Paul told Bruce that a group of New Yorkers came in the middle of the night in a limo, and that Elvis hit it off with them and left.His half sisters, though, maintained that Elvis enjoyed giving the tours.
“Because of those, he found his way out,” Shari said. )One daughter had a confrontation with Annie, whom Paul considered his closest friend at the end of his life. Cindy also came to Graceland Too at around 1 p.m., crying and wanting to see Paul. David wanted $10, and Paul told him he didn’t have it. This sounded less of an alarm for most of us than other behavior — in Holly Springs, plenty of people own gun collections numbering in the hundreds. “You ready? He had no telephone. "We didn't have a billiard room," she says.Other distinctive touches added during Elvis' ownership of Graceland drew little attention from Cobb, but there was one: "Elvis didn't like the chandelier we had in the dining room. There’s a lot of Paul MacLeod lovers out there." He spent a few years in juvenile detention, and he went to a mental health treatment center where he was diagnosed as bipolar. “If someone was to write a big computer program to catalog all of this data, no one would have a problem with that,” Mike said.Phil later told me that he saw Cindy the day of the memorial, and that she said she held no ill will toward Paul. "Some days I could help him out, and other days I couldn’t. 1 Elvis fan" and his eyesore of a 24-hour museum, named Graceland Too, when he did something really big — like switching the house's exterior from Pepto-Bismol pink to blue with sparkly plastic blue Christmas trees. Wallace Lester, who also tried to help David and Cindy, said one of the last times he saw him, David said he was losing his mind and was going to do something crazy. He shook his head. We hold major institutions accountable and expose wrongdoing.Search, watch, and cook every single Tasty recipe and video ever - all in one place!Self care and ideas to help you live a healthier, happier life.Obsessed with travel?
The family would stay at Graceland until 6 in the morning, making friends.Mourners wait outside the late Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in August 17, 1977.When Elvis Presley died on Aug. 16, 1977, Paul and little Elvis drove to Memphis and went to the hospital. Or it might just be junk. Simon and Fisher were married from 1983 to 1984.The nine-year-old traveling companion Simon mentions in the song is his son Harper Simon who was born to Simon and his first wife Peggy Harper in 1972. “If he hadn’t gotten dumped off at the hospital when he did, that infection would have killed him.”Brenda called Elvis to tell him that Paul wasn’t doing well, and Elvis replied that he wanted nothing to do with his father.Not long before before Paul died, he complained over his regular spaghetti and meatballs at Annie Moffitt’s restaurant that an intruder had been trying to break into his house for several weeks. Though he had let the water get shut off, he still paid his DirecTV bill so he could keep track of any mentions made of Elvis on television. “Graceland” is a song recorded and performed by the iconic American singer and songwriter Paul Simon. Little Elvis joined on these trips. After the funeral, Paul had local attorney Bill Schneller apply for a name change for his son Elvis: The King’s middle name on his headstone read “Aaron,” so only the correct spelling would do for Paul’s son. He hired Cindy and David to help him paint Graceland Too.Paul claimed to have gone to 120 concerts during Elvis' lifetime. The next night, she locked the door and stuck a chair under the doorknob.Paul’s new wife, Serita Kay, a brunette with a beautiful face whom he met when she was 17 and married in 1979, was clearly the breadwinner, doling out cash for Paul before she left for her job at Coleman's, a barbecue restaurant. “He always had limos,” Shari said. “They lifted that white man up like he was the king.”Though Paul's sister Betty said the upcoming auction “breaks her heart,” no family member is interested in maintaining the shrine. MacLeod shot Taylor at point-blank range, killing him. Paul asked David to leave, and he refused. “He doesn’t as much as raise his voice on me,” she said.
Paul brought joy to everybody who stepped through those doors.”Bruce concluded: “He taught us to keep a smile on your face, a song in your heart — apparently a song by Elvis — and give the world something else to smile about.”Over the course of the day, I heard a few Elvis scholars describing the house — and Paul — as “folk art.” That’s one way to put it, I guess, a needed justification to tell yourself that no, you really weren’t just going to his house to gawk at a man openly exhibiting mental illness.