Tunangan Elvis Presley menggambarkan hari-hari terakhir dengan Raja dalam memoar baru
Elvis Presley bersemangat tentang kehidupan ketika dia meninggal, dengan penuh semangat membuat rencana untuk album baru, film baru dan keluarga besar dengan Ginger Alden, calon pengantinnya yang masih muda selama tujuh bulan..
Alden membagikan kenangan itu dan lebih banyak lagi dalam buku baru “Elvis & Ginger”, yang menggambarkan hubungannya dengan sang Raja di tahun terakhir hidupnya. (Baca kutipan eksklusif di sini.)
Dalam wawancara media yang jarang terjadi, Alden mengunjungi TODAY Wednesday untuk berbagi beberapa ingatan yang mengejutkan dari periode itu, termasuk:
- Presley tidak seberat apa pun yang dipikirkannya. “Dia akan menyombongkan makanannya, dan kadang-kadang dia akan tampak lebih bengkak – atau kembung, jika kamu ingin menyebutnya begitu – di kamera. Tapi dia tidak pernah gemuk,” kata Alden. “Aku pikir dia pria yang tampan; dia baru berusia 20 tahun.”
- Elvis melamar Alden pada 26 Januari 1977 di kamar favoritnya di Graceland: kamar mandi utama yang megah. Itu “tempat kudusnya,” kenang Alden. “(Dia) mendudukkan saya di kursi dan mengucapkan banyak kata-kata indah kepada saya dan meminta saya untuk menikah dengannya.”
- Pada malam Elvis meninggal pada Agustus 1977, ia mengambil dua “paket tidur” – obat yang diresepkan dokter untuk insomnia kronisnya. Alden tidak yakin paket apa yang terkandung atau apakah obat-obatan memainkan peran dalam kematian penyanyi itu (secara resmi dikuasai disebabkan oleh serangan jantung). “Kadang-kadang (para dokter) telah memberikan placebo Elvis, karena dia memiliki ketergantungan pada obat tidur,” kata Alden.
Tiga puluh tujuh tahun setelah hari yang menyedihkan itu, Presley tetap menjadi kekuatan dalam budaya populer: Lelang efek pribadi di Graceland bulan lalu menarik banyak tawaran tiket besar. Tanda tangannya adalah salah satu tanda tangan yang paling dipalsukan sepanjang masa, dan sesama ikon musik seperti Paul McCartney masih memberi penghormatan di situs makamnya..
Presley mungkin terkejut dengan kekuatannya sendiri. Dalam video ini dari 2012, mantan istri Priscilla Presley dan putrinya Lisa Marie Presley mengatakan kepada TODAY bahwa Elvis khawatir dia akan dilupakan – ketakutan yang sulit dimengerti hari ini.
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26.04.2023 @ 10:47
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Today, Elvis Presley was excited about life when he died, enthusiastically making plans for a new album, a new film, and a large family with Ginger Alden, his young fiancée of seven months. Alden shared that memory and more in her new book “Elvis & Ginger,” which describes her relationship with the King in the last year of his life. In a rare media interview, Alden visited TODAY Wednesday to share some surprising memories from that period, including: Presley was not as heavy as he thought. “He would boast about his food, and sometimes he would look more swollen – or bloated, if you want to call it that – on camera. But he was never fat,” Alden said. “I thought he was a handsome man; he was only 20 years old.” Elvis proposed to Alden on January 26, 1977, in his favorite room at Graceland: the grand main bathroom. That was his “sacred place,” Alden recalled. “(He) sat me down in a chair and said many beautiful words to me and asked me to marry him.” On the night Elvis died in August 1977, he took two “sleep packages” – drugs prescribed by his doctor for his chronic insomnia. Alden is not sure what was in the packages or whether the drugs played a role in the singers death (officially ruled as a heart attack). “Sometimes (the doctors) have given Elvis placebos because he had a dependence on sleeping pills,” Alden said. Today, thirty-seven years after that sad day, Presley remains a force in popular culture: a personal effects auction at Graceland last month drew many big-ticket bids. His signature is one of the most forged signatures of all time, and fellow music icons like Paul McCartney still pay tribute at his gravesite. Presley may have been surprised by his own power. In this 2012 video, former wife Priscilla Presley and daughter Lisa Marie Presley tell TODAY that Elvis was worried he would be forgotten – a fear that is hard to understand today. Follow Randee Dawn on Google+ and Twitter.