the tide of Communism in Germany and in free Europe. 362 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,226 [Elvis] It's really a privilege to be in Europe. 363 00:20:27,309 --> 00:20:30,020 It's something that I've looked forward to for some time. 364 00:20:30,103 --> 00:20:33,023 I only regret that… uh… 365 00:20:33,899 --> 00:20:35,817 I can't do some… 366 00:20:36,902 --> 00:20:39,404 some shows and different things while I'm here, 367 00:20:39,488 --> 00:20:41,448 but I will be looking forward when my, 368 00:20:41,949 --> 00:20:44,034 uh, Army hitch is over, 369 00:20:44,117 --> 00:20:48,997 I would like very much to come back on a regular tour of Europe. 370 00:20:49,081 --> 00:20:50,832 [reporter 4] Thank you very much, Mr. Presley. 371 00:20:50,916 --> 00:20:52,834 And we wish you a pleasant stay in Germany. 372 00:20:52,918 --> 00:20:54,169 [Elvis] Thank you very much. 373 00:20:56,255 --> 00:20:58,924 -Arrivederci. No, that's Italian. -[people laughing] 374 00:20:59,424 --> 00:21:00,550 [chuckles] 375 00:21:00,634 --> 00:21:02,970 [Priscilla] I met Elvis in Germany. 376 00:21:03,053 --> 00:21:07,099 My father was in the Air Force, and he was stationed over there. 377 00:21:07,182 --> 00:21:09,393 There was a place called the Eagles Club, 378 00:21:09,476 --> 00:21:13,647 and I was sitting at the Eagles Club in the afternoon. 379 00:21:13,730 --> 00:21:16,400 There was a jukebox. Back in the day, we played records. 380 00:21:16,984 --> 00:21:21,321 And I was writing to my friend how much I hated it there, 381 00:21:21,405 --> 00:21:23,156 that I missed them all very much. 382 00:21:23,740 --> 00:21:26,743 And this guy came over to me, introduced himself, 383 00:21:26,827 --> 00:21:28,662 and he said, "Are you writing to your friends?" 384 00:21:28,745 --> 00:21:31,164 And I go, "Yeah, we just got here three weeks ago." 385 00:21:33,041 --> 00:21:34,584 And he said, "Do you like Elvis?" 386 00:21:34,668 --> 00:21:37,254 And I said, "Yeah, who doesn't like Elvis?" 387 00:21:37,337 --> 00:21:39,089 He said, "Would you like to meet him?" 388 00:21:39,172 --> 00:21:41,174 [gentle piano music playing] 389 00:21:42,175 --> 00:21:45,846 [Priscilla] At home, I told my father, "Dad, I met somebody at the Eagles Club, 390 00:21:45,929 --> 00:21:48,515 and he wanted to know if I wanted to meet Elvis." 391 00:21:48,598 --> 00:21:50,767 Well, that didn't go well at all, 392 00:21:50,851 --> 00:21:54,438 'cause my father wasn't really a fan, and neither was my mother. 393 00:21:56,565 --> 00:21:58,900 And I only thought it was a one-time shot, 394 00:21:58,984 --> 00:22:01,945 never ever thinking that I would be asked to go back. 395 00:22:03,238 --> 00:22:05,407 We went over that weekend on a Saturday. 396 00:22:06,742 --> 00:22:08,910 There was a glass on top of the piano, 397 00:22:08,994 --> 00:22:12,622 and as he's singing, he's really rocking it like Jerry Lee Lewis did. 398 00:22:13,123 --> 00:22:14,791 I'm looking at it going, "Oh my God." 399 00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:16,501 "It's gonna splash. It's gonna fall." 400 00:22:16,585 --> 00:22:18,378 And just as it started to fall, 401 00:22:18,462 --> 00:22:21,465 he picked it up and looked over to everybody like it was a trick. 402 00:22:24,426 --> 00:22:27,596 Being in the Army was so not his thing. It was very foreign. 403 00:22:27,679 --> 00:22:31,016 And he's alone, and usually he has people around him. 404 00:22:31,099 --> 00:22:34,644 He has his guys around him, even before he went into the Army. 405 00:22:34,728 --> 00:22:37,147 So he was alone, really, for the first time. 406 00:22:37,981 --> 00:22:41,234 It sounded like to me that he needed someone to talk to, 407 00:22:41,318 --> 00:22:44,112 and Elvis would really pour his heart out to me. 408 00:22:44,196 --> 00:22:45,530 He'd just lost his mother. 409 00:22:48,784 --> 00:22:50,619 [Elvis] It wasn't only like losing a mother. 410 00:22:50,702 --> 00:22:54,873 It was like losing a friend, a companion, someone to talk to. 411 00:22:54,956 --> 00:22:58,877 I could wake her up any hour of the night, if I was worried about something. 412 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:00,545 She'd get up, try to help me. 413 00:23:02,506 --> 00:23:07,636 [Jackson] Elvis and Gladys's relationship was very close from the very beginning. 414 00:23:07,719 --> 00:23:11,932 They lived in an incredibly poor area of Tupelo. 415 00:23:12,015 --> 00:23:14,309 She was always trying to make their life better. 416 00:23:14,393 --> 00:23:16,395 And also, at the same time, 417 00:23:16,478 --> 00:23:20,065 Vernon ends up getting sent to jail for forging a check. 418 00:23:20,607 --> 00:23:23,652 So for a lot of the time that Elvis was a kid, 419 00:23:23,735 --> 00:23:27,239 it was just he and Gladys, and Gladys worked very hard to 420 00:23:27,322 --> 00:23:29,533 feed him, clothe him, get him into school. 421 00:23:29,616 --> 00:23:31,368 [gentle piano music continues] 422 00:23:31,451 --> 00:23:34,621 She was his support mechanism for the pressure, 423 00:23:34,704 --> 00:23:37,416 the stress, everything that was going on with the career. 424 00:23:37,499 --> 00:23:38,959 [melancholy music playing] 425 00:23:39,793 --> 00:23:43,755 [Priscilla] I had compassion and felt horrible for him. 426 00:23:43,839 --> 00:23:46,967 Understanding, you know, being away especially, 427 00:23:47,050 --> 00:23:50,053 losing a mom that he was so close to. 428 00:23:50,137 --> 00:23:52,139 So that's kind of how we connected. 429 00:23:54,766 --> 00:23:57,686 And he was very nervous about whether or not 430 00:23:57,769 --> 00:24:01,731 he would still be in the business or still even sing again. 431 00:24:05,902 --> 00:24:08,280 He was away for quite a while, 432 00:24:08,363 --> 00:24:11,700 and he thought a lot of his fans would forget him. 433 00:24:11,783 --> 00:24:13,869 Someone else would be coming in, someone new. 434 00:24:13,952 --> 00:24:16,746 -[hopeful string music playing] -[reporter] Say something to your fans. 435 00:24:16,830 --> 00:24:20,250 Do you have any particular message that you'd like to pass on to them? 436 00:24:21,168 --> 00:24:23,837 [Elvis] Yes, I would. I'd like to say that 437 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,425 in spite of the fact that I'll be out of their eyes for some time, 438 00:24:28,508 --> 00:24:30,177 I hope I'm not out of their minds. 439 00:24:31,553 --> 00:24:33,597 And I'll be looking forward to the time 440 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,766 when I can come back and entertain again like I did. 441 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:39,561 [Luhrmann] Elvis, 442 00:24:40,645 --> 00:24:43,315 he was deeply sensitive and deeply insecure. 443 00:24:45,150 --> 00:24:48,487 Like that little boy who was ashamed of what happened to his dad, 444 00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:50,197 who was ashamed of their poverty, 445 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,074 ashamed of what happened to his mom, was trying to mend things 446 00:24:53,158 --> 00:24:56,870 and make things good and always wanted to please people. 447 00:24:56,953 --> 00:24:59,080 I mean, he was a profound pleaser, 448 00:24:59,164 --> 00:25:01,750 and that made him so charismatic onstage, 449 00:25:01,833 --> 00:25:04,044 but also gave him an Achilles' heel. 450 00:25:04,127 --> 00:25:06,463 And that is that you want love. Mass love. 451 00:25:06,546 --> 00:25:07,923 But the more mass love you get, 452 00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:10,050 the bigger the hole gets, the more you need. 453 00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:12,636 When he was in the Army, 454 00:25:12,719 --> 00:25:16,014 I think that's when it really starts to wear away at him, 455 00:25:16,097 --> 00:25:19,434 not having the love of the audience. 456 00:25:20,310 --> 00:25:22,020 [music fades out] 457 00:25:22,103 --> 00:25:23,271 [faint gunshots] 458 00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:26,608 [Schilling] Normally, when an artist was big, 459 00:25:26,691 --> 00:25:30,946 and they went to the Army and was out of the sight of everybody for a couple years, 460 00:25:31,029 --> 00:25:33,573 they never were able to pick their career back up. 461 00:25:34,157 --> 00:25:35,909 Elvis was never out of sight. 462 00:25:35,992 --> 00:25:37,994 ["(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" playing] 463 00:25:41,081 --> 00:25:43,750 [Jackson] The most important thing that the Colonel does 464 00:25:43,833 --> 00:25:46,336 before Elvis goes into the Army, 465 00:25:46,419 --> 00:25:50,298 is he gets him to record a bunch of material. 466 00:25:51,132 --> 00:25:55,804 ♪ Pardon me if I'm sentimental ♪ 467 00:25:55,887 --> 00:25:58,139 ♪ When we say goodbye ♪ 468 00:25:58,848 --> 00:26:01,518 ♪ Don't be angry with me ♪ 469 00:26:01,601 --> 00:26:03,979 [Jackson] They have huge hits while Elvis is in Germany. 470 00:26:04,062 --> 00:26:07,816 So if you weren't really paying attention to the national news 471 00:26:07,899 --> 00:26:10,986 and what Elvis was actually physically doing, 472 00:26:11,069 --> 00:26:13,029 you'd think he was still making records. 473 00:26:14,197 --> 00:26:19,160 ♪ Now and then, there's a fool such as I ♪ 474 00:26:19,244 --> 00:26:21,079 [Schilling] Before he went to Germany, 475 00:26:21,162 --> 00:26:22,956 he was still 476 00:26:23,039 --> 00:26:23,915 the rebel. 477 00:26:23,999 --> 00:26:27,586 ♪ As a fool, such as I am ♪ 478 00:26:27,669 --> 00:26:30,297 [Schilling] And here he was, a foot soldier, 479 00:26:30,380 --> 00:26:33,425 staying up all night on patrols. 480 00:26:34,843 --> 00:26:37,137 Getting frostbite in the snow. 481 00:26:37,220 --> 00:26:41,057 ♪ I'm a fool, but I'll love you, dear ♪ 482 00:26:41,141 --> 00:26:42,475 [man] Colonel wrote him letters, 483 00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:45,895 again and again, explaining what he'd done to promote his records. 484 00:26:45,979 --> 00:26:49,316 ♪ As a fool, such as I ♪ 485 00:26:49,399 --> 00:26:52,986 [backup singers] ♪ Fool such as I ♪ 486 00:26:54,237 --> 00:26:57,991 Telling him that he'd made a new deal, that there was a movie to come out and do… 487 00:26:58,074 --> 00:27:00,702 Telling him, "I made another deal for another two movies." 488 00:27:03,455 --> 00:27:05,957 [Elvis] I would like to say that when I get out of the Army… 489 00:27:06,041 --> 00:27:06,916 [music ends] 490 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,002 …I'm looking forward to… 491 00:27:09,085 --> 00:27:13,256 to just picking up where I left off when I came into the service. 492 00:27:14,299 --> 00:27:16,885 ["Stuck on You" by Elvis Presley playing] 493 00:27:16,968 --> 00:27:20,180 [reporter] And I take it from that that you really enjoy what you're doing, 494 00:27:20,263 --> 00:27:22,349 or what you were doing before you went into service. 495 00:27:22,432 --> 00:27:24,017 [Elvis] Oh yes, I do. 496 00:27:24,100 --> 00:27:27,520 In fact, that was the hardest part of the entire military service. 497 00:27:27,604 --> 00:27:29,147 It was being away from it. 498 00:27:29,230 --> 00:27:30,774 [reporter] Being away from the fans? 499 00:27:30,857 --> 00:27:32,942 Just being away from show business altogether. 500 00:27:33,026 --> 00:27:34,861 That was the hardest part of all. 501 00:27:35,528 --> 00:27:39,074 Kept thinking about the past all the time, contemplating the future. 502 00:27:39,157 --> 00:27:42,327 ♪ Stick because I'm stuck on you… ♪ 503 00:27:43,078 --> 00:27:44,663 [Springsteen] There was no rock musician 504 00:27:44,746 --> 00:27:49,334 who had an established 20, 30-year career that you could look to. 505 00:27:50,085 --> 00:27:52,087 That person didn't exist. 506 00:27:53,088 --> 00:27:56,383 Everybody's idea of success was Sinatra. 507 00:27:56,466 --> 00:27:59,344 Sinatra had the incredible career. 508 00:27:59,427 --> 00:28:01,971 And those types of entertainers, you know? 509 00:28:02,055 --> 00:28:04,766 That was sort of… That was the peak. 510 00:28:04,849 --> 00:28:06,393 [audience applauding] 511 00:28:06,476 --> 00:28:10,689 [announcer] The Frank Sinatra Timex Show, "Welcome Home, Elvis." 512 00:28:11,940 --> 00:28:12,774 There he is! 513 00:28:12,857 --> 00:28:14,776 [O'Brien] The thing that stands out to me, 514 00:28:15,276 --> 00:28:17,654 which is a very crafty move, 515 00:28:17,737 --> 00:28:22,075 is he's welcomed home in a big special by Frank Sinatra. 516 00:28:23,034 --> 00:28:25,412 [Sinatra] Well, Elvis, that's our little "welcome home" gift. 517 00:28:25,495 --> 00:28:27,372 The two years you lost while in the Army. 518 00:28:27,455 --> 00:28:29,958 And looking back over it, I'm stuck with the realization 519 00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:32,252 that maybe you didn't miss so much after all. 520 00:28:32,752 --> 00:28:35,922 As a matter of fact, all you seemed to have lost is your sideburns. 521 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,635 Now, folks, what would you say if I were gonna sing another song now? 522 00:28:40,719 --> 00:28:45,140 It's a very clear moment 523 00:28:45,223 --> 00:28:49,018 where Elvis is accepted into the club. 524 00:28:49,769 --> 00:28:53,815 Frank is telling the country, "He's a good kid." 525 00:28:53,898 --> 00:28:56,860 "He served his country, went in the Army. He's back now." 526 00:28:57,569 --> 00:29:00,238 But at the same time, Elvis is giving something up. 527 00:29:01,197 --> 00:29:03,408 Because in order to get into the club, 528 00:29:03,491 --> 00:29:07,412 you also have to give up, "This person's dangerous." 529 00:29:07,495 --> 00:29:08,913 "This person's a threat." 530 00:29:08,997 --> 00:29:11,666 "My daughter might run off with this guy." 531 00:29:11,750 --> 00:29:14,335 That's over. It's almost like a negotiated settlement. 532 00:29:16,004 --> 00:29:18,506 Frank Sinatra, they call him the chairman of the board 533 00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:20,592 because he runs show business. 534 00:29:20,675 --> 00:29:23,636 He is perceived as the guy 535 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,765 who can bless certain people, 536 00:29:26,848 --> 00:29:30,727 and, "Look, we're together singing each other's songs." 537 00:29:30,810 --> 00:29:34,856 ♪ For, my darling ♪ 538 00:29:34,939 --> 00:29:38,443 ♪ I love you ♪ 539 00:29:38,526 --> 00:29:40,612 -Man, that's pretty. -[audience laughing] 540 00:29:40,695 --> 00:29:46,868 ♪ And I always will ♪ 541 00:29:47,786 --> 00:29:49,120 [audience cheering] 542 00:29:49,204 --> 00:29:52,373 [reporter] Elvis, some radio stations are cutting off rock and roll. 543 00:29:52,999 --> 00:29:54,292 What's your comment on that, 544 00:29:54,375 --> 00:29:57,337 and what will happen to your career if rock and roll died out? 545 00:29:57,837 --> 00:30:01,466 If rock and roll died completely out, well, 546 00:30:02,217 --> 00:30:03,968 then I'd have to do something else 547 00:30:04,052 --> 00:30:05,845 in the line of music. Maybe… 548 00:30:06,638 --> 00:30:07,472 uh… 549 00:30:08,556 --> 00:30:09,933 opera. [laughs] 550 00:30:10,016 --> 00:30:11,267 I don't know, really. 551 00:30:11,351 --> 00:30:13,019 [classical piano playing] 552 00:30:13,770 --> 00:30:16,397 [Luhrmann] Elvis, when he was in the Army, 553 00:30:16,481 --> 00:30:20,401 he was exposed to a lot of European music, and he particularly loved Mario Lanza. 554 00:30:20,485 --> 00:30:22,278 And Mario Lanza was an opera singer. 555 00:30:22,362 --> 00:30:25,406 And I think that's where this cross-fertilization happens. 556 00:30:25,490 --> 00:30:30,578 [Lanza singing opera music in Italian] 557 00:30:45,093 --> 00:30:48,596 [opera music transitions to rock guitar] 558 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,515 ["Surrender" by Elvis Presley playing] 559 00:30:50,598 --> 00:30:54,519 ♪ When we kiss, my heart's on fire ♪ 560 00:30:54,602 --> 00:30:57,355 [Luhrmann] Elvis changed his musical style and his voice. 561 00:30:57,438 --> 00:30:59,649 The way he spoke changed very much. 562 00:30:59,732 --> 00:31:01,359 Elvis becomes really 563 00:31:02,068 --> 00:31:06,406 serious after the Army with big vocal singing. 564 00:31:07,156 --> 00:31:10,743 [Jackson] He can get almost into that sort of operatic range. 565 00:31:11,703 --> 00:31:13,955 So as soon as he's back from the Army, 566 00:31:14,038 --> 00:31:17,000 the Colonel gets him right into the studio again. 567 00:31:17,083 --> 00:31:20,962 They're recording stuff that is much more adult-leaning. 568 00:31:21,045 --> 00:31:23,423 ♪ Of our love and all its glory ♪ 569 00:31:23,506 --> 00:31:27,844 [Corgan] The thing about Elvis as an artist is he had hits in every genre. 570 00:31:28,553 --> 00:31:32,056 Does he sound like Elvis in every song? Yeah. How do you do that? 571 00:31:32,557 --> 00:31:34,392 It's not like he changed himself. 572 00:31:34,475 --> 00:31:37,437 He makes those genres bend to him, not the other way around. 573 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,190 ♪ Won't you please surrender to me ♪ 574 00:31:41,274 --> 00:31:44,402 It's the pure arc light of his talent. 575 00:31:44,485 --> 00:31:47,155 ♪ Your lips, your arms, your heart, dear ♪ 576 00:31:47,238 --> 00:31:49,407 [backup singers] ♪ Surrender ♪ 577 00:31:49,490 --> 00:31:54,579 [Elvis] ♪ Be mine forever ♪ 578 00:31:55,371 --> 00:32:01,586 ♪ Be mine tonight ♪ 579 00:32:03,922 --> 00:32:06,341 Elvis comes back and he performs a benefit show. 580 00:32:06,424 --> 00:32:10,261 This is a Pearl Harbor charity organization. 581 00:32:11,512 --> 00:32:14,349 [announcer] Look out, here he comes! Ladies and gentlemen, 582 00:32:14,432 --> 00:32:17,602 it looks as if… it's Elvis Presley! 583 00:32:17,685 --> 00:32:19,020 [all screaming] 584 00:32:19,103 --> 00:32:20,897 ["Heartbreak Hotel" playing] 585 00:32:20,980 --> 00:32:23,942 ♪ Well, since my baby left me ♪ 586 00:32:24,025 --> 00:32:26,611 -[fans continue screaming] -♪ I found a new place to dwell ♪ 587 00:32:26,694 --> 00:32:31,532 ♪ Down at the end of Lonely Street At Heartbreak Hotel ♪ 588 00:32:31,616 --> 00:32:36,245 ♪ Where I'll be so lonely, baby ♪ 589 00:32:36,329 --> 00:32:38,915 ♪ I'll be lonely ♪ 590 00:32:38,998 --> 00:32:42,335 ♪ You'll be so lonely, you could die ♪ 591 00:32:43,586 --> 00:32:48,007 He gets on that stage, and he is just 592 00:32:48,091 --> 00:32:49,717 charisma personified. 593 00:32:49,801 --> 00:32:53,137 -[guitar solo playing] -[fans screaming] 594 00:32:56,724 --> 00:32:59,310 [Thompson] It was the peak of something. 595 00:32:59,978 --> 00:33:02,772 And you would think that this would be the relaunch. 596 00:33:03,272 --> 00:33:05,692 And instead, it was the end of something. 597 00:33:06,567 --> 00:33:08,569 [drum flourish playing] 598 00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:15,368 [Thompson] He walks off that stage, 599 00:33:15,451 --> 00:33:18,621 and he wouldn't walk on another stage for seven more years. 600 00:33:18,705 --> 00:33:20,873 [contemplative music playing] 601 00:33:20,957 --> 00:33:23,376 You don't think rock and roll is dying then, huh? 602 00:33:23,459 --> 00:33:27,380 In 1956, when I first started out, I was hearing the same thing. 603 00:33:27,463 --> 00:33:29,590 That rock and roll is dead, is dying out. 604 00:33:30,091 --> 00:33:33,678 I'm not saying it won't die out, because it may be dead tomorrow. 605 00:33:33,761 --> 00:33:34,721 I don't know. 606 00:33:35,221 --> 00:33:36,305 I wish I did know. 607 00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:41,185 [Priscilla] Elvis kept calling me periodically out of the blue. 608 00:33:41,269 --> 00:33:46,649 He felt safe talking to me and expressing to me his fears. 609 00:33:46,733 --> 00:33:48,276 His likes, his dislikes. 610 00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:52,071 I didn't have any media attention, and this is when I was dating him. 611 00:33:54,115 --> 00:33:55,867 He would tell me about Colonel Parker, 612 00:33:55,950 --> 00:33:58,870 and he really depended on Colonel Parker 613 00:33:58,953 --> 00:34:01,831 to take care of him and get him into movies. 614 00:34:02,832 --> 00:34:05,543 And he was hoping for bigger opportunities 615 00:34:05,626 --> 00:34:08,463 to be able to be in the type of films that he wanted to be in. 616 00:34:09,172 --> 00:34:13,593 More serious, something good that he felt he was connected to. 617 00:34:15,636 --> 00:34:20,349 After the Army, Elvis did a couple of non-singing movies, and nobody went. 618 00:34:20,433 --> 00:34:23,394 [announcer] Elvis Presley in his most dramatic role, 619 00:34:23,478 --> 00:34:25,897 as the half-breed in Flaming Star. 620 00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:29,942 Torn between two loves, two loyalties, and fighting to save them both. 621 00:34:30,026 --> 00:34:32,820 Flaming Star, dramatic dynamite. 622 00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:34,322 [woman] It was a good film. 623 00:34:34,405 --> 00:34:38,576 A very good film, but he didn't sing. He didn't get the girl. 624 00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:42,955 And he died, so you can imagine how that went over with his fans. 625 00:34:43,039 --> 00:34:44,916 They hated it, you know? 626 00:34:44,999 --> 00:34:47,043 White men let her die! 627 00:34:47,126 --> 00:34:49,712 [Luhrmann] And the Colonel kind of used that to say, 628 00:34:49,796 --> 00:34:51,506 "Let's surround you with a lot of girls, 629 00:34:51,589 --> 00:34:54,425 put you in really cool clothes, you sing a lot of songs, 630 00:34:54,509 --> 00:34:56,135 and keep the plot light and fluffy, 631 00:34:56,219 --> 00:34:58,513 so as many people as possible can buy a ticket." 632 00:34:59,180 --> 00:35:01,474 "You're gonna make a river of money." And they did. 633 00:35:01,557 --> 00:35:03,142 ["Can't Help Falling in Love" playing] 634 00:35:03,226 --> 00:35:06,771 [Luhrmann] And I think that is the beginning of his corruption. 635 00:35:06,854 --> 00:35:11,692 ♪ Wise men say ♪ 636 00:35:12,902 --> 00:35:18,282 ♪ Only fools rush in… ♪ 637 00:35:18,366 --> 00:35:20,326 And that's when he had that five-year contract 638 00:35:20,409 --> 00:35:21,953 that had basically musicals. 639 00:35:22,036 --> 00:35:28,167 ♪ I can't help falling in love… ♪ 640 00:35:28,251 --> 00:35:30,586 That's what people wanted to see him sing. 641 00:35:32,213 --> 00:35:34,298 [Parker] We're heading back to Hollywood, 642 00:35:34,382 --> 00:35:36,676 to start the picture Thursday at Paramount. 643 00:35:36,759 --> 00:35:38,928 -[Elvis] Thursday at Paramount. -[Parker] For Hal Wallis. 644 00:35:39,011 --> 00:35:40,221 Two or three of them this year. 645 00:35:40,304 --> 00:35:41,931 [reporter] You're gonna be that busy? 646 00:35:42,014 --> 00:35:44,225 ["Rock-A-Hula Baby" playing] 647 00:35:44,308 --> 00:35:46,894 ♪ The way she moves her hips To her fingertips ♪ 648 00:35:46,978 --> 00:35:49,313 ♪ I feel I'm heaven bound ♪ 649 00:35:49,397 --> 00:35:51,524 [Thompson] They put out Blue Hawaii. 650 00:35:51,607 --> 00:35:54,110 The movie's an unbelievable box office hit. 651 00:35:54,193 --> 00:35:55,695 But something else happens 652 00:35:55,778 --> 00:35:58,698 that is very beneficial to Elvis's bank account 653 00:35:58,781 --> 00:36:02,368 and ultimately almost lethal to his creative life, 654 00:36:02,451 --> 00:36:06,247 which is the soundtrack spends 20 weeks at number one. 655 00:36:06,330 --> 00:36:09,959 It's a huge hit, and say what you want to say about Colonel Parker, 656 00:36:10,042 --> 00:36:12,086 but the guy is a brilliant businessman. 657 00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:13,796 And he immediately realized, 658 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:18,593 "If we put out movies where Elvis sings to young women 659 00:36:18,676 --> 00:36:20,595 who aren't wearing a whole lot of clothes, 660 00:36:20,678 --> 00:36:22,805 and we put out a companion soundtrack, 661 00:36:22,889 --> 00:36:24,932 the things will promote each other." 662 00:36:25,892 --> 00:36:27,977 And so, that was now the formula. 663 00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:30,062 Oh, it's a beach party. Come on. 664 00:36:30,813 --> 00:36:34,066 And they just did it over and over and over again. 665 00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:36,027 [twangy guitar playing] 666 00:36:36,110 --> 00:36:37,528 [bongo tune playing] 667 00:36:37,612 --> 00:36:42,241 And like every drug, the high is a little less every time. 668 00:36:42,325 --> 00:36:44,493 [performing "Do the Clam"] ♪ Everybody gather round ♪ 669 00:36:44,577 --> 00:36:45,786 [bongo rhythm playing] 670 00:36:45,870 --> 00:36:48,206 ♪ Listen to that bongo sound ♪ 671 00:36:48,289 --> 00:36:49,749 From a business perspective, 672 00:36:49,832 --> 00:36:52,084 which is the only thing the Colonel is interested in, 673 00:36:52,168 --> 00:36:53,878 the movies are terrible, 674 00:36:53,961 --> 00:36:58,132 but the business of Elvis is actually as good as it's ever been. 675 00:36:58,216 --> 00:37:01,135 ♪ Do the clam, do the clam ♪ 676 00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:04,639 ♪ Grab your barefoot baby by the hand... ♪ 677 00:37:04,722 --> 00:37:07,433 [Jackson] He became more and more plastic-looking in those movies. 678 00:37:07,516 --> 00:37:09,894 I'm sorry, buddy. I can't be in both places at once. 679 00:37:09,977 --> 00:37:12,480 [O'Brien] Elvis's hair in those movies, at a certain point, 680 00:37:12,563 --> 00:37:15,274 it's like a cotton candy that they spray-painted black 681 00:37:15,358 --> 00:37:16,859 and then they varnished it. 682 00:37:16,943 --> 00:37:19,111 They brushed it with some yak butter. 683 00:37:19,195 --> 00:37:22,406 He's not real. He's not a real person anymore. 684 00:37:22,490 --> 00:37:25,159 The backgrounds behind him aren't real. 685 00:37:25,243 --> 00:37:26,202 Nothing's real. 686 00:37:26,285 --> 00:37:29,247 ["Do the Clam" continues] 687 00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:31,749 [Thompson] Colonel Parker's plan is working. 688 00:37:31,832 --> 00:37:33,793 He made more than Steve McQueen. 689 00:37:33,876 --> 00:37:35,753 He made more than Gregory Peck. 690 00:37:35,836 --> 00:37:37,546 He made more than Cary Grant. 691 00:37:37,630 --> 00:37:41,342 He was the highest-paid movie star in America. 692 00:37:41,425 --> 00:37:43,344 They would pay astronomically. 693 00:37:43,427 --> 00:37:45,429 But what the Colonel realized was 694 00:37:45,513 --> 00:37:49,016 the more money you could get out of them, the cheaper he could make the films. 695 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:52,061 ["Do the Clam" continues] 696 00:38:03,489 --> 00:38:06,826 [Elvis] And I was doing a lot of pictures close together, 697 00:38:07,326 --> 00:38:09,078 and the pictures got very similar. 698 00:38:09,870 --> 00:38:12,331 I'd read the first four or five pages of it, and I knew 699 00:38:12,415 --> 00:38:17,086 that it was just a different name with 12 new songs in it. 700 00:38:17,169 --> 00:38:19,422 The songs were mediocre in most cases. 701 00:38:19,505 --> 00:38:21,549 They even stopped writing new music. 702 00:38:21,632 --> 00:38:23,676 They'd just sort of regurgitate old songs, 703 00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:26,387 throw a sort of plotline together. 704 00:38:26,470 --> 00:38:28,889 [Thompson] He's putting together these grab-bag records 705 00:38:28,973 --> 00:38:30,641 of songs that no one else wanted 706 00:38:30,725 --> 00:38:33,102 because the requirement to be on an Elvis song 707 00:38:33,185 --> 00:38:34,979 was Colonel Parker got the publishing. 708 00:38:35,855 --> 00:38:38,316 These were all naked money grabs. 709 00:38:38,399 --> 00:38:39,650 They had this one record, 710 00:38:39,734 --> 00:38:44,155 there is Elvis posing with the RCA dog 711 00:38:44,238 --> 00:38:47,950 who is sitting on top of a cash register. It's insane. 712 00:38:48,034 --> 00:38:51,370 ♪ Dig right in and do the clam ♪ 713 00:38:51,454 --> 00:38:54,957 -[all cheering] -[music fades out] 714 00:38:55,041 --> 00:38:57,752 The scripts get worse, the songs get worse. 715 00:38:57,835 --> 00:39:01,589 Until, eventually, Elvis Presley is making movies in three weeks 716 00:39:01,672 --> 00:39:03,382 where there's one take of everything 717 00:39:03,466 --> 00:39:05,634 and he's singing "Old MacDonald Has a Farm." 718 00:39:05,718 --> 00:39:07,595 [upbeat music playing] 719 00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:09,305 ♪ Old MacDonald… ♪ 720 00:39:09,388 --> 00:39:10,639 -[chuckles] -Oh boy. 721 00:39:10,723 --> 00:39:12,516 ♪ Ee-i-ee-i-o ♪ 722 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:17,146 ♪ And on that farm he had some chicks Ee-i-ee-i-o ♪ 723 00:39:17,229 --> 00:39:19,774 ♪ With a cluck-cluck here A cluck-cluck there ♪ 724 00:39:19,857 --> 00:39:21,942 -Embarrassing. -Yeah. 725 00:39:22,026 --> 00:39:25,446 ♪ And when those chicks got out of line Chicken fricassee ♪ 726 00:39:25,946 --> 00:39:28,115 -[Priscilla] That, to me, is a crime. -[Schilling] Yeah. 727 00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:29,575 -It is a crime. -Yeah. 728 00:39:29,658 --> 00:39:32,870 To put him in that situation and sing that song. 729 00:39:34,163 --> 00:39:36,374 That makes him a laughingstock, and he knew it. 730 00:39:36,457 --> 00:39:37,416 [Schilling] Yeah. 731 00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:38,918 -Yeah. -He knew it. 732 00:39:40,127 --> 00:39:42,129 [melancholy music playing] 733 00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:46,300 [man] When did you permanently move in to Graceland? 734 00:39:46,884 --> 00:39:49,637 That was in 1963. 735 00:39:56,143 --> 00:39:57,728 I know he'd be very angry. 736 00:39:57,812 --> 00:40:00,856 I saw him throw so many scripts across the room. 737 00:40:00,940 --> 00:40:03,025 Frustration, anger. 738 00:40:03,901 --> 00:40:05,027 Um… 739 00:40:05,945 --> 00:40:09,156 Lost a little bit on where his career was going. 740 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:11,951 Because those were not the roles that he wanted. 741 00:40:12,868 --> 00:40:16,122 [Elvis] Uh, Hollywood's image of me was wrong, and I knew it. 742 00:40:16,205 --> 00:40:17,998 And I couldn't do anything about it. 743 00:40:19,291 --> 00:40:23,254 I didn't know what to do. I just felt I was obligated to things that I didn't 744 00:40:24,130 --> 00:40:25,381 fully believe in. 745 00:40:25,464 --> 00:40:28,008 At a certain stage, I had no say-so in it. 746 00:40:29,718 --> 00:40:32,555 I didn't have final approval of the script. 747 00:40:33,597 --> 00:40:36,600 Which means that I couldn't say, 748 00:40:36,684 --> 00:40:38,394 "This is not good for me." 749 00:40:39,353 --> 00:40:41,313 And so, I became 750 00:40:42,148 --> 00:40:43,315 very discouraged. 751 00:40:43,941 --> 00:40:46,235 They couldn't have paid me no amount of money in the world 752 00:40:46,318 --> 00:40:49,447 to make me feel any satisfaction inside. 753 00:40:51,574 --> 00:40:55,870 The first time I heard him say no 754 00:40:56,704 --> 00:41:01,208 was we were here in Bel Air, 755 00:41:01,292 --> 00:41:03,127 and he looks at this script, 756 00:41:03,878 --> 00:41:06,630 and he throws it against the wall. 757 00:41:06,714 --> 00:41:09,216 "I'm not doing another one of these." 758 00:41:10,634 --> 00:41:12,136 Within a few hours, 759 00:41:12,219 --> 00:41:14,263 there was the record company, 760 00:41:15,347 --> 00:41:17,016 there was William Morris, 761 00:41:18,726 --> 00:41:20,352 there was the studio, 762 00:41:20,436 --> 00:41:22,188 and there was Colonel Parker. 763 00:41:23,439 --> 00:41:27,985 And, "If you don't do these contracts, 764 00:41:28,819 --> 00:41:30,821 you won't do anything." 765 00:41:30,905 --> 00:41:32,907 [melancholy music continues] 766 00:41:33,741 --> 00:41:35,159 [Priscilla] He really had no choice. 767 00:41:36,035 --> 00:41:36,952 Not really. 768 00:41:37,036 --> 00:41:39,038 He had to fulfill the contract. 769 00:41:40,581 --> 00:41:42,791 You could even see it physically. 770 00:41:43,876 --> 00:41:47,171 [Elvis] I cared so much, until I became physically ill. 771 00:41:47,254 --> 00:41:49,215 I would become violently ill. 772 00:41:55,471 --> 00:41:59,767 No matter how big Elvis got, he's still the guy that grew up 773 00:42:00,518 --> 00:42:02,102 in a tar shack. 774 00:42:06,232 --> 00:42:07,858 There's always somebody in your ear saying, 775 00:42:07,942 --> 00:42:10,486 "Know what? You're not far from going back there." 776 00:42:13,656 --> 00:42:16,867 If Elvis cared so much about money, why did he blow it the way he did? 777 00:42:16,951 --> 00:42:19,245 Nobody blew money like Elvis. He was legendary. 778 00:42:20,788 --> 00:42:22,164 This wasn't about money. 779 00:42:24,458 --> 00:42:27,086 The quotient is not money 780 00:42:27,169 --> 00:42:29,672 versus the thing you want to get to. 781 00:42:29,755 --> 00:42:32,258 The quotient is, "You'll be abandoned." 782 00:42:33,717 --> 00:42:37,012 Money is just some form of testament that people care. 783 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,683 It's the abandonment thing that they use against you. 784 00:42:40,766 --> 00:42:46,480 [Luhrmann] The Colonel had immense ability to tap into Elvis's insecurity 785 00:42:47,064 --> 00:42:49,775 and really infantilize him. 786 00:42:52,736 --> 00:42:54,280 He always felt 787 00:42:54,363 --> 00:42:59,702 that he owed the Colonel his career, and I think it was very hard for him 788 00:42:59,785 --> 00:43:03,330 to say, "I wanna stand alone here." 789 00:43:03,414 --> 00:43:05,457 "I'm making my own decisions." 790 00:43:05,541 --> 00:43:07,960 [Springsteen] Elvis's closest collaborator 791 00:43:08,836 --> 00:43:11,672 was somebody who didn't understand him. 792 00:43:12,923 --> 00:43:15,676 That was the tragedy of their relationship. 793 00:43:16,468 --> 00:43:20,306 There was nobody to tell Elvis actually how good he was, you know? 794 00:43:20,389 --> 00:43:23,183 In a deep… In a deep enough way. 795 00:43:24,393 --> 00:43:25,978 [melancholy music continues] 796 00:43:27,771 --> 00:43:29,982 I mean, you think about having all of that talent 797 00:43:30,065 --> 00:43:33,193 and being that revolutionary an artist. 798 00:43:33,986 --> 00:43:37,489 And to have a world that doesn't really understand you, 799 00:43:37,573 --> 00:43:40,326 that basically thinks you're kind of a clown. 800 00:43:43,746 --> 00:43:47,666 [O'Brien] If you look at Elvis's career through much of the '60s, 801 00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:52,129 you're looking at an artist who's completely isolated 802 00:43:52,963 --> 00:43:54,673 from anything that fed him. 803 00:43:54,757 --> 00:43:56,175 This is a guy who… 804 00:43:57,509 --> 00:44:00,554 was born performing in front of people. 805 00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:01,764 Now he's isolated. 806 00:44:07,853 --> 00:44:10,481 [Thompson] Elvis had been dangerous enough 807 00:44:10,564 --> 00:44:13,067 to recognize danger when he saw it. 808 00:44:14,026 --> 00:44:15,819 He saw the Rolling Stones. 809 00:44:16,445 --> 00:44:17,780 He saw the Beatles. 810 00:44:18,739 --> 00:44:21,533 He knew how they were making America feel 811 00:44:21,617 --> 00:44:23,911 because he had made America feel that way. 812 00:44:23,994 --> 00:44:26,914 ["I Want to Hold your Hand" by The Beatles playing] 813 00:44:29,458 --> 00:44:30,668 [fans screaming] 814 00:44:30,751 --> 00:44:34,755 ♪ Oh yeah, I'll tell you somethin' ♪ 815 00:44:35,547 --> 00:44:38,050 ♪ I think you'll understand ♪ 816 00:44:38,133 --> 00:44:40,928 ♪ When I say that somethin' ♪ 817 00:44:41,011 --> 00:44:44,264 [reporter] One psychiatrist recently said you're nothing but four Elvis Presleys. 818 00:44:44,348 --> 00:44:46,350 It's not true. It's not true. 819 00:44:46,433 --> 00:44:47,267 [all laughing] 820 00:44:47,351 --> 00:44:48,769 ♪ I want to hold your hand ♪ 821 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,647 [reporter 2] On every sign, there is hero worship 822 00:44:51,730 --> 00:44:54,525 that recalls the heydays of Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. 823 00:44:55,234 --> 00:44:58,737 [O'Brien] In '64, there's just this huge tidal wave. 824 00:44:58,821 --> 00:45:02,241 Everything changes. The hair changes, the clothes change. 825 00:45:02,324 --> 00:45:05,619 Overnight, the Beatles make everybody irrelevant, 826 00:45:05,703 --> 00:45:07,454 and then everyone has to catch up. 827 00:45:07,538 --> 00:45:11,250 ♪ Let me hold your hand ♪ 828 00:45:11,333 --> 00:45:13,711 ♪ I want to hold your hand ♪ 829 00:45:14,795 --> 00:45:17,798 Oh my gosh, I was listening to the Beatles too. 830 00:45:17,881 --> 00:45:22,177 You know, I was listening to Mick Jagger. I mean, he came on like Elvis did. 831 00:45:22,261 --> 00:45:25,180 He was out jumping all over the place. I'm like, "What the heck?" 832 00:45:27,182 --> 00:45:28,684 The music was changing. 833 00:45:28,767 --> 00:45:34,106 ♪ I can't hide, I can't hide ♪ 834 00:45:36,442 --> 00:45:40,612 [Priscilla] The Beatles came to our house in Bel Air, which was a funny evening. 835 00:45:40,696 --> 00:45:44,491 -♪ I want to hold your hand ♪ -[music ends] 836 00:45:45,534 --> 00:45:48,245 [Priscilla] When they did come in, they were so nervous. 837 00:45:48,328 --> 00:45:50,289 In fact, Elvis sat down on the couch, 838 00:45:50,873 --> 00:45:53,959 John Lennon and Paul McCartney just stared at him. 839 00:45:54,752 --> 00:45:58,380 Never said a word. Just looked at him. They were so nervous. 840 00:45:58,464 --> 00:46:01,550 And Elvis basically was saying, "Well, if you're not gonna talk…" 841 00:46:01,633 --> 00:46:03,719 He turned on the TV. [laughs] 842 00:46:03,802 --> 00:46:06,096 They were just mesmerized by him. 843 00:46:06,180 --> 00:46:07,848 [gentle music playing] 844 00:46:07,931 --> 00:46:09,600 [Schilling] I remember seeing them, 845 00:46:09,683 --> 00:46:12,436 and we start talking, and John said, 846 00:46:12,519 --> 00:46:16,023 "I didn't have the courage to tell Elvis this, 847 00:46:16,106 --> 00:46:17,357 but would you tell him?" 848 00:46:17,441 --> 00:46:20,444 He said, "You see these sideburns?" and I said, "Yeah." 849 00:46:20,527 --> 00:46:22,863 He said, "I almost got kicked out of high school 850 00:46:22,946 --> 00:46:25,365 because I wanted to look like Elvis." 851 00:46:25,449 --> 00:46:28,911 "And we wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for him." 852 00:46:30,621 --> 00:46:34,458 The Beatles were the writers of their songs at the time, 853 00:46:34,541 --> 00:46:36,835 and before the Beatles, in general, 854 00:46:36,919 --> 00:46:40,380 songwriters wrote the songs, singers sang the songs. 855 00:46:40,464 --> 00:46:43,592 That's what took it to the next level, 856 00:46:43,675 --> 00:46:46,094 the fact that the Beatles wrote. 857 00:46:46,178 --> 00:46:51,016 And that's what gave us, the youth at that time, a voice. 858 00:46:52,935 --> 00:46:55,062 [Corgan] Of course, the Beatles worshiped Elvis, 859 00:46:55,145 --> 00:46:57,856 but they weren't necessarily listening to his new records. 860 00:46:58,482 --> 00:47:00,275 [Luhrmann] He was the original rebel. 861 00:47:00,776 --> 00:47:03,529 He was the original conduit 862 00:47:03,612 --> 00:47:07,115 to make rock and roll hugely popular with youth. 863 00:47:08,075 --> 00:47:10,994 And now, he's relegated to really being a family entertainer. 864 00:47:11,078 --> 00:47:13,205 And I think that really hurt. 865 00:47:13,789 --> 00:47:15,874 [Elvis] I've never written a song. I wish I could. 866 00:47:15,958 --> 00:47:18,502 I wish I was like some of my, uh, rivals, 867 00:47:18,585 --> 00:47:21,296 'cause they're pretty good songwriters. But me, I… 868 00:47:21,380 --> 00:47:24,007 I did good to get out of high school, you know? [laughs] 869 00:47:24,842 --> 00:47:27,594 [O'Brien] Suddenly, all these rock groups coming 870 00:47:27,678 --> 00:47:31,139 that are alluding to things that are much deeper. 871 00:47:31,223 --> 00:47:35,727 Something that's about real life, and that flips the script completely. 872 00:47:36,603 --> 00:47:39,982 [Luhrmann] There was all of the mass racial tension, 873 00:47:40,065 --> 00:47:42,943 and then there was the economic tension, 874 00:47:43,026 --> 00:47:45,696 and then there was what was going on in Vietnam, 875 00:47:45,779 --> 00:47:49,366 which is impossible to overstate the impact on American culture of that. 876 00:47:50,033 --> 00:47:52,160 [reporter] The news tonight, despite an official denial, 877 00:47:52,244 --> 00:47:55,414 is of a significant escalation of the war in Vietnam. 878 00:47:55,497 --> 00:47:58,584 For the first time, American jets have dumped tons of high explosives 879 00:47:58,667 --> 00:48:00,335 within the city limits of Haiphong. 880 00:48:00,419 --> 00:48:02,504 [O'Brien] No rock and roll performer of the '50s 881 00:48:02,588 --> 00:48:04,965 was trying to get to something deeper. 882 00:48:05,048 --> 00:48:09,845 I think a big thing to me, is people start looking for meaning in music. 883 00:48:09,928 --> 00:48:12,639 Real meaning, something that's deeper than 884 00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:15,642 anything they heard from Chuck Berry, 885 00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:17,644 anything they heard from Elvis. 886 00:48:18,228 --> 00:48:20,188 ["Only a Pawn in Their Game" by Bob Dylan playing] 887 00:48:20,272 --> 00:48:22,232 ♪ A bullet from the back of a bush ♪ 888 00:48:22,316 --> 00:48:24,401 ♪ Took Medgar Evers' blood ♪ 889 00:48:26,862 --> 00:48:30,616 ♪ A finger fired the trigger to his name ♪ 890 00:48:32,618 --> 00:48:36,705 ♪ A handle hid out in the dark ♪ 891 00:48:36,788 --> 00:48:39,291 ♪ The hand set the spark ♪ 892 00:48:39,374 --> 00:48:41,501 ♪ Two eyes took the aim ♪ 893 00:48:42,753 --> 00:48:45,005 ♪ Behind a man's brain ♪ 894 00:48:46,089 --> 00:48:48,216 ♪ But he can't be blamed ♪ 895 00:48:49,676 --> 00:48:54,097 ♪ He's only a pawn in their game ♪ 896 00:48:55,432 --> 00:48:57,142 [O'Brien] Suddenly, there's this 897 00:48:57,851 --> 00:48:58,852 poetry. 898 00:48:58,936 --> 00:49:04,358 ♪ A South politician preaches To the poor white man ♪ 899 00:49:04,858 --> 00:49:09,237 There's poetry in music. Folk music and then rock music. 900 00:49:10,906 --> 00:49:14,993 ♪ "You're better than them You been born with white skin" ♪ 901 00:49:15,077 --> 00:49:19,873 The idea of Bob Dylan reciting a type of poetry in his songs, 902 00:49:19,957 --> 00:49:23,126 it was like, "What's that? Where does that come from?" 903 00:49:23,919 --> 00:49:29,007 People that were writing songs really couldn't help but be a reflection 904 00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:30,884 of what was happening in the streets. 905 00:49:30,968 --> 00:49:37,099 ♪ But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game ♪ 906 00:49:37,182 --> 00:49:39,935 [Corgan] Elvis didn't see himself as a political figure. 907 00:49:40,727 --> 00:49:44,356 So it would have been probably weird even from a "brand" point of view, 908 00:49:44,439 --> 00:49:46,566 especially when he's doing big Hollywood movies. 909 00:49:46,650 --> 00:49:49,653 Like, is he gonna start jumping in and doing topical songs? 910 00:49:49,736 --> 00:49:52,823 Elvis stayed on the sidelines while the world was shifting towards 911 00:49:52,906 --> 00:49:56,284 a political, overt stance with great intensity. 912 00:50:00,872 --> 00:50:04,126 [woman] Oh, Mr. Presley, on the subject of the service, 913 00:50:04,209 --> 00:50:08,380 what is your opinion of war protesters? And would you today refuse to be drafted? 914 00:50:09,339 --> 00:50:13,218 [Elvis] Honey, I'd just sooner keep my own personal views about that to myself. 915 00:50:13,301 --> 00:50:16,680 'Cause I'm just an entertainer and I… I'd rather not say. 916 00:50:16,763 --> 00:50:19,891 [woman] Do you think other entertainers should keep their views to themselves too? 917 00:50:19,975 --> 00:50:22,102 [Elvis] No. I can't even say that. 918 00:50:24,062 --> 00:50:26,273 [Thompson] The only songs Elvis could record at this point 919 00:50:26,356 --> 00:50:31,778 were songs that almost every other serious recording artist in America had passed on. 920 00:50:31,862 --> 00:50:35,782 The greatest voice in America was getting America's worst songs, 921 00:50:35,866 --> 00:50:38,535 and not only did no one stop him, 922 00:50:38,618 --> 00:50:41,204 no one in his camp even seemed to understand 923 00:50:41,288 --> 00:50:43,540 that this was a problem, except for Elvis. 924 00:50:43,623 --> 00:50:46,793 I mean, Elvis might be lots of things, but he's not an idiot. 925 00:50:46,877 --> 00:50:49,546 He can read a graph line like anybody else. 926 00:50:49,629 --> 00:50:50,797 This is dying. 927 00:50:50,881 --> 00:50:52,049 I think he thought, 928 00:50:52,799 --> 00:50:56,219 "If this is ending, I want to end as the Elvis I wanna be." 929 00:50:56,303 --> 00:50:57,888 "Not the Elvis they want me to be." 930 00:50:57,971 --> 00:51:00,974 ["Run On" by Elvis Presley playing] 931 00:51:01,058 --> 00:51:02,768 [backup singers humming] 932 00:51:02,851 --> 00:51:05,937 [Elvis] ♪ Well, you may run on for a long time ♪ 933 00:51:06,021 --> 00:51:08,440 [backup singers] ♪ Run along for a long time ♪ 934 00:51:08,523 --> 00:51:10,525 [Elvis] ♪ Run on for a long time ♪ 935 00:51:10,609 --> 00:51:13,153 ♪ Let me tell you God almighty gonna cut you down ♪ 936 00:51:13,236 --> 00:51:17,157 ♪ Go tell that long tongued liar Go tell that midnight rider ♪ 937 00:51:17,908 --> 00:51:21,036 ♪ Tell the gambler, the rambler The back-biter ♪ 938 00:51:21,119 --> 00:51:22,454 [music fades out] 939 00:51:22,537 --> 00:51:25,040 [Jackson] How Great Thou Art was an incredibly important 940 00:51:25,123 --> 00:51:26,374 milestone in his career 941 00:51:26,458 --> 00:51:30,921 because it showed him that he could do what he wanted to do. 942 00:51:31,004 --> 00:51:32,672 And it necessarily didn't need to be 943 00:51:32,756 --> 00:51:35,383 the biggest commercial success in the world, 944 00:51:35,467 --> 00:51:39,221 but that he could be in control of his own destiny. 945 00:51:39,721 --> 00:51:41,681 ♪ Great God almighty Let me tell you what he said ♪ 946 00:51:41,765 --> 00:51:43,558 ♪ Go tell that long tongued liar ♪ 947 00:51:43,642 --> 00:51:45,685 [Jackson] It's sort of the first step towards, 948 00:51:45,769 --> 00:51:50,065 "I need to get back to who I am as a person and as an artist." 949 00:51:50,732 --> 00:51:52,484 So, to go back to his gospel roots 950 00:51:52,567 --> 00:51:55,237 and sort of insist that he make that record 951 00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:59,199 wasn't in line with what the Colonel would have wanted him to do, 952 00:51:59,282 --> 00:52:01,201 which was just more pop music. 953 00:52:01,993 --> 00:52:05,038 [Love] I think if Elvis at that point in his career 954 00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:07,082 wasn't able to do gospel music, 955 00:52:07,165 --> 00:52:09,501 I don't know what Elvis would have been doing. 956 00:52:10,377 --> 00:52:12,337 So, he had to stand up. 957 00:52:12,420 --> 00:52:14,172 "This is what, really, I want to do." 958 00:52:14,256 --> 00:52:16,466 [reporter] Elvis, is your first love Western music? 959 00:52:17,384 --> 00:52:19,052 [Elvis] No, sir, it's not. 960 00:52:19,136 --> 00:52:22,055 My first, I would say, would be, uh, 961 00:52:22,139 --> 00:52:23,557 spiritual music. 962 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,435 I know practically every religious song that's ever been written. 963 00:52:27,519 --> 00:52:30,063 ["How Great Thou Art" by Elvis Presley playing] 964 00:52:30,147 --> 00:52:32,107 [choir harmonizing] 965 00:52:32,190 --> 00:52:36,153 [Love] When he found out that I was a gospel singer and I had gospel roots, 966 00:52:36,236 --> 00:52:39,447 I think that's what made me and him really gravitate to one another, 967 00:52:39,531 --> 00:52:41,283 because that's how he wanted to sing. 968 00:52:41,366 --> 00:52:45,662 ♪ Oh, Lord, my God ♪ 969 00:52:45,745 --> 00:52:47,873 [Love] You're born with certain feelings inside of you. 970 00:52:47,956 --> 00:52:50,250 And you can feel them when you go different places. 971 00:52:50,333 --> 00:52:51,918 Like when I visit different churches, 972 00:52:52,002 --> 00:52:54,421 I can feel that spirit that they have at that church. 973 00:52:55,589 --> 00:52:57,716 And Elvis wanted to feel that. 974 00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:03,471 ♪ Then sings my soul ♪ 975 00:53:04,848 --> 00:53:06,808 [Schilling] When I saw Elvis 976 00:53:06,892 --> 00:53:09,519 singing "How Great Thou Art"… 977 00:53:12,272 --> 00:53:14,983 it was the first time I'd been to a recording session. 978 00:53:15,942 --> 00:53:20,071 I was sitting right outside the glass window. 979 00:53:20,155 --> 00:53:24,784 I think he was really touched, I mean, by something spiritual. 980 00:53:24,868 --> 00:53:27,204 Like his soul had left his body. 981 00:53:27,287 --> 00:53:32,167 ♪ Then sings my soul ♪ 982 00:53:33,710 --> 00:53:35,837 [Schilling] At the end of that session, 983 00:53:37,130 --> 00:53:39,549 he went down to his knees 984 00:53:39,633 --> 00:53:42,677 and he looked up and he had this little… 985 00:53:42,761 --> 00:53:45,972 He looked like a little boy, proud smile on his face. 986 00:53:46,806 --> 00:53:48,975 He knew he had done something great. 987 00:53:49,059 --> 00:53:53,063 ♪ How great ♪ 988 00:53:53,146 --> 00:54:00,153 ♪ Thou art ♪ 989 00:54:00,237 --> 00:54:01,071 [music ends] 990 00:54:02,030 --> 00:54:05,575 He won three Grammys. 991 00:54:05,659 --> 00:54:09,287 And they were all for gospel music. That tells you where his heart is. 992 00:54:09,371 --> 00:54:11,414 [gentle guitar music playing] 993 00:54:14,876 --> 00:54:19,256 If Elvis could have had a choice of the music he would sing, 994 00:54:19,339 --> 00:54:20,966 it would be gospel, 995 00:54:21,049 --> 00:54:26,096 but he wasn't gonna make no money and be no superstar as a gospel singer. 996 00:54:26,179 --> 00:54:29,099 So he had to take the route that was going to, you know, 997 00:54:29,182 --> 00:54:32,102 get him very successful, because, you know, 998 00:54:32,185 --> 00:54:34,980 the Colonel did not want him to sing anymore. 999 00:54:35,063 --> 00:54:36,856 He just wanted him to stay in movies. 1000 00:54:41,403 --> 00:54:44,656 That gospel album is the giveaway 1001 00:54:44,739 --> 00:54:47,534 as to what was going on in his internal life. 1002 00:54:47,617 --> 00:54:50,203 ["Thrill of Your Love" by Elvis Presley playing] 1003 00:54:50,287 --> 00:54:53,081 [Elvis] I wouldn't like to stay in the same vein. 1004 00:54:53,164 --> 00:54:56,960 I mean, I wouldn't like to be at a standstill, you know what I mean? 1005 00:54:57,043 --> 00:55:00,463 I'd like… I'd like to progress. 1006 00:55:00,547 --> 00:55:02,924 I'd like to get married. I'd like to have a family. 1007 00:55:03,008 --> 00:55:05,719 It's definitely true. It's a normal thing to do. 1008 00:55:05,802 --> 00:55:08,388 Who wants to grow old and be alone? You know what I mean? 1009 00:55:08,471 --> 00:55:12,017 ♪ Star above ♪ 1010 00:55:13,310 --> 00:55:15,854 [Priscilla] I was in my dressing room at Graceland, 1011 00:55:16,688 --> 00:55:20,150 and he said, "Cilla," and he knocked on my door, 1012 00:55:20,233 --> 00:55:22,235 and he had something behind his back. 1013 00:55:22,319 --> 00:55:24,904 ♪ …to me ♪ 1014 00:55:24,988 --> 00:55:28,199 And then he said to me, you know, "It's time." 1015 00:55:28,783 --> 00:55:29,617 And he 1016 00:55:30,201 --> 00:55:32,537 took a box out, and it was a wedding ring. 1017 00:55:32,620 --> 00:55:34,956 ♪ To the thrill… ♪ 1018 00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:36,249 [Priscilla] I was in shock. 1019 00:55:36,333 --> 00:55:40,295 ♪ Of your love ♪ 1020 00:55:40,378 --> 00:55:42,922 [Elvis] It's more important to surround yourself with people 1021 00:55:43,006 --> 00:55:46,259 who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through life once. 1022 00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:47,969 You don't come back for an encore. 1023 00:55:48,053 --> 00:55:51,973 Find that one girl, you know. It's a thing that you can't rush. 1024 00:55:54,184 --> 00:55:57,228 I'm thinking to myself, "My dad's not gonna believe this." 1025 00:55:57,312 --> 00:56:02,567 ♪ Than to be all alone ♪ 1026 00:56:02,650 --> 00:56:04,986 I got pregnant the night we got married. [laughs] 1027 00:56:06,571 --> 00:56:10,158 And I'm like nervous, I'm going, "Oh my God, I don't know if I…" 1028 00:56:10,241 --> 00:56:13,495 "Am I ready to be a mother?" I was 21. 1029 00:56:13,578 --> 00:56:17,832 I started crying one night. I've never told this, but I started crying one night 1030 00:56:17,916 --> 00:56:21,795 and he called me "Satnin" and he said, "Satnin, what's the matter with you?" 1031 00:56:21,878 --> 00:56:24,255 "What's the matter, baby?" You know? I go… 1032 00:56:25,590 --> 00:56:26,591 "I'm scared." 1033 00:56:26,674 --> 00:56:28,676 [heartfelt music playing] 1034 00:56:31,638 --> 00:56:33,640 "I don't know if I'm ready for a baby." 1035 00:56:33,723 --> 00:56:36,851 [Priscilla] And he goes, "You'll be a great mother. You'll be a great mom." 1036 00:56:37,352 --> 00:56:38,186 And I go, 1037 00:56:38,853 --> 00:56:41,564 "I won't be able to do things with you anymore." 1038 00:56:41,648 --> 00:56:43,316 And he goes, "Yes, you will." 1039 00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,778 I go, "You're not gonna want babies around and kids around." 1040 00:56:47,487 --> 00:56:50,073 We got married, we're doing things together, 1041 00:56:50,156 --> 00:56:51,449 we're going to Vegas. 1042 00:56:52,742 --> 00:56:55,537 And I'm thinking, "All that's gonna stop." 1043 00:56:55,620 --> 00:56:58,206 My head is definitely different than where his was going. 1044 00:56:58,915 --> 00:57:00,959 And he is looking at being a dad. 1045 00:57:02,836 --> 00:57:05,296 Elvis was definitely excited to be a dad. 1046 00:57:06,005 --> 00:57:07,882 He was a little nervous, that's for sure. 1047 00:57:08,758 --> 00:57:11,594 Didn't know how to hold a child, or didn't think he did. 1048 00:57:16,224 --> 00:57:18,101 And so, it turned out great. 1049 00:57:23,773 --> 00:57:26,943 Eventually, he makes the last movie for Paramount, 1050 00:57:27,026 --> 00:57:29,487 Easy Come, Easy Go. It's a total flop. 1051 00:57:29,571 --> 00:57:35,243 The record doesn't even chart and sells just 30,000 copies. 1052 00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,539 [Luhrmann] I don't think he recognizes just 1053 00:57:39,622 --> 00:57:43,543 how dire things are until one day there's an actual headline 1054 00:57:43,626 --> 00:57:46,463 in one of the trades, and it says, 1055 00:57:47,046 --> 00:57:51,426 "There's no more appetite for Presley films." 1056 00:57:51,509 --> 00:57:53,511 [tense music playing] 1057 00:57:57,307 --> 00:57:59,434 [Jorgensen] In the Colonel's mindset, when you need to 1058 00:57:59,517 --> 00:58:01,269 get people to focus again… 1059 00:58:01,352 --> 00:58:04,856 In '56, he put him on God knows how many TV shows. 1060 00:58:04,939 --> 00:58:07,692 When he came back from the Army and needed to reestablish… 1061 00:58:07,775 --> 00:58:09,736 "I put him on the Frank Sinatra Show." 1062 00:58:09,819 --> 00:58:11,196 Now he's got nothing. 1063 00:58:11,279 --> 00:58:14,449 He says, "I need to go back to my old trick, get him on TV." 1064 00:58:15,742 --> 00:58:17,619 It was all or nothing. 1065 00:58:22,665 --> 00:58:25,960 [Elvis] Years went by, I really missed the audience contact. 1066 00:58:26,044 --> 00:58:27,754 I really was getting bugged. 1067 00:58:27,837 --> 00:58:31,466 I was doing so many movies, and I couldn't really do what I could do. 1068 00:58:31,549 --> 00:58:33,927 It all kept going, and I really wanted to come back. 1069 00:58:34,594 --> 00:58:38,223 The idea was, "It's time to have him come back into everyone's living room." 1070 00:58:38,306 --> 00:58:40,225 It only became 1071 00:58:40,934 --> 00:58:44,395 what we know of now as the '68 Comeback Special 1072 00:58:44,479 --> 00:58:45,563 as it developed. 1073 00:58:48,566 --> 00:58:50,443 [Priscilla] He didn't want to be around people. 1074 00:58:50,944 --> 00:58:54,656 He just wanted to relax, go to the beach and just think. 1075 00:58:57,617 --> 00:58:58,868 He was getting in shape. 1076 00:59:00,495 --> 00:59:02,038 [Schilling] He started training. 1077 00:59:02,121 --> 00:59:04,874 I think he must have lost 25 pounds. 1078 00:59:06,209 --> 00:59:09,087 He was training like this is the heavyweight championship. 1079 00:59:10,129 --> 00:59:12,840 [Priscilla] I don't think I've ever seen him 1080 00:59:12,924 --> 00:59:15,301 that excited before. 1081 00:59:16,928 --> 00:59:18,179 [man 1] Okay, here we go. 1082 00:59:20,723 --> 00:59:22,350 [man 2] That's 512. 1083 00:59:22,433 --> 00:59:25,728 [upbeat backing track playing] 1084 00:59:25,812 --> 00:59:28,898 [Love] At that time, we didn't know whether Elvis was gonna be there or not. 1085 00:59:28,982 --> 00:59:31,985 Because a lot of times when you do sessions, you're doing the band, 1086 00:59:32,068 --> 00:59:33,736 then you're doing background singing 1087 00:59:33,820 --> 00:59:36,948 and you're trying to get that all together with the producers. 1088 00:59:37,031 --> 00:59:39,492 And then Elvis popped up and he was there. 1089 00:59:39,576 --> 00:59:40,785 [man 2] That's Take 501. 1090 00:59:41,578 --> 00:59:43,830 ["Saved" playing] ♪ I used to smoke ♪ 1091 00:59:43,913 --> 00:59:45,290 ♪ I used to smoke ♪ 1092 00:59:45,373 --> 00:59:47,250 ♪ Drink and dance the hoochie-coo ♪ 1093 00:59:47,333 --> 00:59:49,252 ♪ I used to smoke and drink ♪ 1094 00:59:49,335 --> 00:59:51,754 ♪ Smoke and drink And dance the hoochie-coo ♪ 1095 00:59:51,838 --> 00:59:53,423 [Love] He sat and talked to us. 1096 00:59:53,506 --> 00:59:55,508 "That sounds so good. How you guys doing?" 1097 00:59:55,592 --> 00:59:57,969 Then he wanted to know who we were 1098 00:59:58,052 --> 01:00:00,555 and what we were doing and what kind of music we love. 1099 01:00:00,638 --> 01:00:04,058 ♪ That's why I'm saved I am saved ♪ 1100 01:00:04,142 --> 01:00:07,061 [Love] He told us that he was nervous about doing it, period. 1101 01:00:07,145 --> 01:00:08,688 The whole '68 Special. 1102 01:00:08,771 --> 01:00:11,691 He was nervous, 'cause he hadn't done anything like that before. 1103 01:00:11,774 --> 01:00:15,069 -[singing rock song] -[music cuts out] 1104 01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:16,112 Shit. 1105 01:00:16,195 --> 01:00:19,824 People talk about the special now based on what they remember, 1106 01:00:19,907 --> 01:00:23,536 which is raw rock and roll Elvis returns. 1107 01:00:23,620 --> 01:00:26,372 The Colonel tried his very best to ruin that. 1108 01:00:26,456 --> 01:00:28,374 ["It Hurts Me" by Elvis Presley playing] 1109 01:00:30,293 --> 01:00:33,212 ♪ He never loved you ♪ 1110 01:00:35,048 --> 01:00:36,883 [Thompson] 'Cause the special was full of skits, 1111 01:00:36,966 --> 01:00:40,136 and he's fighting, and there's silly little set pieces. 1112 01:00:40,219 --> 01:00:43,556 ♪ He'll never change ♪ 1113 01:00:45,767 --> 01:00:47,935 -[Elvis] Goddamn it. -[man 1] Okay. 1114 01:00:48,019 --> 01:00:49,729 [Thompson] Yes, there's all this great music. 1115 01:00:49,812 --> 01:00:51,731 There's also lots of 1116 01:00:51,814 --> 01:00:53,983 Colonel Tom Parker crap all over it. 1117 01:00:54,067 --> 01:00:55,568 [clacking] 1118 01:00:55,652 --> 01:00:56,778 [man 2] Nine-oh-two. 1119 01:00:57,362 --> 01:00:58,571 Five-ten. 1120 01:00:59,197 --> 01:01:01,199 ["Medley" by Elvis Presley playing] 1121 01:01:05,495 --> 01:01:07,246 [starts singing, then stumbles] 1122 01:01:07,330 --> 01:01:08,581 Goddamn it. 1123 01:01:08,665 --> 01:01:12,043 He's very nervous when he's playing music, 1124 01:01:12,126 --> 01:01:16,339 and he's very annoyed when he's doing anything other than playing music. 1125 01:01:16,422 --> 01:01:17,674 [man 2] Take 120. 1126 01:01:18,216 --> 01:01:20,385 ♪ Plain to see ♪ 1127 01:01:20,468 --> 01:01:24,847 ♪ He's only, he's only Playing a game ♪ 1128 01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:30,144 [Thompson] The conflict between Elvis and the Colonel, 1129 01:01:30,228 --> 01:01:33,606 or the conflict between the two Elvises, however you want to frame it, 1130 01:01:33,690 --> 01:01:38,986 is so clear in his deep pain over messing up the music… 1131 01:01:39,070 --> 01:01:40,613 [man] You'll walk into this. I'm sorry. 1132 01:01:40,697 --> 01:01:44,784 ♪ He's only, he's only Playing a game ♪ 1133 01:01:45,451 --> 01:01:47,328 -[Elvis] I missed it, man. -[man 3] Keep rolling. 1134 01:01:47,412 --> 01:01:49,288 [Thompson] …and his deep annoyance 1135 01:01:49,372 --> 01:01:52,959 at being forced into the indignity of more skits. 1136 01:01:53,042 --> 01:01:54,085 [man 2] Five-oh-two. 1137 01:01:55,795 --> 01:01:58,548 [Elvis] Uh, where is downstage? Is it that way? 1138 01:01:58,631 --> 01:01:59,924 [man 2] It's downward, it's here. 1139 01:02:00,007 --> 01:02:02,135 Can you see this blue mark here? 1140 01:02:02,218 --> 01:02:04,262 Maybe something along here. 1141 01:02:04,345 --> 01:02:07,140 Fourteen years, and I don't know upstage from downstage, man. 1142 01:02:08,391 --> 01:02:12,019 [Thompson] The premise of the special was just a dopey Colonel Parker special. 1143 01:02:13,980 --> 01:02:18,693 The producers of the show were handed a Colonel Parker-packaged thing 1144 01:02:18,776 --> 01:02:20,611 that was just more of the public Elvis 1145 01:02:20,695 --> 01:02:23,406 as people had known him for the last seven years. 1146 01:02:24,031 --> 01:02:25,575 During breaks in the action, 1147 01:02:26,284 --> 01:02:29,746 the private Elvis would go back and do what the private Elvis always did, 1148 01:02:29,829 --> 01:02:31,664 which was play music with his friends. 1149 01:02:31,748 --> 01:02:33,833 [Elvis] If we want to, we can do something like… 1150 01:02:33,916 --> 01:02:35,668 [bluesy guitar tune playing] 1151 01:02:35,752 --> 01:02:39,088 [Elvis] ♪ We're going up, we're going up ♪ 1152 01:02:39,172 --> 01:02:43,342 ♪ Down, down, up Anyway you want to let it roll ♪ 1153 01:02:45,470 --> 01:02:48,848 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1154 01:02:51,809 --> 01:02:57,190 ♪ You got me doin' what you want to do Baby, what do you wanna do ♪ 1155 01:02:58,775 --> 01:03:01,569 [Thompson] And when the producers of the show walked in and saw that, 1156 01:03:01,652 --> 01:03:06,783 they realized that what Colonel was trying to make him do was trash. 1157 01:03:06,866 --> 01:03:11,037 And what Elvis was doing in his actual private life was gold. 1158 01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:14,582 [man] It's a bit like "Blue Moon of Kentucky," isn't it? 1159 01:03:14,665 --> 01:03:17,543 -[strumming guitar] -[Elvis] What do you say "blue moon"? 1160 01:03:18,085 --> 01:03:19,504 [man laughing] Yeah. 1161 01:03:19,587 --> 01:03:21,047 ♪ I say blue moon ♪ 1162 01:03:21,130 --> 01:03:23,800 [all chattering] 1163 01:03:25,593 --> 01:03:28,763 Every day after rehearsal, he'd jam. Acoustically. 1164 01:03:28,846 --> 01:03:30,723 Whoever happened to be hanging out. 1165 01:03:31,390 --> 01:03:34,727 Forget all the production, forget the original concept. 1166 01:03:34,811 --> 01:03:38,815 This is what the public is screaming for that never, ever got to see. 1167 01:03:38,898 --> 01:03:40,900 [Elvis and friends laughing on recording] 1168 01:03:40,983 --> 01:03:43,569 [Elvis] You know, I was thinking last night about… 1169 01:03:44,862 --> 01:03:46,823 [plucking guitar tunefully] 1170 01:03:46,906 --> 01:03:48,950 …incorporating this segment 1171 01:03:49,992 --> 01:03:52,286 with the medley, somewhere in there. 1172 01:03:53,454 --> 01:03:55,957 [man 1] I've been thinking about the same thing, Elvis. 1173 01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:59,627 [man 2] But we have to have that other excitement to be able to do this, you see. 1174 01:03:59,710 --> 01:04:02,338 'Cause now you're relaxing. You've done your bit, you know. 1175 01:04:02,421 --> 01:04:05,258 I go to Colonel Parker, I say, "I'm bringing cameras in there." 1176 01:04:05,341 --> 01:04:06,926 And he said, "Over my dead body." 1177 01:04:07,009 --> 01:04:13,432 [Elvis] ♪ Well, well Lawdy, lawdy, lawdy Miss Clawdy ♪ 1178 01:04:13,516 --> 01:04:17,144 ♪ Girl, you sure look good to me ♪ 1179 01:04:17,854 --> 01:04:21,148 After days of hounding him, he finally turned to me out of frustration 1180 01:04:21,232 --> 01:04:24,777 and said, "I'll make a deal with you. I'll let you recreate it on stage, 1181 01:04:26,237 --> 01:04:31,284 but I won't promise you any of it goes into the show that NBC broadcasts." 1182 01:04:32,326 --> 01:04:35,204 [Thompson] When you see him play these old standards, 1183 01:04:35,288 --> 01:04:40,001 and blues songs, and gospel songs, and the songs Elvis loved to listen to, 1184 01:04:40,084 --> 01:04:42,044 when you saw him playing those onstage, 1185 01:04:42,128 --> 01:04:44,297 that was literally them recreating 1186 01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:46,716 what was happening organically in his dressing room 1187 01:04:46,799 --> 01:04:48,175 when the cameras were off. 1188 01:04:48,259 --> 01:04:49,427 And what you remember 1189 01:04:49,510 --> 01:04:55,266 is the growling, stalking Elvis returning to the stage to say, 1190 01:04:55,349 --> 01:04:57,602 "Yeah, yeah, yeah, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, 1191 01:04:58,311 --> 01:05:00,229 but I'm Elvis fucking Presley." 1192 01:05:00,313 --> 01:05:02,315 [whimsical music playing] 1193 01:05:03,858 --> 01:05:08,321 [announcer 1] The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC. 1194 01:05:10,239 --> 01:05:13,618 [announcer 2] Singer presents, Elvis starring Elvis Presley 1195 01:05:13,701 --> 01:05:15,411 in his first TV special. 1196 01:05:15,494 --> 01:05:18,831 His first personal performance on TV in nearly ten years. 1197 01:05:18,915 --> 01:05:20,917 [tense music playing] 1198 01:05:21,918 --> 01:05:24,253 [Love] He told us that he was very nervous. 1199 01:05:25,838 --> 01:05:27,840 If the people were gonna like him. 1200 01:05:27,924 --> 01:05:31,594 We didn't know whether Elvis was gonna come out of his dressing room at all. 1201 01:05:33,012 --> 01:05:34,013 Welcome to NBC… 1202 01:05:34,096 --> 01:05:38,059 [O'Brien] Well, obviously I work in this completely different realm. 1203 01:05:38,142 --> 01:05:39,518 [audience clapping in distance] 1204 01:05:39,602 --> 01:05:41,854 [O'Brien] But I will tell you that 1205 01:05:42,730 --> 01:05:44,690 if you're not afraid, you're in trouble. 1206 01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:47,526 If you want it to be good, 1207 01:05:48,235 --> 01:05:49,278 you're petrified. 1208 01:05:53,407 --> 01:05:55,451 It's a very lonely feeling. 1209 01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:57,286 The fear… 1210 01:05:58,955 --> 01:06:00,122 of failure 1211 01:06:00,748 --> 01:06:02,583 is such a great motivator. 1212 01:06:02,667 --> 01:06:04,210 The fear of embarrassment. 1213 01:06:05,670 --> 01:06:09,715 We all know what it's like to be in front of people and it doesn't go well. 1214 01:06:10,383 --> 01:06:12,009 And it's terrible. 1215 01:06:12,093 --> 01:06:13,886 [tense music continues] 1216 01:06:18,724 --> 01:06:20,810 [O'Brien] "People are here, young people." 1217 01:06:21,310 --> 01:06:24,647 "I don't even know if they like my music. They probably like the Beatles." 1218 01:06:25,231 --> 01:06:28,359 "They like Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix." 1219 01:06:28,901 --> 01:06:30,653 "No one's gonna care about me." 1220 01:06:30,736 --> 01:06:33,030 But there's something about 1221 01:06:33,114 --> 01:06:37,159 being up against it that enables you to do it. 1222 01:06:37,243 --> 01:06:39,245 [tense music rises] 1223 01:06:46,377 --> 01:06:49,588 I call it anticipatory anxiety. 1224 01:06:49,672 --> 01:06:51,173 I can remember 1225 01:06:51,257 --> 01:06:54,677 beginning of the Born in the U.S.A. tour, we're in Saint Paul, 1226 01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:57,763 and I sat backstage and it was ten minutes before we went on, 1227 01:06:57,847 --> 01:06:59,765 and I hear the crowd roaring. 1228 01:07:00,599 --> 01:07:02,309 Roaring like crazy. 1229 01:07:02,393 --> 01:07:03,227 And I'm going, 1230 01:07:04,103 --> 01:07:05,187 "Oh man." 1231 01:07:06,355 --> 01:07:07,857 "What have I got myself into?" 1232 01:07:07,940 --> 01:07:12,403 You are going onto a stage that you are unfamiliar with. 1233 01:07:12,486 --> 01:07:17,324 Uh, you are being produced and directed by people you don't really know. 1234 01:07:20,036 --> 01:07:22,121 At some point, you reach the "fuck it" point. 1235 01:07:22,204 --> 01:07:24,457 Like, "I got to go out there, 1236 01:07:24,540 --> 01:07:26,292 no matter what happens, fuck it." 1237 01:07:26,375 --> 01:07:28,919 He reached the "fuck it" point. [laughing] 1238 01:07:29,003 --> 01:07:31,380 You know, that's what's going through his head. 1239 01:07:31,464 --> 01:07:32,965 You know. He found it. 1240 01:07:33,049 --> 01:07:36,093 And he was just go… And he was going. 1241 01:07:36,177 --> 01:07:40,556 He was going where his destiny was leading him. 1242 01:07:46,729 --> 01:07:49,231 [Robertson] I was living in Woodstock, New York. 1243 01:07:49,315 --> 01:07:52,777 The other guys in The Band, we were all there, and Bob Dylan. 1244 01:07:52,860 --> 01:07:57,406 And when we heard about this special coming on TV of Elvis's, 1245 01:07:57,990 --> 01:08:01,035 Bob and I said, "Let's check it out." 1246 01:08:01,786 --> 01:08:03,704 "Let's see if the old boy's still got it." 1247 01:08:03,788 --> 01:08:05,539 ["(If You're Looking For) Trouble" playing] 1248 01:08:05,623 --> 01:08:07,041 ♪ If you're looking for trouble ♪ 1249 01:08:08,542 --> 01:08:10,211 ♪ You came to the right place ♪ 1250 01:08:11,337 --> 01:08:12,838 ♪ If you're looking for trouble ♪ 1251 01:08:14,340 --> 01:08:16,050 ♪ Just look right in my face ♪ 1252 01:08:17,218 --> 01:08:18,803 ♪ I was born standing up ♪ 1253 01:08:20,137 --> 01:08:21,514 ♪ And talking back ♪ 1254 01:08:22,139 --> 01:08:27,394 ♪ My daddy was A green-eyed mountain jack ♪ 1255 01:08:27,478 --> 01:08:29,855 ♪ Because I'm evil ♪ 1256 01:08:31,732 --> 01:08:35,444 ♪ My middle name is misery ♪ 1257 01:08:35,528 --> 01:08:38,280 ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ 1258 01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:42,201 ♪ Well, I'm evil ♪ 1259 01:08:43,494 --> 01:08:47,623 ♪ So don't you mess around with me ♪ 1260 01:08:50,126 --> 01:08:52,128 [muted guitar riff playing] 1261 01:08:56,132 --> 01:08:59,343 I had a little tiny dining room with a big TV. 1262 01:08:59,426 --> 01:09:03,639 And my father was in the kitchen, but he could see the television from… 1263 01:09:03,722 --> 01:09:04,557 [laughs] 1264 01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:06,684 …from his spot on the kitchen table. 1265 01:09:06,767 --> 01:09:09,228 And I sat in front of the TV. 1266 01:09:10,187 --> 01:09:12,690 That was the rebirthing of Elvis Presley. 1267 01:09:12,773 --> 01:09:14,150 [song transitions to "Guitar Man"] 1268 01:09:14,233 --> 01:09:16,527 ♪ Well, I nearly 'bout Starved to death down in Memphis ♪ 1269 01:09:16,610 --> 01:09:18,320 ♪ I'd run out of money and luck ♪ 1270 01:09:18,404 --> 01:09:20,781 I was sitting at the top. I wanted to see everything. 1271 01:09:20,865 --> 01:09:24,034 ♪ …overloaded poultry truck I thumbed on down to Panama City ♪ 1272 01:09:24,118 --> 01:09:27,288 He came onstage, he was like, "Wow." 1273 01:09:27,371 --> 01:09:29,665 ♪ I got the same old story At them all night piers ♪ 1274 01:09:29,748 --> 01:09:32,126 ♪ There ain't no room Around here for a guitar man ♪ 1275 01:09:32,751 --> 01:09:34,086 I never saw him perform. 1276 01:09:34,670 --> 01:09:37,965 That was the first time I saw him perform, and I went, "Whoa." 1277 01:09:38,048 --> 01:09:40,718 "This is what it's about?" [laughing] 1278 01:09:40,801 --> 01:09:42,720 ♪ I showed 'em What a band would sound like ♪ 1279 01:09:42,803 --> 01:09:45,181 ♪ With a swingin' little guitar man Show 'em, son ♪ 1280 01:09:47,641 --> 01:09:49,894 [Springsteen] I don't think I understood how good he was 1281 01:09:49,977 --> 01:09:51,312 just seeing him once or twice. 1282 01:09:51,979 --> 01:09:57,526 It was a reintroduction not just to who he had been, but to who he could be. 1283 01:09:58,235 --> 01:10:02,448 ♪ Just follow that crowd of people You'll wind up out on his dance floor ♪ 1284 01:10:02,531 --> 01:10:04,700 ♪ Diggin' the finest Little five-piece group ♪ 1285 01:10:04,783 --> 01:10:06,577 ♪ Up and down the Gulf of Mexico ♪ 1286 01:10:06,660 --> 01:10:08,787 ♪ Guess who's leadin' That five-piece band ♪ 1287 01:10:08,871 --> 01:10:11,540 ♪ Wouldn't you know It's that swingin' little guitar man ♪ 1288 01:10:12,458 --> 01:10:14,835 [Schilling] It gave Elvis an edge. 1289 01:10:16,337 --> 01:10:17,504 He still had it. 1290 01:10:20,883 --> 01:10:23,385 It was developed, it was stronger. 1291 01:10:25,221 --> 01:10:27,514 Elvis took Elvis to the next level. [chuckles] 1292 01:10:29,141 --> 01:10:31,143 [strumming guitar] 1293 01:10:34,063 --> 01:10:35,689 [audience applauding] 1294 01:10:36,690 --> 01:10:40,611 -[women whooping] -[man laughing] All right! 1295 01:10:44,949 --> 01:10:47,201 [O'Brien] One of the things that strikes me right away 1296 01:10:47,284 --> 01:10:49,453 is it's the best he's looked in a long time. 1297 01:10:50,412 --> 01:10:51,538 He comes out… 1298 01:10:53,415 --> 01:10:57,044 and… he's the best-looking guy on the planet. 1299 01:11:01,131 --> 01:11:04,051 He comes out and he's wearing that leather suit, 1300 01:11:04,134 --> 01:11:08,097 and he's got those cheekbones that are off a Greek statue. 1301 01:11:09,265 --> 01:11:10,266 Well, good night. 1302 01:11:10,349 --> 01:11:12,309 [all laughing] 1303 01:11:12,393 --> 01:11:14,645 -[man 1] Been a long show. -[man 2] It's been a long show. 1304 01:11:14,728 --> 01:11:18,357 [O'Brien] For many years now, he hasn't been in front of people 1305 01:11:18,899 --> 01:11:20,526 performing music. 1306 01:11:20,609 --> 01:11:22,736 There's been all these layers of separation. 1307 01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:24,947 Let's see, what do I do now, folks? 1308 01:11:25,698 --> 01:11:27,992 All the insecurities that he would have, 1309 01:11:28,075 --> 01:11:31,245 he's holding himself up for possible ridicule. 1310 01:11:31,870 --> 01:11:36,166 This is supposed to be an informal section of the show where we faint 1311 01:11:36,250 --> 01:11:38,669 or do whatever we want to do. Especially me. 1312 01:11:38,752 --> 01:11:42,589 [O'Brien] Yes, the guy in the crazy outfits, and the hip shaking, 1313 01:11:42,673 --> 01:11:45,676 and the big hair, is very shy, 1314 01:11:45,759 --> 01:11:47,886 very sensitive person. 1315 01:11:47,970 --> 01:11:50,973 We don't have our full band here tonight, but we'd like to… 1316 01:11:51,849 --> 01:11:56,145 we'd like to give you an idea of how we… How I started out about 14 years ago. 1317 01:11:56,645 --> 01:11:57,646 Uh… 1318 01:11:58,605 --> 01:12:00,774 And the sound that we had back then. 1319 01:12:01,608 --> 01:12:04,987 And the guy over here on my left is the guy that played guitar for me 1320 01:12:05,070 --> 01:12:08,407 when I first started out in 1912. Nineteen… 1321 01:12:09,825 --> 01:12:12,369 [Thompson] The show isn't just Elvis's return. 1322 01:12:12,453 --> 01:12:15,873 I mean, the show is Elvis literally getting the band back together. 1323 01:12:16,457 --> 01:12:19,543 This is Scotty Moore, my guitar player. 1324 01:12:20,544 --> 01:12:23,005 [Thompson] That's his band when he was still a country singer. 1325 01:12:23,088 --> 01:12:25,591 That's the band when he was on the Louisiana Hayride. 1326 01:12:25,674 --> 01:12:27,926 That's the band when he was playing in the Opry. 1327 01:12:28,010 --> 01:12:30,721 This is my drummer. He's from Shreveport, Louisiana. 1328 01:12:30,804 --> 01:12:34,016 -[whistle softly] -Met him about ten years ago, DJ Fontana. 1329 01:12:34,099 --> 01:12:36,101 [audience applauding] 1330 01:12:37,019 --> 01:12:39,646 You were watching musicians who love each other, 1331 01:12:39,730 --> 01:12:43,108 who fell away from each other, who have come back to each other 1332 01:12:43,192 --> 01:12:45,069 to capture the magic one more time. 1333 01:12:45,152 --> 01:12:48,739 The first thing that we recorded, we had a guitar, a bass, 1334 01:12:48,822 --> 01:12:50,783 and another guitar. 1335 01:12:51,533 --> 01:12:52,743 And it went like this. 1336 01:12:56,497 --> 01:12:58,499 ♪ Well, that's all right, mama ♪ 1337 01:12:58,582 --> 01:13:01,043 ♪ That's all right with you ♪ 1338 01:13:01,126 --> 01:13:04,797 ♪That's all right, mama Just any way you do ♪ 1339 01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:06,882 ♪ That's all right ♪ 1340 01:13:06,965 --> 01:13:08,884 ♪ That's all right ♪ 1341 01:13:08,967 --> 01:13:11,845 ♪ That's all right, now, mama ♪ 1342 01:13:11,929 --> 01:13:15,265 ♪ Any way you do ♪ 1343 01:13:15,349 --> 01:13:18,644 [O'Brien] When he's sitting in those chairs 1344 01:13:18,727 --> 01:13:24,191 with his guys, and there's an audience right there and they're surrounding him, 1345 01:13:24,274 --> 01:13:26,360 and he's in an intimate environment, 1346 01:13:27,027 --> 01:13:29,279 you can see the way he can connect with people. 1347 01:13:29,363 --> 01:13:33,325 ♪ I'm leaving town, baby I'm leaving town for sure ♪ 1348 01:13:33,409 --> 01:13:36,912 ♪ Well, then you won't be bothered With me hanging around your door ♪ 1349 01:13:36,995 --> 01:13:38,872 ♪ But that's all right ♪ 1350 01:13:38,956 --> 01:13:42,167 [Springsteen] He looked incredible. He sounded incredible. 1351 01:13:42,251 --> 01:13:47,047 I felt like, "Oh, my team. My team, they came back and they're…" 1352 01:13:47,131 --> 01:13:49,842 You know, "They're winning again." You know? 1353 01:13:49,925 --> 01:13:51,093 Here we go, baby. 1354 01:13:51,176 --> 01:13:55,139 ♪ Dee-dee-de-deedee Diggy-diggity-deedee ♪ 1355 01:13:55,222 --> 01:13:58,434 ♪ Diggy-diggity-deedee Dee-dee-dee-deedee-dee ♪ 1356 01:13:58,517 --> 01:13:59,726 ♪ That's all right ♪ 1357 01:14:00,394 --> 01:14:01,603 ♪ That's all right ♪ 1358 01:14:02,187 --> 01:14:04,773 ♪ That's all right, now, mama ♪ 1359 01:14:04,857 --> 01:14:07,568 ♪ Any way you do ♪ 1360 01:14:07,651 --> 01:14:09,445 ♪ Dah-dah-dada-dah ♪ 1361 01:14:09,528 --> 01:14:11,155 -[audience cheering] -[Elvis] Whoo! 1362 01:14:11,238 --> 01:14:14,992 [Springsteen] That's just a revelation. You know, just a musical revelation. 1363 01:14:15,075 --> 01:14:19,538 You saw the incredible high level of his artistry. 1364 01:14:19,621 --> 01:14:22,416 The singing, unbelievable, 1365 01:14:22,499 --> 01:14:25,419 and you saw him really play the guitar, 1366 01:14:25,502 --> 01:14:27,713 and heard him play the guitar for the first time. 1367 01:14:27,796 --> 01:14:29,590 He was a really good guitarist. 1368 01:14:29,673 --> 01:14:30,883 Are we on television? 1369 01:14:32,259 --> 01:14:33,093 Are we on television? 1370 01:14:33,177 --> 01:14:35,471 [man] No, we're on a train bound for Tulsa. 1371 01:14:35,554 --> 01:14:37,681 [bluesy guitar playing] 1372 01:14:37,764 --> 01:14:40,434 -[man 1] Whoo! -[man 2] Aw, get on down. 1373 01:14:40,517 --> 01:14:43,562 [O'Brien] The moment for me in the '68 Comeback Special 1374 01:14:43,645 --> 01:14:46,482 is Elvis does, "Baby, What Do You Want Me To Do." 1375 01:14:48,942 --> 01:14:51,904 It's kind of a warm-up song, like a blues warm-up. 1376 01:14:52,779 --> 01:14:55,157 He's got that badass guitar, 1377 01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:58,452 and you can tell that this is what he was born to do. 1378 01:15:00,204 --> 01:15:01,121 Yeah, baby! 1379 01:15:05,250 --> 01:15:06,210 [man] Yeah! 1380 01:15:10,756 --> 01:15:13,467 Everything that got him there is now coming back, 1381 01:15:13,550 --> 01:15:16,929 and everything that's interfered with that has melted away. 1382 01:15:17,596 --> 01:15:18,430 All of it. 1383 01:15:18,514 --> 01:15:19,765 [guitar flourish] 1384 01:15:19,848 --> 01:15:21,475 [man] Yeah! 1385 01:15:21,558 --> 01:15:25,145 ♪ You got me peeping, you got me hiding ♪ 1386 01:15:25,229 --> 01:15:28,148 [O'Brien] And it must be a very powerful moment for him. 1387 01:15:28,232 --> 01:15:29,816 He's coming back to life. 1388 01:15:32,152 --> 01:15:34,154 And I think probably realizing 1389 01:15:34,238 --> 01:15:36,114 "I'm Elvis fucking Presley." 1390 01:15:36,198 --> 01:15:41,119 ♪ You got me doing what you want me Baby, what do you want me to do ♪ 1391 01:15:41,203 --> 01:15:43,413 There's something wrong with my lip, man. 1392 01:15:43,497 --> 01:15:46,500 You know. No, wait a minute. There's something wrong with my lip. 1393 01:15:47,209 --> 01:15:48,794 [laughing] 1394 01:15:48,877 --> 01:15:50,295 [chuckles] 1395 01:15:50,379 --> 01:15:52,256 -[man] Well… -You remember that, don't you? 1396 01:15:52,339 --> 01:15:54,341 [all laughing] 1397 01:15:55,050 --> 01:15:57,302 [audience applauding] 1398 01:16:02,099 --> 01:16:04,851 I got news for you, baby. I did 29 pictures like that. 1399 01:16:04,935 --> 01:16:06,937 [all laughing] 1400 01:16:08,564 --> 01:16:10,315 [Fontana] Hey, Elvis. The finger. 1401 01:16:11,441 --> 01:16:12,276 The little finger. 1402 01:16:12,359 --> 01:16:14,695 -That's all I could move in Florida. -[Fontana] That's right. 1403 01:16:14,778 --> 01:16:17,948 Yeah, the police filmed a show one time in Florida because 1404 01:16:18,740 --> 01:16:21,702 the PTA, the YMCA, or somebody, they thought I was… 1405 01:16:22,286 --> 01:16:23,120 [chuckles] 1406 01:16:23,787 --> 01:16:26,081 -…something. And… -[all laughing] 1407 01:16:26,707 --> 01:16:28,917 They said, "Man, he's gotta be crazy." 1408 01:16:29,001 --> 01:16:31,253 So, they… 1409 01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:34,256 The police came out and they filmed the show. 1410 01:16:34,339 --> 01:16:36,592 So I couldn't move, I had to stand still. 1411 01:16:37,092 --> 01:16:39,386 The only thing I could move was my little finger. 1412 01:16:39,886 --> 01:16:42,306 -♪ You ain't nothin' but a hound dog ♪ -[all laughing] 1413 01:16:42,389 --> 01:16:43,890 ♪ Cryin' all the time ♪ 1414 01:16:43,974 --> 01:16:45,684 You know, for the whole show. 1415 01:16:46,310 --> 01:16:50,063 It's the most real thing anyone had ever seen Elvis Presley do. 1416 01:16:50,147 --> 01:16:52,232 It might be the first time 1417 01:16:52,316 --> 01:16:55,110 that anyone had ever actually seen 1418 01:16:55,193 --> 01:16:58,196 the actual human being Elvis Aaron Presley, 1419 01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:00,282 child of Tupelo in Memphis. 1420 01:17:00,365 --> 01:17:04,536 So I told him, I said, "Well, look, man, you can do anything you want to do." 1421 01:17:04,620 --> 01:17:06,663 -[scoffs] -[all laughing] 1422 01:17:06,747 --> 01:17:08,665 "You can do anything you want to do, baby." 1423 01:17:09,666 --> 01:17:10,542 I said… 1424 01:17:11,543 --> 01:17:14,463 ♪ Well, that's one for the money Two for the show ♪ 1425 01:17:14,546 --> 01:17:16,923 ♪ Three to get ready, now go, cat, go ♪ 1426 01:17:17,007 --> 01:17:20,636 ♪ But don't you Step on my blue suede shoes ♪ 1427 01:17:22,054 --> 01:17:24,640 ♪ You can do anything But lay off of my blue suede shoes ♪ 1428 01:17:24,723 --> 01:17:25,932 [man] Oh, get it on! 1429 01:17:27,267 --> 01:17:30,187 ♪ Well, you can knock me down Step in my face ♪ 1430 01:17:30,270 --> 01:17:32,814 ♪ Slander my name all over the place ♪ 1431 01:17:32,898 --> 01:17:35,400 ♪ Do anything that you want to do ♪ 1432 01:17:35,484 --> 01:17:37,778 ♪ But uh-uh, honey, lay off of my shoes ♪ 1433 01:17:37,861 --> 01:17:41,281 ♪ Don't step on my blue suede shoes ♪ 1434 01:17:42,699 --> 01:17:46,286 ♪ Well, you can do anything But lay off of my blue suede shoes ♪ 1435 01:17:48,080 --> 01:17:50,791 ♪ You can burn my house, steal my car ♪ 1436 01:17:50,874 --> 01:17:51,917 ♪ Drink my liquor… ♪ 1437 01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:53,168 Oh my God. 1438 01:17:54,211 --> 01:17:56,254 It's like… He was like a tiger. 1439 01:17:56,338 --> 01:17:58,840 ♪ Honey, lay off of my shoes and don't… ♪ 1440 01:17:59,966 --> 01:18:04,262 He was showing off and doing his thing, and sexy, 1441 01:18:04,346 --> 01:18:06,807 and it was like reincarnation. 1442 01:18:06,890 --> 01:18:08,308 ♪ Watch out, baby, watch out ♪ 1443 01:18:08,392 --> 01:18:10,394 [raucous guitar solo playing] 1444 01:18:16,233 --> 01:18:17,484 "I'm married to him?" 1445 01:18:18,151 --> 01:18:20,112 "Wow. Where have I been?" 1446 01:18:27,953 --> 01:18:31,081 Oh my goodness. He was gorgeous. 1447 01:18:31,164 --> 01:18:34,710 His hair was so shiny, and the lights hit it. 1448 01:18:34,793 --> 01:18:36,878 He was glowing like… 1449 01:18:36,962 --> 01:18:40,924 I don't know what God looks like, but you would say this guy was godlike. 1450 01:18:41,007 --> 01:18:42,426 Ah! 1451 01:18:43,593 --> 01:18:44,720 Ah, ah! 1452 01:18:44,803 --> 01:18:46,304 Keep it going. That's right. 1453 01:18:47,139 --> 01:18:49,182 [Tompkins] It was electric in there. 1454 01:18:49,266 --> 01:18:51,101 It was breathtaking. 1455 01:18:51,184 --> 01:18:54,980 ♪ Well, you can do anything But lay off of my blue suede shoes ♪ 1456 01:18:56,440 --> 01:18:59,067 -Ah! -[music ends with flourish] 1457 01:18:59,151 --> 01:19:00,736 [audience cheering loudly] 1458 01:19:02,279 --> 01:19:06,658 [Priscilla] I remember a couple of girls, they were going nuts over him. 1459 01:19:07,743 --> 01:19:09,828 And they said, "Oh my God, I never knew." 1460 01:19:09,911 --> 01:19:12,789 "I never knew he had this much charisma." 1461 01:19:12,873 --> 01:19:16,293 "I never knew that he was so sexy." 1462 01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:18,170 How you like it so far? 1463 01:19:18,253 --> 01:19:20,255 [crowd cheering] 1464 01:19:21,798 --> 01:19:24,634 I could hear these comments, and, you know, I go, "Wow." 1465 01:19:25,260 --> 01:19:27,637 "Whoa, this is… They're just discovering him." 1466 01:19:27,721 --> 01:19:30,932 This is what we were experiencing when he first appeared. 1467 01:19:33,310 --> 01:19:36,521 [Robertson] He would sing a song like, "Here's another one of my hits." 1468 01:19:36,605 --> 01:19:39,858 "Here's another one of my hits." That was all fine, 1469 01:19:39,941 --> 01:19:44,738 but at some point in the special he sings "Trying To Get To You." 1470 01:19:44,821 --> 01:19:46,656 [man] "Trying To Get To You." 1471 01:19:47,532 --> 01:19:51,453 [Robertson] It was a B-side of one of his records years earlier. 1472 01:19:52,245 --> 01:19:56,208 And he sang this thing to the sky. 1473 01:19:56,291 --> 01:19:58,084 It was magnificent. 1474 01:19:58,168 --> 01:20:02,589 ♪ I've been traveling over mountains ♪ 1475 01:20:04,049 --> 01:20:08,804 ♪ Even through the valleys too ♪ 1476 01:20:08,887 --> 01:20:12,098 ♪ Well, I've been Traveling night and day ♪ 1477 01:20:12,182 --> 01:20:14,434 ♪ I've been running all the way 1478 01:20:14,518 --> 01:20:17,521 ♪ Baby, trying to get to you ♪ 1479 01:20:19,689 --> 01:20:23,652 ♪ Ever since I read your letters ♪ 1480 01:20:23,735 --> 01:20:27,572 It was phenomenal. Because he was so free. 1481 01:20:29,074 --> 01:20:33,745 ♪ Well, there was nothing That could hold me ♪ 1482 01:20:33,829 --> 01:20:38,291 ♪ Or could keep me away from you ♪ 1483 01:20:38,375 --> 01:20:42,921 All these years being tucked away by the Colonel, doing all these movies. 1484 01:20:44,631 --> 01:20:50,136 ♪ But they didn't mean a thing ♪ 1485 01:20:50,220 --> 01:20:53,431 [Love] But when they let him loose on that stage, you could figure. 1486 01:20:53,515 --> 01:20:57,185 And I went, "Wow, man, you got it going on in that black leather suit." 1487 01:20:57,769 --> 01:20:59,145 "Carry on, brother." 1488 01:21:00,230 --> 01:21:03,316 ♪ When my way was darkest night ♪ 1489 01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:05,318 ♪ He would shine his brightest light ♪ 1490 01:21:05,402 --> 01:21:09,364 ♪ When I was trying to get to you ♪ 1491 01:21:10,699 --> 01:21:13,702 -[music ends] -[audience applauding] 1492 01:21:13,785 --> 01:21:15,620 And that audience loves it. 1493 01:21:15,704 --> 01:21:17,581 And he's getting that thing 1494 01:21:18,540 --> 01:21:21,668 that he loves, that was the reason for all of it. 1495 01:21:22,961 --> 01:21:25,505 It wasn't the money. Money is nice. 1496 01:21:25,589 --> 01:21:29,926 It was 'cause that lights him up. That's lit him up since he was a kid. 1497 01:21:30,010 --> 01:21:32,012 [guitar riff playing] 1498 01:21:35,765 --> 01:21:38,268 ♪ The warden threw a party In the county jail ♪ 1499 01:21:38,351 --> 01:21:40,896 ♪ The prison band was there And they began to wail ♪ 1500 01:21:40,979 --> 01:21:43,356 ♪ The band was jumpin' And the joint began to swing ♪ 1501 01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:46,610 ♪ You should've heard them Knocked out jailbirds sing, let's rock ♪ 1502 01:21:46,693 --> 01:21:50,030 [Corgan] He's doing old Elvis right there, obviously having a nostalgia moment. 1503 01:21:50,530 --> 01:21:51,865 ♪ Everybody in the whole… ♪ 1504 01:21:51,948 --> 01:21:55,744 So he's both being old Elvis and new Elvis at the same time. 1505 01:21:55,827 --> 01:21:59,414 ♪ Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone Little Joe was blowin'… ♪ 1506 01:21:59,497 --> 01:22:02,876 [Corgan] You see old Elvis, '68 Elvis, and the Elvis to come. 1507 01:22:03,627 --> 01:22:05,837 ♪ The whole rhythm section Was a purple gang ♪ 1508 01:22:05,921 --> 01:22:06,963 ♪ Let's rock ♪ 1509 01:22:07,047 --> 01:22:09,132 ♪ All right, everybody, let's rock ♪ 1510 01:22:10,759 --> 01:22:13,261 ♪ Everybody in the whole cell block ♪ 1511 01:22:13,345 --> 01:22:15,764 ♪ Was dancing to the jailhouse rock ♪ 1512 01:22:15,847 --> 01:22:21,061 He was in search of a way to live where he could live with himself. 1513 01:22:21,144 --> 01:22:24,981 The '68 Special, for me, is him finding that place. 1514 01:22:25,065 --> 01:22:27,359 ♪ Bugsy turned to Shifty And he said, "Nix nix" ♪ 1515 01:22:27,442 --> 01:22:29,903 ♪ "I wanna stick around a while And get my kicks" ♪ 1516 01:22:29,986 --> 01:22:32,113 [Springsteen] When people discuss Elvis, 1517 01:22:32,197 --> 01:22:35,283 or their disappointment in the arc of his career, 1518 01:22:35,367 --> 01:22:39,829 they say, "He didn't go where his destiny was leading him enough." 1519 01:22:39,913 --> 01:22:43,500 That night, he went where his destiny was leading him. 1520 01:22:43,583 --> 01:22:45,335 And he met it. 1521 01:22:45,418 --> 01:22:47,295 ♪ Dancing to the jailhouse rock ♪ 1522 01:22:47,379 --> 01:22:49,089 ♪ We're dancing ♪ 1523 01:22:50,131 --> 01:22:52,342 ♪ Yeah, we're dancing ♪ 1524 01:22:52,425 --> 01:22:55,261 ♪ To the jailhouse rock ♪ 1525 01:22:55,762 --> 01:22:56,805 Ha! 1526 01:22:57,722 --> 01:22:59,099 All right! 1527 01:23:02,769 --> 01:23:04,270 [music ends] 1528 01:23:09,275 --> 01:23:11,528 -[gentle music playing] -[applause fades out] 1529 01:23:16,533 --> 01:23:19,369 [Corgan] The '68 Special is just a master at work. 1530 01:23:20,453 --> 01:23:22,288 But that's Elvis every day. 1531 01:23:24,624 --> 01:23:28,003 Nobody had the foresight to get more of Elvis every day. 1532 01:23:28,753 --> 01:23:32,215 If they had any brains or prescience about them, 1533 01:23:32,298 --> 01:23:35,844 they would have done 50 more of those, 'cause we'd be talking about those too. 1534 01:23:35,927 --> 01:23:38,346 That's Elvis every fucking day. 1535 01:23:39,097 --> 01:23:40,974 He's not just having a good day. 1536 01:23:41,725 --> 01:23:44,561 That's that motherfucker every goddamn day. 1537 01:23:49,315 --> 01:23:53,403 We sit here and judge how he handled normal life. 1538 01:23:53,486 --> 01:23:55,030 The pressures of marriage, 1539 01:23:55,113 --> 01:23:57,240 fatherhood, celebrity, 1540 01:23:57,323 --> 01:23:59,659 Colonel Tom Parker's bullshit. 1541 01:24:01,036 --> 01:24:03,413 But in the midst of this is, like, lightning strikes. 1542 01:24:05,957 --> 01:24:08,334 And we're left to sort through the pieces and go, 1543 01:24:08,418 --> 01:24:11,796 "God, I wish there was more. Why isn't there more?" 1544 01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:13,882 [heartfelt music playing] 1545 01:24:14,632 --> 01:24:18,887 [O'Brien] All great show business stories have to have 1546 01:24:18,970 --> 01:24:20,513 more than one act. 1547 01:24:21,681 --> 01:24:23,850 The real great ones have three acts. 1548 01:24:26,102 --> 01:24:28,605 This special gives him a third act. 1549 01:24:29,898 --> 01:24:31,691 And we all know where that ends, 1550 01:24:32,442 --> 01:24:36,071 but at the beginning, it was pretty great. 1551 01:24:40,116 --> 01:24:44,370 The thing I wish for Elvis Presley, it's a weird thing to wish, 1552 01:24:44,454 --> 01:24:46,998 but I wish people would have some empathy for him. 1553 01:24:51,294 --> 01:24:54,255 We turn celebrities into objects. 1554 01:24:55,090 --> 01:24:56,299 This was a person. 1555 01:24:57,342 --> 01:24:59,302 A person who was terrified, 1556 01:24:59,928 --> 01:25:01,971 but putting it all out there. 1557 01:25:02,055 --> 01:25:05,391 I'm joyous when I see that special, because 1558 01:25:06,267 --> 01:25:08,520 it's him standing up for himself. 1559 01:25:14,692 --> 01:25:17,779 [slow guitar and horn tune playing] 1560 01:25:28,706 --> 01:25:33,128 ♪ There must be lights burning brighter ♪ 1561 01:25:33,211 --> 01:25:35,046 ♪ Somewhere ♪ 1562 01:25:37,048 --> 01:25:40,677 [Thompson] Elvis exists for most people as a tragic figure. 1563 01:25:41,386 --> 01:25:43,012 We all know how it ends. 1564 01:25:43,596 --> 01:25:47,767 ♪ If I can dream of a better land ♪ 1565 01:25:47,851 --> 01:25:51,229 ♪ Where all my brothers Walk hand in hand ♪ 1566 01:25:51,312 --> 01:25:54,190 ♪ Tell me why, oh, why… ♪ 1567 01:25:54,274 --> 01:25:58,278 When I watch the '68 Special, I like to imagine that… 1568 01:25:59,154 --> 01:26:00,405 That that was it. 1569 01:26:01,197 --> 01:26:03,324 He walked off that stage and was happy. 1570 01:26:05,869 --> 01:26:10,373 ♪ There must be Peace and understanding ♪ 1571 01:26:10,456 --> 01:26:12,041 ♪ Sometimes ♪ 1572 01:26:12,125 --> 01:26:15,670 [Thompson] Because what you see that night is the one time 1573 01:26:15,753 --> 01:26:21,009 Elvis Presley decided to be who he wanted to be, for himself. 1574 01:26:21,092 --> 01:26:25,555 ♪ If I can dream of a warmer sun ♪ 1575 01:26:25,638 --> 01:26:28,975 ♪ Where hope keeps shining on everyone ♪ 1576 01:26:29,058 --> 01:26:32,854 ♪ Tell me why, oh, why ♪ 1577 01:26:32,937 --> 01:26:38,484 ♪ Oh, why won't that sun appear? ♪ 1578 01:26:38,568 --> 01:26:42,155 [Thompson] It's the closest he ever came to realizing the dreams 1579 01:26:42,238 --> 01:26:45,074 that put him in front of a microphone in the first place. 1580 01:26:45,617 --> 01:26:47,952 ♪ We're lost in a cloud ♪ 1581 01:26:49,370 --> 01:26:52,123 ♪ With too much rain ♪ 1582 01:26:53,333 --> 01:26:55,543 ♪ We're trapped in a world ♪ 1583 01:26:57,086 --> 01:26:59,964 ♪ That's troubled with pain ♪ 1584 01:27:00,882 --> 01:27:03,134 ♪ But as long as a man ♪ 1585 01:27:03,218 --> 01:27:07,055 ♪ Has the strength to dream ♪ 1586 01:27:07,138 --> 01:27:11,142 ♪ He can redeem his soul ♪ 1587 01:27:11,226 --> 01:27:13,770 ♪ And fly ♪ 1588 01:27:13,853 --> 01:27:15,897 [Thompson] Elvis is remembered today 1589 01:27:15,980 --> 01:27:18,775 as one of the quintessential American talents. 1590 01:27:18,858 --> 01:27:22,487 ♪ Deep in my heart there's a trembling… ♪ 1591 01:27:23,613 --> 01:27:26,449 And it is because there were moments 1592 01:27:26,532 --> 01:27:28,159 when people saw. 1593 01:27:28,243 --> 01:27:30,536 And the greatest of those moments 1594 01:27:30,620 --> 01:27:33,623 was that night on that stage in Los Angeles. 1595 01:27:33,706 --> 01:27:37,335 ♪ Out there in the dark ♪ 1596 01:27:37,418 --> 01:27:40,296 ♪ There's a beckoning candle ♪ 1597 01:27:40,380 --> 01:27:41,631 ♪ Oh yeah ♪ 1598 01:27:41,714 --> 01:27:45,718 ♪ And while I can think While I can walk ♪ 1599 01:27:45,802 --> 01:27:49,472 ♪ While I can stand, while I can talk ♪ 1600 01:27:49,555 --> 01:27:53,226 ♪ While I can dream ♪ 1601 01:27:53,309 --> 01:27:56,938 ♪ Please let my dream ♪ 1602 01:27:57,021 --> 01:28:02,402 ♪ Come true, oh ♪ 1603 01:28:04,487 --> 01:28:08,157 ♪ Right now ♪ 1604 01:28:08,241 --> 01:28:11,786 ♪ Oh, let it come true right now ♪ 1605 01:28:11,869 --> 01:28:15,206 ♪ Oh yeah ♪ 1606 01:28:20,336 --> 01:28:21,713 [music ends] 1607 01:28:22,839 --> 01:28:24,340 Thank you. Good night. 1608 01:28:29,387 --> 01:28:31,931 ["Trying To Get To You" by Elvis Presley playing] 1609 01:28:32,015 --> 01:28:38,646 ♪ I've been traveling over mountains Even through the valleys too ♪ 1610 01:28:39,939 --> 01:28:44,193 ♪ I've been traveling night and day I've been running all the way ♪ 1611 01:28:44,694 --> 01:28:47,405 ♪ Baby, trying to get to you ♪ 1612 01:28:49,073 --> 01:28:53,077 ♪ Ever since I read your letter ♪ 1613 01:28:53,745 --> 01:28:57,415 ♪ Where you said you loved me true ♪ 1614 01:28:58,416 --> 01:29:03,046 ♪ I've been traveling night and day I've been running all the way ♪ 1615 01:29:03,129 --> 01:29:06,466 ♪ Baby, trying to get to you ♪ 1616 01:29:07,633 --> 01:29:11,512 ♪ When I read your loving letter ♪ 1617 01:29:12,221 --> 01:29:16,059 ♪ Then my heart began to sing ♪ 1618 01:29:16,851 --> 01:29:20,688 ♪ There were many miles between us ♪ 1619 01:29:21,397 --> 01:29:25,777 ♪ But they didn't mean a thing ♪ 1620 01:29:25,860 --> 01:29:29,697 ♪ I just had to reach you, baby ♪ 1621 01:29:30,365 --> 01:29:34,285 ♪ In spite of all that I've been through ♪ 1622 01:29:34,952 --> 01:29:39,499 ♪ I kept traveling night and day I kept running all the way ♪ 1623 01:29:39,582 --> 01:29:42,418 ♪ Baby, trying to get to you ♪ 1624 01:29:53,596 --> 01:29:57,517 ♪ Lord above me knows I love you ♪ 1625 01:29:58,351 --> 01:30:01,896 ♪ It was he who brought me through ♪ 1626 01:30:02,897 --> 01:30:07,610 ♪ When my way was darkest night He would shine his brightest light ♪ 1627 01:30:07,693 --> 01:30:11,280 ♪ When I was trying to get to you ♪ 1628 01:30:12,907 --> 01:30:14,325 [song ends]