It’s been 42 years since Elvis Aaron Presley’s died of a prescription drug overdose in the master bath of Graceland. With the death came a need to understand the whole arc of his life: from quick, culturally transformative success to utter patheticness. It doesn’t take much research to be reminded that Presley was a mercurial, violent, paranoid man at the end, terrified of losing his reputation. His relationships with women were often coercive, abusive and terrible. How quickly he would have become a “Me Too” casualty.

Elvis’s father and agent Col. Parker staged a elaborate funeral

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