Elvis (2022) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching

[@Libby-qk9jr]

Don't rely on a movie to gain insight into the phenomenon of Elvis. In the end, even though the movie was okay, but there was a lot of "filling in the blanks" in it. Listen to Elvis' interviews. Listen to Elvis sing live. There's nothing like it. He put everything he had into his music and you feel every note he sings. Listen to the interview of Steve Binder who produced the 1968 Comeback Special. Listen to "Elvis and the Black Community." The Colonel didn't care one whit about Elvis, it was always, always about the money. But, to be fair, Elvis never planned for the future. He always lived for the moment. And for whatever reason, he never took control over his own life. He said he hated the movies so much, the thought of doing them made him physically sick. But he never changed the plan. The same thing happened to him in Vegas and touring that happened from the movies. He got bored to death doing the same thing over and over and over again. But he never changed the plan. He probably felt trapped, like a hamster on a wheel. He never understood what a genius he was. The way he held notes, the way he sang that made you feel he was singing right to you, the way he controlled the audience, the imperceptible cues given to his band and backup singers. I read somewhere Paul Simon, who wrote Bridge Over Troubled Water, said he could never sing that song again after hearing Elvis' rendition. What does that tell you about Elvis' ability to take a song and literally make it his own. I've watched half dozen or more voice teachers describing Elvis' technique. More than one cried when listening to Elvis' gospel songs. In this movie, Elvis says "Nobody's going to remember me." Well, here it is, 47 years later and he has not been forgotten. I hope wherever he is he's smiling and content that "his echo will never die." (That's a quote from Reverent Brewster in "Elvis and the Black Community.)

[@JoeReactsTV]

Agreed, his music has been on repeat since watching this film.

[@magnuslofgren2441]

1935 on January 8 a huge star was born, but sadly in 1977 on august 16 we lost a great musician, a amazing singer, but we also lost a amazing humanitarian that helped so many people that he did not even know. Today over 47 years after his death, people are still calling Elvis the King of Rock'n'Roll. I don't think that Elvis was only the Master of Rock'n roll, he was a Master of music, why, well because he could sing AMAZINGLY well in any genre, but what do you think, is he good enough to be called a music Master??? Elvis was really in my mind, the Master of GOSPEL and other music, no one does it better then him in my mind, yes he is best known for making Rock'n roll famous, so he was called The King of Rock'n roll, but he never liked that people called him that, he repeatedly stopped fans who said that he was the king of rock'n roll, telling them: I'm just an entertainer and singer, God is the only true King (sometimes he also said Jesus Christ is the only true King)... He also never liked the "so called joke" Elvis the Pelvis, he loved Jokes but never once that hurt anyone, so for him to hear, or read this for him was very hurtful people. Elvis was born in the poor part of Tupelo Mississippi (in a shotgun house) and it was mainly Afro Americans living there, at the place where Elvis family lived there only lived 3 more white families, the rest was colored people, his family was dirt poor until he became an artist after singing in a mainly colored peoples church during his childhood. Did you know that he had several friends that where Afro Americans, one of his friends where James Brown, yes THAT James Brown (The King of Soul), another artist was B.B King, yes that B.B King... He also was a good friend with Mohamed Ali, yes the GREATEST boxer of all time, he even had a Robe made for him, but it was to much bling on it so Ali wouldn't where it more then one time to a fight. Elvis really admired Martin Luther King very much, Elvis felt that all people are equal, unfortunately he never got to meet him, that would have created to much problems for both of them at that time. He had several medical problems, Glaucoma, (Insomnia) sleeping problems, irritable bowel syndrome, things that affected his real life and made him need medication to function. Yes, he took medicines that today are considered to be called drugs, but at that time doctors prescribed it to him and to ordinary people, they did not know of the problems it could give people (side effects). He never took any so-called street drugs, but unfortunately he did not realize that those medications would be a problem for him, he thought that they where ordinary medicine because his doctor prescribed them to him and to everyone else that needed it. Many out of his relatives died at a relatively young age, so even if he wouldn't have the medication, he might have died at about the same age. He could never be alone and thus himself, at that time the word superstar did not exist, so nothing could prepare him for that kind of life. Did you know that a big group of white people actually smashed his records and wanted to ban his music, just because they called the music he did so called N... music, that is so painful to think that some people actually can think like that, skin color is just color and nothing more, when will people start to realize that? There are some videos of when Elvis joking and messing up, he loved to joke around and pretend that he did not have control, but he had total control, he actually conducted his musicians and back up choirs all the time ! He is the only person to have 2 records gone to sell Gold and 2 to to sell Platinum since he died. Elvis is also in almost every genre of Music Hall of Fame (5 that I'm sure of Rock 'n' Roll, Country, Gospel, Rockabilly and Rhythm and Blues), if Gospel is a genre in Music Hall of fame, then he should be in there to, but no one else is in more then perhaps 2 genres as a SINGLE artist, a few might be as a single artist and in a band... Not bad for someone who never took a single singing lesson (he also got a F = FAIL in music at school), yes he sang in church so perhaps he learned a little there, right? Something else that people tend to overlook, that he always conducts his musicians and backup singers, he never gets credit for being able to doing that. Imagen you are a singer, you have great Musicians, you have great backup singers, no Guest Artists, no Auto tune, no Lip singing and no Fireworks, now all is about your skill, could you handle that pressure? At the time when Elvis started to perform, Auto tune did not exist yet and when it became available, then he still did not use it, he did not need to, he always sang so that you could hear every word that he sang, the Fans always felt that he sang to just you ! That is what Elvis did in over 1600 concerts (during his 20 years as an artist), despite having problems with his health, like his Glaucoma, the headlights must have hurt his eyes like crazy. He sang over 800 songs, I wonder how he could remember them all, he never wrote a song himself, so he had to remember other peoples lyrics, well that is amazing in it self. By the way he had Glaucoma and that must have been difficult being in the headlights all the time, that could be why he sometimes closes his eyes, but also sometimes squinting! This unfortunately made him temporary blind after the shows, that is why they led him of the stage and into his car, that is something that not many people knew about Elvis. Elvis suits was made of 100% Polyester, or 100 cotton (I'm not sure witch one), it was originally a karate suit, the suit it self was very light, but it was hot, so it made him sweat a lot, he got some bad press about that, but if you give it all then you will sweat, it should be positive, right? YES some of the suits became very heavy from all the jewels they put on them, I think that he got the idea of a lot of jewels from the pianist Liberace, am I right, or wrong in the thought??? About the deep base voiced JD Sumner (a member of The Stamps Quartet) he is a Basso Profundo, I think it's called that, it is the deepest base singer there is. Here is a video about Elvis helping others, look at this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaOtYpZvqdJgeZI Elvis made a show where all the money went to build the Memorial after Pearl Harbor, he talked to the nations about taking the Polio vaccine, Elvis took the first injection himself, he helped by donating a big amount of money to St Jude hospital, they fight against cancer (especially children with), he gave away loads of jewelry, gave away cars, he even gave away some houses to total strangers. Elvis did lots of things for America to, Elvis started an organization that helps people to get out of Homelessness (Presley Charitable Foundation/Presley Place), this organization helps people even now close to 50 years after he passed away. A thing that you perhaps did not know: Elvis ALMOST NEVER did a show OUTSIDE OF USA, yes he did sing a few times in Canada: 4 concerts, 2 times in Toronto, 1 time in Ottawa and 1 time in Vancouver (during the 50:s?). When the Aloha From Hawaii (Live in Honolulu 1973) was showed it had over to 1 Billion viewers from around the whole world and 3.7 billion people lived on earth at this time, so it was close to 1/4 of all of the population on the earth that viewed the show, it was the first time a single artist was shown LIVE around the globe. Video of Mohammad Ali speech after Elvis had died: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoCbfKSVaLCHr6s I have to say that I loved being at Graceland and seeing his home, first we were at the shotgun-house in Tupelo Mississippi where he lived in his early years, he was born there ! You don't have a guide taking you on a tour, you can go all over yourself, but stay outside of the ropes and do not attempt to go upstairs, the outside is huge, so is the house, but you don't realize that from the front of the house. I don't regret for a second that I was there, or that I stood at his grave site and said out loud that this is for the humanitarian Elvis/the person/the man and then I gave him a military salute, the others there just looked at me and asked if I didn't like his music. So I told them that he was clearly one of the best singers and artists ever, but I loved his big heart more, he helped so many people without getting credit for it, he didn't want the credit of helping others, he did it out of love and respect and to me that is what true charity is all about. This PLACE (GRACELAND) should be a protected part of music history and also American history forever, I think that people will keep coming for years and years and years to come ! Elvis did lots of things for America to, he helped in a big way to avoid getting Polio (he took the vaccine in a TV show and that made the interest for taking the vaccine to go up from 0,6 % all the way up to 80 % in 6 months). So in 6 months he got 79.4 % more of the American people take the Polio vaccine and shortly after that, it was eradicated from USA, he also helped in the fight to defeat Cancer by helping to build up St Jude's children cancer treatment clinic. He did this by donating a huge amount of money to them (they needed donations and he gave it), he also helped to build the Memorial over Pearl Harbor by donating a lot of money, he actually was the biggest donor he did many other things like that without letting the press now! Elvis thought that true charity comes from the heart, not by looking good in other peoples eyes, but it makes you feel good and help others, I feel that way to.

[@marion_R]

The reactions of the girls in the audience were not exaggerated. They really went crazy seeing him. There are many inaccuracies in this movie. Maybe made for entertaining purposes. F. e. he never fired his manager on stage. I wish they would have shown his generous and funny side. Your reaction was a great watch! Thank you snd Joey!💚☀️

[@JoeReactsTV]

Glad you enjoyed the reaction! And figured him firing his manager wasn't real after trying to find the video after the reaction lol

[@marion_R]

@@JoeReactsTV 🥴😂 I am sure, that there are videos on YT who will tell you what's wrong and what's right in that movie. Hope to see you back with Elvis soon!💚☀️

[@grahammalcolm7130]

He acually did fire parker in 73 but it was behind close doors ​@JoeReactsTV

[@davidharrison1523]

Just came across your channel & have subscribed to watch your Elvis Reactions. You really cannot go wrong with Elvis, because he was such a phenomenal singer & a wonderful human being. Forty-seven years after his death, there are still millions of Elvis fans around the globe. If you do Elvis Reactions, you will see your subscriber & comment numbers climbing …. Many Reactors have started their channels with Elvis Reactions & have blossomed, with regular Elvis Reactions. I enjoyed the movie which covered a lot of Elvis stuff, but to get the real flavour of Elvis, there are hundreds of videos of Elvis in live concert, & televised interviews, & there are a few very early televised performances of Elvis in the mid-1958 era, when Elvis became the world’s First Global Superstar at the age of 21. Hope us Elvis fans see lots more of you.

[@JoeReactsTV]

Thank you! I definitely need to check them out!

[@jayeginn5963]

Elvis was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, in a 2 room shack of a house his dad built with money he borrowed from his boss. That's how dirt poor they were. He was one half of identical twins; the other boy - Jesse Garon - was stillborn. They were so poor, that Jesse Garon was buried in a shoebox in an unmarked grave. At Graceland they have a plaque with his name on it in his memory. Elvis always got along with the black community and learned a lot about music from his friends of color. Also, according to the one drop rule, Elvis would not be considered white, since he has Cherokee ancestors on both the Smith (his mother) and the Presley (his father) sides of the family. His paternal grandfather, Jesse Dunning Presley, was not happy that his two sons, Elvis' father Vernon and his brother Vester, married two sisters, Gladys and Clettes who were known to have Cherokee blood in their family tree. J.D. Presley was quite the racist a-hole, often drunk and a philandering husband to Minnie Mae (they were actually separated long before they finally divorced in 1954) who was always competing with his sons Vester and Vernon and who was known to abuse his kids when drunk. J.D. was publicly against race mixing and was in denial about the Cherokee blood in his own family tree. It was more publicly known that the Smith family had Native blood in their family tree, so when both his sons fell for 2 Smith sisters and Vernon, on top of that, was still a minor at 17 when he eloped with Gladys who was 4 years older than him, Jesse was totally pissed off. As a child, Elvis already had many friends in the black community at the time his family was one of 4 "white" families that lived in the predominantly black neighborhood The Hill, just across from Shake Rag. His childhood friend Sam Bell said that some of the (black) kids in that neighborhood had lighter skin than Elvis. One of Elvis' bodyguards once said that he thought it was a miracle Elvis got into Humes High School in Memphis, because it was "lily white". Elvis wanted to be more open about his Native ancestry, but his manager "colonel" Tom Parker (real name Andreas van Kuijk) was against it because he was afraid it might cost Elvis fans (and himself money). They did have Elvis play characters in his movies though where he had Native American blood (Flaming Star, G.I. Blues, Stay Away Joe). Once Elvis had his own (apprentice) job learning to be an electrician, he saved up his money and bought his clothes in the same style that many of his friends of color wore. He was called a (forgive me, just stating facts here) "n-lover" and got beaten up several times too. Later, when he was an established star, he would not perform at places where the members of color of his back-up band/orchestra weren't allowed.

[@marion_R]

Thank you for the interning informations! I really appreciate them!💚

[@JoeReactsTV]

Appreciate your knowledge, thanks for sharing!

[@theapavlou3030]

Two major things to note 1. Elvis did not fire the colonel from the stage, he had too much class to do that, and he never knew Tom's immigration status. This makes all the difference reading about Elvis's story. His frustration eroded his personal and professional creative development. He could have gone so much further if he'd managed to sever that tie. However, I just read Jerry's (Schilling) book on Elvis and it seems that when he tried to progress without Tom, all of Tom's contacts high up would not deal with anyone else on Elvis's behalf. I don't know why he was so feared or respected, I suspect he had insider knowledge that he was able to control that aspect. It was a travesty tbh. He could've let Elvis go on tour and put Joe (his road manager) or Jerry, both of whom tom got along very well with, and they reported to him daily. 3. Tom did not have a pronounced accent. Tom Hanks made him sound like Hitler, but he spoke very clearly in an US accent. Oh, and they neglected Priscilla's affairs, 2nd financial divorce settlement demands where she put a lien on his house. Then she made the Priscilla film full of embellishments and inaccuracies. Im glad it flopped, she's had enough off his name and legacy.

[@JoeReactsTV]

Thanks for the clarification and context

[@Zion-vm1ng]

loving the videos ,trying to start a reaction channel aswell is there any tips to speed up editing it takes like 6-8 hrs atm lmao and how u have the vid running without blur

[@jayeginn5963]

It might sound great to many that Priscilla gave the movie her blessing. But the fact remains that she has changed a lot of Elvis history to suit her story. Beaulieu, the EX of 50 years, has been altering Elvis history to her liking to enhance her own role in it. According to Priscilla, Elvis had promised to marry her when she was 21. But as her birthday had come and gone and her 22nd birthday was approaching and Elvis still had not kept his word, Priscilla, her parents and the colonel (Tom Parker) visited Elvis on a movie set. Nobody knows what really happened there, except that some time during that visit, Elvis had a mysterious fall in the bathroom. The most logical thing that happened is that a threat was made that they would go public about Elvis "dating" a minor while in his twenties if he would not keep his promise to marry her. After all: Jerry Lee Lewis had gone through a scandal that people might be reminded of if the Beaulieus had gone public: Jerry Lee Lewis had married his 13-year-old cousin! After the visit of the Beaulieus and Parker to the movie set, all of a sudden everything escalated and a quick wedding ceremony was arranged on May 1, 1967 (23 days before Priscilla's 22nd birthday) in Las Vegas. The strange thing about that was not just the timing, but also that many people who were close to Elvis were contacted by Parker's people to not attend the wedding. The whole ceremony took , 8-minute, and afterwards they were ushered into a room for a press conference (listen to what the memphis mafia guys say about them getting married at the 24:33 mark of kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmnFnYKngJ5jhq8). You can hear what Elvis told about the wedding in the recording of the last phone conversation Red West had with him before he died "That wedding thing, that wedding thing. It was in there over and done with so quick. I didn't realize I was married." (kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmnFnYKngJ5jhq8). The funniest thing about the scene in the movie where she leaves him and he follows her off the stairs (crying no less) is that it looks like they were the only 2 people in the house, when one of her main complaints about her time (married or not) with Elvis was that they were almost NEVER alone anywhere. That there were always relatives, friends, staff, members of the Memphis Mafia and even fans around IN the Graceland mansion. Elvis started his relationship with Linda Thompson in the summer of 1972. Elvis filed for divorce on his 38th birthday, January 8, 1973. The divorce was finalized in October of 1973. Priscilla rejected the name Presley and returned to her maiden name Beaulieu after the divorce, stating she wanted to be her own person. She even started a business under that name. But after Elvis died, she soon changed her name to Beaulieu-Presley and some time after that she dropped her maiden name and started calling herself Presley again. She had several relationships after her divorce. In 1984 she met Marco Garibaldi with whom she had a relationship for 21 years. They separated in 2006. Together they had a son, Navarone, in 1987. She never married Garibaldi, although she had a much longer relationship with him than she'd had with Elvis, possibly because she wanted to hang on to the Presley name. Interesting detail is that Elvis did not mention Priscilla at all in his will; not even as guardian of his only child, Lisa Marie. Elvis' cousin Billy Smith and his wife Jo have already said that so many things are not right as far as things concerning Priscilla are concerned. Linda Thompson is right: i.postimg.cc/hjYL9bkt/linda-thompson.jpg and Elvis' bassist from the TCB band, Jerry Scheff, doesn't hold back and tells it like it is: i.postimg.cc/FK2GdjDc/Jerry-Scheff-Elvis-movie-comment.jpg. Alana Nash set the record straight on some of the scenes (some of which never happened as depicted in the movie) postimg.cc/182NkWtz Finally: Beaulieu did not save Graceland. This man did: soulrideblog.com/2019/01/06/elvis-week-2019-blanchard-e-tual-hero/

[@marion_R]

I am impressed! You should write a book about all your knowledge. I guess you could write dozens of books. I'd love to read it!

[@JoeReactsTV]

Elvis historian in the flesh!

[@theapavlou3030]

@@jayeginn5963 he was definitely rail roaded into that sham marriage or be up on a statutory r@pe charge. From how it's looking, she was already pregnant at that 8 min wedding.

[@jayeginn5963]

Elvis' EX was NOT born Priscilla Ann BEAULIEU, but Priscilla Ann WAGNER. Daughter of master schemer Anna Lillian Iversen and James Frederick Wagner. Anna and James got married on August 10, 1944 when she was 18 and he 23. Priscilla was born May 24, 1945. James Wagner was a US Naval pilot who was killed November 3, 1945 at the age of 24 when his aircraft crashed into East Mountain, an 1,800 foot tall hill in the village of Wingdale, Dover, Dutchess county, New York. He was survived by his wife and his 5 month old daughter Priscilla Ann Wagner. Anna Iversen-Wagner married Paul Beaulieu on September 11, 1948, when she was 22 and he was 23. Beaulieu adopted Priscilla (then 3.5 years old). People who are critical of Beaulieu are not in the least jealous of this opportunistic narcissist, nor do they hate her. They are simply disgusted by the fact that - more than 50 years after their divorce - she is still riding his coattails for her own benefit. That is sick and disgusting. Of course her "building the Elvis brand" and all by her lonesome on top of that, is another myth that Beaulieu LOVES to sell to the gullible - mostly - new fans. In reality, Blanchard E. Tual did what Vernon already, very tentatively, had set in motion soulrideblog.com/2019/01/06/elvis-week-2019-blanchard-e-tual-hero/. Beaulieu was just the spokesperson, but she did not mind that people assumed she was the one who had the brilliant ideas etc. Beaulieu has always only been in it to elevate herself to the cult status of Elvis. But she's not even close to being in the same league, historically, as he is. He actually meant something, was a cultural and historical figure whose existence changed the course of modern music, youth culture, fashion, and more. She was a mere footnote in that history as the woman he was married to for 6 years on paper and who gave birth to his only, legitimate, child. She is not part of cultural history for anything SHE achieved on her own. And everything she has been promoting by using HIS name has served to make herself look about as important as he was. She is the total opposite of him (as he was humble and never forgot where he came from): it is all about Beaulieu. She's worse than Parker because she claims to do it out of love and to preserve and honor his memory. She was still on board of EPE when they approved dog collars and toilet paper with Elvis' likeness on it. Or approved Elvis Presley whiskey. How does that honor his legacy? Everybody who knows anything about Elvis knows he wasn't a big drinker and that both his parents had their issues with alcohol. Red West once said that Elvis would already get tipsy from smelling the cork of a wine bottle. He may have been addicted to prescription drugs, but he stayed away from alcohol. Beaulieu has been known to change Elvis facts to her liking, making her role in his life and several big events in both his life and his career, much bigger than it actually was. For instance: she falsely claimed to have been the one who brought the song "If I Can Dream" to Elvis' attention or one of her other false claims: that SHE designed the TCB logo. Those were just little lies. When they were still alive, several members of the so-called Memphis Mafia, as well as his cousin Billy Smith, have said so, many times, in interviews that are still around on media such as KZbin. Billy Smith is one of the few who is still alive, aside from Jerry Schilling, but he doesn't count because he is totally in Beaulieu's pocket. Beaulieu has told so, very, very, many, stories about her time with Elvis. And even more versions of each individual story. And has altered so many various versions of all the different stories over the decades. And has come up with so many new versions of new stories over the decades. It is amazing how she also "remembers" conversations that took place decades ago verbatim. In interviews and in her "book" that is. Because in lawyers' offices when asked to answer questions truthfully, during the divorce proceedings, she more than often had inexplicable lapses of memory about things that took place only months, weeks and even days earlier. Her answers most of the time being that she did not recall/remember or simply did not know. Such a grifter. And so beyond disgusting that she wants to take the wind out of Lisa's posthumous biography/book, with a new biography in which she - without a doubt - will remember even more stuff that happened decades ago, and again verbatim, tsk. For facts on how Beaulieu lied during the divorce proceedings watch these very informative clips on the recently released FULL divorce documents: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZW9cnikot1-kNkfeature=shared kzbin.info/www/bejne/qn3ZdXdpgbCZbbsfeature=shared kzbin.info/www/bejne/emSTeaKNZrppoKcfeature=shared kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2bKqKpjaNaio9Ufeature=shared It has become increasingly easy for her to spread her lies now that most who knew Elvis much longer than she did, have passed away. It is also much easier for her with so many gullible "Elvis" fans who do not know the real history of Elvis and who have, seemingly, turned into Beaulieu fans without them even noticing it. She works very hard for herself. She co-created that "Agent Elvis" cartoon TV Series in which both Elvis and she are cartoon characters. Granted, since her botched plastic surgery she DOES look like a cartoon drawn by a blind cartoonist, but turning Elvis into a cartoon character, claiming - like with all things she has sold or okayed to be sold for profit, that was what he always would have wanted, is just more lies from her to try and not only keep herself relevant, but to hopefully reach cult hero status for herself. In the case she started only days after Lisa's passing, Beaulieu showed her true colors: she wanted to remain a trustee against a fee. The case was settled that Riley becomes the full trustee and Riley will not charge for her services as a trustee; therefore, “the beneficiaries all save money that would have gone to Priscilla who was going to charge a trustee fee." Beaulieu was paid off in a lump sum. A very telling part of the settlement is "Upon approval of the settlement, Riley - who will also become the trustee of the sub-trusts for her 14-year-old twin sisters, Harper and Finley Lockwood - will safeguard and invest the money “in a manner consistent with the needs of the beneficiaries, and not influenced by the desire of a Trustee,” her lawyer, Justin Gold, wrote in the documents." That "Trustee" is clearly a reference to Beaulieu, whose desire it has increasingly been to embellish her role in Elvis history. It is and has always been a matter of money for the EX, from the very start on. Her latest grift is one she does with her son, Navarone: selling autographed pictures of themselves for 200 dollars a picture, that she - undoubtedly - will sign with the name Elvis did not want her to use for business purposes, a name she did not want to carry anymore in 1973: Presley.

[@marion_R]

💚☀️💚

[@JoeReactsTV]

Thank you for the full context!

[@christinegardner511]

Oh so well said. Good on you!

[@christ_1512]

Thanks for setting the facts straight. I coudn't have said it better. Priscilla did not only cheat on him she changed the facts her whole life through.

[@FayeSimon-k3d]

Some of this movie was just alright Some it was all wrong. The part of the Cononel mostly was accurate Elvis died of a massive heart attack, but Elvis had a ton of health issues from birth He did take a lot of prescriptions. and that always got sensationalized because that’s what the media does. The movie left out out his sattelite concert which was viewed by 1,5Bjllion people

[@JoeReactsTV]

True, drug abuse will get slandered in the media and be overblown. I need to check out that concert!

[@ronaldhill8685]

The movie did touch on the satellite concert aloha from Hawaii.

[@grahammalcolm7130]

​@@JoeReactsTVthe book destined to die young is a great book to explain his health issues.

[@grahammalcolm7130]

The movies to check out are loving you. Jailhouse rock king creole. Follow that dream. Blue hawaii gi blues. Wild in the country to name a few

[@JoeReactsTV]

@@grahammalcolm7130 Thanks for the recommendations

[@christ_1512]

Looking forward to more Elvis videos i will subscribe to your channel. And by the way after reading tons of books about Elvis I don't believe that he died of a heart attack. In my opinion he was mudered.

[@JoeReactsTV]

Love the conspiracy

[@carameldiva5131]

He died from a heart attack caused in part from severe constipation (he hadn't had a bowel movement in 3 months) caused by prescription pain medication.

[@christ_1512]

As i said i don't think so. A few days later, he and his father were to testify in court as witnesses against the mafia. it was about the fraud case in which his father wanted to sell one of his airplanes. This defrauded Elvis of 1 million dollars.

[@JoeReactsTV]

@@carameldiva5131 Oof, no bueno

[@magnuslofgren2441]

Elvis did never know that the colonel was not a colonel and he was in the USA illegally, so he did not scream on stage that colonel Parker (Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk) was fired. He did say to his bodyguard that he thought he would be forgotten, that his fame would be gone...

[@jayeginn5963]

The Beaulieus were a clan with a plan. Beaulieu's mother, Ann Iversen, told young Priszilla that "knowing Elvis was the opportunity of a lifetime" (Priscilla quote from Ladies Home Journal, 1973). Elvis & Priscilla met September 13, 1959 in Germany when she was 14 and he 24. At this time, Elvis had a girlfriend back home, Anita Wood, whom he dated for several years and was only 2 years younger than Elvis. Elvis' other girlfriends up to that point had always been around his own age, and some were even up to 6 years older than he was! Little "innocent" Beaulieu did not mind being another girl he cheated on his girlfriend with. Elvis returned to the US on March 2, 1960, while Beaulieu and her family remained in Germany. There she terrorized her mother and stepfather because she had only recently found out he was not her biological father. She lied about her home situation begging Elvis to save her by letting her come over and she made family life in Germany for her parents and half-siblings hell. Beaulieu pursued Elvis, sending him risqué photos of herself (facilitated by her parents!). Her mother and stepfather played a questionable role in the development of Beaulieu's long-distance "affair" with Elvis that reeks of ulterior motives. If they'd really been worried or incensed and believed that all the initiative came from Presley, they could have stopped it right then and there. Yet, they didn't; they played along. They first allowed her to visit Elvis in the US when she was 16. More than a year passed until her next visit at 17. Beaulieu did not move to Memphis until 2 months before she turned 18 when she moved in with Elvis' father Vernon and stepmother Dee. It is total nonsense that many claim that she "lived with Elvis since she was 14". BEAULIEU AND ELVIS WEREN'T EVEN ON THE SAME CONTINENT FOR THE BETTER PART OF 3 YEARS. If anybody “groomed” her to be with an “older” man, it was her parents. During the years before their marriage, Elvis was away from Memphis a lot, making 3 movies a year in Hollywood or locations such as Hawaii and having multiple affairs with co-stars. Beaulieu wasn't locked in the basement, shackled to a wall: she was free to get a flight out of there, back to her parents. But that wasn't the plan. The plan was to let her become Mrs. Presley, with all the privileges that came with it for her AND her family. She knew Elvis could not be faithful to whomever he was dating at the time long before she and Elvis started dating, so playing the victim later is utter nonsense. According to Beaulieu, Elvis had promised to marry her when she was 21. But as her 22nd birthday was approaching and Elvis still had not kept his word, Beaulieu, her parents, and the colonel (Tom Parker) visited Elvis on a movie set. The most logical thing that happened is that a threat was made that they would go public about Elvis "dating" a minor while in his twenties if he would not keep his promise to marry her. After all: Jerry Lee Lewis had gone through a scandal that people might be reminded of if the Beaulieus had gone public: Jerry Lee Lewis had married his 13-year-old cousin! Then everything escalated and a quick wedding ceremony was arranged on May 1, 1967 (23 days before Beaulieu's 22nd birthday) in Las Vegas. The whole ceremony took just 8 minutes after which they were ushered into a room for a press conference. Beaulieu soon became pregnant, but Elvis already wanted to divorce her. 9 months after the wedding, daughter Lisa Marie was born. Beaulieu and Elvis effectively lived their lives apart as early as 6 weeks after Lisa was born when Beaulieu began an affair with her dance instructor. During the taping of the 1968 Singer Special (later redubbed the 1968 Comeback Special) Elvis had an affair with Susan Henning, while Beaulieu attended some of the tapings with her lover (the dance instructor). By 1969, after Elvis had finished his movie contracts and had begun not only his residency at The International Hotel in Las Vegas, but also his touring around the USA, he was away from Memphis an average of 150 - 200 days a year. He bought a mansion for his family, at 144 Monovale Drive in Holmby Hills/California which became Beaulieu's residence while Elvis - in between tours - preferred to stay at his Hillcrest Rd, Beverly Hills house. Their marriage was over in 1969 and they increasingly lived separate lives. They did try to get back closer together in 1970, for the sake of Lisa Marie, but that failed. By then, Beaulieu had started taking karate lessons at Ed Parker's karate studio and subsequently met Mike Stone, whom she'd first seen during a karate tournament in 1968, and soon began an affair with him. By late 1971, Beaulieu, Lisa Marie and Stone (who had left his pregnant wife and child) shared an apartment in Belmont Shore and gossip rags were beginning to pick up on the break-up between Beaulieu and Elvis. The separation was effective as of shortly before Elvis' 37th birthday, January 8, 1972. Elvis was livid and he moved on: started dating Linda Thompson in the summer of 1972. In August of 1972, a property settlement agreement was filed and he filed for divorce ON HIS 38TH BIRTHDAY, Jan. 8, 1973. The divorce was finalized on Oct. 9, 1973, FIFTY YEARS AGO IN 2023. In interviews between the divorce and Elvis' death, Beaulieu described him as a has-been loser, absent/bad father and husband and adamantly stated she wanted to be known as Priscilla Beaulieu, to be her own person and that she was not Elvis Presley's property. In a 1973 interview with Ladies Home Journal she literally stated that there was "no possibility of a reconciliation with Elvis". After his death, she claimed that they had agreed to get back together when he was 50 and she was 40 and that he was the love of her life. She also started claiming that she and Elvis remained friends until his death. That was another lie; just listen to what his cousin Billy Smith tells about that, or what his dad, Vernon, wrote about that in a letter that has been made public. Elvis did not mention this opportunist in his will AT ALL. Not as his ex-spouse, not as the mother/guardian of his only child Lisa Marie and certainly not by name. After the divorce, and after Mike Stone, Beaulieu had (live-in) relationships with Mike Edwards, Robert Kardashian, Terry O'Neill, Elie Ezerzer and Kirk Kerkorian. In 1984 she met Marco Garibaldi with whom she had a relationship for 21 years. They separated in 2006. Together they had a son, Navarone, in 1987. She never married Garibaldi, although she had a much longer relationship with him than she'd had with Elvis. It is extremely unfortunate that people believe all the fantasy tales Beaulieu tells. They gloss over the tons of inconsistencies that have arisen as time moved on and Beaulieu started changing her narrative, often contradicting supposed facts she told earlier. She's as glib as a used car salesperson because she can spin yarns like nobody, making those gullible people even believe her excuses for those contradictions. Those who believe Beaulieu and her family would have acted the same way and would have been equally tolerant of his behavior (extramarital affairs etc) if Elvis had remained a truck driver learning to be an electrician are beyond naive. The Beaulieus had dollar signs in their eyes when they pimped out their rebellious (step)daughter.

[@marion_R]

👍....maybe your own YT Channel......!?

[@JoeReactsTV]

Thanks for the info, never knew any of this about them

[@scsu5085]

------ Liked the movie enough to see multiple times, BUT.... Baz's vision of Elvis was totally one-sided. He wanted Elvis to be "only" a product of blues music & the hood, thereby erasing Elvis' deep Country Music roots, as well as Pop, Bluegrass, and Opera / Classical influences. There's more than 1 genre that went into the mosaic of Elvis. Same can be said for American Popular Music.

[@theapavlou3030]

At this point, Elvis's name was being turned to mud with the baseless rumours and hatred of a couple of people saying he was a racist, Chuck D & Quincy Jones did a LOT of damage to Elvis's legacy. It was scapegoating as Chuck D admitted later on in Rolling Stone. Quincy was jealous and sore because he wanted the the job of conducting Elvis's band, and his girlfriend was seeing Elvis too. Pure jealousy and they ruined a good man's name for nothing because it's been echoed and jumped kn for decades. None of that was true, they tried to trace it back and failed to find the place it had come from other than a disgruntled filmmexec.

[@patticriss2238]

This is a harsh crowd here. I dont agree with most. Thats ok. We dont have to agree, But I grew up while all of this was happening.

[@JoeReactsTV]

Would have loved to be a fly on the wall during this time.